News

July 24, 2007 13:00

• No SFD's residents registered among the victims in the camp near Angarsk

  "There were no residents of the South Federal District (SFD) among the victims of the attack on the protest tent camp," a participant of the ecological action held by the "Autonomous Action" Movement and "Rainbow Guards" Organization in the vicinity of Angarsk, Irkutsk Region, told.

July 24, 2007 01:00

• Action "All are different - all are equal" cancelled in Georgia

  The action that was to take place on July 29 in Tbilisi within the agenda of the Council of Europe's campaign entitled "All are different - all are equal" was cancelled.

July 23, 2007 18:25

• Pressure on the officer who gave up Azerbaijani citizenship continues

  The command of the Nakhichevan military unit, where Colonel-Lieutenant of Azerbaijani National Army Rasim Muradov is taking his service, continues to exert pressure on him.

July 23, 2007 17:42

• Arrested journalist has sewn up his mouth in Azerbaijan

  Faramaz Allakhverdiev, correspondent of the "Nota Bene" newspaper, who is serving his punishment in Colony No. 14 of Azerbaijan, has announced a hunger strike and sewn up his mouth.

July 23, 2007 15:32

• Chechnya: MoD is losing six servicemen every month

  According to the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of the Russian Federation, during the latest six months of 2007, a total of 37 militaries have been lost in Chechnya.

July 23, 2007 12:47

• Authorities of Krasnodar Territory allow extraction of dolomites in the reserve territory

  The "Region Resource" Company intends to start prospecting dolomites in the territory of the "Kamyshanova Polyana" Landscape Reserve, located in the Apsheron District of the Krasnodar Territory near to the Caucasian Biosphere Reserve.

July 23, 2007 01:54

• Attackers of ecologists in Angarsk assert that they took revenge on anti-fascists

  The Prosecutor's Office of the Irkutsk Region has informed today that the persons, arrested on suspicion of attacking on July 21 the residents of the tent camp near Angarsk, are asserting that they took revenge for their comrade beaten by activists of the "Antifa" Movement.

July 23, 2007 01:15

• Dagestan authorities want to deprive the charitable hospital of its building

  Today, the Arbitration Court of Dagestan has begun considering the suit of the Prosecutor's Office of Dagestan on cancelling the order of the Ministry of Property of the Republic on allocation of premises to the Regional Public Foundation "Charitable Women's Hospital."

July 23, 2007 01:10

• Police disperses a youth protest action in Azerbaijan

  On July 22, in the central mini-park of the capital of Azerbaijan, in the Fountains Square, the police severely dispersed the participants of the protest action held by the "Dalga" Youth Organization.

July 21, 2007 21:31

• CEC of Nagorno-Karabakh announces final election results

  The Central Electoral Commission (CEC) of Nagorno-Karabakh has made public the final results of the presidential election, according to which Bako Saakyan was declared President of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR).

July 21, 2007 19:04

• Soldier who has disappeared in North Ossetia returns to Volgograd Region

  Mikhail Tarantsov, Ombudsman for the Volgograd Region, told at the meeting with journalists that this May parents of a young man had addressed him asking to search their son.

July 21, 2007 12:20

• Victims of Beslan terror act punished for pogrom in the courtroom

  Three ladies-activists of the "Beslan Mothers" Committee - Rita Techieva, Zalina Guburova and Mziya Kochishvili - were fined for the pogrom in the building of the Pravoberezhny District Court of North Ossetia, which had considered the case of three militiamen accused of negligence in connection with the capture of hostages in Beslan in 2004.

July 21, 2007 12:11

• Ingushetia investigates into a murder of local religious figure

  Today about 1 p.m., in the city of Karabulak, Ingushetia, a murder was accomplished of Vakha Vedzizhev, a well-known religious figure of the Republic and imam of the Barsuki mosque.

July 21, 2007 12:05

• European Union demands release of journalists arrested in Azerbaijan

  In the course of the visit to Azerbaijan of Peter Semneby, EU's Special Representative for South Caucasus, the issue of releasing convicted journalists was specifically raised.

July 21, 2007 11:18

• Residents of dismantled apartment house in the capital of Georgia hold protest actions

  In Tbilisi, under decision of the mayoralty of the capital, the authorities continue dismantling a new 13-storied apartment house erected in the city centre.

July 21, 2007 10:57

• Attack on ecologists' camp in Angarsk

  Early in the morning on July 21, the camp of radical ecologists in Angarsk (Irkutsk Region), who are holding a protest action against processing of nuclear wastes at the Angarsk Electrolysis Chemical Combine, was attacked by a group of about 20 unknown persons. The eyewitness has supposed that among the victims there could be activists from the South Federal District (SFD) of Russia.

July 20, 2007 23:26

• Presidential elections in Nagorno-Karabakh won by Bako Saakyan

  Sergey Nasibyan, Chairman of the Central Electoral Commission (CEC) of Nagorno-Karabakh, has announced preliminary results of the elections.

July 20, 2007 19:34

• NGO demands to recognize cleansings of Christian population of Georgia

  A press conference on the topic "Recognition of the fact of cleansings of Christian population in Meskhetiya (Georgia) in 1918-1919" has been held today by the NGO "National Education Union" in the "Sumshoblo" Publishing House.

July 20, 2007 18:43

• Greenpeace accuses LLC "Lukoil" of deliberate polluting land and air of Volgograd Region

  During a joint spot-check of the territory of the Svetloyarskiy District, Volgograd Region, the Information Centre (IC) "Volgograd-Ecopress" and the Greenpeace international ecological organization revealed a small lake full of liquid of unknown origin.

July 20, 2007 18:01

• Relatives of arrested journalists beg Azerbaijani leader of pardon

  It has become known to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliev can pardon the arrested journalists only if they lodge respective pardon petitions.