News

August 14, 2003 23:59

• 4-th congress of International Circassian Association will take place in Nalchik

  80 delegates from Jordan, Syria, Israel, Turkey, the US, and other countries where the Adygeis compactly live, as well as 200 invited guests are expected to be its participants.

August 14, 2003 23:59

• Second Summer School "Interaction of Power and Society" has finished its work in village of Lermontovo

  The action resulted in a decision to found an association that would be a coordinating body for development and promotion of public initiatives of its participants.

August 14, 2003 21:08

• Chechen authorities assure tent camps in Ingushetia will have been liquidated by October 1

  "All people who are now living in these tent camps in Ingushetia will be provided with housing," Chechen Acting President Anatoly Popov said. "At the beginning of the year about 20 000 refuges lived in the Ingush tent camps, at the present time only 9 500."

August 14, 2003 21:05

• Five people were killed in APC blast in Chechnya

  An armored personnel carrier hit a high-capacity landmine that had been planted by gunmen on a road.

August 14, 2003 21:04

• Human rights activists protest court decision against 60 Minutes program

  On August 13 human rights advocacy NGOs expressed concern regarding the Tbilisi District Court decision that obliged the investigative TV program 60 Minutes to pay 1 million lari (USD 450 000) to Georgian Railway Department Chairman Akaki Chkheidze.

August 14, 2003 21:01

• Attempt on administration representatives of Sernovodskaya village

  Separatists clothed in masks fired a building of the village administration from the automatic and escaped from the scene of the crime.

August 14, 2003 20:59

• Tortures are used to prisoners in Sochi investigation ward

  On July 27, 2003 withindoors of the Khostinsky Regional Interior Department Alexander Shvets and Tomaz Tsatsoria were beaten by militiamen with the purpose of giving false evidence.

August 14, 2003 17:06

• On August 12 "round table" on subject "Rights and Freedoms of Foreign Compatriots" was held in Azerbaijan

  A political scientist Aslan Khalidi noted in his report "Foreign Compatriots' Resources To Obtain Information About Azerbaijan" that there was a need of working out a mechanism of providing foreign compatriots with information about their historical native land.

August 14, 2003 17:03

• "Arguments and Facts" are inciting to hatred against Caucasian people

  Director of the Moscow Bureau on Human Rights Alexander Brod and Director of the Center of International Cooperation Ashot Airapetian prepared a writ on honor, dignity and business reputation protection to the Publishing House "Arguments and Facts", to the newspaper of the same name, and personally to the journalist Ekaterina Bichkova.

August 14, 2003 14:21

• Open letter of Moscow Helsinki Group Chairwoman, member of Commission on Human Rights under Russian President

  "Now the Commission is discussing the possibility to conduct an observation of the elections in Chechnya under the aegis of the Commission and by human rights activists' strength. the MHG, from its part, finds this initiative to be of vital importance," reads the letter.

August 14, 2003 14:17

• Moscow Helsinki Group will observe presidential and parliamentary elections in Chechnya

  Representatives of various public organizations, including youth movements, will appear as observers.

August 13, 2003 23:54

• Meeting of Expert Council under Commissioner for Human Rights in Russia on issue of law enlightenment

  Meeting participants discussed a plan of preparation of the annual study and enlightening action "Human Rights - Every Day", which is held by the Federal Commissioner's staff at schools and institutes of higher education of Moscow in the first half of September.

August 13, 2003 19:03

• Flow of cases under rehabilitation of victims of political repressions grows

  For the first six months of the current year 510 archival criminal cases were reviewed by the prosecutor's office of the Republic of Kabardino-Balkaria under the law on rehabilitation of victims of political repressions.

August 13, 2003 18:59

• Georgian-Abkhazian talks will be carried out on September 15 in Tbtilisi

  The ambassadors of the countries entering the Group of the Friends of the UN Secretary-General on Georgia - the US, Great Britain, France, Russia, and Germany - will also take part in the meeting.

August 13, 2003 18:57

• Separatists attacked police station in Chechnya, stole weapons and cars

  Separatists set the building of the police station on fire, besides, the attackers stole three cars.

August 13, 2003 18:55

• UN Security Council Committee blacklists Shamil Basayev

  The UN Security Council's Committee on Sanctions against "Taliban", "Al-Qaeda" and affiliated persons and organizations on Tuesday completed consideration of a joint statement of Russia, the United States and Great Britain requesting the inclusion of Chechen separatist leader Shamil Basayev in the Security Council counterterrorist list.

August 13, 2003 15:47

• Chechnya is prepared for presidential election scheduled for October, authorities claim

  The Election Commission of Chechnya invited observers from the OSCE, the PACE, the Organization of the Islamic Conference, the Arab League, and other international organizations.

August 13, 2003 15:45

• Russian human rights activists will conduct independent monitoring of Chechen presidential election

  Moscow Helsinki Group Chairwoman Lyudmila Alekseyeva announced it.

August 13, 2003 15:44

• Russia intends to establish protectorate over Abkhazia

  It is said in the joint Declaration of Solidarity that was signed by Russian People's Party Chairman Gennady Raikov and Political Council Chairman of the People's Party Yakub Lakoba.

August 13, 2003 15:42

• Hirair Hovnanian welcomes Senators' efforts to extend trade benefits to Armenia

  The Board of Trustees Chairman of the Armenian Assembly of America said Senators' initiative was invaluable for Armenia in its economic development.