News

June 10, 2004 17:46

• Chechen refugees in Georgia unwilling to return home

  The overwhelming majority of Chechen refugees who have settled in Georgia's Pankisi Gorge are reluctant to return to Chechnya because they fear for their safety.

June 10, 2004 17:37

• Kadyrov's ultimatum to rebels expires today

  Many people in the republic hold Ramzan Kadyrov openly declared that families and relatives of the Chechens fighting in the mountains would be destroyed.

June 10, 2004 16:34

• Democracy Award presented to Memorial Society

  The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) has presented its Annual Democracy Award to the leaders of Russia's most outstanding non-governmental groups that are working to advance and preserve democracy in Russia.

June 10, 2004 15:57

• Wounded activist of Amtsakhara movement dies in hospital

  Garri Ayba underwent an operation in the Sukhum town hospital, but he died several hours later.

June 10, 2004 15:53

• Number of Chechen presidential contenders grows

  Lawyer Adam Edilov and doctor Sultan Aiskhanov filed their applications with the Chechen election commission on June 9 asking to register them as candidates for the Chechen presidency.

June 10, 2004 15:20

• Chechen Diaspora in Samara to hold meeting

  Organizers of the action explain that the people were forced to take such a step by mass arbitrary detentions of Chechens on the basis of nationality which security agencies of the town of Samara practice.

June 10, 2004 14:59

• Azerbaijan opposition to sue Baku administration

  The oppositionists are dissatisfied with the fact that the Baku city administration does not allow them to hold protest actions.

June 10, 2004 14:56

• Detentions of disabled people continues in Chechnya

  Abducted Said Seriyev is a disabled man of the first group. He lost both arms in a landmine explosion while stacking hay last year.

June 10, 2004 13:02

• Chechen presidential contender faced charges of fraud, abuse of power

  Marat Zaynalabidov was external manager at the Electroapparat defense company situated in Rostov Region.

June 10, 2004 13:00

• Georgian special operations forces disperse people protesting against oil pipeline construction

  Residents of the Krtsanisi village insist that the land on which the oil pipeline is being constructed has belonged to them long since and demand that the title to this lend be given to them.

June 10, 2004 12:59

• 3 Georgian power engineering specialists abducted, then 2 found

  The state of released Avtandil Biblaya and Omekh Chitanava is satisfactory. However the destiny of the third abducted man, Abesalom Dzhabua, remains unknown.

June 10, 2004 09:46

• Volunteers from North Caucasus ready to help Abkhazia against Georgia

  Representatives of the Union of Abkhazian Volunteers of Kabardino-Balkaria and youth organizations of the Adyga Khase public movement from Adygeya and Karachaevo-Cherkessia have arrived in Abkhazia.

June 09, 2004 20:22

• Georgian journalists not allowed to enter South Osetia

  Osetian peacekeepers stopped the escort at a post and demanded that the journalists leave the territory of South Osetia.

June 09, 2004 20:19

• Interior ministry denies reports about prevented terror attack in Grozny

  "There are no grounds to announce that a large terrorist attack was prevented in the center of Grozny or that rebels tried to blow up the Gosstroy building," the Interior Ministry's duty officer said.

June 09, 2004 16:48

• Amtsakhara movement activist wounded in Sukhum

  A criminal waited for his victim in the deserted building of a hostel situated not far from Garri Ayba's house and took a shot from there, according to preliminary information.

June 09, 2004 16:12

• Chechen family receives body of killed relative

  The man most likely died from cruel torture. His body had many knife wounds, his fingers and toes were cut off, and his both arms were broken.

June 09, 2004 16:10

• Official makes his apology to NGO leader

  There was a media discussion in Adygeya and Krasnodar Region in which Tatyana Rudakova was called a woman who had been in prison twice.

June 09, 2004 15:02

• Osetins to hold meeting, protest action in Moscow

  At the suggestion of the leader of the Moscow Osetian community, Mr Torchinov, the decision was made to hold the meeting on Pushkinskaya Square.

June 09, 2004 15:00

• International human rights conference opens in Tbilisi

  Ombudsmen from Russia, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia, and representatives of international and non-governmental organizations are taking part in it.

June 09, 2004 12:52

• Vladikavkaz, Tskhinvali discuss joint tactics

  Official Tbilisi has made no protest concerning the June 7 visit of President of North Osetia - Alania Aleksandr Dzasokhov to South Osetia so far, though this visit was not approved by the Georgian leadership.