News

March 03, 2005 23:55

• Strasbourg challenged with alternative Grozny forum

  Chechnya's authorities who strongly criticise the forum on Chechnya soon to be held in Strasbourg intend to host a similar round table discussion in Grozny.

March 03, 2005 23:50

• Meetings cancelled as ceasefire breaches continue

  Scheduled for today, a meeting in Paris between the foreign ministers Elmar Mammedyarov of Azerbaijan and Vartan Oskanyan of Armenia has been cancelled, Azerbaijan's Foreign Ministry says.

March 02, 2005 23:59

• Opposition leaders may be released from prison in Azerbaijan

  President Ilkham Aliyev of Azerbaijan will soon sign a new pardon decree, which is also expected to set free the opposition leaders arrested in connection with the 15-16 October 2003 events.

March 02, 2005 23:55

• Six bodies found in Grozny

  Several bodies have been found in two abandoned cars in the capital of Chechnya, Grozny.

March 02, 2005 23:43

• Rebel group surrounded in Chechen mountains

  Chechen law enforcers claim a group of 40 to 70 is trapped in mountains.

March 01, 2005 23:59

• Abkhaz PM survives assassination attempt

  An attempt on the life of Alexander Ankvab, prime minister of the breakaway republic of Abkhazia, was carried out in the evening of 28 February while on his way from Sukhum to Gudauta.

March 01, 2005 23:56

• Antiwar picket banned in Saint Petersburg

  An Antiwar Committee picket "against the Russian government's policy in the North Caucasus" scheduled for 27 February was not held, just like a similar action scheduled for 20 February.

March 01, 2005 23:19

• Gunfire keeps people in shelters overnight

  Federal artillery shelled woodlands in Chechnya's Vedeno and Shali districts in the evening of 27 February.

February 25, 2005 23:59

• Clashes in Chechen mountains

  Large-scale operations to cordon off and destroy rebels have been launched in all mountainous districts of Chechnya.

February 25, 2005 23:54

• Azerbaijan opposition parties to sign declaration of unification

  Leaders of the Musavat party, the Azerbaijan Popular Front Party (APFP) and the Azerbaijan Democratic Party (ADP) will conduct negotiations within the next few days and sign a joint statement then.

February 25, 2005 23:37

• Chechen refugees on hunger strike in Azerbaijan

  The protesters consider that UN representatives should increase financial aid to refugees since life in Azerbaijan has become more expansive.

February 16, 2005 23:59

• Prison revolt put down in Baku

  Convicts of the 11th correctional facility in Baku stopped their protest action this night as the prison was stormed.

February 16, 2005 23:48

• Details of Magomadov's release still unknown

  In the time of Aslan Maskhadov's presidency, Makhmut Magomadov was one of the deputies of the Chechen prosecutor general and headed a special group which investigated cases connected with kidnappings.

February 16, 2005 23:29

• No negotiations with Abkhazian government in exile

  Irakli Alasania, chairman of the Abkhazian government in exile, has been appointed envoy for the Georgian-Abkhazian negotiations by Mikhail Saakashvili's order today.

February 15, 2005 23:29

• Pravo-Zashchita newspaper prosecuted

  A press conference devoted to the prosecution of the Pravo-Zashchita newspaper was held at the Moscow Independent Press Center on February 14.

February 15, 2005 23:26

• FBI experts consider Zhvania's death accident

  According to preliminary data, the death of Zurab Zhvania was a tragic accident.

February 15, 2005 23:08

• Azerbaijan parliamentary elections may be delayed

  The authorities may take such a step to avoid revolutionary scenarios.

February 14, 2005 23:59

• Kadyrov to sue human rights activists

  Chechen First Deputy Prime Minister Ramzan Kadyrov has announced he is going to sue human rights activists slandering him.

February 14, 2005 23:41

• New Abkhazian president inaugurated

  The inauguration of Sergey Bagapsh, new Abkhazian president elect, was held in Sukhum on February 12.

February 09, 2005 23:53

• OSCE missions to visit occupied Azerbaijan territory

  According to Foreign Minister of Nagorny Karabakh Armen Melikian, foreign experts registered 5 thousand Armenians settled in the regions of Azerbaijan adjacent to Nagorny Karabakh.