News

November 21, 2003 23:50

• Decision of London's court not to extradite Zakayev to have far-reaching consequences

  The court decision became the first one beyond the bounds of Russia touching upon the most important aspects of the present situation in the country and holding some ascertainings.

November 21, 2003 17:16

• Citizens of Grozny who suffered from freshet have nowhere to live

  Thousands of citizens of Grozny who lost their homes as a result of a freshet last year have not gotten new flats so far. The people have to take shelter in ordinary tents even in the cold time of the year.

November 21, 2003 16:42

• Actions of police during mass riots in Baku under investigation in Azerbaijan

  "The investigation is under way. It will reveal law-enforcement agents who broke the law. The law is one for all citizens," announced chief of the president's staff section to work with law-enforcement agencies Fuad Alekserov.

November 21, 2003 16:16

• One million signatures for Shevardnadze's dismissal collected

  Leader of the National Movement Mikhail Saakashvili announced the opposition had collected one million signatures under the demand for Eduard Shevardnadze's dismissal. "Georgian people have never stood in lines with such heat before," he said on November 18, being on the air of Green Wave Radio.

November 21, 2003 16:01

• Head of Salambek Maigov's election staff abducted, then freed

  Ibragim Umarkhadzhiyev, head of Salambek Maigov's election staff, who was kidnapped Wednesday in Grozny, has been freed, as told by Maigov's staff to the correspondent of Prague Watchdog.

November 21, 2003 14:24

• On Memorial Society's participation in 2003 election campaign

  The appeal by the Memorial Society's Board to the regional organizations.

November 21, 2003 11:03

• Police officer wounded in Grozny's Leninsky district

  In the morning of November 19, an officer of the Chechen police was wounded by unknown people in Grozny's Leninsky district.

November 21, 2003 10:42

• Police suppressed attempt to arrange picket in front of Russian embassy in Baku

  Action participants protested against Moscow's policy on the problem of Karabakh; but reinforced police detachments did not let the OKL activists approach to the legation.

November 21, 2003 10:38

• Abkhazia denies intentions to invade Kodori Gorge

  On November 19, authorities in Abkhazia denied the allegations from the Georgian side that the Abkhazian army was preparing an invasion of the Kodori Gorge taking advantage of the internal political crisis in Georgia. This was announced earlier by Emzar Kvitsiani, plenipotentiary of the Georgian President in Kodori.

November 20, 2003 23:58

• Pro-government For New Georgia bloc won parliamentary elections

  The Central Election Commission announced the results of the November 2 parliamentary elections on Thursday.

November 20, 2003 20:08

• Program to inform society about institution of ombudsman to be implemented in Armenia

  "The "Promoting Human Rights and Facilitating Public Awareness of the Public Defender?s Office in Armenia" Project designed jointly with the National Assembly of Armenia and supported by the Netherlands Government will commence in January 2004," announced Ms. Lise Grande, UN Development Programme Resident Coordinator in Armenia.

November 20, 2003 17:34

• Russia's Armenian Diaspora expected to take part in gathering donations for North-South Highway in Karabakh

  A traditional Armenian telethon arranged by the Hayastan All-Armenian Fund is to take place in Los Angeles, the U.S., on November 27. It is aimed at gathering donations for the construction of the North-South Highway in Nagorny Karabakh.

November 20, 2003 16:49

• Chechen refugees massively lodging complaints to Sunzha District Court in Ingushetia

  The refugees lodge complaints against illegal actions of Ingush migration service officials, who, as the declarants think, break the Russian Law on Displaced Persons.

November 20, 2003 16:18

• Vladikavkaz: action "North Osetian Students Against the War in the Caucasus and Any Other Aggression"

  Students of the town gathered at 10 a.m. in the republican blood transfusion station to transfuse blood, protesting in that way against the aggression in the Caucasus.

November 20, 2003 16:00

• Albert Bazeian: "Court trials are over, but justice has not been rendered"

  In spite of the fact that court trials in the cases on the October 27 events and murder of Tigran Nagdalian are over, in actual fact the organizers of these crimes have not been revealed and justice has not been rendered. Albert Bazeian, chair of the "Republic" Party and a member of the "Fairness" faction, made such a statement at a session of the Armenian Parliament on November 18.

November 20, 2003 15:05

• Abductions of people continue in Chechnya

  Gunmen in masks and camouflage uniforms captured three people in the Zavodskoy district of Grozny and took them away in an unknown direction, locals reported.

November 20, 2003 14:49

• President of Nagorny Karabakh estimated statements by Azerbaijan leaders as blackmail

  At a press conference on November 18, President of Nagorny Karabakh Arkady Gukasian commented on the statement of the Azerbaijan Foreign Minister, who said Baku would not sit to the bargaining table with Stepanakert and Azerbaijan would be compelled to solve the problem "by other means". Arkady Gukasian declared this to be blackmail. Baku perfectly realizes no one wants a war in the region and Azerbaijan is trying to gamble on it, thrusting its stance on the world community.

November 20, 2003 14:13

• Opposition journalists not admitted to parliament sessions

  On November 18, the Union of Parliamentary Journalists addressed a statement to Milli Majlis Speaker Murtuz Alekserov in view of the ban against the admission to parliament sessions for correspondents of the opposition "Azadlyg" and "Yeni Musavat" newspapers.

November 20, 2003 13:41

• Head of Salambek Maigov's election headquarters abducted in Chechnya

  Abuyadig Saayev was attacked yesterday in Grozny. He was rounded up by gunmen; they put him in a car and took away.

November 20, 2003 12:35

• Eduard Shevardnadze accused opposition of impeding negotiations with Abkhazia and South Osetia

  As soon as meetings of protest is over in Tbilisi, Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov and representatives of Abkhazian and South Osetian virtual authorities will arrive in Georgia, according to Shevardnadze.