News

August 21, 2003 20:05

• OSCE representative waits for explanations of incident on Armenian-Azerbaijan front line from Armenian leadership

  The Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office stressed the incident was quite serious, considering the fact that the parties of the conflict were to guarantee the security of the observers' mission.

August 21, 2003 20:03

• According to information of the military, 12 separatists were killed during fight of Avtury

  It was reported on Wednesday evening by Colonel Ilya Shabalkin, an official representative of the regional operations staff for control of the antiterrorist operation in the Northern Caucasus. He also said that ?many of the separatists blocked in were wounded, and the liquidation of the militant group was still going on?.

August 21, 2003 17:35

• Problem of Nagorno-Karabah conflict settlement will be discussed during first plenary session of "South Caucasian Parliamentary Initiative"

  A special workgroup to prevent and settle South Caucasian conflicts and increase the role of parliaments in the settlement of these conflicts was established within the framework of the Initiative.

August 21, 2003 17:33

• Women refugees released hostage and left Metrostroy building seized in Tbilisi

  17 women refugees from Abkhazia made such a decision after they had got assurances they would be granted habitation in another building.

August 21, 2003 17:30

• Aleksandr Zimbovsky was released from ward of Rostov-on-Don for persons arrested for administrative infringements

  After 3 days of a waterless hunger-strike, on which Zimbovsky had went voicing a protest against the humiliation of human dignity in the ward, he was taken to the hospital on the ambulance and then released.

August 21, 2003 13:38

• Children from art school of Oyskhar village visited Khasavyurt

  The trip was organized by the Regional Public Institution Art-Serlo and the Dagestani Regional Charitable Foundation SOS-Salvation.

August 21, 2003 13:27

• "Round table" on problems of refugees and forced migrants was held in State Duma

  Experts from profile ministries and departments, representatives of public organizations, scientific and cultural activists took part in the meeting.

August 21, 2003 13:24

• Refugee camp was fired in Argun

  This was reported by Argun City Administration Head Kerim Guchigov on Wednesday.

August 21, 2003 13:22

• Adygs are against restoration of monument to Admiral Lazarev

  The Congress of the International Circassian Association decided to appeal to the President of the Russian Federation and all leaders of the South Federal District against the attempts to restore the monument to Admiral Lazarev in the village of Lazarevskoye, a compact residence of one of the Adyg people ? the Shapsugi of the Black Sea.

August 20, 2003 22:01

• Georgian refugees from Abkhazia have occupied Metrostroy administrative building in Tbilisi

  They spilled petrol over themselves and threatened with self-immolation if this building is not granted to them for habitation. The refugees threatened to burn several hostages, Metrostroy employees, as well.

August 20, 2003 21:59

• Tribune newspaper: "Members of Chechen-Kistin diaspora may get into new Georgian parliament"

  The newspaper names Khizri Aldamov and Meka Khangoshvili as possible candidates.

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.