News

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.

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.