News

March 21, 2008 14:09

• Action in memory of March 1 victims held in the capital of Armenia

  In Yerevan, an action in memory of those who perished in the collision between peaceful demonstrators and power agents of Armenia that took place on March 1. Several thousands took part in protest against the violence that was used on that day.

March 21, 2008 14:04

• Dagestan MIA joins investigation of Ilyas Shurpaev's murder

  The body of journalist Ilyas Shurpaev was found today in an apartment located in the Veshie Vody Street in Moscow. The neighbours saw a smoke coming out of the flat and called firemen who found the body inside.

March 21, 2008 13:54

• Mother of Mutsolgov who was killed in Ingushetia: power agents pre-planned her son's execution

  The aim of the power agents of Ingushetia who shot dead Rustam Mutsolgov on March 12 in Troitskaya village was to liquidate and not to capture the young man.

March 21, 2008 13:29

• In North Ossetia, court rules to examine "Voice of Beslan" materials for extremism

  Today, the Pravoberezhny Court of North Ossetia held a hearing on charges against the North-Ossetian NGO "Voice of Beslan" of extremism. The Court has ruled to examine the information materials of the "Voice of Beslan".

March 20, 2008 21:27

• Court leaves OMON fighters accused of beating teenagers in Sochi under arrest

  On March 19, the Krasnodar Territorial Court ruled to leave four ex-fighters of Sochi OMON (Special Militia) behind bars. The fighters are accused of mass beating of tourists in children's camp "Druzhba" (Friendship).

March 20, 2008 21:23

• KGB of South Ossetia denies any interference in the work of OSCE and UN Missions

  The KGB (Committee for State Security) of South Ossetia denies the information disseminated by Russian and Georgian mass media that its officials had searched representatives of the OSCE and United Nations when the latter tried to survey the reserved garbage dump located in the southern suburb of Tskhinvali within the project on environment protection and confiscated a photo and video cameras from them together with filmed materials, but then returned everything back.

March 20, 2008 21:19

• In Kabardino-Balkaria, criminal case on torturing defendants was not opened

  At the preliminary hearing at the Supreme Court of Kabardino-Balkaria on the case about the attack on Nalchik on October 13, 2005, the officials of the Investigatory Committee have refused to initiate a criminal case on the fact of using tortures against the defendants.

March 20, 2008 21:10

• Residents of Armenia and Diaspora raise money to pay the debt of the GALA TV Company

  The community of Gyumri, the second-largest city of Armenia, as well as people from other cities and villages of the country, are raising money to pay the penalty awarded to the Gyumri-based GALA TV Company by the Administrative Court.

March 20, 2008 20:43

• European Court blames Russian authorities of two brothers' disappearance in Chechnya

  The European Court for Human Rights has found the guilt of the authorities of Russia of violent disappearance of two brothers Azievs in 2000 in Chechnya.

March 20, 2008 20:39

• Gachechiladze: hunger strike will last till parliamentary elections in Georgia

  The hunger strike held by the opposition will continue till the parliamentary elections in Georgia. Georgiy Gachechiladze, leader of the Party "Greens to Georgia" told about it to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

March 20, 2008 20:36

• In North Ossetia, the ATC driver who knocked down a woman refuses to plead guilty

  On March 19, the Military Prosecutor's Office of North Ossetia continued the hearing of the case of soldier Darkhan Seitmagambetov who knocked a woman down to death in November 2007 when he was driving his ATC-80 (Armoured Troop Carrier).

March 20, 2008 20:29

• Persons accused of attacking the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria question jurymen's neutrality

  At the preliminary hearing of the criminal case initiated in relation to the attack on the city of Nalchik, the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria, the defendants and their advocates expressed doubts of the objectivity of the jury.

March 19, 2008 22:14

• Ren-TV: address of Ingush deputies to Russian authorities looks like denunciation

  The website of the Ren-TV Channel has placed a reaction to the request of Ingush MPs to stop broadcasting of the Channel in the territory of the Republic.

March 19, 2008 22:10

• Stavropol Territory: teacher is accused of driving a pupil to suicide

  In the Stavropol Territory, a criminal case has been initiated against a teacher of secondary school No. 2 of the village of Aleksandrovskoye under the article on driving to suicide of a 9th form pupil.

March 19, 2008 22:06

• Ter-Petrosyan's Election Office: oppositionists detained in Armenia are tortured

  Sources from the Election Office of Levon Ter-Petrosyan assert that 12 activists of Armenian opposition have been exposed to tortures at the penitentiary establishments of Yerevan.

March 19, 2008 22:04

• Sergeant suspected of beating soldier detained in Krasnodar

  In Krasnodar, a sergeant suspected of beating soldier Alexander Ivanov, was placed on March 18 into the temporary insulation facility.

March 19, 2008 22:00

• "Rustavi-2": KGB of South Ossetia interferes into the work of OSCE and UN missions

  Today, representatives of the OSCE Mission and engineers from the United Nations Mission have arrived to Tskhinvali for preparation to implementation of one of the projects. According to the news item of the Georgian TV Company "Rustavi-2", the work of the members of international organizations was disrupted by the KGB of South Ossetia.

March 19, 2008 21:53

• Court of the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria prohibits advocate Dorogova to visit SIZO

  The Nalchik City Court has rejected the complaint of advocate Larissa Dorogova claiming to recognize illegitimate the actions of the employees of the Nalchik SIZO in Kabardino-Balkaria who refused to let her in to her client Zaur Tokhov for rendering legal assistance to him.

March 19, 2008 21:46

• Chechen human rights activists ask Kadyrov to investigate tortures in ORB-2

  The NGO Board under the Ombudsman and the Public Chamber of Chechnya ask Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov to investigate the activities of Ahmed Khasambekov who headed the ORB-2 (Operations and Search Bureau) in 2000-2007.

March 19, 2008 21:43

• Russia's culture figures ask Alexis II to help Maskhadov's family in getting his remains

  Well-known workers of culture have joined the appeal of the participants of the movement against the war in Northern Caucasus to Patriarch Alexis II with an appeal to assist in handing the remains of Aslan Maskhadov, second President of Chechnya and leader of separatists, out to his relatives.