News

August 08, 2003 23:55

• Law-enforcement organs of Stavropol region are conducting interdepartmental complex operational and preventive operation ?Teenager?

  It is planned to uncover teenage groups with unsocial orientation, including extremist orientation, as well as adults pushing minors for crime perpetration.

August 08, 2003 23:50

• Action of protest of Alkhazurovo settlement inhabitants

  Expressing protest against despotism of Russian soldiers, inhabitants of Alkhazurovo completely blocked a motor road passing near the settlement and blocked movement along the federal route ?Rostov-Baku? for several hours.

August 08, 2003 23:47

• Council on Adygei language was established in Adygeya

  Leading scientists of the republic, public men, well-known writers, school and institute teachers of Adygeya entered into the council.

August 08, 2003 20:02

• Lithuania may crack down on Chechen separatists? website

  Lithuania's State Security Department will crack down on the website ?Kavkaz-Center? if its activity is found to be in violation of the law.

August 08, 2003 20:00

• Government allots 4 million rubles for compensation payments to families of the dead and suffered in terrorist act in Mozdok

  In compliance with the government?s decision, one time pecuniary aid in sum of 100 thousand rubles for each of the dead and 14,2 thousand rubles for burial of each of the dead in the terrorist act will be granted to the families of the dead.

August 08, 2003 19:58

• Ilykham Aliyev does not regard opposition candidates as worth rivals at election

  Aliyev standing for a president said he made his election platform within the line of the country?s president Geydar Aliyev, in particular, he does not see the necessity of changing Baku?s policy in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict settlement.

August 08, 2003 16:14

• Two pilots from Mi-8 helicopter brought down in Chechnya survived

  Head of the crew Viktor Tyurikov perished, Alexander Orlov and Yuri Potskevich were heavily injured and were taken to hospital, the Russian Defense Ministry reported.

August 08, 2003 16:12

• Azerbaijan Minister of Foreign Affairs assumes possibility of trilateral negotiations with Armenia and Turkey

  ?We have no objection to the idea of a trilateral meeting, however, we object to its conversion into goalless discussions. If there are concrete goals, we are ready to discuss them?, said the minister.

August 08, 2003 16:10

• 11-th Festival of National Cultures will take place in Novorossiysk

  Festival conducting is combined with the days of celebration of a town?s jubilee and an anniversary of the liberation of Novorossiysk from fascist invaders.

August 08, 2003 16:08

• Rebels shoot down federal Mi-8 helicopter in Chechnya

  The helicopter was shot down by a rocket launched from the land during an operation on landing troops in mountainous wood terrain. Three crew members were killed.

August 08, 2003 16:06

• Column of federal forces was fired by separatists in Ingushetia, six soldiers were killed

  The column was fired on Thursday while the armored group was moving to the place of permanent disposition after convoying a column of federal forces to the administrative border with Chechnya.

August 08, 2003 13:40

• Chechen separatists? site resumed its activity in Lithuania

  The site contains no information on where the server which provides site functioning is situated and who it belongs to. At the same time it is mentioned that ?the activity of the site had been resumed due to the firm position of Lithuanian human rights activists, deputies of the Lithuanian Seym and the head of the Elnet company Rimantas Pasys?.

August 08, 2003 13:39

• Project of memorial to victims of Kolka glacier has been approved

  A stone monument, 6 meters in height, represents a young man confined within the ice mass.

August 08, 2003 13:36

• People from Alkhan-Yurt settlement blocked federal route "Kavkaz"

  The route was blocked as a sign of protest against actions of the Russian military.

August 08, 2003 13:34

• Candidates for Chechen president?s post are forming ?coalition against Kadirov?

  Chechen politician and businessman Malik Saydulayev announced in Moscow that candidates for the post of the Chechen President want to unite in the election struggle against Akhmad Kadirov.

August 07, 2003 19:54

• Azerbaijan peacemaking forces are leaving for Iraq next week

  As the head of the international cooperation department of the Defense Ministry Ramiz Nadzhafov reported, about 150 Azerbaijan soldiers are planned to be sent to Iraq.

August 07, 2003 19:51

• Vladimir Putin received report on human rights observance in Chechnya

  On Thursday Vladimir Putin held a routine meeting with his envoy for human rights in Chechnya Abdul Khakim Sultygov.

August 07, 2003 19:50

• Chechen journalist has been kidnapped in Grozny

  Unknown gunmen broke into the house on Vyborgskaya street, 5, and forced 28-year old Isa Abayev out threatening him with sub-machine guns, reported the ministry.

August 07, 2003 19:48

• Large terrorist act was averted in Grozny

  As it was reported in the regional operations staff for control of the antiterrorist operation in the Northern Caucasus, a radio-controlled self-made explosive assembly containing 800 grams of trotyl was found by federal forces on Mayakovsky Street.

August 07, 2003 19:46

• New mass burial place was discovered in Naursky region

  6 corpses in all, as the witnesses say, with marks of cruel tortures were found in the communal grave.