Militiaman kidnapped and assassinated in Chechnya March 25, 2009 20:00 In the evening on March 24, in the Vedeno District of Chechnya, a group of armed persons kidnapped a militiaman. Today in the morning, his body was found.
Sochi residents ask Medvedev for better "Olympic resettlement" March 25, 2009 19:30 Residents the Imereti Valley, whose houses are within the construction zone of Sochi Olympiad objects, have drafted an appeal to President of Russia Dmitri Medvedev with a complaint against unsatisfactory terms of resettlement. This was stated today at the press conference convoked by ecologists and public activists.
Georgia: four oppositionists sentenced to two months of custody March 25, 2009 19:00 Today, the Tbilisi City Court has sentenced two activists of the oppositional "People's Movement to Save Georgia" and two members of the Party "Democratic Movement - United Georgia", arrested on March 23, to two months of pre-trial custody.
Russia's MoF prescribed to pay off all the debts to militaries in Abkhazia and South Ossetia March 25, 2009 18:00 The Russian government has instructed the Ministry of Finance (MoF) to increase its budgetary allocations for 2009 aimed to pay all the debts and daily allowances to the personnel of the RF's Armed Forces, deployed in the territory of South Ossetia and Abkhazia.
Russian militaries complain of non-payment of bonuses for participation in South-Ossetian warfare March 24, 2009 23:30 To Russia Military Prosecutor's Office has received over a hundred complaints on violations of the rights of the recruits who took part in the August conflict in South Ossetia.
Azerbaijan holds a marathon session in support of convicted journalists' families March 24, 2009 23:00 The Institute for Reporters' Freedom and Safety (IRFS) of Azerbaijan has summed up the "Novruz Marathon" action - a charitable fundraising session in favour of the families of six convicted journalists. The action started on February 25 and ended on March 20 - by the Novruz spring holiday.
Natella Akaba: Belarus is frankly bargaining for recognition of Abkhazia March 24, 2009 22:40 Natella Akaba, Secretary of the Public Chamber of Abkhazia and Chair of the Association "Women of Abkhazia" has treated the Belarus' position on recognition of Abkhazia's independence as "frank bargaining." She made this statement in the TV Programme "Akhtuskua" (Events) on the Abkhazian State TV Channel.
"Union for Democracy" finds March 18 referendum in Azerbaijan illegitimate March 24, 2009 22:30 The "Union for Democracy" (UD) that unites the oppositional parties of Azerbaijan has stated that the referendum on March 18 on amendments to the Constitution of Azerbaijan was illegitimate.
Group of sappers shelled in Ingushetia, no casualties March 24, 2009 22:00 Today in the morning, an engineering-sapper group of the Internal Troops of Russia's MIA was shelled by unidentified persons from a passenger car. Fortunately, nobody was killed or wounded.
Der Spiegel: war in South Ossetia was launched by Saakashvili March 24, 2009 21:30 The International EU Commission (IEUC) set up for investigating the five-day war in South Ossetia in August 2008 has found evidences that the warfare was initiated by President of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili. However, the Commission has no incontestable proofs of Saakashvili's guilt, since the Georgian party had made them a state secret, as the Der Spiegel German magazine writes.
Two suspects of exploding Cherkizovo marketplace released March 24, 2009 21:00 Two out of eight defendants in the case about explosion in the Cherkizovo marketplace in Moscow, when 14 persons were lost, are at large after expiry of their two-year punishment. The grouping that committed the explosion had repeatedly attacked natives from the Caucasus.
Stavropol Territory commemorates victims of 2001 terror act in Minvody March 24, 2009 20:00 Today, the city of Mineralnye Vody (Minvody), Stavropol Territory, has hosted mourning events to commemorate the victims of the terror act committed on March 24, 2001. On that day, three explosions in Stavropol Territory and Karachaevo-Circassia killed 26 persons and wounded over 150.
Georgia's MIA investigates links of suspects of buying arms with the opposition March 24, 2009 19:00 In Georgia, the two detainees - Malkhaz Gvelukashvili and Lasha Chkheneli - have been charged with illegal purchase and storage of firearms. Now the MIA of Georgia tries to prove that the arms had been purchased for the opposition.
Dagestan's MIA identifies casualties in Karabudakhkent District March 24, 2009 18:00 Mark Tolchinskiy, head of the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of the Republic of Dagestan, has refuted the information that bodies of mercenaries-Arabs were found among the militants liquidated in the special operation conducted on March 21.
Head of Chechnya's MIA calls militants to come back home March 23, 2009 23:30 At the meeting with relatives of participants of armed formations, held in the Vedeno District of Chechnya, Ruslan Alkhanov, Interior Minister, has stated that "he guarantees objective and impartial consideration of the problems of those militants who will come back."
Tskhinvali announces damage from war with Georgia March 23, 2009 23:00 The Mayoralty of Tskhinvali, the capital of South Ossetia, has summed up the inspection of the available city's housing stock, which suffered from the warfare in August of 2008.
Residents of Chechnya are ambiguous as to Kadyrov's meeting with Putin March 23, 2009 22:10 In Chechnya, people are differently assessing the meeting on March 20 in Moscow of Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov with Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.
Ingushetia: a car shelled, eyewitnesses state extrajudicial execution March 23, 2009 22:00 The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent in Ingushetia reports from the place of events that in Karabulak, opposite the store "Karabulak" in Oskanova Street, at about midday, unidentified persons in a "Lada-Prior" black car shelled a silver VAZ-21110 car. Local residents think that the attackers were power agents.
In South Ossetia, convicts of treason released March 23, 2009 22:00 Tamara Charaeva and Givi Chigoev, residents of Akhalgori village, South Ossetia, accused of treason by Ossetian authorities, have been released. This was reported by Avtandil Kochishvili, head of the administration of the Akhalgori District.
In Georgia, arrests of oppositionists continue March 23, 2009 21:00 In Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia, two activists of the oppositional party "People's Movement to Save Georgia" were arrested. Last night the police also detained activists of the Party headed by Nino Burdzhanadze, ex-speaker of the parliament, named "Democratic Movement - United Georgia".