News

June 07, 2004 16:07

• Last refugee camp in Ingushetia closed

  Tens of thousands of Chechen refugees are still in Ingushetia. Of them, more than 18,000 live in private houses and another 19,000 in small Chechen-dominated settlements.

June 07, 2004 15:49

• Convict loses claim against prison administration

  The case comes under Article 2 of Protocol 1 to the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, therefore it can be appealed in Strasbourg.

June 07, 2004 15:17

• South Osetian side hampers restoration of train service with Tskhinvali

  Residents of the village of Nikozi told journalists that "members of an Osetian armed unit demanded that railroad men stop their work."

June 07, 2004 13:02

• Dispersal of women's meeting in Grozny - details

  Women who took part in the action say that officers of security agencies beat them using butts of their automatic rifles and legs and continuously fired in the air.

June 07, 2004 11:36

• Abkhazia ready to render military aid to South Osetia, Abkhazian PM says

  Leaders of the Abkhazian government and the North Caucasus plan to meet in the near future in Sukhumi to consider the issue of common actions in the future, Raul Khadzhimba said.

June 07, 2004 11:34

• High-capacity explosive device detonated in Grozny

  It was already the second landmine explosion in the Chechen capital for 24 hours.

June 07, 2004 11:31

• Operation to liquidate tents conducted in refugee center

  Officers of the police and migration services were involved in the operation.

June 07, 2004 11:26

• 3 Chechen policemen killed in clash

  As reported by correspondents of the Society for Russian-Chechen Friendship, an armed clash between Chechen policemen and rebels occurred in the vicinity of the village of Dzhani-Vedeno, Chechnya's Vedeno district, on June 2.

June 07, 2004 11:24

• 2 women killed in skirmish in Grozny

  Witnesses say the women were killed as a result of the disorderly fire opened by officers of security agencies on separatists who were running away.

June 05, 2004 12:40

• Refugees in Satsita camp receive ultimatum

  Migration service officials demanded that camp inhabitants should sign papers certifying that they bind themselves to leave their tents by June 5.

June 05, 2004 12:13

• Human rights advocates disprove kamikaze children report

  We call your attention to a press release of the International Working Group for the Search of Missing People and Hostages and Release of Prisoners in the Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict Area.

June 05, 2004 11:45

• Chechen refugees under relentless pressure

  On June 2, head of the Ingush Interior Ministry's migration department Lieutenant Colonel Ivan Pomeshchenko and officials of the Interior ministry who accompanied him demanded that Chechen refugees living in the camp in the village of Yandare in Ingushetia should immediately dismantle the tents and leave the camp for Grozny, Nazran or any place they want.

June 05, 2004 11:43

• Chechen war photography exhibition

  The street photo exhibition "The Road to Nowhere" will open in Ryazan on June 5. The exhibition is arranged within the framework of the "How Many?" campaign waged by the Ryazan Human Rights Coalition.

June 05, 2004 10:41

• General Lebed Peacemaking Mission to resume its work

  The work of the organization was suspended because of the four-month examination of the organization's activity conducted by the Pyatigorsk prosecutor's office. No violations of the law have been established.

June 04, 2004 21:36

• International women's conference in Derbent

  The subject matters of the last day of the conference were the promotion of the Caucasian women's status and role in society by means of developing education in the spirit of tolerance and human rights and the protection of migrants' rights as an important component of neighborly relations between the Caucasian peoples.

June 04, 2004 17:31

• Armenian cultural center set on fire in Irkutsk

  Firemen arrived in time to help the center's guard who had started extinguishing the fire. They coped with it in a few minutes.

June 04, 2004 17:12

• Rebel attack leaves 4 servicemen dead

  "Another five people, including one officer, received wounds of different severity. They were hospitalized," a source in the Chechen military commandant's office said to the Caucasian Knot correspondent.

June 04, 2004 17:10

• Combined Control Commission inspects withdrawal of Georgian forces from South Osetian border

  According to information of the Osetian side, not all armed units have been withdrawn from the zone controlled by peacekeeping forces, some of them have been quartered in the villages situated in the zone of the conflict.

June 04, 2004 16:10

• Visit of PACE delegation to Chechnya is over

  The PACE delegation was unable to meet with representatives of the Grozny office of the Human Rights Center Memorial though the meeting had been planed in advance.

June 04, 2004 15:05

• Novorossiysk Memorial publishes book about victims of political repressions

  The book "To All People Whose Fates Are Seen in the Distance" holds not only reminiscences but also a piece of advice how to register rehabilitation, what documents must be prepared, what agencies one should address, and what legislative acts one can use proving his or her innocence.