News

February 01, 2005 23:59

• Don federal road blocked up

  Experts of the Rostov regional ministry of transportation and communication hold that the critical situation on the road is caused mainly by its technical condition.

February 01, 2005 23:48

• Taramov denies reports about Basayev's death

  On January 31, Russian mass media spread information about the death of Shamil Basayev referring to representatives of the Chechen diaspora in Azerbaijan.

February 01, 2005 23:19

• Azerbaijan can be excluded from PACE

  "If the problem of political prisoners hasn't been solved in Azerbaijan by the April session of the Council of Europe's Parliamentary Assembly (PACE), the country can lose its mandate in this organization," stated PACE rapporteur on political prisoners in Azerbaijan Malcolm Bruce.

January 31, 2005 23:24

• Two children died in assault, relatives say

  Relatives of Muslim Attayev, leader of the extremist jamaat (group) Yarmuk killed in Nalchik, have filed an application with the Kabardino-Balkarian prosecutor's office to give them the bodies of his two children that are allegedly hided by instructions of the republican interior minister, some sources say.

January 31, 2005 23:15

• OSCE fact-finding mission goes to Karabakh

  An OSCE fact-finding mission set off for Stepanakert on January 30 to collect facts about the creation of Armenian settlements in seven districts of Azerbaijan adjacent to Nagorny Karabakh and controlled by Armenia.

January 31, 2005 23:00

• 9 killed in car explosions

  Officers of the Chechen presidential security service, not Russian soldiers were killed when cars were blown up near the village of Alkhan-Kala, Chechnya's Urus-Martan district.

January 28, 2005 23:42

• European Court declares IDP's application admissible

  The European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg has declared admissible an application lodged by an internally displaced person (IDP) from Chechnya living on the territory of Stavropol Region.

January 28, 2005 23:35

• Arrested opposition leader nominated for election

  Chair of the Umid (Hope) party Igbal Agazade, who is imprisoned now, may be at the head of the party list of this opposition party in the forthcoming parliamentary elections in Azerbaijan.

January 28, 2005 23:33

• Atkinson's report 'has some drawbacks'

  "Efforts of the Council of Europe aimed at developing the South Caucasus, in particular establishing stability and long peace, are positive. Nevertheless, we think that the report by Mr Atkinson has some drawbacks on the whole, along with positive aspects," the spokesman for the Armenian Foreign Ministry said to journalists.

January 28, 2005 22:30

• Rally against Saakashvili nomination

  A rally was held in the capital of South Osetia, Tskhinval, in connection with Mikhail Saakashvili's recent speech in Strasbourg, in which he made a suggestion that South Osetia be granted a high degree of autonomy within Georgia.

January 27, 2005 23:41

• Operation to destroy rebels is over

  The Caucasian Knot correspondent in Kabardino-Balkaria, who spent a whole day at the scene of a special operation to destroy a rebel group in Nalchik, is reporting details of the storm.

January 26, 2005 23:59

• Policeman accused of kidnapping, arrested in courtroom

  The trial against Sergey Lapin (better known under the nickname of Kadet), who is suspected of kidnapping Zelimkhan Murdalov in 2004, is underway.

January 26, 2005 23:58

• Probability of hostilities between Azerbaijan and Armenia under discussion

  The existence of regional interests and projects in the South Caucasus will not allow the resumption of hostilities, believes military expert Uzeir Dzhafarov.

January 26, 2005 23:53

• Police encircle dwelling house occupied by rebels

  At about 9 p.m. on January 25, Kabardino-Balkarian police officers encircled a five-story communal house in the suburbs of the republican capital, Nalchik. Members of the extremist jamaat (society) Yarmuk are reported to be hiding in it.

January 25, 2005 23:15

• Destiny of abducted Maskhadov's relatives still unknown

  Chechen authorities and law enforcers deny their involvement in the happening, and Maskhadov's relatives (as well as many people in Chechnya) are convinced that the abduction was organized by officers of the Chechen presidential security service.

January 25, 2005 22:55

• Georgian, South Osetian hostages released

  On January 24, the Georgian and South Osetian co-chairmen of the Combined Control Commission for the Resolution of the Georgian-Osetian Conflict came to an agreement concerning the exchange of hostages.

January 25, 2005 22:53

• US urges Azerbaijan to increase transparency of parliamentary elections

  Ambassador Stephan Minikes pointed to some positive moments. In particular, he mentioned the fact that the Azerbaijan Central Election Commission dismissed several people for violations committed during the municipal election.

January 25, 2005 12:27

• IHF expresses deep concern for safety of abducted human rights lawyer

  The International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights (IHF) expresses its deep concern for the fate and whereabouts of Makhmut Magomadov who was detained by a group of camouflaged gunmen in Grozny on 20 January.

January 24, 2005 23:54

• Bust of Stalin to be erected in Dagestani capital

  Members of the local branch of the Russian Communist Party along with their supporters unveiled a memorial board with a bas-relief of Stalin on the square in front of the Makhachkala station on January 20.

January 24, 2005 23:47

• Political refugee arrested in Azerbaijan

  Being already an aged man, Saday Nazarov returned to Azerbaijan on January 11 after he had lived as an emigrant for 10 years in Czechia, where he had refugee status. The professor took on trust the authorities' statements about national reconciliation and resolution of the problem of political prisoners.