News

December 18, 2006 22:19

• Court refused to put 54 Borozdinovskaya residents on trial as co-claimants to the Ministry of Defence

  The Presnenskiy Court of Moscow has refused to bring into court as co-claimants 54 more persons under the suit on compensation of moral damage to residents of Chechen village of Borozdinovskaya lodged against the Ministry of Defence.

December 18, 2006 22:17

• Chechnya will count its war damage from 1994

  A Commission of the Chechen Parliament has begun its work to calculate the whole damage caused to the Republic starting from 1994 - opening of the operation to set up the constitutional order.

December 17, 2006 17:45

• Karachayevo-Cherkessia: rector of Islamic Institute assaulted

  Today, Ismail Bostanov, rector of the Islamic Institute and deputy chairman of the Spiritual Directorate of the Moslems of Karachayevo-Cherkessia and Stavropol Territory, has been taken to the city hospital of Cherkessk with firearm and incised wounds.

December 16, 2006 17:50

• Nazim Ibragimov: headquarters will be founded in Russia to address the problems of Azerbaijanis

  "Since the law on migration adopted in Russia and the government's decision on this issue could have created problems for the Azerbaijanis who live in this country, the order of the president of Azerbaijan has formed a state commission that has already started its work," Nazim Ibragimov, chairman of the state committee for work with Azerbaijanis living abroad, told the correspondent of the "Caucasian Knot."

December 16, 2006 17:46

• Defendants on the case of dispersal of the picket in Politkovskaya's memory in Ingushetia fail to arrear at court

  The start of proceedings of the case on dispersal of Anna Politkovskaya's memorial picket, which had been appointed for 4 p.m. yesterday, December 15, at the Nazran District Court of the Republic of Ingushetia, did not come about again. Magomed Mutsolgov, claimant's representative and chairman of the "Mashr" Autonomous Non-Commercial Organization (ANO), informed the correspondent of the "Caucasian Knot" about the fact.

December 16, 2006 17:41

• Yuri Shvets: Litvinenko was killed because of Russia's secret folder

  Alexander Litvinenko was murdered because he possessed information on a certain powerful Kremlin figure, his former partner told the BBC in an interview.

December 16, 2006 17:38

• "March of objectors" demands to stop outrage of Kadyrov's militants

  A protest action named "March of objectors" has been launched in the Triumphal Square of Moscow by the opposition coalition "The Other Russia."

December 15, 2006 23:09

• Report of Beslan commission will be ready about 20s of December

  Senator Oleg Panteleev, member of the federal parliamentary commission on Beslan, has reported on Friday that the commission's report will be presented to parliament in the 20s of December this year.

December 15, 2006 23:05

• Yakunina: refugees from Chechnya and other Caucasian regions live worse than refugees from CIS countries

  Forced migrants from Chechnya and other regions of North Caucasus face much more problems in Russia than resettlers from CIS countries. Alla Yakunina, chair of the "Compatriots" Russian Foundation for helping refugees, told about it to the correspondent of the "Caucasian Knot."

December 15, 2006 22:37

• German journalist deported from Chechnya

  On Thursday December 14, Wanner Christoph, journalist of the Deutsche Welle TV Company, was brought to militia of Grozny, capital of Chechnya.

December 15, 2006 22:34

• Witnesses state that Ulman was ordered to kill Chechnya residents

  In Rostov-on-Don, at the North-Caucasian Military Court, three witnesses on the prosecution part were interrogated on Friday on "Ulman's case."

December 15, 2006 22:30

• European deputies join Russian-Chechen Friendship Society

  Heidi Hautala, leader of the Green faction in parliament of Finland, told in her exclusive interview to the correspondent of the "Caucasian Knot" that she would join the Russian-Chechen Friendship Society (RCFS), which has its branches in Nizhniy Novgorod and Chechnya.

December 15, 2006 00:44

• Children of Chechnya's Shelkovskoj District continue showing symptoms of unknown disease

  On December 13, representatives of the "Civil Assistance" NGO and Society of Russian-Chechen Friendship made a joint visit to the village of Staroschedrinskaya of the Shelkovskoj District of the Chechen Republic.

December 14, 2006 23:43

• Kondopoga events: MAII leader accused of extremism

  Alexander Belov, leader of the Movement Against Illegal Immigration (MAII) was summoned to Petrozavodsk for interrogation.

December 14, 2006 23:10

• Chechnya residents confirm a new outbreak of mass children disease

  About thirty children-residents of Staroschedrinskaya village of the Shelkovskoj District of Chechnya have been taken ill again with an unknown disease, officially treated as massive post-war mental disorder.

December 14, 2006 22:33

• Azerbaijani ANS TV Channel lost half a million because of suspension

  On December 13, Vakhid Mustafaev, president of the ANS TV Company, stated while talking to journalists that the Company people believed in a fair decision to be taken on the future of the ANS.

December 14, 2006 22:28

• Anna Politkovskaya awarded Diploma of Sakharov's Prize

  Anna Politkovskaya, observer of the "Novaya Gazeta," was posthumously awarded a special Diploma of the Jury of Andrei Sakharov's Prize "For the Life Sacrificed to Journalism."

December 13, 2006 23:21

• Polonium traces detected in two Lithuanian citizens after they visited London

  Upon returning from London, two citizens of Lithuania underwent medical examination, which showed that they were "contaminated with polonium," Vigaudas Ushatskas, Ambassador of Lithuania to Great Britain.

December 13, 2006 23:14

• International organizations welcome renewal of ANS TV Channel in Azerbaijan

  The OSCE Baku office and the representative of this organization for the freedom of press have positively accepted the decision to resume broadcasting of the ANS TV Channel in Azerbaijan.

December 13, 2006 22:15

• Court session on dispersal of picket in memory of Politkovskaya appointed on December 15

  At 4:00 p.m. on December 15, the Nazran District Court of the Republic of Ingushetia (RI) will start considering an application lodged by the "Mashr" Association of Relatives of Missing People on illegal decision of the Mayor's Office of the city of Nazran, which had prohibited a picket in memory of Anna Politkovskaya on October 16 this year, and actions of the Interior Department of Nazran and Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ingushetia who violently dispersed the protest action.