News

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.

August 06, 2003 17:36

• Ural Federal District continues its action of providing assistance to Chechnya

  Two schools are being restored in the village of Stariye Atagi (the Grozny region) and Khattuni (the Vedensk region) by the efforts of the district.

August 06, 2003 17:35

• First conference of Regional Public Organization ?Voice of Motherland? will be held on September 20

  The Public Organization ?The Voice of Motherland? was created to assist all those who wish to move to the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic

August 06, 2003 17:33

• Armenian-Turkish boundary opening is on foreign policy agenda of the US

  The US Ambassador to Armenia John Ordway noticed it is early to speak about the exact date of the boundary opening.

August 06, 2003 17:31

• Chechen militia men were shifted to barracked state

  According to the words of the authorities, the reinforcement is connected with hearsays being spread in all settlements of the republic that illegal armed units may ostensibly become more active on August 6 (the 7-th anniversary of intrusion of Maskhadov?s separatists into Grozny in 1996).

August 06, 2003 13:03

• Number of "addressed special operations" in Chechnya grows

  People of the republic express their anxiety in connection with sudden increase in number of "addressed special operations" during which dozens of civil people are detained and disappear without traces.

August 06, 2003 13:01

• Punitive ?cleanups? are awaited in regional center Nozhay-Yurt

  It was indicated in the federals? leaflets thrown from helicopters that a lot of separatists were located in the settlement of Nozhay-Yurt, and on the ground of it scaled passport regime checks would be conducted in this settlement.

August 06, 2003 12:58

• Anatoly Popov was appointed Acting President of Chechen Republic yesterday

  The Head of the Chechen Administration Akhmad Kadirov, who signed an edict on Popov?s appointment, announced he went on leave till October 5, in other words, till the day of the republican presidential election.

August 06, 2003 12:56

• Official list of people died in act of terrorism in Mozdok

  Officially specified by the acting duty soldiers of the ?Hot Line? in Mozdok, the list of 46 people died in the act of terrorism is placed on the pages of the Internet project ?My Pain?.