Chechnya marks the Day of the Chechen Language April 25, 2009 21:00 Today, residents of Chechnya have celebrated the Day of the Chechen Language. The events dated to this holiday took place in all dwelling settlements of the republic.
Population of Azerbaijan has reached 8.820 million April 25, 2009 20:00 The first results of the census conducted in Azerbaijan on April 13-22 have been announced. According to these data, the population of the country has reached 8,820,000 persons.
Two activists of the opposition pardoned in Armenia April 25, 2009 18:00 Under Decree of President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan, two figurants of the case about events on March 1, 2008, in Yerevan - activists of the opposition David Agayan and Nver Stepanyan - were released from prison.
Mayor of Volgograd bans gays' parade in city centre April 25, 2009 17:00 Head of Volgograd Roman Grebennikov has forbidden the gay-parade, which local sexual minorities had planned to hold today without sanction of the authorities in the city centre.
Because of opposition's actions, Parliament of Georgia works in hotel April 25, 2009 16:13 Because of large-scale actions of the opposition in the centre of Tbilisi, the Parliament of Georgia has actually moved to the hotel "Sheraton Metekhi Palace" and tries to work from there.
Special operation underway in Ingushetia April 25, 2009 15:00 Today since morning, in Surkhakhi village, Nazran District of Ingushetia, a special operation is conducted. The operation implies check of passports and inspections of motor transport.
Safrastyan: after "metz ekhern" Obama will say "genocide" April 25, 2009 11:00 The use by the US President in his address to the Armenian community of the word "genocide" in its Armenian sounding "metz ekhern" means that the following step will be Obama's use of the term "genocide" also in the English language, as believes Professor Ruben Safrastyan, Director of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia.
Ministry of Finance of North Ossetia to pay taxes for training Beslan children April 25, 2009 10:00 President of North Ossetia Taimuraz Mamsurov has instructed the Republic's Ministry of Finance to allocate from the reserve fund some 1.3 million roubles to cover the tax for training and residence at the lyceum boarding school "Podmoskovny" of 30 children-victims of Beslan terror act.
Jobless residents of Volgograd are involved in public works April 25, 2009 09:00 Currently, about 900 jobless city dwellers are involved in public works in the territory of Volgograd. Such works, although being a temporary measure, are efficient in mitigating the unemployment problem in the conditions of economy decline, as the officials of the Mayoralty of Volgograd believe.
In Sochi, propaganda campaign for Mayor election is over April 25, 2009 07:00 Yesterday, on April 24, the stage of the agitation campaign before Sochi election was over, and today is the "day of silence". From the midnight of April 25, any public agitation for candidates to the post of Mayor of this city-resort is forbidden.
CPRF Deputy: what takes place in Sochi cannot be named election April 24, 2009 23:40 The pre-election campaign in Russian city-resort Sochi "cannot be called an election, it is more likely an appointment with elements of voting", as Sergey Obukhov, a State Duma Deputy from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF) believes.
South Ossetia accuses Georgia of shelling Velit village April 24, 2009 23:00 Ibragim Gaseev, Deputy Defence Minister of South Ossetia, has stated today that last night Georgia used large-calibre weapons to shell, from Dirbi village, the village of Velit, Znaur District of South Ossetia. There were no casualties or victims.
In Georgia, opposition disrupts Mikhail Saakashvili's late supper April 24, 2009 22:00 Last night the opposition in Tbilisi carried out its first action of "chasing President", having disrupted Mikhail Saakashvili's late supper in the cafe near Mardzhanishvili Theatre. Saakashvili had to leave the place together with his bodyguards.
Zeitun Sultanov, underground leader, killed in Kabardino-Balkaria April 24, 2009 21:30 The car passenger, liquidated on April 22 in Kabardino-Balkaria by power agents, was identified as Zeitun Sultanov, leader of the local armed underground movement.
Defendant in Politkovskaya's case to be interrogated in a new case April 24, 2009 21:00 Sergey Hadzhikurbanov, a former Moscow's RUBOP (Department to Fight Organized Crime) agent and acquitted figurant in the murder case of journalist Anna Politkovskaya, can be interrogated under another criminal case, this time under suspicion of forging money.
Ten bases and six hiding places with arms detected in CTO zones in Chechnya April 24, 2009 20:30 In the mountain areas of Chechnya, which were announced under the counterterrorist operation (CTO) regime, during the first three weeks in April, ten militants' bases and six hiding places were found. This is asserted by the Military Commandant's Office of Chechnya.
Investigation of explosion of "Neva-Express" train is over April 24, 2009 20:00 The investigation under the criminal case on blowing the "Neva-Express" train is over, and one of the defendants - Maksharip Khidriev was given the right to get acquainted with the materials of the case.
Armenians of the world mark Memory Day of genocide victims April 24, 2009 19:00 On April 24, the Memory Day of the victims of Armenians' genocide in Ottoman Empire of 1915-1922, all cities, towns and villages of Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh, as well as the foreign countries, which have Armenian Diasporas, hold traditional mourning actions in memory of 1.5 million genocide victims.
Stavropol Territory commemorates victims of Chernobyl NPP tragedy April 24, 2009 18:00 On April 24 in Stavropol, the mini-park, named in honour of the 55th anniversary of the great victory of Soviet people over fascism, was the venue of a rally dated to the Memory Day of Victims of Radiation Accidents and Catastrophes. This Memory Day is marked in Russia on April 26.
Woman accused in beating four men convicted in Azerbaijan April 23, 2009 23:30 On April 22, the Surakhan District Court of Azerbaijan put a full stop in the case of Sayara Geidarova, accused of beating four men. The woman was sentenced to one year of conditional imprisonment.