News

September 05, 2003 14:02

• Attack against health ministry's officials

  A group of people wearing camouflage beat the Ministry's officials and their security guard and escaped by taking away 500 thousand rubles destined for salary payments.

September 05, 2003 14:01

• All tent camps for forced migrants from Chechnya will cease to exist in a month

  According to the words of Russian Minister for Chechnya's Affairs Stanislav Ilyasov, the migrants must start living in normal conditions already before a winter colder weather begins.

September 05, 2003 14:00

• Kurds in Armenia are holding hunger strike

  On September 3, Kurds went into the street adjoining the office of the committee "Kurdistan" and performed a symbolical dance. They did it within the framework of the protest action.

September 05, 2003 13:59

• Picket in front of US Embassy in Baku

  The action was the expression of protest against the visit of the US Congressmen's representatives to Nagorny Karabah without Azerbaijan authorities' knowledge.

September 05, 2003 13:58

• Azerbaijan police beats oppositionists

  First Vice Chairman of the Musavat Party Vurgun Eyub was savagely beaten by police officers in the Akhmedly village of Baku.

September 05, 2003 13:57

• Court answered to claim of several media and non-government organizations

  The Tbilisi City Court answered to the claim of several media and non-government organizations to abolish the resolution passed by the Central Election Commission (CEC) on August 25, which appreciably limited the role of the mass media in the parliamentary elections coming on November 2.

September 05, 2003 13:56

• Georgian prisoner was killed in Abkhazia

  On September 3 security forces in Abkhazia killed Georgian fugitive Gervasi Dzhologua in the village of Kindgi.

September 05, 2003 13:55

• Chechen refugee situation in Vysni Lhoty camp is not critical at all

  This was reported in an interview by people who are familiar with the current situation in the camp, as well as by refugees themselves.

September 05, 2003 12:44

• Names of those who were killed near Kislovodsk have been identified

  Ambulance cars rushed 34 victims right from the site of explosion to hospitals of the population centers located in the Caucasian Mineral Spas health resort area.

September 04, 2003 18:46

• Baku accused Yerevan of attempt to relieve itself of responsibility for monitoring failure on contact line

  The Azerbaijan Ministry of Defense refuted the report of the general staff commander of the Armenian Armed Forces Mikael Arutyunian that Azerbaijan servicemen had fired several shots from light artillery during the monitoring.

September 04, 2003 16:53

• Armenia completed investigation of incident on Azerbaijan border

  The investigation revealed that during the monitoring a hunter's shot had rung out on the Armenian territory three kilometers west from the Azerbaijan-Armenian border.

September 04, 2003 16:51

• Prosecutor General's Office announces disclosing of two terrorist acts in Mozdok, which claimed lives of about 70 people

  The Prosecutor General's Office of Russia has successfully investigated two acts of terrorism in Mozdok committed this year - the explosions of a military hospital and a bus with servicemen.

September 04, 2003 15:10

• Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice will set to opposition

  On September 2, the Central Election Commission of Azerbaijan ordered that the Ministry of Justice analyzed the appearance of the leaders of opposition parties on the state television. An insult of President Geydar Aliyev is imputed to them.

September 04, 2003 15:09

• Round-table discussion on role of mass media in pre-election campaign was held in Hyatt Regency Hotel

  The round-table meeting was aimed at the exchange of experience and opinions between Azerbaijan and German journalists on the questions of the coverage of pre-election campaigns and the role of mass media in politics and elections.

September 04, 2003 15:08

• Refugees from Russia are aimed at Austria and Czechia

  The number of people expecting to get political asylum in Europe has reached its lowest mark since 1999. Such data are contained in the UNHCR report for the second quarter of 2003 published on Tuesday in Geneva.

September 04, 2003 15:06

• Ministry for Press was disbanded in Chechnya

  The Prime Minister of Chechnya signed the edict on disbandment of the Ministry for Press, TV and Radio Broadcasting, and Mass Media Communications and the Ministry for Nationalities of the Chechen Republic.

September 04, 2003 15:05

• Seminar "Formation of Healthy Lifestyle Culture as a Condition for Harmonious Development of Personality" is taking place in Rostov region

  About 120 people are taking part in the seminar. They are experts in youth policy of the Rostov region's municipal areas, youth public and student activists.

September 04, 2003 15:04

• Human rights activists are discontented with small number of verdicts of "not guilty" passed by courts

  The data show that from January 1999 to July 1, 2003 the courts of first instance brought in only 14 and the Court of Appeal - only 13 verdicts of "not guilty".

September 04, 2003 15:02

• New draft on freedom of information is being prepared

  The Yeni Nesil journalist union and the human rights organization "Article 19" are drafting together a law "About Freedom of Information".

September 04, 2003 15:01

• Russia did not define its stand on Karabah

  Yury Merzlyakov of Russia, a new co-chair of the OSCE Minsk Group, the aim of which is to negotiate a peaceful solution to the Nagorno-Karabah conflict, refused to say unambiguously whether the principle of territorial integrity of Azerbaijan should, in his opinion, serve as a basis for the settlement of this dispute.