News

August 09, 2004 19:36

• Human Rights Summer School opens in Baku

  Government officials, parliamentarians, representatives of diplomatic institutions acting in Azerbaijan, journalists, and NGO activists are expected to attend the opening ceremony.

August 09, 2004 19:33

• Ingushetia to have local governing bodies

  President of Ingushetia Murat Zyazikov has issued a decree the other day to set up the Working Group to Implement Regulations of the Federal Law on General Principles of Organizing Local Government.

August 09, 2004 19:31

• President of Chechnya to be elected in 20 days

  20 days prior to Election Day, only one candidate, Alu Alkhanov, is active in his election campaign.

August 06, 2004 22:08

• ACPC welcomes Akhmadov asylum decision

  "The fact that the US government did not oppose the immigration decision, which had rejected unsubstantiated allegations by the Russian government, is a strong affirmation of the long held position of the opposition government that a peaceful solution is in the best interests of all parties in this long-standing dispute," said ACPC Executive Director Glen Howard.

August 06, 2004 18:49

• United Abkhazia holds conference, nominates presidential candidate

  Beslan Kubrava, a board member of the movement, gave a report about main directions of the movement's activity. According to him, the movement will pay special attention to the group of social issues, problems of demography and repatriation. "Our strategic task is to improve the people's well-being," Mr Kubrava said.

August 06, 2004 18:47

• Tense situation in Armenia caused by rigged elections, MP says

  In Arshak Sadoian's opinion, a wrong structure of the ruling system has been created, which gives too much power to the authorities.

August 06, 2004 18:45

• Moscow Government promotes economic cooperation with Abkhazia

  Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov mentioned one more time that his visit to Abkhazia had only business purposes. He said he would have to solve some economic questions during it.

August 05, 2004 22:53

• Basayev hided in Kabardino-Balkaria for two months

  According to information obtained by investigative agencies, officers of the road and sentry service helped the rebel leader make his way to the Republic of Kabardino-Balkaria. Criminal proceedings have been instituted against these officers.

August 05, 2004 19:57

• Karabakh minister does not deny printing national currency

  Minister of Finance and Economy of the Republic of Nagorny Karabakh Spartak Tevosian neither denied these reports nor gave any information about the purposes and place of the printing.

August 05, 2004 18:57

• Human rights activists tell PACE rapporteurs about corruption

  Members of the Federation of Human Rights Organizations of Azerbaijan raised problems of corruption, political prisoners, municipal elections, dependence of courts, human rights activists' access to prisons, and persecution of human rights activists and journalists.

August 04, 2004 19:19

• IFC to give $2 million credit to Armenian bank

  This deal shows that the Armenian banking system has improved and is trustworthy.

August 04, 2004 19:17

• Presidential candidate calls to be fair

  "I call on everybody to be fair. I call to be active. Only the fair election can stabilize the situation," Abdula Bugayev said.

August 04, 2004 18:50

• Security agencies practice abductions, Chechen Deputy PM asserts

  The battalions Zapad, Vostok and others are to be withdrawn from the town. They all are interested in appropriating as much money as possible, but we will not let them do it," Ramzan Kadyrov said.

August 03, 2004 19:40

• Military convoy blown up in Chechnya

  Rebels set off a bomb of high-capacity when a column of federal forces, numbering 3 armored vehicles, was moving in the vicinity of the village of Agishti, Chechnya's Shali district. The bomb had been mounted on the roadside.

August 03, 2004 19:38

• Pre-election atmosphere in Nagorny Karabakh becomes hot

  5 people are nominated for the post of Stepanakert Mayor. But experts believe three candidates will be the main rivals. They are Amik Avanesian, the present mayor, Eduard Agabekian, a deputy of the National Assembly of the Republic of Nagorny Karabakh, and Pavel Nadzharian, a board member of the pro-government Democratic Artsakh Union.

August 03, 2004 19:36

• OSCE demands investigation of attacks against journalists

  OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Miklos Haraszti addressed a letter to Azerbaijan Foreign Minister Elmar Mamedyarov last Thursday in connection with recent attacks against Aydin Guliyev, editor-in-chief of the Baki Khabar newspaper, and Eynulla Fatullayev, a reporter for the Monitor weekly, reported the OSCE Office in Baku.

August 02, 2004 19:43

• CPJ calls on Putin to end harassment of Chechen newspaper

  We call your attention to the press release issued by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) on July 29.

August 02, 2004 19:00

• Armenian diaspora urges to vote for John Kerry

  The statement of the Washington office of the Hay Dat Committee is caused by attacks of George Bush's administration against the amendment, proposed by Congressman Adam Schiff, which forbids Turkey to use American help for the purpose of spreading propaganda against the resolution on the Genocide.

August 02, 2004 18:43

• Armenian Foreign Ministry reacts to Aliyev's statement

  "If it had been a usual public statement, like those the president of Azerbaijan makes for interior use, it wouldn't possibly have worth reacting. But this time he poses the problem to his ambassadors in such a way, which really raises deep concern," Gamlet Gasparian emphasized.

August 02, 2004 18:41

• Peacekeepers, OSCE Mission to control situation near Tskhinvali-Tamarasheni border

  According to the decision made by the sides, this post will exist until there are guarantees of peace in the zone of the conflict.