News

April 22, 2004 12:20

• 12 rebels destroyed in special operation in Chechnya

  "For five days, units of the defense ministry and army special operations force have been conducting a special operation to search for and eliminate field commander Doku Umarov's bandit groups hiding in thinly populated mountainous districts of the republic, which are difficult of access," a spokesman for the regional operations headquarters said.

April 22, 2004 12:04

• Meeting between opposition and pro-government Armenian politicians fails

  Representatives of coalition parties motivated their non-attendance by saying they would not sit down to the bargaining table until the opposition renounced its prior conditions.

April 22, 2004 12:02

• Antiwar picket to be staged on Pushkinskaya Square on April 22

  The prefecture of Moscow's Central administrative district granted permission for the action after a month ban. The picket will be devoted to the Aril 8 air bombing in the Chechen village of Rigakhoy.

April 21, 2004 22:09

• Family receive compensation, then die

  3 members of the Israilov family and an officer of the Chechen interior ministry were shot dead by armed men in masks and camouflage uniform in the Zavodskoy district of Grozny on the night of April 18-19.

April 21, 2004 22:02

• 8 years passed since Djokhar Dudayev's death

  According to official data, Dudayev was killed on the outskirts of the village of Gekhi-Chu, Chechnya's Urus-Martan district, on 21 April 1996 by a missile launched from a Russian fighting airplane.

April 21, 2004 17:12

• UN: situation in Chechnya 'is not armed conflict'

  The United Nations met Russia's request to change the wording in the report on the involvement of children in hostilities in Chechnya. There is another description of the situation in Chechnya in the corrected text, only "illegal armed units" are mentioned in it now.

April 21, 2004 16:28

• Gazeta daily: Abu al-Walid eliminated similarly to Dudayev

  The assault aircraft attacked the Arab mercenary's base in the mountains, according to a source at the Federal Security Service (FSB).

April 21, 2004 15:31

• New candidates nominated for War Prize

  Several human rights and antiwar organizations and movements have supported the War Prize action, the Andrey Sakharov Museum and Public Center, websites of public and human rights organizations, and the Caucasian Knot information agency being among them.

April 21, 2004 13:43

• Aslan Abashidze: 'The tragedy of Abkhazia and South Osetia can repeat itself in Georgia'

  "The measures that the center is taking against Adjaria are similar to those it took in its time against Abkhazia and South Osetia. Everybody knows what it ended with," said the head of Adjaria.

April 21, 2004 12:44

• New detentions of opposition activists in Adjarian autonomy

  Seven activists of the political movement Our Adjaria were detained by local law enforcers in the village of Gonio on the territory of Georgia's Adjarian autonomy on April 20.

April 21, 2004 12:28

• Georgian president: rebellious general to be declared wanted

  The President thanked the officers, who "have kept the oath and have not followed Brigadier General Dumbadze, who betrayed the motherland."

April 21, 2004 12:09

• Workshop on covering problems of minorities to be conducted in Stepanakert

  Meetings with heads of Karabakh non-governmental organizations representing minorities will be arranged for the workshop participants in addition to the educational program and exercises.

April 21, 2004 11:11

• Chechen rebels shell Russian military base

  4 Russian soldiers were injured as a result of bombardment in Chechnya on April 19.

April 21, 2004 10:41

• Authorities keep on 'extruding' refugees out of Ingushetia to Chechnya

  The press conference titled "Chechnya, Ingushetia: the Safety of the Population and State of IDPs [internally displaced persons]" was held at the Independent Press Center in Moscow on April 20.

April 20, 2004 21:45

• "The Story of Andrey Babitsky" by Oleg Panfilov presented in Moscow

  Andrey Babitsky was the only journalist who stayed in besieged Grozny when the storm of the city began.

April 20, 2004 21:03

• Rebellious general intends to become Adjarian defense minister

  According to Avtandil Galakhabadze, a leader of the Adjarian opposition movement Our Adjaria, a threat to the State system of Georgia will be created if the defense ministry does not take preventive measures.

April 20, 2004 19:39

• Parts of human body found at combat site in Ordzhonikidzevskaya

  Geliskhanov has become the fourth dead man extracted from the ruins of the destroyed house, according to official data.

April 20, 2004 18:50

• Criminal investigation launched into bombing in Rigakhoy village

  Mandash Tsintsayeva (b. 1975) and her five children were killed when an air bomb hit her house.

April 20, 2004 17:11

• Security service officers in Chechnya receive order to destroy all terrorist suspects

  Officers of Kadyrov's security service said they acted in conformity with the order received from Moscow according to which they must destroy all terrorist suspects.

April 20, 2004 16:51

• Georgian defense minister rates General Roman Dumbadze's actions as high treason

  "I do not understand what material interest made Roman Dumbadze come out of command of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief. We do not rule it out that he may have been pressured and even blackmailed," said Gela Bezhuashvili.