News

Starting September 1, the project "Georgian Language for Future Success" will be operating. The Ministry of Education has already completed the selection of candidates for participation in the contest for teaching positions. Selected candidates will be directed to teach Georgian language in non-Georgian schools in the districts of Kvemo Kartli, Samtskhe-Djavakheti and Kakheti.

About 400 internet blog users took part in an action “Blogger against rubbish” in Astrakhan region. Governor Alexander Zhilkin also participated in tidying up the beach.

Today, at the National Football Championship the Makhachkala football club (FC) "Anji" defeated the team "Tom" from the city of Tomsk. Before the match, the official presentation of the new player of the Dagestani team – Yuri Zhirkov, a midfielder of the Russian team and the London team "Chelsea" – was conducted.

Today, the city of Kutaisi has hosted a funeral ceremony of Tamta Liparteliani, a Georgian student, who perished in Norway during the terror act at the youth camp on the island of Uteoya, was held.

On August 15 the residents of the nine mountainous districts of Dagestan will come to the rally demanding to open the "Gimry-Chirkata" Tunnel for automobile traffic, which was closed on August 3.

In accordance with the order of Dmitry Shashkin, Minister of Education and Science of Georgia, in the new 2011-2012 academic year teaching English will become mandatory in the universities of Georgia. This was reported by the Ministry's statement released on August 5.

Eduard Taashev, involved in the grouping of Zalim Tutov, who was in wanted list, was killed in Kabardino-Balkaria. This was reported today by the United Information Centre (UIC) of the law enforcement agencies of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR).

10 sailors from Georgia, who were captured as hostages by Somali pirates almost 11 months ago, did not go on the air for a radio contact since April.

On August 5, a conflict between two Caucasian natives led to a shooting from the traumatic weapons near the mosque on the Poklonnaya Hill in the west of Moscow. One Caucasian native was injured.

Construction of the railway Baku-Tbilisi-Kars, linking the territories of Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Turkey, will be completed in 2012. This was announced by Ramaz Nikolaishvili, Minister of Infrastructure and Regional Development of Georgia.

In Chechnya, during the year the commission for reconciliation of blood feudists (blood feud avengers) managed to reconcile 812 families who were in the state of blood feud; and the last three of such families will be reconciled before the end of Ramadan, the Republic's Muftiat states.

In the city of Astrakhan, Nadezhda Gogoleva, Principal of the School No. 74, a member of the regional branch of the party "Fair Russia", accuses the leadership of the City Committee on Education and Science in an attempt to dismiss her on far-fetched grounds.

Armenia will obey to the decision of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in respect of Vahan Bayatyan, a member of the religious organization "Jehovah's Witnesses", and pay to him the adjudicated amount of 20,000 euros in dram equivalent. This decision was approved on August 4 at the Armenian government's meeting.

Telo Tulku Rinpoche, Sajin Lama (Supreme Lama), President of the Centralized religious organization "Association of Buddhists of Kalmykia" sent an open letter to Sergey Lavrov, Russian Foreign Minister, requesting to permit a pastoral visit to Russia of the Buddhists' spiritual leader.

On August 5, after a break of 7 months, the flights on the route Tbilisi-Yerevan, terminated in January because of the loss, were resumed.

A trial on the case of Sviridov’s murder began in the Moscow city court today. The case is being tried by a jury which includes twelve main and eight reserve jurymen.

In Ingushetia, the republic's leader Yunus-Bek Evkurov ordered to establish a working group on moral issues, which would include representatives of the law enforcement agencies, tax inspection, Federal Service "Rospotrebnadzor", public organizations and the clergy.

In North Ossetia, episodes of the new Russian action film about the military conflict between Russia and Georgia, which took place in 2008 in South Ossetia, were shot. Residents of the city of Tskhinvali took part in the shootings.

In Karachay-Cherkessia, the Ust-Dzheguta Interdistrict Investigatory Division of the Investigatory Department of the Investigatory Committee of Russia on the Karachay-Cherkessian Republic (KCR) initiated a criminal case on charges of excess of power by the officers of the local OVD (Interior Division).

Today, in the city of Rostov-on-Don at the hearing on the case of "Urvan Jamaat" in the North Caucasus District Military Court the defendants' lawyers demanded to bring to the court two defence's witnesses who did not come. To search for witnesses, the hearings were postponed till August 10.