News

July 12, 2004 14:48

• Bomb blasts claim 11 lives in 2004

  People continue to die because of bomb blasts in Azerbaijan, even in spite of mine-clearance efforts.

July 09, 2004 20:56

• Human rights advocates indicate mass refugee departure from Ingushetia

  Human rights advocates are concerned about an outbreak of anti-refugee and anti-Chechen sentiments in Ingushetia.

July 09, 2004 20:54

• Georgian prisoners released in S. Ossetia

  Georgian leaders make menacing statements as South Ossetia releases Georgian servicemen imprisoned on July 7.

July 09, 2004 20:52

• Police officers die through lack of care

  An explosion of a noise grenade resulted in two officers of Altai's Internal Affairs Ministry dying.

July 09, 2004 15:37

• 'Clean-up' in refugee camp

  Federal forces conduct a "clean-up" in a camp where many of the staff live of the Society for Russian-Chechen Friendship.

July 08, 2004 22:37

• Abkhazia asks S. Ossetia to extradite war criminals, terrorists

  Abkhazia's leadership intends to pass over to South Ossetia lists of people having committed grave crimes against the people of Abkhazia during the 1992-93 conflict and 10 years after the end of it.

July 08, 2004 22:35

• New war expected in Chechnya

  People are beginning to leave for safer areas as rumors persist in Chechnya about possible resumption of large-scale military action soon.

July 08, 2004 22:34

• Georgian detainees made to kneel in public

  Panic spreads among S. Ossetia's Georgian population as detained Georgian military men are being humiliated, while authorities make warlike statements.

July 07, 2004 21:17

• Abkhazian authorities deny Georgian bus transit arrangements

  Some Georgian bus drivers were recently reported to claim to have reached a transit agreement with Abkhazia, which the latter denies.

July 07, 2004 21:11

• Religious community reports police abuse

  Members of Juma, a religious community, lodge complaints about police abuse as police detain other believers.

July 07, 2004 21:06

• S. Ossetia views Georgian military's actions as invasion

  S. Ossetian President Eduard Kokoity says the seizure of a peacekeeping column by the Georgian military on July 7 is viewed as a declaration of war.

July 06, 2004 23:30

• Dagestan: details of Wahhabi ideologist Adallo's surrender

  Abdula Aliev, a Wahhabi ideologist from Dagestan who has lived in Turkey since 1999, has arrived home to "apologize."

July 06, 2004 23:29

• Chechen girl comes for treatment to Ireland

  An eight-year-old girl from Chechnya who had lost her hands and an eye because of a booby-trap explosion will be fitted with prosthetics in Dublin, Ireland.

July 06, 2004 23:27

• Abkhazian minister denies liberation of Turkish 'slaves'

  Abkhazian Internal Affairs Minister Beslan Beiia says there are no Turkish nationals illegally working in the republic.

July 05, 2004 21:25

• Turkish national deported from Kabardino-Balkaria allowed to come back

  Human rights advocates have won a case over an illegal deportation by law enforcement agencies.

July 05, 2004 21:23

• Five people detained in special operations in Sunzha district, Chechnya

  Residents of the Sunzha district are getting alarmed as military forces are sent in and local law enforcement and security agencies are taking tough action.

July 05, 2004 20:01

• Chechen refugees leaving Ingushetia

  After the tragic events in Ingushetia on the night of June 22, forced migrants from Chechnya feel federal and local authorities openly making use of that to evict thousands of refugees back to Chechnya.

July 02, 2004 16:46

• Chechen peace-keeping delegation arrives in Ingushetia

  A delegation of Chechnya's public and clergy arrived in Nazran, Ingushetia, on July 2 to give assurances of brotherly ties between Chechnya and Ingushetia.

July 02, 2004 16:24

• Eighty-two Chechen residents disappear this year - Memorial Society

  People continue to be abducted and killed in Chechnya.

July 02, 2004 16:08

• Three killed in Chechnya, possibly involved in Ingushetia events

  The military claims to have hit three rebels involved in Ingushetia events on July 22, while a human rights activist doubts that.