All news

In Astrakhan, participants of the political hunger strike did not receive from the Central Election Commission (CEC) videos from the webcams, which were operating at city electoral precincts on March 4, and began to publish their available videos on the Internet, since they fear that the records may disappear from the resource of the Ministry of Communications and the "Rostelecom".

Rosa Aishaeva, a resident of the town of Tyrnyauz, and Larisa Nagoeva, a resident of the city of Nalchik, appeal to human rights activists to help in defending the rights of their sons, Murat Aishaev and Murat Nagoev, who, according to the women, had been kidnapped by power agents. According to the women, the young people were tortured to confess to belonging to militant groupings.

In Armenia, for the first time, a blogger intends to participate in the parliamentary elections scheduled for May 6. Izabella Abgaryan, who writes under the nickname of iza1976, is being nominated by proportional system from the "Heritage" Party.

The Labour party of Georgia held an action of protest against falsification of the parliamentary election in October, 2012, under the slogan “Red light to Saakashvili”.

Public prosecutor’s office of Krasnodar region acknowledged destruction of state natural reserve of regional value “Bolshoy Utrish” unlawful.

Local policemen in Khasavyurt are bringing pressure on the Musalimovs because of the twenty-seven-years-old Salim Musalimov who has a federal wanted notice for suspicion of infringement on the life of an officer of law enforcement bodies in 2011, his mother Dagmara states. The family appealed to “Memorial” Human Rights Center and reports that Salim Musalimov has been staying in France since 2010 and could not therefore have committed the crime incriminated to him.

Two more victims of the explosion in the Volgograd cafe "Bellagio" were discharged from Moscow hospitals. Artyom Sotnikov, a resident of Volgograd, and Yulia Podgornaya, a resident of Moscow, will continue to receive medical treatment at home. Thus, 10 persons still remain at the hospitals of Moscow and German Cologne.

Four residents of the farm yard of Turoverov-Glubokinsky of the Millerovo District of the Rostov Region need new housing after the flooding of their houses.

Today, the Garadag District Court of Baku again rejected the activist Bakhtiyar Gadjiev of conventional early relief (CER) in connection with serving of half of his imprisonment sentence.

Judicial board of the Moscow City Court has mitigated the sentence for several defendants in the case of organizing mass riots in Manege Square in Moscow in December 2010 and reduced their terms of imprisonment by two and three months.

Today, starting from 1:00 p.m., Tamara Novikova, the mother of Dmitry Novikov, Sochi Judge, holds a single picket in front of the Russian Government in Moscow.

Today, the regular plenary session of the National Assembly of Nagorno-Karabakh determined the date of the next presidential election.

Khadis Kodzokov, a resident of the village of Dugulubgei of the Baksan Region of Kabardino-Balkaria, reported on his detention and beating at the police station of the Baksan District.

Today the picketers on duty who were blocking the traffic of large-size techniques in the territory of a children’s center in Constitution street of Sochi round the clock underwent an assault from unidentified persons.

Lawyer of entrepreneur Khachatur Sukiasyan, the representative of the Armenian National Congress (NAC), appealed to the Administrative Court a complaint against the decision of the election commission of the district No. 10, which refused to register Khachatur Sukiasyan as a candidate for MP.

Evgeny Ischenko, ex-Mayor of Volgograd, decided to challenge the verdict of guilty pronounced against him in 2007 and intends to prove his innocence. His lawyer Alexei Rozhnov has already filed a supervisory appeal to the Presidium of the Volgograd Regional Court.

The status of the "Caucasian Games" will be changed to make them international. This was announced by Yuri Oleinikov, Deputy Plenipotentiary Envoy of the President of the Russian Federation to the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD), at the meeting of the organizing committee of the cultural and sports festival, which was held on March 29 in the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria.

The Prosecutor's Office of the Rostov Region has filed to the court a complaint demanding to eliminate overcrowding at the SIZO (pre-trial prison) No. 1.

Today Muscovites and guests of the city are bringing flowers to the scene of the acts of terror in the Moscow metro which happened two years ago.

The tour operators explain decrease of the traditional stream of Iranian tourists coming to celebrate Novruz in Armenia by inflation in Iran, high prices in Armenia and rivalry of Georgia.