News

June 23, 2004 12:07

• Alkhanov submits application to election commission

  It is a widespread opinion that Chechen Interior Minister Alu Alkhanov is the one who will become a new president of Chechnya "elected by the people" on August 29.

June 23, 2004 12:04

• Woman wounded during military exercises

  A woman, living the Georgian village of Argvitsi, Tamar Gambashidze, was wounded by a shell fragment during scheduled military exercises conducted by the South Osetian Ministry of Defense in the vicinity of the village of Pris.

June 23, 2004 12:03

• Russian military men detain schoolboy

  17-year-old Emilkhan Naurdinov has a large mole on his right shoulder, and it was a reason for the detention, according to the youth's sister.

June 23, 2004 12:01

• Security reinforced in Chechnya

  Right after the report on rebel attacks in Ingushetia, the decision was made to reinforce posts on the administrative border with Ingushetia.

June 22, 2004 21:25

• People in Ingushetia wait for nightfall with fear

  They are afraid that clashes in the streets of the republic can start again after dark.

June 22, 2004 17:15

• First group of Meskhetian Turks to depart for US

  The question of selling the goers' property has not been solved so far, reported the Novorossiysk City Committee on Human Rights.

June 22, 2004 17:12

• Reports on number of victims in Ingushetia differ

  According to the Ingush Emergencies Ministry, there are victims both among officers of republican security agencies and among civilians.

June 22, 2004 14:23

• Fights in Ingushetia

  On June 21 at 10:45 the Ingush towns Nazran, Karabulak and Sleptsovsk were attacked by groups of armed fighters. The beginning of the raid coincided with the time for night namaz and continued till 3 a.m., the time of pre-dawn prayer.

June 22, 2004 13:58

• Young man detained, found dead

  The mutilated body of Husein Duzhuyev, a resident of the village of Nagornoye, Chechnya's Grozny district, was found on June 20 in the vicinity of the village of Pervomayskaya situated in the same district.

June 22, 2004 13:56

• Rebels attack Ingushetia

  According to media reports, 30 policemen were killed only in the attack on the Nazran district police department.

June 22, 2004 12:40

• Abkhazian PM insists on official recognition of his republic

  "We've claimed our independence many times in a categorical form and claim it now. Abkhazia isn't going to return to the bosom of Georgia," the head of the Abkhazian government said.

June 22, 2004 12:38

• Application of Adjarian scenario in Abkhazia 'is impossible'

  "The Georgian leadership should show restraint," Gennady Gudkov, deputy chairman of the Russian parliamentary commission on security, believes "since thoughtless actions can lead to unexpected consequences, including those for Georgia itself."

June 22, 2004 12:29

• Helsinki Citizens' Assembly National Committee of Georgia addresses South Osetian NGOs

  The Committee raises its concern about rough attempts to unfreeze the Abkhazian and South Osetian conflicts, which can entail new victims.

June 22, 2004 12:26

• Oppositionists stage unauthorized picket in Baku

  Azerbaijan police dispersed the protesters and detained Kerim Mekhtiyev, a PNFA member.

June 22, 2004 12:24

• Human rights activists meet with mothers of the missing

  During the meeting, participants discussed what measures could be taken under the Russian legislation to protest against criminal actions of federal and Chechen security agencies, which practice abductions, torture and extrajudicial executions under the pretext of fighting against criminality.

June 21, 2004 17:08

• Alkhanov goes on leave

  Chechen Interior Minister Alu Alkhanov is expected to submit his application for registration as a candidate for the post of Chechen president to the republican election commission today.

June 21, 2004 17:07

• Saakashvili's party wins elections for Adjarian parliament

  Thus 16 mandates will be given to representatives of Mikhail Saakashvili's party elected by party lists, and 2 mandates will be given to Republicans. Almost all majority deputies will represent the ruling party.

June 21, 2004 17:05

• Notorious field commander to be buried behind barbed wire

  Ruslan Gelayev's relatives have made several requests to give them the body, but they were denied. Investigators explained the denial by saying that Gelayev was not an ordinary bandit but a terrorist, and "under the federal law on combating terrorism, the terrorists' bodies are not given to their relatives."

June 21, 2004 15:11

• Women's meeting in Chechnya suspended

  Having been given evidence that 25 out of 28 detained people were really free, the women decided to wait until the release of the other three people.

June 21, 2004 15:09

• Refugees undergo purges in Ingushetia

  In the course of a special operation, gunmen in masks detained a 30-year-old resident of the village of Tangi-Chu and took him away in an unknown direction.