News

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

In the mountainous Itum-Kalin and Vedeno Districts of Chechnya the broad-scale counterterrorist operation (CTO), launched three days ago by federal power agencies, continues.

Mikhail Mokretsov, Head of the Federal Tax Service (FTS), announced on April 22 a suspension of the procedure of collecting taxes from the parents of children-victims of Beslan terror act and trained at the "Podmoskovny" Lyceum situated in Korallovo near Moscow.

Last night an oppositionist was beaten in Tbilisi. Eka Beseliya, leader of the Party "Movement for United Georgia", has stated that the country's MIA fails to prevent violence and ensure safety of the participants of protest actions; accordingly, the Ministry "will receive adequate answer."

The Sovietskiy District Court of Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan, has obliged journalists of the newspaper "Novoe Delo" to pay out 12,000 roubles to Zaur Gaziev, journalist of the newspaper "Free Republic", who was dissatisfied with reviews on his articles and fairy tale.

The experts of the Ministry for Emergencies (MfE) of Russia from the Special-Purpose Centre named "Leader" have started their work in Chechnya and already cleared 1.5 ha of agricultural land of mines and all kinds of bombs; the land belongs to the state farm "Zarya" (Dawn) located near Grozny.

Relatives of Adam Aushev, 21, a resident of Surkhakhi village, Nazran District, killed on March 21 by employees of the Department of the FSB (DFSB) for Ingushetia, reject the DFSB's version about his armed resistance and insist on an extrajudicial execution of the young man.

Today, the European Court on Human Rights has announced its decisions on five cases related to violations of Chechen residents' rights. According to these decisions, the aggregate compensation awarded to the applicants on all five cases for their material and mental damage will make 549,700 euros.

Sochi journalist Anastasia Akopyan beaten with threats after she had interviewed Boris Nemtsov, a candidate for Sochi Mayor, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that she had not received any threats before the incident.

The company, which fails to pay salaries to the crew of the Russian ship "Artemida", now in the Krasnodar Territory at the ship-repair works in the city of Eysk, promised to settle, before April 26, the conflict with the seamen who have announced a hunger strike.

Marina Bottaeva, 20, a resident of Nalchik, addressed human rights organizations with an application that he was blackmailed by a law enforcer named Arsen Iritov, born in 1985, a relative of Naurbi Zhamborov, Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs.

Since September 1, 2009, North Ossetia will seriously toughen requirements to medical centres and dining rooms in educational establishments in order to improve children's nutrition and health control. Now, only about 20 percent of schoolchildren of the republic get proper meals.

Relatives of Ibragim and Dzhabrail Makhmudovs, former defendants in Anna Politkovskaya's murder case, have announced remuneration for any information connected with this crime.

Today, Saipi Mogushkov, 77, former head of the security at the Republic's Clinical Hospital of Ingushetia, who was wounded by unidentified persons in the evening on April 19, has died.

Today, the Moscow Garrison Military Court continued debates on the case of Vladimir Bukreev - the judge who sentenced Colonel Budanov, - now accused of bribe-taking. The state accuser demands 10 years of general regime colony for the defendant, while the defence complains of protracting the litigation.

The OSCE spokesman on freedom of mass media Miklos Harasti has welcomed liberation in Azerbaijan of three journalists from custody and called the authorities of the country to cancel criminal prosecution for defamation.