News

January 21, 2004 17:00

• "House of Peace" to open in Karabakh and Azerbaijan

  "Those who will feel a need for peace will be able to come to this house, which will be a kind of cultural center," said coordinator of the NGO Nagorno-Karabakh Committee "Helsinki Initiative - 92" Karen Ogandzhanian.

January 21, 2004 15:57

• Two locals shot dead in Achkhoy-Martan

  Servicemen in masks rushed into a private house and shot down two young people between the ages of 25 and 30 who were in there.

January 21, 2004 15:41

• David Shakhnazarian: talks between presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan lead Karabakh problem to deadlock

  "These meetings substitute the confrontation between Armenia and Azerbaijan for the problem of Nagorny Karabakh," stated the board member of the Armenian National Movement.

January 21, 2004 15:08

• Georgia investigates swindling with aid to Abkhazian refugees

  State Minister Zurab Zhvania demanded on Wednesday that law enforcement bodies should speed up investigation into financial machinations with issuing allowances to refugees from the Abkhazian Autonomous Republic.

January 21, 2004 14:05

• Competitive program of social projects for NGOs of South Russia presented

  The aim of the competitions is to stir up citizens' activity in the field of finding solutions to social problems and to develop charity in Southern Russia.

January 21, 2004 13:21

• Eduard Shevardnadze raises question about occupation of Abkhazia and South Osetia

  Former Georgian president Eduard Shevardnadze stated that Abkhazia and South Osetia were occupied by Russian troops and called upon new Georgian president Mikhail Saakashvili to solve this problem.

January 21, 2004 12:40

• Round table discussion "War in Chechnya: Myths and Reality" to take place in Krasnodar

  The discussion is arranged within the framework of the enlightening project "What Do You Know and Think of the War in Chechnya?" with the support of the Caucasian Knot information and analytical Internet media and the Memorial International Society.

January 21, 2004 11:56

• Results of Georgian-Abkhazian meeting on security matters

  "Having positively assessed the results of the ad hoc high-level meeting of 8 October, the sides agreed to take every measure to ensure the strict observance of the Moscow Ceasefire Agreement of 1994 and refrain from any action, which may destabilize the situation in the zone of conflict and have a negative impact on the peace process," reads the protocol of the meeting of 19 January.

January 20, 2004 23:21

• Chechen field commander arrested in Kemerovo region

  The former second-in-command of the so called "Islamic special operations regiment" under the command of Arbi Barayev was arrested in the Kemerovo region.

January 20, 2004 23:20

• Actions of Soviet troops in Baku in 1990 violated human rights

  The statement of the Human Rights Institute of the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences issued on the eve of the 14th anniversary of the so called Baku Events that "by the military incursion into Baku, the Soviet leadership violated the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights as well as others international documents, including the Convention on the Rights of the Child."

January 20, 2004 23:17

• Electricity disconnections in Bart camp

  The camp is reportedly supplied with electric power several times a day. All the rest time people spend without electric light.

January 20, 2004 20:04

• Problem of supplying electric power to Maysky refugee camp to be settled soon

  Camp inhabitants have encountered serious difficulties since 2000 because electricity supply has been constantly cut off in Maysky.

January 20, 2004 18:54

• Game "Caucasian Youth Movement Under Conditions of Unresolved Conflicts" to take place in Abkhazia

  The number of players will be 40 people, who will form 5 groups. The players will come from Georgia, South Osetia, Abkhazia, North Osetia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Russia, and Chechnya.

January 20, 2004 18:29

• Iran concerned with peaceful resolution of Karabakh conflict

  Ilkham Aliyev expressed thanks to the Government of Iran for the support it provides on the international level to Azerbaijan's stance on the Karabakh issue.

January 20, 2004 17:25

• Azerbaijan opposition plan meetings of protest

  "Discharge people arrested during October 15 and 16 events!" - activists of the Musavat Party intend to hold a meeting under such a slogan in front of the Azerbaijan Prosecutor General's Office. They are going to protest against the court decisions to extend detention terms for oppositionists charged with the organization of mass riots on October 15 and 16.

January 20, 2004 16:57

• Committee defending arrested oppositionists' rights to send report to PACE on people subjected to torture in investigatory wards

  The chairman of the committee, Vagif Gadjibeyli, says that lawyers and human rights defenders have gathered by joint efforts detailed materials about 40 prisoners, 35 of whom are kept in the Bailovskaya prison today.

January 20, 2004 16:42

• Press conference devoted to political prisoners at Baku Press Club

  The government must declare amnesty for people arrested in connection with the events of October 2003, stated poet Ramiz Rovshan, who is chair of the Committee to Struggle Against Repressions and Election Fraud.

January 20, 2004 15:46

• US State Department disappointed that Armenian delegation was absent from conference in Baku

  The Azerbaijan authorities impeded the arrival of the Armenian military in Baku last week.

January 20, 2004 14:56

• Chechnya's first training and production center for disabled women opens in Achkhoy-Martan

  It is a joint project sponsored by the Handicap International organization and the Chechen Labor Ministry.

January 20, 2004 13:50

• Oliver Dupuis criticizes term "Chechen network"

  Olivier Dupuis, Member of the European Parliament, Radical, asks the Commission: "What does the Commission think of the use of the term "Chechen network" by magistrates from EU member countries - and in particular by the French magistrate Bruguiere - to define a criminal affair in which the only involvement of Chechens seems to be the fact that the EU citizens - and not Chechens - under accusation have referred to Chechens as the possible beneficiaries of financial aid, or Chechnya as a place where they could carry out their plan for a holy war?"