News

March 13, 2007 22:26

• In Krasnodar Territory, 16 victims appeared at the trial of "OMON" fighters

  The Lazarevskiy District Court of the city of Sochi, Krasnodar Territory, has postponed the start of hearing of the case of eight "OMON" officers, who arranged a pogrom in the "Druzhba" Sochi Children's Camp till 10:00 a.m. on March 20.

March 13, 2007 21:23

• Abkhazia finds the information on bombardment of the Kodor Gorge to be non-credible

  The information of the Georgian mass media about the artillery attack on the territory of the upper section of the Kodor Gorge with application of howitzers and "Grad" installations from the direction of the town of Tkvarcheli (Tkuarchal) has nothing to do with reality.

March 13, 2007 21:20

• Council of Europe has again accused Russia of tortures in Chechnya

  The Committee of the Council of Europe for Prevention of Torture has published another statement on Russia.

March 12, 2007 23:15

• Governor of Stavropol Territory is ready to resign

  Alexander Chernogorov, governor of Stavropol Territory, has declared that for the sake of quietness and peace in the region he is ready to leave his post of the head of the Territory.

March 12, 2007 23:12

• Georgia: Russia has swept Kodor Gorge

  Last night, the Kodor Gorge was subject to air and artillery bombardment, the mass media of Georgia report.

March 12, 2007 22:11

• Four terror acts prevented in Astrakhan in 2006

  Today, on March 12, the Administration of the Astrakhan Region has summed up the work in 2006 of the control headquarters for counteracting terror.

March 12, 2007 22:07

• State bodies in charge of Beslan are under audit in North Ossetia

  The Public Prosecutor's Office of North Ossetia is making complex audits of state bodies.

March 10, 2007 22:37

• A criminal case against the commander who sent his soldier to mines opened in Chechnya

  A criminal case has been initiated in Chechnya in relation to a commander of one of military units, for whose guilt, in the version of the investigation, two soldiers were wounded.

March 10, 2007 22:32

• Power agents have surrounded the city of Karachaevsk in Karachayevo-Cherkessia

  On the eve of election of the Mayor of Karachaevsk, the law enforcement bodies of Karachayevo-Cherkessia have organized a strengthened power order protection.

March 10, 2007 22:24

• Dagestan: District head has beaten the chair of electoral commission

  Another accident happened in Dagestan in connection with the forthcoming on March 11 elections to local bodies of power.

March 10, 2007 22:22

• Kadyrov has changed the leadership of Chechnya

  President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov has made several cadre reshufflings in his Republic.

March 10, 2007 22:17

• Maskhadov's family asks religious leaders to help them to get his body out

  The family of the former president of Chechnya Aslan Maskhadov, who was killed on March 8, 2005, has addressed "the leaders of world confessions and good-will people" with a request to call the Russian authorities to give out Maskhadov's body to his relatives for burial.

March 09, 2007 23:01

• Antadze hopes for renewal of Georgian-Abkhazian negotiations

  Merab Antadze, state minister of Georgia for conflict-settling, has stated that at the meeting in Geneva all the countries, save for Germany, have marked progress in fulfilment by the Georgian party of the UN Security Council's resolution on the Kodor Gorge situation.

March 09, 2007 22:57

• Head of Azerbaijani MFA invited to Washington

  On March 20-23, an official visit of Elmar Mamedyarov, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan, to the USA will take place.

March 09, 2007 22:47

• Committee for Defence of Journalists demands from Azerbaijani authorities to protect Einullah Fatullaev

  The Committee for Defence of Journalists (CDJ) that is based in the USA is concerned of the threats made to Einullah Fatullaev, editor of the "Real Azerbaijan" newspaper.

March 09, 2007 22:40

• Armenian minister of foreign affairs is optimistic before his meeting with the MFA's head of Azerbaijan

  A meeting of the presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan is possible right after the parliamentary elections; and co-chairs of the Minsk OSCE Group are highly interested in it.

March 09, 2007 22:36

• Avian flu detected in Adygea is human-hazardous

  The avian flu virus detected about three weeks ago in the Krasnogvardeiskiy District of Adygea contains the N1 component, which is dangerous for humans.

March 08, 2007 23:00

• Experts find no links of conflict in Chechnya with international jihad

  On March 3, in Algeria, a bus was exploded of Russian Company "Strojtransgaz" with Russian specialists in it. Consequently, four persons died, three of them were Algerians. The North-African branch of "Al-Qaeda" took responsibility for the explosion, committed in protest against the actions of Russian authorities in Chechnya.

March 08, 2007 22:52

• Anti-Chechen war picket organizer detained in Moscow

  In the Novopushkinskiy Public Garden of Moscow, Andrei Nalyotov, one of the organizers of a picket in memory of Aslan Maskhadov, former president of Chechnya, and against the war there, which is being held right now, has been detained.

March 08, 2007 22:40

• Moscow court defeats a claim lodged by parents of soldier killed in North Caucasus

  The Lefortovo District Court of Moscow has rejected a claim lodged by the Human Rights Foundation "Mother's Rights" on behalf of the parents of Alexander Makmatov, a soldier killed on the border of North Ossetia and Ingushetia.