News

March 03, 2007 22:38

• Bagapsh: there are no grounds for Abkhazian and Georgian presidents to meet

  "There is no need to hold a meeting just for the sake of a meeting, it should be productive," president of Abkhazia S. Bagapsh has emphasized today at the press conference in Sukhumi speaking about his possible meeting with president of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili.

March 02, 2007 23:00

• Katanandov expects new players to appear in Kondopoga case

  Sergey Katanandov, head of Karelia, does not exclude that in the course of investigation of the criminal cases, initiated on the outcomes of the events in the city of Kondopoga, new figures can appear.

March 02, 2007 22:49

• "We Ourselves": masses of Georgians run away from Galskiy District of Abkhazia

  Paata Davitaya, leader of the political movement "We Ourselves," has stated that many Georgians of the Galskiy District of Abkhazia are leaving their homes because of their unwillingness to take part in elections on March 4, and those who stay at home "will be forced to vote under the gunpoint."

March 02, 2007 22:38

• СЕ Commissioner is concerned with interrogation methods used in Chechnya

  The Council of Europe (CE), whose delegation has visited Chechnya these days, relates the violations of inmate detention conditions in the Republic with the deficit of judges.

March 02, 2007 22:02

• Kadyrov approved as Chechen president

  Today, the Parliament of Chechnya has approved awarding Ramzan Kadyrov with the powers of the president of the Republic. Overall, 56 deputies of both Chambers has voted for this decision.

March 02, 2007 21:59

• Georgia hopes for the dialogue with South Ossetia

  Georgia will welcome a sitting of the Mixed Control Commission (MCC) for settling the Georgian-Ossetian conflict in Tbilisi, should mutual understanding be reached by the parties at the Istanbul meeting.

March 01, 2007 22:54

• Court completed Ulman's interrogation in Rostov-on-Don

  The North-Caucasian Regional Military Court in Rostov-on-Don has finished today the interrogation of Captain Eduard Ulman, officer of the military reconnaissance, who is accused of murdering peaceful residents in Chechnya in January 2002.

March 01, 2007 22:50

• Putin has chosen Kadyrov to be the president of Chechnya

  President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin has made a decision to offer the candidature of Ramzan Kadyrov to the post of the president of Chechnya.

March 01, 2007 22:47

• Participants of the human rights conference in Chechnya find it "topical" and "critical"

  The participants of the international human rights conference that has opened today morning in the capital of Chechnya state that "serious topics" have been considered at the forum.

March 01, 2007 22:34

• Opposition has failed to unite in Armenia before elections

  The overwhelming number of political movements in Armenia are planning their independent, outside any blocks, participation in the elections on May 12 to the National Assembly of Armenia, and some even intend to boycott the elections whatsoever.

March 01, 2007 22:32

• At the conference in Grozny, they state mass violations of human rights in Chechnya

  At the international conference, now held in Grozny, Nurdi Nukhazhiev, Ombudsman for human rights in the Republic, has presented his report enumerating multiple facts of violation of human rights and freedoms in Chechnya in the course of armed actions.

February 28, 2007 23:06

• "Committee against Tortures" hopes the law will be respected in Chechnya prisons

  Today, on February 28, 2007, the city of Grozny has hosted a sitting of the Committee for Security, Legal Order and Interaction with Power Agencies under the Parliament of Chechnya.

February 28, 2007 23:04

• Chechen refugees resident in Azerbaijan held a protest action

  Today, several dozens of Chechens, who resettled to Azerbaijan after the start of military actions in Chechnya, have picketed the Baku office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).

February 28, 2007 20:53

• Human rights defender Mutsolgov has refused to take part in the human rights conference to be held in Chechnya

  Magomed Mutsolgov, head of the "Mashr" Association of Kidnapped Relatives (Ingushetia) has refused to take part in the international conference on human rights, which will open tomorrow, on March 1, in the city of Grozny, capital of Chechnya.

February 28, 2007 20:46

• Christian Bzhania: pre-election campaign in Abkhazia is not accompanied by any skirmishes

  In Abkhazia, they have perceived with irony the messages of Georgian mass media about certain alleged skirmishes between supporters of the president and vice-president of the Republic, the correspondent of the "Caucasian Knot" reports.

February 28, 2007 20:37

• Azerbaijani authorities would not let journalists to the process on Insanov's case

  On February 28, the Court for Grave Crimes has continued the proceedings of the case of Ali Insanov, ex-Minister of Public Health of Azerbaijan, and a group of his former subordinates.

February 27, 2007 22:37

• Saakashvili finds "Kosovo model" unacceptable for Georgia

  President of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili has stated today in Brussels that he rejects any parallels between settling the Kosovo status problem and the situation with South Ossetia и Abkhazia.

February 27, 2007 22:34

• CE Commissioner did not meet human rights activists in Chechnya and Ingushetia

  Thomas Hammarberg, Commissioner of the Council of Europe (CE) for Human Rights, who is for the second day touring North Caucasus, had no meetings with human rights defenders.

February 27, 2007 19:17

• European Commission funds projects in support of IDPs in Georgia

  The aim of six projects is to revive the social and political dialogue between the government of Georgia and the society on the issues that worry the refugees: integration of internally displaced persons (IDPs) into the current Georgian society and capacity building of the NGOs who work with IDPs.

February 27, 2007 19:15

• Trial of OMON fighters will continue tomorrow in Krasnodar Territory

  A court trial has started in Sochi of OMON (Special Militia) members of the Head Department of Internal Affairs ("GUVD") of the Krasnodar Territory accused of excess of powers during the mass clean-up ("zachistka") in the "Druzhba" (Friendship) children's camp, which was committed in summer of 2006.