News

March 05, 2005 23:52

• Police officer murdered in Chechnya

  The body of Zelimkhan Betelgeriyev with gunshot wounds was found in the Leninsky district of Grozny.

March 05, 2005 22:36

• Clean-ups in Chechnya's Achkhoy-Martan, Sunzha districts

  Locals say 20 people have already been detained and brought away.

March 04, 2005 23:59

• Witness confesses to firing control shots

  The North Caucasus District Court Martial has today interrogated Private Ivan Melekhin, a prosecution witness in the Ulman case.

March 04, 2005 23:58

• More casualties in Chechnya

  A bomb kills a reconnaissance unit commander.

March 04, 2005 23:57

• Police officer found dead in Grozny, Chechnya

  Criminals took the policeman's pistol with eight cartridges and ID.

March 04, 2005 23:48

• Ajarian youth demand withdrawal of Russia's military base

  Local students and members of the Kmara ("Enough") organisation staged a rally near Batumi Secondary School No.5, the military base stationed not far from it.

March 04, 2005 23:32

• Five rebels, policeman killed in Chechnya's Sunzha district

  Rebels were going to attack a federal military unit, according to information obtained by law enforcement agencies.

March 03, 2005 23:59

• Azeri opposition journalist murdered

  Elmar Huseynov, editor-in-chief of the opposition magazine Monitor, was murdered on the staircase of his house on 2 March at 9 pm local time.

March 03, 2005 23:55

• Strasbourg challenged with alternative Grozny forum

  Chechnya's authorities who strongly criticise the forum on Chechnya soon to be held in Strasbourg intend to host a similar round table discussion in Grozny.

March 03, 2005 23:50

• Meetings cancelled as ceasefire breaches continue

  Scheduled for today, a meeting in Paris between the foreign ministers Elmar Mammedyarov of Azerbaijan and Vartan Oskanyan of Armenia has been cancelled, Azerbaijan's Foreign Ministry says.

March 02, 2005 23:59

• Opposition leaders may be released from prison in Azerbaijan

  President Ilkham Aliyev of Azerbaijan will soon sign a new pardon decree, which is also expected to set free the opposition leaders arrested in connection with the 15-16 October 2003 events.

March 02, 2005 23:55

• Six bodies found in Grozny

  Several bodies have been found in two abandoned cars in the capital of Chechnya, Grozny.

March 02, 2005 23:43

• Rebel group surrounded in Chechen mountains

  Chechen law enforcers claim a group of 40 to 70 is trapped in mountains.

March 01, 2005 23:59

• Abkhaz PM survives assassination attempt

  An attempt on the life of Alexander Ankvab, prime minister of the breakaway republic of Abkhazia, was carried out in the evening of 28 February while on his way from Sukhum to Gudauta.

March 01, 2005 23:56

• Antiwar picket banned in Saint Petersburg

  An Antiwar Committee picket "against the Russian government's policy in the North Caucasus" scheduled for 27 February was not held, just like a similar action scheduled for 20 February.

March 01, 2005 23:19

• Gunfire keeps people in shelters overnight

  Federal artillery shelled woodlands in Chechnya's Vedeno and Shali districts in the evening of 27 February.

February 25, 2005 23:59

• Clashes in Chechen mountains

  Large-scale operations to cordon off and destroy rebels have been launched in all mountainous districts of Chechnya.

February 25, 2005 23:54

• Azerbaijan opposition parties to sign declaration of unification

  Leaders of the Musavat party, the Azerbaijan Popular Front Party (APFP) and the Azerbaijan Democratic Party (ADP) will conduct negotiations within the next few days and sign a joint statement then.

February 25, 2005 23:37

• Chechen refugees on hunger strike in Azerbaijan

  The protesters consider that UN representatives should increase financial aid to refugees since life in Azerbaijan has become more expansive.

February 16, 2005 23:59

• Prison revolt put down in Baku

  Convicts of the 11th correctional facility in Baku stopped their protest action this night as the prison was stormed.