News

March 26, 2004 15:37

• Two Russian soldiers injured by land mine in Gordali

  Early in the morning of March 25, a Russian bomb squad was in the village of Gordali, Chechnya's Gudermes district, trying to neutralize a land mine when it suddenly exploded.

March 26, 2004 14:22

• Leader of Azerbaijan Diaspora shot dead in Krasnoyarsk

  One of the leaders of the Azerbaijan Diaspora, retired militia officer Makhir Ilyasov, was killed by a shot to the neck in Krasnoyarsk on the night of March 23-24.

March 26, 2004 13:50

• Russia categorically opposed to Chechnya debate at UN

  "Russia will strongly object to such attempts, and we count on the support of the majority of Commission Members," Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Yuri Fedotov said.

March 26, 2004 13:35

• Victims of repressions in Karabakh granted right to free medical care

  The government of Nagorny Karabakh has passed a resolution on providing free medical care for certain sections of the population.

March 26, 2004 12:43

• Meeting of Armenian and Azerbaijan foreign ministers in Prague canceled

  The Prague meeting of the foreign ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan on the resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict scheduled for March 29 will not be held.

March 26, 2004 12:22

• Seven policemen, servicemen wounded in Chechnya

  As a convoy was leaving the village of Samashki, unidentified attackers opened grenade and small arms fire at an UAZ-452 van at the end of the convoy.

March 26, 2004 12:18

• Policeman kidnapped in Chechnya

  A Chechen policeman from Grozny was kidnapped in the village of Urus-Martan on March 24.

March 26, 2004 12:02

• Lukin declares for post of ombudsman in Chechnya

  "The human rights monitoring in Chechnya must be carried out by an ombudsman in Chechnya. That is why the post of human rights envoy should be introduced there as soon as possible," Commissioner for Human Rights in the Russian Federation Vladimir Lukin said at a press conference on March 25.

March 25, 2004 17:34

• Chechen military commandant's office denies capture of nine Russian soldiers by rebels

  "Had rebels really managed to take our soldiers prisoners, we would have known there names and other details by now," a source at the military commandant's office said.

March 25, 2004 16:26

• Abkhazia and South Osetia will not take part in Georgian parliamentary elections

  On March 24, the parliament of the unrecognized republic of South Osetia passed a resolution on the illegitimacy of the holding of the 28 March elections for the Georgian parliament on the territory of South Osetia.

March 25, 2004 15:31

• Council of Europe calls upon Ilkham Aliyev to settle problem of political prisoners once and for all

  We call your attention to the declaration made by the Council of Europe's Committee of Ministers on the latest pardoning decree of Azerbaijan President Ilkham Aliyev.

March 25, 2004 14:58

• Azerbaijan political prisoners set up political movement

  Leaders of some opposition parties held in the Bailovskaya prison, Baku, Azerbaijan, set up 16 October Movement on March 24.

March 25, 2004 13:22

• Aprasidze's gang liquidated in Georgia

  On March 24, special operations units of the Georgian Interior Ministry conducted a special operation in the village of Etseri, in a mountain part of Georgia's Svanetia. Three dangerous gangsters - Gocha, Omekhi and Yevgeny Aprasidze - were liquidated during the operation.

March 25, 2004 12:58

• Adjarian leader refuses to disarm militia

  "The militia in the autonomous republic will be disarmed when democracy is built in Georgia," Aslan Abashidze said to the local television early on March 25.

March 25, 2004 12:56

• Protest action of air traffic controllers in southern Russia

  The people are not satisfied with the last indexation of their pay, which has been increased by 13 rubles.

March 25, 2004 12:04

• Businessmen in Rostov Region dissatisfied at police officers' illegal actions

  The Minister of Economy of Rostov Region, Viktor Deryabkin, announced it at a joint conference of the regional Small Business Council and the Interdepartmental Committee on Overcoming Bureaucratic Barriers to Entrepreneurship.

March 25, 2004 11:02

• New movement unites Georgian NGOs

  The National Movement "Board of Trustees of Georgia" has been created in Georgia. It unites about 130 non-government organizations (NGOs).

March 25, 2004 10:39

• Moscow authorities ban antiwar picket again

  The prefecture of Moscow's Central Administrative District refused for the third time to consider an application for the holding of a picket against war in Chechnya.

March 25, 2004 10:12

• Azerbaijan president critical of OSCE Minsk Group

  "The Minsk Group's current approach and its position on settling this conflict cannot play a positive role since the group has restricted itself to merely monitoring the situation in Nagorny Karabakh," Ilkham Aliyev said.

March 24, 2004 18:07

• Azerbaijan kidnappers detained in Moscow

  Four citizens of Azerbaijan who abducted a Palestinian have been detained in Moscow, reported the information and public relations division of the Moscow City Interior Department.