All news

Avaz Zeinally, the publisher of the book and editor-in-chief of the Khural newspaper, gives evidence at the Azerbaijan State Security Ministry in the criminal case opened under the article "inciting national and religious hatred".

Earlier, at a session of the State Duma, Russian Prosecutor General Vladimir Kolesnikov suggested taking terrorists' relatives hostages.

US troops will enter the territory of Iran through Azerbaijan, Iraq and Georgia and complete the occupation of the country in two weeks, reported the Arabian newspaper Ash-Shark al-Avsat.

Criminals killed four officers who were on duty that night and set the building on fire after it. They seized 79 automatic rifles, 182 pistols, and ammunition.

"When they ask me who is responsible for the beginning of the war in 1994, I always give two names - Boris Yeltsin and Dzhokhar Dudayev. Both of them planned to gain victory," Edilbek Khasmagomadov, a Chechen historian and political scientist, said.

On December 10, the Vladikavkaz Institute of Management jointly with the North Osetian President's Human Rights Commission held a conference devoted to International Human Rights Day.

Deputy chairman of Russian muftis, human rights activist Ismail Khazrat Shengereev said that Moslems are often denied employment, their rights are often infringed upon in educational institutions.

Ingush families live in the Prigorodny district of the Republic of North Osetia - Alania now as before. The majority of them are settled in the camp for displaced persons Maisky, which is situated on the border with Ingushetia. It was created in 1994 under the instruction of Ruslan Aushev, who hold the post of president of Ingushetia at that time.

Presidential candidate Sergey Bagapsh announced the intention to enlarge powers of the Abkhazian vice president, the post of which will be held by Raul Khadzhimba in case of Bagapsh's victory.

The Committee on Human Rights and Civic Integration of the Georgian parliament is preparing a concept of civic integration, chairwoman of the committee Elena Tevdoradze told the Caucasian Knot correspondent commenting on the discontent of Azerbaijanians living in Georgia.

According to vice speaker of the Azerbaijan parliament Ziyafet Askerov, the Azerbaijan opposition receives financial resources from abroad and prepares to repeat the Georgian and Ukraine scenarios in the country.

"I don't see another way of resolving this problem," US Ambassador to Azerbaijan Reno Harnish said.

Following the developments in Abkhazia, Russia imposed serious restrictions on the admission regime on the border with Abkhazia along the Psou River.

Chechen law enforcement agencies have not confirmed reports that close relatives of Aslan Maskadov, president of the unrecognized Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, were taken hostages.

Some 8 thousand children tramp in Azerbaijan, official sources say. Approximately 20% of them are children who arrived in Azerbaijan from Russia.

Special services know Alikhan Saduyev, whose nickname is Dodi, as one of the organizers of a series of terror attacks in Chechnya and Ingushetia, including the explosions at the buildings of the Chechen Government House and the FSB Department in Ingushetia.

Sergey Bagapsh and Raul Khadzhimba have come to the agreement that they will participate in a new presidential election in Abkhazia as members of one team: Bagapsh as a presidential candidate, and Khadzhimba as a candidate for the post of vice president.

"South Osetia's aspiration to be prepared to repulse the enemy's attacks is quite explicable under conditions when the militarist policy in Georgia becomes more and more evident," said South Osetian Minister for Special Affairs Boris Chochiyev.

"Foreign oil companies don't stop violating Azerbaijan laws and labor rights of its citizens," chairwoman of the Committee to Protect Oil Industry Workers Mirvari Gakhramanly said to the Caucasian Knot correspondent.

The Abkhazian president's press service claims that the forthcoming ceremony of taking an oath by Sergey Bagapsh as a president elect is illegal.