News

January 23, 2008 12:01

• Militants planned terror act at rally in Ingushetia

  According to today's information of Svetlana Gorbakova, senior assistant to the head of the investigatory department for Ingushetia of the Investigatory Committee under the Russian General Prosecutor's Office, the explosive that blew up in a car on January 22 in Nazran (Ingushetia) was intended for the rally to be held on January 26.

January 22, 2008 12:52

• Armenians of Krasnodar Territory demand from Turkish authorities to solve Hrant Dink's murder

  On January 20, a meeting of leaders of a number of Armenian NGOs of the Krasnodar Territory was held in Tenginka village of the Tuapse District. The meeting was in memory of Hrant Dink, editor-in-chief of the Armenian newspaper "Agos" published in Turkey who was killed one year ago.

January 22, 2008 12:46

• So far, Poland fails to grant refugee's status to the Chechen woman whose children died in the mountains

  The family from Chechnya, which had lost three daughters in Bieszczady mountains during their illegal crossing of the Ukrainian-Polish border, could not get the refugee's status in Poland, although it had been personally promised to them by Maria Kachinska, wife of the incumbent president of this country.

January 22, 2008 12:40

• People's Party holds rally opposite US Embassy in Georgia

  Today, the People's Party has held a rally near the building of the US Embassy in the capital of Georgia, having accused the USA of supporting the election falsifications.

January 22, 2008 12:33

• Edelev: special operations in Dagestan and Ingushetia can continue till March

  Special actions conducted by militia in Dagestan and Ingushetia can go on till March.

January 22, 2008 12:26

• Dagestan: accused militants' accomplice released from the courtroom

  In Dagestan the court has acquitted Arsen Dzhanbatyrov in exchange of him giving up. Prior to criminal prosecution Dzhanbatyrov was registered as kidnapped.

January 21, 2008 10:34

• Memory of Hrant Dink honoured in capital of Georgia

  On January 19, an event was held at the office of Georgian Ombudsman under the motto "Journalists - Victims of Freedom of Speech" dedicated to the memory of Hrant Dink, editor-in-chief of the Armenian newspaper "Agos", published in Istanbul, who was killed in Turkey, and also in memory of Giorgiy Sanaya, Anna Politkovskaya and many other journalists who fell victim of their professional work.

January 21, 2008 10:27

• Andrei Rudomakha: local ecologists not invited to roundtable in Sochi

  The roundtable entitled "Environmental Problems in Construction of Olympic Objects in Sochi - Ways of Solution", to be held in the Red Valley (Krasnodar Territory), planned on January 23, will take place without local ecologists who were not invited.

January 21, 2008 10:03

• Public and politicians are concerned of atmosphere of fear in Armenia

  The Public and Political Movement "Legitimate President 2008" is stating facts of illegal propaganda organized by the authorities of the Armenia and stirring up the atmosphere of fear in the country before the elections.

January 21, 2008 09:59

• Court decides to find Manana Aslamazyan for in presentio trial

  Today, the Tver Court of Moscow has rejected the complaint against announcement of search of Manana Aslamazyan, director of the "Internews".

January 21, 2008 09:54

• Agency asks Dagestan Interior Minister to defend domestic journalists

  The "Caucasus Times" News Agency has addressed the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Dagestan with a demand "to restrain those who exerts unreasonable and illegal pressure on journalists and the 'Free Republic' newspaper."

January 19, 2008 12:04

• Subari: Georgia has serious successes in fighting trafficking

  A meeting on trafficking problems was held in the office of the Ombudsman (People's Defender) of Georgia.

January 19, 2008 12:01

• European observers express remarks on Georgian election

  The international observation mission comprised of representatives of democratic institutes of the OSCE, Parliamentary Assembly of the European Council and European Parliament, Office for Defence of Human Rights and OSCE Parliamentary Assembly has published a report in connection with the presidential election in Georgia.

January 19, 2008 11:57

• Mukhu Aliev: Makhachkala is in the state of emergency

  Today, President of Dagestan Mukhu Aliev has held an emergency meeting on the critical situation with electricity and heat supplies to residents of Makhachkala.

January 19, 2008 11:51

• European Parliament demands peaceful settlement of Nagorno-Karabakh problem

  The resolution of the European Parliament on South Caucasus' unsettled conflicts, the Nagorno-Karabakh issue inclusive, states that the conflicts should be settled exclusively through peaceful negotiations.

January 19, 2008 11:46

• Every fourth Russia's resident thinks special agencies involved in murdering Politkovskaya and Litvinenko

  Every fourth resident of the Russian Federation is convinced that Russian special agencies were involved in the resonant murders of journalist Anna Politkovskaya and ex-FSB officer Alexander Litvinenko.

January 18, 2008 11:35

• Azerbaijani advocates complain to the European Court against the authorities

  Advocates Intigam Aliev and Annagi Gadzhibeili lodged a suit to the European Court for Human Rights against the Azerbaijani government.

January 18, 2008 11:20

• On Saakashvili's inauguration day, the Georgia opposition to hold a rally at the hippodrome

  The United Opposition of Georgia plans to hold a rally on the day of inauguration of Mikhail Saakashvili, January 20, and calls the public to come to the hippodrome.

January 18, 2008 10:47

• Krasnodar holds seminar "Public Control: Power and Society"

  In Krasnodar, Moscow and local human rights activists have discussed, in the course of the seminar "Public Control: Power and Society", organized by the Moscow "Demos" Centre, the civil supervision over the activities of law enforcement bodies.

January 18, 2008 10:33

• Antimonopoly bodies of Dagestan bring electricity suppliers to responsibility

  The supervisory bodies, monopolists and the Municipal Unitary Enterprise (MUE) "City Electric Power Grid" should be responsible for absence of electric power in dwelling districts of Makhachkala.