News

August 07, 2003 19:50

• Chechen journalist has been kidnapped in Grozny

  Unknown gunmen broke into the house on Vyborgskaya street, 5, and forced 28-year old Isa Abayev out threatening him with sub-machine guns, reported the ministry.

August 07, 2003 19:48

• Large terrorist act was averted in Grozny

  As it was reported in the regional operations staff for control of the antiterrorist operation in the Northern Caucasus, a radio-controlled self-made explosive assembly containing 800 grams of trotyl was found by federal forces on Mayakovsky Street.

August 07, 2003 19:46

• New mass burial place was discovered in Naursky region

  6 corpses in all, as the witnesses say, with marks of cruel tortures were found in the communal grave.

August 07, 2003 19:44

• "Doctors Without Borders" believe Arjan Erkel is alive

  Almost one year passed since the coordinator of the mission of the International Humanitarian organization ?Doctors Without Borders? in Dagestan Arjan Erkel had been kidnapped in Makhachkala on August 12, 2002.

August 07, 2003 16:47

• Murder of Maysky settlement resident

  The man who fell a victim to an extrajudicial death penalty executed by the Russian soldiers was not identified.

August 07, 2003 16:45

• "Vesti, Dagestan? will be broadcasted by RTR

  A competitive commission functions to choose television presenters for the new program. The art director of the Dagestani television announcer department Galina Dulieva is a head of the commission.

August 07, 2003 16:42

• More than 100 Ingush families returned to village Tarskoye (North Osetia)

  Local residents say their relationships with neighbors (Osetins) considerably improved after the agreement of friendship and cooperation between Ingushetia and North Osetia had been signed.

August 07, 2003 16:39

• 136 former Chechen separatists will come out of Russian prisons and investigation wards because of amnesty

  9 people are released from investigation wards because of the amnesty. 127 people who were already condemned and stay prisoned now also fall under the amnesty.

August 07, 2003 16:37

• Meetings of human rights activists will be continued

  On August 4 representatives of many Chechen human rights organizations met at the ?round table? to discuss questions of human rights observance in Chechnya in the pre-election period.

August 07, 2003 13:14

• Criminal case was opened to investigate abduction of schoolgirl from Chechen village Samashki

  ?The investigation is conducted by the regional prosecutor's office. It is early to speak of the complicity of concrete persons in this crime?, Chechen Deputy Prosecutor Said Pashayev announced.

August 07, 2003 13:11

• Three Armenian soldiers were killed while standing guard

  As it was announced in the information and propaganda department of the Armenian defense ministry, soldiers were killed on Wednesday when they were fired by unknown persons with automatic rifles.

August 07, 2003 13:10

• Armenian, Georgian, and Azerbaijan journalists went through retraining within framework of program ?Press, Prosperity, and Peace in the Southern Caucasus?

  The goal of the program is to stimulate by means of press representatives processes of peace and prosperity establishment in the Southern Caucasus, and especially the processes of changing negative stereotypes that shaped among Armenians, Georgians, and Azerbaijanians towards each other.

August 07, 2003 13:07

• Second International Summer University ?International Relations in the Modern World? opened in Pitsunda on August 5

  The Summer University is organized by the British non-government organization ?Sources of Reconciliation?, which implements a program in the region on problems of transformation of the Georgian-Abkhazian conflict and civil society development.

August 06, 2003 23:58

• Customs officials responded to disaster

  North Osetia customs officials decided to transfer one-day pay of the customs personnel on the account of the families of those who died and suffered in the terrorist attack in Mozdok.

August 06, 2003 23:56

• One week seminar for journalists of government and non-government mass media took place in the capital of South Osetia

  The seminar was conducted by the American non-government organization ?Night Fellow? by the initiative of the Tskhinvli office of the OSCE mission.

August 06, 2003 23:54

• Boris Berezovsky: ?One needs to negotiate with Chechens?

  ?Chechnya is a part of Russia, and there is a civil war there now. It is being spread into other regions of the country and already reached Moscow?, stated the businessman.

August 06, 2003 23:52

• Activists from Youth Movement ?Kmara? against entry of Russian UES into Georgia

  Today representatives of the Youth Movement ?Kmara? organized actions of protest against the deal between the ?Unified Energy System of Russia? (RAO UESR) and the American company AES.

August 06, 2003 20:30

• Requests of relatives of the ?disappeared? are continually received in Society for the Russian-Chechen Friendship

  On August 4 Ibragimov Arbi Sultanovich, a citizen of Urus-Martan, requested help in the search of his brother Ibragimov Zaur Sultanovich detained in September 2000.

August 06, 2003 20:28

• Chechen schoolgirl abducted in Samashki has been set free

  The head of the Achkhoy-Martan region administration Ali Dalnayev has reported today that Elsa Katsayeva, a schoolgirl from the 10-th form of the Samashki secondary school, abducted by unknown people on Saturday night has been set free.

August 06, 2003 17:39

• Terrorist act in Mozdok was committed by Shamil Basayev?s confidant ? Khromoy

  On August 5 information appeared that the third suspect was detained in the case on the act of terrorism committed in Mozdok on August 1.