News

August 30, 2003 14:31

• Three interior servicemen were killed in Chechnya as result of gunfire

  The servicemen were guarding a railway near the village of Sernovodsk in the Achkhoy-Martan region.

August 30, 2003 14:29

• Mother of missing Chechen appealed to prosecutor's office

  Esiyev Artur was detained by officers of the Russian power structures of the Urus-Martan region on February 14, 2002.

August 30, 2003 13:42

• Administration of Vladikavkaz presented gifts to scholars

  100 children from poor families of the Kirovsky region in the Republic of North Osetia - Alania received presents for a new school year.

August 30, 2003 13:40

• Lawsuit on cancellation of first round results of presidential election in Karachaevo-Cherkessia was withdrawn

  This action gives a free way to hold the second round of the election appointed on August 31.

August 30, 2003 13:38

• Appeal of Chechen non-government organizations to Czech authorities and international community

  "We expect international human rights organizations to come out immediately on all available levels in favor of defense of rights and liberties of the Chechen refugees living on the Czech territory ", reads the appeal.

August 30, 2003 13:36

• Mikael Grigorian: "Criminal liability for slander and insult of state official does not infringe upon freedom of speech in Armenia"

  A new Criminal Code of Armenia came into force on August 1, 2003. The clauses 135, 136 and 318 of this law provide criminal liability for slander and insult of a state official and a judge.

August 30, 2003 11:07

• Protest rallies in different regions of Georgia

  Protest rallies were held yesterday in Zugdidi (western Georgia), Tbilisi, and Gori. The protesters demanded from authorities to pay off arrears of social payments.

August 30, 2003 11:06

• Head of regional administration was fired in Chechnya

  As the republican Interior Ministry reported yesterday, several unidentified criminals fired at Dalilov from sub-machine guns in the village of Prigorodnoye on Thursday.

August 29, 2003 23:59

• Chechen refugees ask for restoration of justice

  Forced migrants from the Chechen Republic ask to help them reinstate 325 people in the lists of refugees. They were struck off the registration in the Federal Migration Service without any ground.

August 29, 2003 23:58

• Despotism of Russian servicemen in Sernovodsk settlement

  Russian servicemen without military insignia broke into the Asayevs' yard at 3 a.m. Without any charges they seized Shamkhan Asayev, his brother Magomed and the three brothers-in-law and took them away in an unknown direction.

August 29, 2003 23:52

• Armenian Foreign Minister: "Armenia is unlikely to be seriously sanctioned by Council of Europe"

  The Council of Europe motivates the necessity of sanctions against Armenia by the thought that otherwise it will be difficult to guarantee fair elections in neighboring Azerbaijan and Georgia which are to take place this autumn.

August 29, 2003 23:50

• Bad water causes mass poisoning of refugees

  The warden of the compact residence "Slavyanka-Fulat" situated in the stanitsa Troitskaya Zina Magomadova appealed to the Ingush office of the Society for the Russian-Chechen Friendship with a request to help her solve the problem of water supplies in the camp.

August 29, 2003 18:31

• Opponents of pipeline Baku-Jeikhan construction believe it is risky to build it until regional conflicts are settled

  Representatives of non-government organizations protesting against the construction of the pipe-line Baku-Tbilisi-Jeikhan held a press conference in Baku yesterday.

August 29, 2003 18:29

• Round-table meeting "Alternative Civil Service. 30 Days before Conscription" took place in Krasnodar

  A new federal law "About Alternative Civil Service (ACS)" will come into force on January 1, 2004. However, this law has a number of faults: the mechanisms of its maintenance are not completely worked out, there is a contradiction between some of its clauses, - all these things hinder the proper development of the ACS institution in Russia.

August 29, 2003 18:27

• Precedent was established in Dudinka: court sided to member of Azerbaijan diaspora in case against regional police department head

  The Azerbaijan diaspora of the Krasnodar region has already gained support on this issue from 22 regional national communes, including Russian one.

August 29, 2003 14:05

• Youth mini-football tournament took place in Grozny

  The tournament was organized by the public organization "Step into the Future" and financially supported by the International Committee of the Red Cross.

August 29, 2003 14:03

• Yesterday night there was raid on rooms of Russian Commissioner for Human Rights Oleg Mironov

  Staff officials believe the robbery was premeditated because the second round of the election to the Commissioner for Human Rights in the Russian Federation is to be held in September.

August 29, 2003 14:00

• Court acquitted oppositionist

  The Court of Appeal demanded that former Interior Minister Abdulla Allakhverdiev should prove that Azerbaijan National Independence Party Chairman Etibar Mamedov, one of the presidential contenders for the election lying ahead in October, was making for the Armenian occupation of the Lachinsky region of Azerbaijan or refute his words in the next issue of the Palitra newspaper.

August 29, 2003 13:58

• New Russian OSCE Minsk Group co-chairman is awaited in Baku

  The leadership of Azerbaijan assumes that the forthcoming change of the Russian OSCE Minsk group co-chairman will not affect the process of the Karabah conflict settlement.

August 29, 2003 11:00

• Civil rights activists has sued Central Election Commission

  The GYLA and other human rights advocacy organizations protest against the ruling adopted by the CEC on August 25, which defines the principles of coverage of the election process by the state and private mass media.