News

June 21, 2004 13:32

• Karabakh journalists to take part in Armenian-Azerbaijan-Karabakh project

  A network of radio diaries, which Armenia, Azerbaijan and Nagorny Karabakh can exchange with, is planed to be created within the framework of the project.

June 21, 2004 13:09

• Chechen women block federal route

  The women demanded that the Chechen authorities should return abducted relatives to them or inform them of their whereabouts.

June 21, 2004 13:05

• 23,000 refugees from Chechnya, Iran, Afghanistan stay in Azerbaijan

  Director of the Center for Legal Assistance to Migrants Alovsat Aliyev subjected the work of the UNHCR office in Azerbaijan to criticism.

June 21, 2004 13:02

• Russian peacekeepers' observer post to be established in Upper Kodori

  Such an agreement was reached during a meeting between representatives of the Georgian military department and Lieutenant General Yevteev.

June 19, 2004 19:16

• Ethnic Georgians must recognize jurisdiction of Abkhazia to visit Sukhum

  "The villagers' wish to visit Sukhum is quite understandable, especially in the situation when residents of mountain villages are deprived of proper medical care and consumer goods," Chairman of the Abkhazian State Security Service Givi Agrba said.

June 19, 2004 15:57

• Public Examination project presented in Dagomys

  The Public Examination institute launched the Power-Society-Media project in April 2004.

June 19, 2004 11:25

• Women, children leave Georgian villages of South Osetia

  Residents of Osetian villages blocked roads leading to the Georgian villages and the population turned out to be in an economic blockade.

June 19, 2004 11:23

• Access to South Osetia temporarily denied for Georgian journalists

  The South Osetian information agency Res claims that Georgian TV channels incorrectly cover the course of parliamentary elections and other developments in the breakaway republic.

June 19, 2004 11:22

• Head of Abkhazian presidential administration dismissed

  "My dismissal is connected with a certain scenario of preparation for the presidential election to be held in autumn and with my attitude to it. I don't blend with this scenario," Gennady Gaguliya said.

June 18, 2004 22:52

• US holds interest in resolution of Karabakh conflict

  US Ambassador John Ordway denied circulating rumors that great pressure was put on Armenia in the issue of handing over three districts of Azerbaijan controlled by Armenia.

June 18, 2004 22:46

• Peacekeepers cope with their mission

  Estimating the 10 years' activity of the CIS Peacekeeping Forces on the maintenance of peace in the zone of the Georgian-Abkhazian conflict, Commander Lieutenant-General Aleksandr Yevteev told the Caucasian Knot correspondent that conditions were being created so that refugees could safely return to the Gali district.

June 18, 2004 18:02

• Human rights center seeks registration

  The Kabardino-Balkarian Human Rights Center gained a court victory, but the Department of the Russian Ministry of Justice in Kabardino-Balkaria appealed against the court decision in the Supreme Court of the Republic of Kabardino-Balkaria. The Supreme Court annulled the decision and sent the case for retrial.

June 18, 2004 16:26

• Georgian minister touches on Abkhazian issue, appeals to economic indicators

  "Though the return of South Osetia will require certain resources, much more resources will be spent to regain control over Abkhazia," said the Georgian Economy Minister.

June 18, 2004 16:25

• Chechen rebels attack district police department, prosecutor's office

  The fight with the use of firearms and grenade launchers lasted for about forty minutes.

June 18, 2004 15:20

• Human rights groups file proposals for Chechnya to Administration

  Some Russian NGOs have submitted proposals for a political settlement in Chechnya to the Administration of the Russian president and some COE officials.

June 18, 2004 15:16

• European Court to hear six complaints from Chechnya

  Six residents of Chechnya accuse the Russian government of extrajudicial executions, torture and cruel and degrading treatment of their relatives, as well as property damage.

June 18, 2004 15:13

• Lawmaker appeals to Putin, accuses Ziazikov

  Four people were detained by police in Malgobek, Ingushetia, while sticking bills in which an Ingush lawmaker addressed the Russian president and criticized the Ingush one.

June 18, 2004 15:02

• Russian peacekeepers to celebrate jubilee

  On June 21, ten years will pass since Russian peacekeeping forces were brought in the zone of the Georgian-Osetian conflict.

June 18, 2004 15:00

• New political union created in Abkhazia

  It is noted in a joint statement of the Coordinating Board that "the executive power is unable to make an impartial assessment of the situation that has arisen and to establish reasons for the contradictions between society and power that periodically appear."

June 18, 2004 14:59

• South Osetian women hold rally

  Elena Kochiyeva and Bella Pliyeva, who participated in the action, said they had information that the Georgian side planned to use the road that is being constructed to transfer weapons, ammunition and heavy military equipment to Georgian villages situated north of Tskhinval.