News

December 25, 2003 12:06

• Azerbaijan Parliament condemns Swiss Parliament for recognition of Armenian Genocide

  The Azerbaijan Parliament regarded the decision of the Swiss Parliament as "appropriation of the role of a judge and intervention in internal affairs of the other state."

December 25, 2003 12:04

• Azerbaijan becomes active in Karabakh settlement

  Azerbaijan Foreign Minister Vilayat Guliyev stated that official Baku and specifically his department intend to activate efforts aiming at attaining a final solution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.

December 25, 2003 12:02

• Group of mercenaries destroyed in Chechnya

  A large group of separatists was routed in Chechnya. Turkish, Algerian and German citizens were among its members. 17 separatists were killed as a result of a short combat.

December 25, 2003 12:01

• Citizen kidnapped in Ingush town of Karabulak

  When being stopped by police officers at the town exit, the kidnappers showed regional operations headquarters passes.

December 25, 2003 11:58

• Akhmad Kadyrov's security service made street skirmish in Ingushetia

  On December 11, there was a skirmish in a many-storied building on Ordjonikidze Street in Malgobek. An accidental passer-by, Bekkhan B. Kartoyev, 1953, was killed as a result.

December 25, 2003 11:57

• Russian journalists familiarize themselves with situation in Abkhazia

  Correspondents of ORT and NTV TV companies and of the Trud, Krasnaya Zvezda and Izvestiya newspapers are in the delegation. Representatives of Sukhumi authorities arrange special press-conferences for them.

December 24, 2003 22:23

• Authorities try to prevent preparation of Extraordinary Congress of the People of Kalmykia

  The heads of law-enforcement agencies demanded that the members of the Organizational Committee cancel the Congress. Their demand had the nature of an ultimatum as they threatened they would institute criminal proceedings against all the organizers if they disobeyed.

December 24, 2003 21:10

• Resident of Samashki village abducted

  Russian servicemen abducted Khavazhi Shamayev, a 33-year-old resident of the Samashki village, and took him away from his own house in the direction of the district center of Achkhoy-Martan.

December 24, 2003 21:00

• Man detained by security agents in Assinovskaya village, then released

  The released man had severe injuries and several fractured ribs, which is evidence that he had been subjected to savage beatings for all that time.

December 24, 2003 20:47

• 80-year-old woman beaten by Russian servicemen in Achkhoy-Martan village

  Having searched the house and not having found the man they needed, the gunmen savagely beat the 80-year-old woman.

December 24, 2003 20:39

• Tbilisi suspends talks with Abkhazia and South Osetia

  Burdjanadze informed she suggested that the Abkhazian leaders come to Sukhumi to prepare a new stage in the relations between Georgia and Abkhazia. "The Abkhazian side, like the South Osetian one, did not take this step," she stressed.

December 24, 2003 18:54

• Manual on How to Work Out Applications for Grants presented in Vladikavkaz

  The Manual on How to Work Out Applications for Grants was presented at the IATP (Internet Access and Training Program) center in Vladikavkaz on December 22. A small seminar on the rules of working out the applications was conducted within the presentation.

December 24, 2003 17:59

• Abkhazian Prime Minister: Russian peacekeepers provide stability in Georgian-Abkhazian conflict zone

  "There is no alternative to Russian peacekeepers," Abkhazian Prime Minister Raul Khajimba stressed in his interview with Russian journalists in Sukhum.

December 24, 2003 16:30

• Landmine explosion in Chechnya left OMON officer dead

  A landmine was activated in the Zavodskoy district of Grozny when a file of OMON (special tasks police platoon) officers was passing by.

December 24, 2003 16:15

• Workshop for teachers form South Federal District took place in Rostov

  The workshop "Modern Technologies of Teaching English" took place in Rostov-on-Don on December 15-20 within the framework of the All-Russian Festival "Ways of Hope". 50 young teachers from Adygeya, North Osetia - Alania, Karachaevo-Cherkessia, Dagestan, Kabardino-Balkaria, Ingushetia, the Volgograd and Astrakhan regions, and Krasnodar and Stavropol Territories were participants in the workshop.

December 24, 2003 15:59

• "Christmas Chimes" charity action in Rostov region

  The action is aimed not only at presenting New Year gifts to children from families of scanty means, orphan children, under age delinquents, and children with limited physical and social abilities, but at instilling a spirit of mutual aid, mercy and humanism in those children.

December 24, 2003 15:58

• Adjarian authorities intensify pressure on mass media

  The broadcasting of Rustavi 2 TV Company, which is the most popular one in Georgia, was ceased in Adjaria on November 23.

December 24, 2003 12:00

• Congress of Caucasian people to be held in Vladikavkaz next year

  President of North Osetia Aleksandr Dzasokhov signed the order to create the organizational committee that is to arrange a congress of Caucasian people in Vladikavkaz in 2004.

December 24, 2003 11:40

• Group of rebels in Dagestan led by Shamil Basayev's mate

  Locals report they saw Dagestani Isa Makasharipov among commanders of the Chechen unit acting on the territory of the Tsuntinsky district in Dagestan. Makasharipov was one of Shamil Basayev's closest mates.

December 23, 2003 23:29

• Raid on temporary accommodation center of forced migrants in Grozny - details

  In the evening of December 8, 2003 in the Leninsky district of Grozny, officers of one of the Chechen security agencies made an armed attack on a temporary accommodation center of forced migrants.