News

August 20, 2003 21:57

• Human Rights Institute will send its observer to Chechnya

  The specialist is expected to go to Chechnya as a member of the group of Russian human rights activists. This group is being formed by the Moscow Helsinki Group along with the Commission on Human Rights under the President of Russia.

August 20, 2003 21:54

• There ware pogroms in Grozny last night

  As Chechen Deputy Interior Minister Sultan Satuyev informed, people in masks and military uniform rushed in the houses, beat people and shouted they would kill them if they did not vote for Akhmad Kadirov at the presidential election.

August 20, 2003 17:44

• Azerbaijan opposition was not allowed to picket Cabinet's building

  The picketers tried to go to the building from several directions, but officers of law-enforcement structures suppressed this attempt.

August 20, 2003 17:40

• Human rights activists are against presidential election in Chechnya

  It is not possible to hold free election in Chechnya today, stated Chechen and Russian human rights defenders from the Memorial, the Chechen National Rescue Committee, the Council of Non-Government Organizations, the Mothers of Chechnya and others during their meeting in Nazran on August 18.

August 20, 2003 17:39

• There is no place for opposition in Nakhchivan

  Executive power officials warn the entrepreneurs that it is inadmissible for them to hold election posters of opposition contenders for the president of Azerbaijan in their shop-windows and threaten closure to their businesses.

August 20, 2003 17:37

• Relatives of the missing hope to get process of Karabah settlement moving

  In the opinion of the relatives of the missing, their solidarity will promote the search and get the negotiation process moving.

August 20, 2003 17:35

• Operation "Attention - Children!" started in Vladikavkaz

  GIBDD services will daily see to the traffic near all schools and educational institutions.

August 20, 2003 15:05

• Rob Mosher: "We are ready to greet Turkish-Armenian border opening"

  In the opinion of the director for contacts with the Congress of the Armenian Assembly of America, the opening of the border met Turkish economic interests and would serve as a guarantee of common regional stability.

August 20, 2003 15:03

• Armenian Assembly of America attaches highlight to visit of authoritative officials from staffs of US senators and congressmen

  "We hope we?ll manage to make sure that our friends ? congressmen, senators and their assistants will get more information on the range of Armenian problems which are of current importance to Armenia and the Diaspora", said the regional director of the Armenian Assembly of America Arpi Vardanian.

August 20, 2003 15:01

• Parliament of Azerbaijan will consider new law "About Constitutional Court" in autumn

  ?This law will regulate the case of constitutional complaints. Thereafter the Constitutional Court will be able to make decisions on personal complaints?, said the head of the Court. The new law will reflect the process of lodging a personal complaint.

August 20, 2003 14:59

• Foreign Minister of Nagorny Karabah: "Azerbaijan politicizes problems of humanitarian nature"

  Ashot Gulyan said it was inadmissible for Azerbaijan to politicize the humanitarian problems, and in particular, the problem of the search of the missing.

August 19, 2003 21:59

• Series of programs connected with presidential election is being prepared

  The aim of the program is to enlighten people of their election rights, inform the audience about the candidates and their election platforms.

August 19, 2003 21:57

• Women has resumed picketing at complex of Chechnya's government buildings in Grozny

  Chechen Security Council Secretary Rudnik Dudayev reported in the phone conversation.

August 19, 2003 21:55

• Association of non-profit organizations "In Defense of Voters' Rights "GOLOS" is starting its work

  Six public (non-party) organizations of the Stavropol region became initiators of the association establishment. The founders find their main purpose in exercising control of the election process in the region. Such organizations successfully function in 30 regions of Russia.

August 19, 2003 21:53

• 4-th congress of International Circassian Association in Nalchik

  More than 80 delegates from Jordan, Syria, Turkey, Israel, the US, the Netherlands, France, Great Britain - countries where Adyg diasporas live compactly, as well as delegations from Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Krasnodar Territory and republics of the Northern Caucasus arrived.

August 19, 2003 18:13

• According to government's information, 267 people were kidnapped over the first half of 2003 in Chechnya

  "We are still seriously concerned about the abductions. Law enforcement agencies have not been doing enough to prevent and solve these crimes," announced Chechnya's First Deputy Prime Minister Movsar Khamidov.

August 19, 2003 18:10

• Opposition is afraid of political terror boom

  The Eni Musavat newspaper with a reference to the Turkish web-site Avrasiya.turk.com informs that some power circles of Azerbaijan are trying to form illegal armed units to get rid of several opposition leaders.

August 19, 2003 18:09

• Lawyers of victims of terrorist act in Dubrovka lodged complaint to European Court of Human Rights

  As Lawyer Lyudmila Trunova said, a complaint was made after the rejection of the Tverskoy Court to answer 24 claims for the compensation of moral damage.

August 19, 2003 16:03

• Head of Commission on Human Rights supported the Moslems of Karelia

  On August 14, 2003 there was a meeting of the Chairman of the Spiritual Administration of Moslems of the Republic of Karelia Mufti Visam Ali Bardvil with the chairman of the Commission on Human Rights in Karelia Marat Tarasov, which was devoted to the events that had taken place on August 2, 3, 4, 2003 in the town of Kondopoga. Then so-called troopers attacked people of non-Slavic appearance working on the markets of the city.

August 19, 2003 15:57

• Problem of military and patriotic education of children and young people was discussed during "round table" in regional Duma on August 15.

  Representatives of the region's government, bodies of local authorities, ministries, committees, military and patriotic public organizations, mass media, cultural and educational institutions from all over the Stavropol region assembled to share experience, problems and their solutions.