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08:12, 4 April 2009
Tigran Balayan, press secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of Armenia, has not denied the information of the American edition The Wall Street Journal about possible forthcoming signing of the agreement to open the Armenian-Turkish border.
05:00, 4 April 2009
So far, the Central Electoral Commission (CEC) of South Ossetia has not received a single application for participation in elections to the regional parliament of the fifth convocation appointed on May 31. The deadline for submitting applications from candidates expires in 10 days.
23:30, 3 April 2009
The residents of the city of Buinaksk in Dagestan who profess Salafism (orthodox Islam trend) report that today they were not allowed to hold their Friday collective namaz. According to their story, the mosque where they planned to do it was closed, and the territory was cordoned by local militiamen.
23:00, 3 April 2009
Russian President Dmitri Medvedev said on April 2 when speaking at the London School of Economy that the CTO regime in Chechnya can be soon curtailed, although its separate elements will remain.
22:50, 3 April 2009
In Troitskaya village, Sunzha District of Ingushetia, unidentified persons have attacked from a grenade launcher and firearms the house belonging to the inspector of the Investigatory Division of the ICPO for Sunzha District of the Russian Federation. This news has come from the ICPO itself.
22:00, 3 April 2009
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has called Russian authorities to investigate the attempt to intimidate employees of the independent edition "Novaya Gazeta".
21:30, 3 April 2009
In the near future, a united detachment of the Ministry of Emergencies (MoE) of Russia will come to demine agricultural lands in Chechnya. Earlier, sappers of the Ministry already worked in the Chechen Republic for a month in 2007 and managed to clean over 60 hectares of territory from land mines, shells and other ordnances.
21:00, 3 April 2009
Today in the morning, in the suburb of Nabakevi village, Gali District of Abkhazia, local residents found a man's body with gunshot wounds. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed about it by Laurens Kogoniya, head of the Gali ROVD.
20:00, 3 April 2009
Today, the Tver Court of Moscow has sanctioned arrest of Sergey Hadzhikurbanov, a former employee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of the Russian Federation, who was earlier acquitted on the murder case Anna Politkovskaya, observer of the "Novaya Gazeta".
19:00, 3 April 2009
On April 8 - the International Gipsies Day - at 11:00 a.m., the Sakharov Public Centre (57-6 Zemlyanoy Val) in St-Petersburg will host a press conference on the problem of human rights reaction to violations of the rights of Gipsies-residents of the Russian Federation.
18:00, 3 April 2009
Relatives of Hero of Russia Sulim Yamadaev, ex-commander of the "Vostok" battalion, who was attacked in Dubai on March 28, continue insisting that he is alive. The photo of his tomb that allegedly appeared in the Internet, in their opinion, means nothing. Meanwhile, Dakhi Khalfan Tamim, head of Dubai police, has once again confirmed that Yamadaev is dead.
23:30, 2 April 2009
At the judicial session on April 1, activist of the opposition Sarkis Atspanyan, citizen of France and supporter of Levon Ter-Petrosyan, accused of a false denunciation with the aim to discredit a person, stated that he had tried to warn President of Armenia about a possible attempt and that it was for benefit of Robert Kocharyan and Armenian National Front "Dashnaktsutyun" (ANFD).
23:10, 2 April 2009
During the last year, Sulim Yamadaev, ex-commander of the "Vostok" special battalion of the GRU (Main Intelligence Directorate of the Russian General Staff), often criticized the incumbent Chechen authorities.
22:30, 2 April 2009
The embassy of Norway in Baku has made a statement on the outcomes of the March 18 referendum on amending the Constitution of Azerbaijan, which remarks that lifting the restriction on the term for one person to be President is s step away from democracy. The US embassy has noted, in its turn, that the democracy in Azerbaijan has not rooted in yet.
22:00, 2 April 2009
Relatives of Sulim Yamadaev continue to deny the information about his death and insist that not the ex-commander of the "Vostok" special GRU battalion but some other man was assassinated in Dubai. However, they give no answer to the question why, if Sulim Yamadaev is alive, his brother or wife who are there with him cannot make a photo or a video of the wounded man to refute the rumours about his death.