News

April 06, 2004 14:40

• No students sent down, university officials say

  Over 10 students at the Ingush State University who participated in a meeting at the Government House in Magas recently, have been reprimanded by the university administration. The Caucasian Knot correspondent learnt it from one of the university students.

April 06, 2004 14:24

• Club of Civil Education to meet in Krasnodar

  As reported by the Krasnodar regional NGO Creative Union "Southern Wave", the subject of the discussion will be "Civil Education as a Way to Pubic Policy".

April 06, 2004 12:07

• Assassination attempt on Ingush president

  An explosive device was set off on the federal route Kavkaz when the president's car was moving to Magas. Murat Zyazikov did not suffer.

April 06, 2004 11:32

• NGOs demand dismissal of Kutaisi mayor

  The NGO activists assert the 2002-2003 Kutaisi city budget was worked out incorrectly and budget funds were not spent for the purpose.

April 06, 2004 11:05

• War Prize competition continues

  Outstanding human rights activist Elena Boner, widow of Academician Andrey Sakharov, holds Vladimir Putin is in fault for the Chechen war on the Russian part, and Akhmat Kadyrov is in fault for it on the Chechen part.

April 05, 2004 22:41

• Mikhail Saakashvili urges Adjarian leadership to submit to statehood rules of Georgia

  "We will not allow human rights in Adjaria to be trampled underfoot because somebody there wants to preserve his material status and monopoly", said the Georgian president.

April 05, 2004 22:32

• 9 demolition experts arrested in Chechnya

  Federal forces and the Chechen president's security service carried out several special operations in the mountains and the forests to arrest members of bandit formations who were preparing large-scale terrorist attacks both in and outside of Chechnya.

April 05, 2004 22:12

• Victims of hostage crisis at Dubrovka theatre to sue Moscow authorities

  Former hostages and relatives of victims of the 2002 hostage crisis at the Dubrovka theater in Moscow will file a plea with the city prosecutor's office on Monday for opening a criminal case on the city government financial department's refusal to carry out a Tverskoy court ruling on the payment of compensation to them, announced their lawyer Igor Trunov.

April 05, 2004 22:04

• Opposition activists arrested in Armenia

  According to the press secretary of the opposition bloc Justice, Ruzanna Hatchatrian, more than 10 members of opposition parties were arrested in the evening of April 4 and in the morning of April 5 in Yerevan and surrounding regions.

April 05, 2004 22:00

• Officers establish names of militants who attacked servicemen in Chechnya

  Achishvili, Muskhanov and the Chalayev brothers, members of illegal armed groups who are now in custody, committed several acts of terrorism against federal servicemen.

April 05, 2004 15:29

• Second congress of Javakhk NGO takes place in Georgia

  Participants passed the organization's charter again and adopted the program of its further activity.

April 05, 2004 14:33

• Imam of Juma Mosque convicted in Baku

  On April 2, the Azerbaijan Court for Grave Crimes put imam of Baku's Juma Mosque Ilgar Allakhverdiev (Ibragimoglu) on probation for five years.

April 05, 2004 13:33

• Satsita tent camp to be dismantled by end of April

  Main efforts of the agencies engaged in problems of the return of IDPs [internally displaced persons] to Chechnya have been aimed at the liquidation of the Satsita tent camp since 2 April.

April 05, 2004 12:41

• Body of Gelayev is still in Rostov

  Gelayev's relatives have made three unsuccessful attempts to take his body from the morgue of a hospital in Rostov.

April 05, 2004 12:17

• Three explosive assemblies of high capacity found in Chechnya's Achkhoy-Martan district

  The capacity of each of the explosive assemblies was about 40 kilograms of trotyl equivalent, the officer of the republican interior ministry said.

April 05, 2004 11:28

• Former Defense Minister of Ichkeria urges rebels to surrender

  On April 2, former Defense Minister of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria Umar Khambiyev spoke on the Grozny television and called upon all the members of the Chechen armed resistance to lay down arms.

April 03, 2004 14:09

• Karabakh National Democrats joint Movement-88

  The creation of the new social and political organization Movement-88, initiated by the deputy of the Karabakh parliament Eduard Agabekian, was announced in Nagorny Karabakh in February 2004.

April 03, 2004 13:47

• Passenger bus fired on in Grozny

  Early in the morning of April 1, Russian soldiers opened fired in the Leninsky district of Grozny on a passenger bus going from the Chechen capital to Argun.

April 03, 2004 12:39

• 20 Ingush students sent down for taking part in rally

  According to information of the Internet media, 20 Ingush students who took part in the [March 29] protest rally against abductions of people by Russian special services and against the Russian helicopter attack on the village of Ordzhonikidzevskaya that left two people dead have been sent down by direct instructions from the head of Ingushetia, Murat Zyazikov.

April 03, 2004 11:58

• Leaders of new social and political movement hold press conference

  "The idea of creating the movement appeared following the aggravation of the internal political situation in the county in late January. And the initiator of the creation of United Abkhazia was the Unity deputy group," deputy Daur Tarba said at the press conference.