News

Student Magomed Aliev accused of promoting terrorism is to be attended by members of the Public Oversight Commission (POC) of the Stavropol Territory. They are to check the statements made by the detainee's relatives who claimed Magomed Aliev had not been provided with the medical care in the SIZO (pre-trial prison) when he had been in need of it.

The Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) has reported that the Armenian armed forces have shelled the positions of the Azerbaijani Army and villages located along the frontline in the Karabakh conflict zone. According to another report made by the Azerbaijani MoD released this morning, during the past day, the Armenian military forces violated the ceasefire 64 times.

On January 3, the Central Election Commission (CEC) of Azerbaijan held a meeting to consider about 20 appeals and complaints filed in connection with the municipal elections of December 23, 2014. However, no complaint has been granted, announces Akif Gurbanov, a CEC member.

Gasan Magomedov, a player of the "Anji-2" FC, was killed in the Kumtorkala District of Dagestan. The murder was committed at night in the village of Novokuli. The football player died in hospital from the wounds.

In the Kuibyshev District of the Rostov Region, close to the Russian-Ukrainian border, a tie-rod with a grenade was found in a tree, the regional department for emergency prevention and response has reported.

Court in Stavropol has extended, until February 13, the detention of a Dagestani student Magomed Aliev, accused of promoting terrorism. Now Aliev, in his poor health condition, is in SIZO (pre-trial prison) of Pyatigorsk, where he receives no medical treatment, his relatives assert.

The Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Azerbaijan has refuted the report of the Defence Army of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) about a night attempt of Azerbaijani militaries to cross the contact line of armed forces.

In order to prevent a recurrence of the December 2013 terror acts in Volgograd, they have banned access of vehicles to the railway station.

Two servicemen of the Defence Army of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) were killed and another one wounded in response to diversions from the Azerbaijani party, said the NKR's Ministry of Defence (MoD).

The city of Maikop, the capital of Adygea, has held a commemoration rally of victims of local conflicts. The rally, which was attended by combat veterans from Krasnodar, read out the names of the victims; and fired a salute in their honour.

Residents of Southern Caucasus will have from five to twelve days-off to celebrate the New Year – the decision was made by the authorities of the countries of the region.

At sentencing Rasul Kudaev in the case of the attack on Nalchik in 2005, the court failed to consider a number of testimonies and defence information; the verdict has been challenged, said the advocate Batyr Akhilgov.

The slowness of the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) of Azerbaijan, which was supposed to develop, with account of recent legislative changes, a mechanism for registration of grants in the country, is in fact paralyzing the work of non-governmental organizations (NGOs), their activists assert.

Lunpsum financial help was allocated by the authorities of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic to World War II and Karabakh War veterans. This decision was made on the occasion of the New Year, which will be celebrated in the republic until January 12.

The Youth Centre for Consulting and Training under the supervision of Temur Kobaliya, Director of the Georgian-Russian Forum of non-profit organizations (NPOs), has been considered as a "foreign agent" at the demand of the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) of the Volgograd Region.

During January 1, the Armenian party violated the ceasefire for 86 times, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) has stated today. According to the Ministry, the fire was delivered at positions in two districts of Azerbaijan.

From today, Armenia has officially become a member of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU), which unites Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan; however, till the end of 2015, Yerevan will have a limited representation in the executive bodies of the Union.

Four law enforcers involved in the special operation on January 1 in the village of Mekenskaya were slightly wounded. According to Chechen authorities, they were wounded by grenade fragments.

The new tactics to combat the armed underground in Chechnya assumes a personal search of each wanted person by each individual official, said the press service of the head of the republic.

Khadija Ismayilova, an investigative journalist and an employee of the Baku office of Radio Liberty, who is kept in the Baku SIZO (pre-trial prison), has sent an open letter with words of support to her colleagues.