News

May 22, 2004 14:16

• Chechen refugees seek help

  Two former refugees living in the Achkhoy-Martan district of the Chechen Republic turned to the Ingush office of the Information Center of the Society for Russian-Chechen Friendship in Karabulak. They complained about difficult conditions their families were in.

May 22, 2004 14:15

• Chechen residents resist illegal actions of security service officers

  Locals categorically demanded that Kadyrov's people should abandon the practice of committing arbitrary night attacks on private houses.

May 21, 2004 19:17

• Chechen presidential election set for August 29

  The election commission intends to strictly abide by the Constitution and the law on elections of the president of the Chechen Republic while making preparations for and holding the election, the chairman of the election commission, Abdul-Kerim Arsakhanov, emphasized.

May 21, 2004 18:43

• Railway service between Grozny and Moscow to be resumed

  On May 30, for the first time over the last several years, the Grozny-Moscow train will make its run.

May 21, 2004 17:53

• Rights defenders, lawyers get legal training in Ingushetia

  Vladimir Weissman of the International Helsinki Federation and Karina Moskalenko of the Moscow-based International Protection Center arrived in Nazran as experts in international law.

May 21, 2004 17:28

• Press conference, devoted to Mikhail Trepashkin's sentence, to be held in Moscow

  The press conference titled "Mikhail Trepashkin: Sentence with Particular Cynicism" will be held at the Independent Press Center in Moscow on May 24.

May 21, 2004 17:14

• Burdjanadze: Abkhazia 'not ready to make concessions'

  "We expect an unbiased, not pro-Georgian position from Russia. We wish the Abkhazian population well and are not going to evict them from their houses," the speaker of the Georgian parliament said.

May 21, 2004 16:51

• 10 minutes are enough to pass sentence on Armenian oppositionist

  The united Armenian opposition informs of the beginning of a new wave of detentions of its activists.

May 21, 2004 16:21

• Migration service denies chemical contamination of refugee center

  Ingush migration service officials have denied information that the premises of the temporary accommodation center for refugees Oskanovskiye Garages in the village of Ordzhonikidzevskaya are contaminated with chemicals.

May 21, 2004 15:50

• Collected articles, devoted to elections in Chechnya, presented in Moscow

  Results of the monitoring of presidential and parliamentary elections in Chechnya conducted by the Moscow Helsinki Group with the support of the Caucasian Knot agency and the Memorial center form the basis of the book "Chechnya 2003: Political Process in Zazerkalye".

May 21, 2004 15:29

• Workshop on ethnic journalism to be conducted in Krasnodar

  The workshop will be conducted within the framework of the Counteraction to Language of Hostility: the Civil Position of Russian NGOs and Media project.

May 21, 2004 12:47

• No suspects in Kadyrov's assassination

  A source at the Chechen interior ministry rated the reports that Shamil Basayev had taken responsibility for Akhmad Kadyrov's assassination as the rebels' propaganda move.

May 21, 2004 12:12

• Participants in Georgian-Abkhazian meeting comment on its results

  "We have reached an understanding that we deny the use of force in the future and will make common efforts not to allow any inciting actions and statements both in the security zone and against us," the Abkhazian foreign minister said.

May 21, 2004 12:08

• Terrorist act committed in Grozny

  A high-capacity landmine mounted on the roadside was set off when a car with GIBDD (State Inspection for Traffic Security) officers was passing by.

May 20, 2004 17:51

• Arrested opposition leader goes on hunger strike in Armenia

  Suren Sureniants demands that all political prisoners be immediately released and other requirements of the resolution on Armenia adopted by the Council of Europe's Parliamentary Assembly on April 28 be fulfilled.

May 20, 2004 17:05

• Kmara movement becomes more active in South Osetia

  "The role of the Kmara movement in the recent developments in Adjaria is widely known. However, this organization gained popularity as early as November 2003, during the Rose Revolution in Georgia. There is not any information on more radical actions of Kmara activists on the territory of South Osetia so far," reads the commission's report.

May 20, 2004 16:34

• Council of Europe Anti-Torture Committee returns to Georgia

  The main purpose of the eight-day prolongation (7 to 14 May 2004) was to examine the treatment of persons detained in Ajara as well as conditions of detention in this part of Georgia.

May 20, 2004 16:04

• Military garrison to be permanently stationed in Tsalka area

  A serious clash between Georgians and Armenians, which left 30 people injured, occurred in Tsalka on May 10.

May 20, 2004 15:31

• Don Women's Association conducts action for youth

  The "Combine Your Rights with Life" action has started in Novocherkassk. Its organizers, the Don Women's Association, are convinced the action will help prompt young men to learn more about their rights and to fight for them.

May 20, 2004 14:51

• No new information about abducted Ingush prosecutor

  Rashid Ozdoyev was detained by representatives of unidentified security agencies on March 11, 2004.