All news

A lieutenant colonel of one of power agencies, two children and two women were wounded by the explosion of a self-made bomb, which was triggered under a passenger car in Nart-Kala village.

Today Presidents of Abkhazia and South Ossetia Sergey Bagapsh and Eduard Kokoity leave for their first official visit to Nicaragua and Venezuela, where they plan to sign interstate agreements in various areas.

In the evening on July 15, the first channel of the Belarusian state television showed an exclusive interview with President of Georgia, in which Mikhail Saakashvili answered the questions on modernization of Georgia, whether it is possible to reconcile Tbilisi and Moscow, when Georgia would join the European Union, about South Ossetia and Abkhazia, and even about his gastronomic preferences.

The investigation continues considering involvement of Alkhazur Bashaev, killed in November 2009, as the main version of the murder of Natalia Estemirova; and it is not clear whether the evidences of employees of the "Memorial" were taken into account, as Alexander Cherkasov, a member of the Board of the Human Rights Centre "Memorial", told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

The authorities of Dubai have answered to the request of law enforcement bodies of the Russian Federation about the fate of Hero of Russia Sulim Yamadaev, ex-commander of the special battalion of the GRU (Main Intelligence Directorate of the Russian General Staff) "Vostok" (East).

On July 15, Armenia held a judicial session on the case of Vaan Khalafyan, 24, who died in the police station.

The blocking of the Federal Highway "Baku-Rostov" planned for July 15 in protest against detention in Azerbaijan of Usman Garisov, a resident of Dagestan, sued for drug contraband and use, did not take place because Rizvan Kurbanov, First Vice-Premier of Dagestan, invited local residents to a meeting.

The US authorities have granted political asylum to Murat Berzegov, founder and chairman of the Non-Commercial Organization (NCO) "Circassian Congress" (office in Maikop, the capital of Adygea), having found that in Russia he and his family were in danger.

On July 15 the government of Azerbaijan lodged an appeal to the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) against the decision on the case of journalist Einullah Fatullaev, who is serving his term in prison.

The three natives of Chechnya arrested in France are suspected of links with the person involved in terror acts in Moscow metro. As reported by western media, in the opinion of the French inspectors, the Chechens financed the terrorist arrested in Russia.

The White House honoured has marked the life and work of Natalia Estemirova, an employee of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", who was abducted and murdered one year ago, in the sphere of defence of human rights in Northern Caucasus, and reminded that the crime remains unsolved.

Situation in Ingushetia will stabilize, when Russian Constitution works properly in its territory. This is the opinion of Issa Kodzoev, one of the most famous Ingush writers, public figure and former Soviet dissident. Now, according to his version, none of the powers really operates in the republic.

The Amnesty International (AI) has launched a campaign in support of young bloggers Adnan Gadjizade and Emin Milli, convicted in Azerbaijan on forged charges, as human rights activists believe.

Lawyer Tukhuzhev from the Human Rights Centre "For Human Rights" finds the situation with defence of human rights in Kabardino-Balkaria to be catastrophic; according to his story, the Centre receives several complaints every month.

In the course of the 10th Petersburg Dialogue held in Yekaterinburg its participants noted that the inquiry of the murder was not persistent enough. They demanded that Russia's authorities do the utmost to solve the murder of Natalia Estemirova, an employee of the HRC "Memorial", and stop the criminal case against the head of the HRC "Memorial" Oleg Orlov.

President Dmitri Medvedev said, making comments on the information that the authorities of the Russian Federation were not to willing to solve the murder of Natalia Estemirova, an employee of the HRC "Memorial", that the executor of her murder had been precisely established.

The commemoration action was held in the Journalists' Mini-Park; the picket was not advertised and brought together, under organizers' estimates, some 100-150 persons.

Today at 11:00 a.m. Moscow time the Vorobiovy Gory in the Russian capital saw the start of the ethnographic expedition to Northern and Southern Caucasus and Kazakhstan, organized by the well-known Russian designer and blogger Artemiy Lebedev.

Today, one year after kidnapping and murder of Natalia Estemirova, an employee of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", a picket in Moscow brought together 50 persons. As reported by the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent, there are flowers and lit candles under Estemirova's portrait; and the names of human rights defenders who perished in recent years are written on the asphalt nearby - Magomed Evloev, Maksharip Aushev, Farid Babayev and Anna Politkovskaya.

According to Lord Frank Judd, former PACE's Rapporteur for Chechnya and a member of the British Parliamentary Human Rights Group (PHRG), believes that removal of the information blockade, improvement of social and economic life and organization of the negotiating process are prerequisites of solution of the problems of the Chechen Republic.