News

August 11, 2003 20:37

• Soldiers' fire in suburbs of Grozny

  Russian soldiers blocked transport movement along this part of the road and opened a disorderly fire from all kinds of weapon in all directions.

August 11, 2003 20:35

• Armenians from Georgia are indignant at Georgian deputy's provocative statements

  In his interview to one of Georgian TV channels Bregadze spoke "about false programs of the US Armenian lobby directed to accomplish an upheaval so that local Armenians could come to power in the country".

August 11, 2003 20:33

• Mahomet Tekeyev insists on withdrawal of OMON platoons from Karachaevo-Cherkessia

  The presidential contender motivated his demand with the fact that many of the OMON (militia platoon for special purposes) officers had taken part in a counter-terrorist operation on the territory of Chechnya, that is why they were prejudiced against the Caucasian people.

August 11, 2003 16:08

• Information about "coalition against Kadirov" is not confirmed

  On August 7 the media reported presidential contenders in the republic made a "coalition against Kadirov" intending to put up a united front and to support in the second round of the election, if it is held, a contender alternative to today's head of Chechnya.

August 11, 2003 16:06

• Videotape picturing Arjan Erkel, holding hostage in Dagestan, appeared in the Netherlands

  Arjan Erkel looks healthy in the video; he speaks Russian and asks for ransom for his captors. The spokeswoman of "Doctors Without Borders" Marieke van Zalk confirmed the receipt of the videotape, but underlined all reports on its contents were "speculations".

August 11, 2003 16:03

• Son of local administration's head was killed in Chechenya

  Sayid-Akhmed Arsakhanov taught physics at a local secondary school.

August 11, 2003 15:57

• Czech journalist was murdered in Dagestan

  The body of a 30-year old Czech citizen Kraus Martin, who had permanently resided in Prague, was found on the river bank in the village Chirkata in the Gumbet district of the republic.

August 11, 2003 14:04

• Doctors from blown-up Mozdok Military Hospital wrote letter to President Putin

  Survived hospital staff insists on immediate release of Artur Arakelyan, an arrested head of the hospital facing a charge of negligence.

August 11, 2003 14:02

• Eduard Shevarnadze: "50 thousand refugees "spontaneously" returned to Abkhazia"

  "One could no longer stop this process", the president said.

August 11, 2003 14:00

• Chechen refugees in Ingushetia are afraid of eviction

  Chechen refugees from the tent camp "Bart" in Ingushetia are afraid of eviction. Their anxiety is caused by threats to liquidate a part of the camp coming from officials of the Ingush Union "Avtodor".

August 11, 2003 13:57

• Next "ecological landing" will be made in October

  The Stavropol Regional Public Organization "All-Russian Society of Nature Conservation" is summing up the days of protection from ecological danger that took place at the end of March - the beginning of June.

August 09, 2003 16:06

• Georgia wants to be part of Europe

  Membership in the European Union and NATO is what Georgia's foreign policy is aimed at. President Eduard Shevardnadze made a statement to this effect on the national television on Friday night.

August 09, 2003 16:04

• Security measures were reinforced on Chechen-Ingush border

  The military do not preclude a chance that separatists will break through into Chechnya. A recommendation was issued for local residents of border villages against going to surrounding forests.

August 09, 2003 16:03

• Committee of Soldiers' Mothers affirms 12 000 people to be killed in second Chechen war

  Such data were given by the responsible secretary of the Union of Russian Committees of Soldiers' Mothers Valentina Melnikova.

August 09, 2003 16:00

• Nino Burdjanadze presented her election platform

  Foreign diplomats accredited in Georgia, as well as representatives of opposition parties attended the presentation of Nino Burdjanadze's election platform.

August 09, 2003 15:57

• Shamil Basayev was pronounced highly dangerous terrorist by the US and included into UN antiterrorist list

  According to the US State Department statement circulated in Washington, the US also charged Basayev with having connections with the international terrorist organization "Al-Qaeda" and engineering terrorist acts in Moscow and Grozny.

August 09, 2003 13:46

• All garrisons of federal forces were relocated from villages situated at foot of Black Mountains

  The population took denudation of the foothills as a signal of forthcoming worsening of the situation.

August 09, 2003 13:45

• Nine activists of opposition Democratic Party of Azerbaijan were arrested in Baku

  The detained people picketed a building of the Central Election Commission striving for the registration of their party leader Rasul Guliyev as a candidate for the post of the country's president.

August 09, 2003 13:43

• Regional Bureau of representatives for human rights under Chechen Ministry of Justice was established in Shali town

  According to the words of the organization's chief Abdula Bachayev, the Bureau is under the legal assistance of the International Public Movement "Consolidation".

August 08, 2003 23:58

• Khadzhy Bayram Bolat has been abducted in Nalchik

  On August 7 a Turkish repatriate Khadzhi Bayram Bolat has been abducted from his house in Nalchik. Earlier Russian authorities tried to deport him beyond the bounds of the Caucasus.