News

August 06, 2003 17:31

• Chechen militia men were shifted to barracked state

  According to the words of the authorities, the reinforcement is connected with hearsays being spread in all settlements of the republic that illegal armed units may ostensibly become more active on August 6 (the 7-th anniversary of intrusion of Maskhadov?s separatists into Grozny in 1996).

August 06, 2003 13:03

• Number of "addressed special operations" in Chechnya grows

  People of the republic express their anxiety in connection with sudden increase in number of "addressed special operations" during which dozens of civil people are detained and disappear without traces.

August 06, 2003 13:01

• Punitive ?cleanups? are awaited in regional center Nozhay-Yurt

  It was indicated in the federals? leaflets thrown from helicopters that a lot of separatists were located in the settlement of Nozhay-Yurt, and on the ground of it scaled passport regime checks would be conducted in this settlement.

August 06, 2003 12:58

• Anatoly Popov was appointed Acting President of Chechen Republic yesterday

  The Head of the Chechen Administration Akhmad Kadirov, who signed an edict on Popov?s appointment, announced he went on leave till October 5, in other words, till the day of the republican presidential election.

August 06, 2003 12:56

• Official list of people died in act of terrorism in Mozdok

  Officially specified by the acting duty soldiers of the ?Hot Line? in Mozdok, the list of 46 people died in the act of terrorism is placed on the pages of the Internet project ?My Pain?.

August 05, 2003 19:53

• Two soldiers were killed in Chechnya

  According to the evidences of the local residents, they saw a ?Zhiguli? car of light color near the place of the murder. Several people in camouflage were in the car.

August 05, 2003 19:52

• 250 refugees returned to Chechnya

  60 families of temporal migrants who found shelter in the tent camp ?Bella? in Ingushetia has returned to Chechnya today.

August 05, 2003 19:50

• Ministry for Emergency Situations is warning about possibility of emergency situations because of heavy showers

  Water-levels in some small rivers of Kabardino-Balkaria, Ingushetia, and Chechnya may reach dangerous points.

August 05, 2003 19:47

• Candidate for post of Azerbaijan president Shadman Guseyn suddenly died in Baku last night

  In 1990s Guseyn was one of the leaders of the opposition party ?National Independence of Azerbaijan?.

August 05, 2003 19:45

• Meeting with demand for intensification of security measures has taken place in Mozdok

  Speakers demanded to give Mozdok ?the status of a special town, to take under control migration processes, resulting in flow-out of Russian-speaking population from the town?.

August 05, 2003 15:55

• Civil Forum is aimed to consolidate Chechen society

  The idea to hold a Civil Forum of Chechnya arose quite long ago. The aim of the forum is to ease tension in the Chechen society, to draw together the positions of representatives of different political movements.

August 05, 2003 15:53

• Abkhazian Ministry of Foreign Affairs made Georgian party responsible for murder of customs officials

  In connection with the act of terrorism in the village of Chuburkhindzh in the Galskiy region the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Abkhazia made a statement in which it expressed categorical aversion of the method Georgia used in the settlement of Georgian-Abkhazian contradictions.

August 05, 2003 15:50

• Nine bodies of people died in Mozdok remain unidentified

  Relatives and colleagues of the soldiers died during the act of terrorism in Mozdok will come to Rostov-on-Don for an identification of the bodies.

August 05, 2003 15:47

• Five militia men suffered in Chechnya from landmine explosions

  For the past day Chechen separatists exploded three landmines in Chechnya.

August 05, 2003 15:45

• Samashki village inhabitants demand to return abducted fellow-villager

  17-year old Elsa Katsayeva was taken just from her house and driven in an unknown direction by the Russian soldiers on four armored cars with board numbers painted over.

August 05, 2003 12:21

• On August 1 new youth center ?An Echo? opened in Stavropol

  Its founders are specialists of the regional charitable fund ?A Mother and a Child?, the winners of the competition of NGO?s social projects that was held by the city administration.

August 05, 2003 12:19

• One year since Commissioner for Human Rights has been working in Stavropol region

  In July one year passed since the institution of ombudsman had been established in the Stavropol region. On July 25, 2002 the State Duma of the Stavropol region appointed A. Selyukov Commissioner for Human Rights in the region.

August 05, 2003 12:16

• In accordance with federal grogram ?Children of Russia? program ?Disabled Children? was developed in Karachaevo-Cherkessia

  By now the ministry of labor and social development is just in the center of program realization.

August 04, 2003 22:27

• In October open peacemaking film festival ?The Caucasus yesterday, today, tomorrow? will take place in Rostov-on-Don

  The organizers of the festival are the Don State Public Library, State Television and Radio Company ?Don-TR?, the editors of the television journal ?The Northern Caucasus?.

August 04, 2003 22:24

• Head of Federal Migration Service: ?Compensation payments to people of Chechnya for lost dwelling and property will become important stimulus for refugees to return to republic?

  In accordance with the decision of the Government of the Russian Federation, a family residing in Chechnya will get a compensation in sum of 350 thousand rubles, a family residing in the other Russian regions ? in sum of about 120 thousand rubles.