News

January 12, 2004 14:48

• Attack on director general for reconstruction of Makhachkala trade port

  Two unknown people in masks, who were armed with pistols, rushed into the house of 54-year-old Magomed Ersalov in the evening of January 9. He is director general for the reconstruction of the Makhachkala trade port.

January 12, 2004 14:29

• Abductors of Chechen prosecutors established

  Head of the press service of the North Caucasian Police Directorate Tamerlan Kazikhanov reported it on January 9

January 12, 2004 13:55

• Militants fired at government buildings in Grozny

  On Monday morning, January 12, militants fired at the complex of government buildings in Grozny with a grenade-launcher, a source at the press service of Chechnya's president reported.

January 10, 2004 16:39

• The Former Political Prisoners for Human Rights on human rights situation in Georgia

  We call your attention to the statement by The Former Political Prisoners for Human Rights NGO. Its authors raise concern about the human rights situation in Georgia after the so called velvet revolution.

January 10, 2004 14:17

• Georgian authorities demand evidence of guilt of Kmara movement activists arrested in Adjaria

  Otherwise, the reaction to the unjust court decision will be keen, said Acting President of Georgia Nino Burdjanadze.

January 10, 2004 13:40

• Representatives of social and political organisations of Abkhazian refugees restart protest action in Tbilisi

  The action participants suggest holding elections of the refugees' representatives for the Abkhazian Supreme Soviet along with the Georgian parliamentary elections in March of 2004.

January 10, 2004 13:16

• Azerbaijan Diaspora accuses German Sterligov of sowing seeds of interethnic strife

  The "Azerros" organization, which unites Azerbaijanians with Russian citizenship, addressed the Moscow Public Prosecutor's Office demanding that the former candidate for the post of the mayor of Moscow German Sterligov be called to account for sowing the seeds of interethnic strife.

January 10, 2004 13:14

• Addressed "purges" in Grozny

  Russian security agents conducted addressed "purges" in the Oktyabrsky district of Grozny on January 7.

January 09, 2004 19:38

• Victims of capture of Kizlyar by Salman Raduyev's rebels commemorated in Dagestan

  In the morning, thousands of people went to the central park of Kizlyar to lay flowers at the memorial to the people killed by the rebels.

January 09, 2004 18:42

• Vyacheslav Tikhomirov: federal forces in Chechnya change tactics of fight against kamikaze terrorist

  According to him, a special emphasis in this work will be laid on the disclosure of persons connected with armed units and on the prevention of terrorist acts in the stage of their preparation.

January 09, 2004 18:00

• Chechen refugees will possibly be evicted from three camps

  The Chechen refugees living in three temporary accommodation centers in the village of Troitskaya, Ingushetia's Sunzhensky district, take a risk of becoming roofless.

January 09, 2004 17:57

• Azerbaijan Foreign Minister hopes public will be tolerant towards Armenian servicemen's visit to Baku

  "Azerbaijan is a member of many international organizations, and it have to be a receiving county for various actions, in which representatives of the Armenian side take part even if we do not want it," he told journalists on January 8.

January 09, 2004 15:53

• Journalist Aleksandr Zhabsky continues hunger strike in Volgodonsk

  The journalist is going to continue the hunger strike until the Constitution of the Russian Federation and the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms takes effect with respect to him.

January 09, 2004 14:45

• Anapa City Court decided to deport two Turks-Meskhetians

  The materials of the administrative case were considered in the absence of the men called to account. They had not been even notified of the time and place of their consideration.

January 09, 2004 14:15

• Chechen State Council intends to decide issue of tent camps in Ingushetia before March 1

  The Chechen State Council intends to find out what and who is slowing down the process of return of forced migrants to their homes in Chechnya from three refugee camps in the Republic of Ingushetia.

January 09, 2004 13:50

• Azerbaijan intellectuals call to hold anti-Armenian actions of protest

  A group of Azerbaijan intellectuals calls to hold an action of protest against Armenia's occupation of a part of the Azerbaijan territory, including Nagorny Karabakh. The action is expected to be held on February 26.

January 09, 2004 13:26

• Armenian Defense Ministry denies statements by Azerbaijan on killing of two shepherds

  The Ministry of Defense of Azerbaijan issued a statement on January 7, accusing the Armenian snipers of the Monday murder of two shepherds: Orudzh Shukyurov and his son Mukhubbat Shukyurov.

January 09, 2004 12:25

• Night abduction of residents of Kulari village

  Gunmen in masks and camouflage uniform rushed into the house of the Isayev brothers on the night of December 9-10, 2003 and took them in an unknown direction.

January 09, 2004 12:10

• Necessity to prolong mandate of Peacekeeping Forces in Georgian-Abkhazian conflict zone no longer exists

  The headquarters of the Peacekeeping Forces in Sukhum has already received the decision by the Council of Heads of CIS States that the peacekeepers will stay in the zone of the Georgian-Abkhazian conflict until one of the parties declares for their withdrawal.

January 09, 2004 11:36

• Quadripartite meeting between Georgian and Abkhazian sides with participation of Russian peacekeepers and UN military observers, first in 2004

  12 people have been abducted, three of whom have been killed, in the conflict zone through the fault of the Abkhazian side for the last two weeks, by information of the Georgian side.