News

June 16, 2004 15:23

• Russian Foreign Ministry dissatisfied with Tbilisi's actions in zone of Georgian-Osetian conflict

  "The actions of the Georgian side don't promote the cause of normalization of the situation in the zone of the Georgian-Osetian conflict, which is so complicated now," reads the ministry's statement.

June 16, 2004 14:16

• Development of culture of solidarity to be under discussion in Krasnodar

  The roundtable discussion titled "The Media As a Factor in the Development of the Culture of Solidarity in Society" will be conducted in Krasnodar on June 18.

June 16, 2004 14:06

• Number of presidential candidates in Chechnya reaches 11

  Umar Abuyev, a resident of the town of Krasnogorsk situated near Moscow, filed his application with the Chechen Central Election Commission late at night on June 15.

June 16, 2004 13:56

• Georgia wants mandate of peacekeeping forces in South Osetia to be changed

  Georgian State Minister Georgy Khaindrava believes the zone controlled by the Combined Peacekeeping Forces should be reviewed since "today Russian peacekeepers refuse in fact to fulfill duties they are commissioned with."

June 16, 2004 11:38

• Chechen interior minister to run for president

  Alu Alkhanov requested to appoint his deputy and namesake Ruslan Alkhanov Acting Chechen Interior Minister for the period of the election campaign.

June 16, 2004 11:36

• IFEX holds conference in Baku

  Representatives of media organizations from more than 50 countries are attending it.

June 16, 2004 11:31

• Civilian population suffer from hostilities in Chechnya

  227 people suffered as a result of violations committed by Russian military men and Kadyrov's people in May.

June 15, 2004 22:43

• Bomb found near Nazran office of Danish Refugee Council

  The bomb was taken away and neutralized at about 2:30 p.m. today.

June 15, 2004 22:36

• Well-known lawyer buried in Chechnya

  Abdulla Khamzayev's relatives, his close friends, residents of Urus-Martan, and his human rights colleagues gathered to bid farewell to the known defender of victims of war crimes and human right violations.

June 15, 2004 18:10

• Project to protect prisoners' rights presented in Azerbaijan

  The project will end with seminars for police officers and prosecutors. Among the subject matters are "The Role of Interior Agencies in the Protection of Human Rights", "About the Police", and "Cooperation between the Ombudsperson and Police Agencies".

June 15, 2004 17:34

• Rodina faction to promote international recognition of Abkhazia

  Members of the Rodina faction of the Russian State Duma accompanied by representatives of Krasnodar Region visited Abkhazia, Dmitry Rogozin being head of the delegation.

June 15, 2004 16:13

• 3 policemen injured in car explosion near Grozny

  A self-made explosive device went off not far from the village of Nagornoye, Chechnya's Grozny district, on June 14, according to the interior ministry. All the suffered men were taken to hospital.

June 15, 2004 16:11

• NGO doubts of authorities' will to protect freedom of speech

  The appearance of skinheads in the courtroom, abuse and threats during a trial against people who used violence against journalists are evidence that the criminals are non-punishable and the authorities do not show will to protect freedom of speech, reads a statement by the Association of Investigative Journalists.

June 15, 2004 14:48

• South Osetia denies arrest of republican customs officers by Georgian police

  On June 14, the media reported with reference to chief of the Georgian financial police David Kvezerashvili that "the Georgian financial police have detained three customs officers of the breakaway republic of South Osetia near the village of Megvrekisi.

June 15, 2004 14:41

• Villagers complain about arbitrariness of local government officials

  Gumar Tkhamokov, a 47-year-old resident of the Psychokh village, who is a disabled man of the second group, came to the office of the village administration head in the evening of June 1 to ask why water supply had been cut off such a long time. In two hours, he was taken from there with a skull injury and a rib fracture.

June 15, 2004 12:51

• New NGO unites refugees in Nagorny Karabakh

  Approximately 25 thousand refugees, most of whom were deported from Azerbaijan, live in Nagorny Karabakh now, according to Nagorno Karabakh's Department for Refugees and IDPs.

June 15, 2004 12:12

• Georgians from Azerbaijan hold protest action in Tbilisi

  Participants asserted in particular that local Azerbaijan authorities closed Georgian schools in the region stage-by-stage, forced Georgians living in the region to change their family names and give children Azerbaijan names, and subjected them to other forms of national discrimination.

June 15, 2004 12:09

• Skirmish in Abkhazia's Gali district

  Sources in the conflict zone reported that a skirmish between members of an Abkhazian armed unit and Russian peacekeepers left a member of the Abkhazian group, a certain Dzidzaria, badly wounded and the Russian peacekeeper whose family name is Stupnik wounded.

June 15, 2004 12:03

• Georgian-Osetian talks suspended

  A spokesman for the South Osetian government announced that "the holding of the talks with Tbilisi is unreal after the situation in the zone of the Georgian-Osetia conflict had become extremely tense."

June 14, 2004 21:02

• Murder attempt on Chechen policemen might be revenge

  Three were killed in a "clean-up" in Orjonikidzevskaia. Sunzha district, Ingushetia, on June 12, so investigators say a following blast near that place might be rebels' revenge for their associates.