News

March 29, 2004 17:48

• US welcomes release of prisoners in Azerbaijan, urges more action

  Deputy US Representative to the OSCE Douglas Davidson noted that none of those pardoned and released were among the detainees arrested following the October 15 and 16 post-election demonstrations.

March 29, 2004 16:54

• Ombudsperson reports to Azerbaijan parliament

  In the course of the debate, opposition deputies laid strictures on the ombudswoman's activity in the pre-election period and after the presidential election.

March 29, 2004 16:29

• Court denies suit by Georgian NGO regarding Baku-Tbilisi-Jeikhan pipeline project

  Activists of the NGO Green Alternative believe gross violations of the Georgian legislation were committed when the Georgian government gave permission for the construction of the pipeline.

March 29, 2004 16:08

• Forcible liquidation of refugee camps in Ingushetia

  Today security agencies of the Chechen Republic launched the forcible liquidation of refugee camps in Ingushetia. They are forcibly moving camp inhabitants to Chechnya.

March 29, 2004 15:39

• Chechen intellectuals discuss prospects of restoring humanitarianism in Chechnya

  On March 24, members of the Chechen intelligentsia and NGOs attended a conference organized by the Lam Cultural Center in Grozny. The main topic of the discussion was the role public organizations should play in restoring humanitarianism to the republic.

March 29, 2004 14:36

• Russian military command expects continuation of "mine war" in Chechnya

  Vyacheslav Tikhomirov, Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Interior Troops, forecasts aggravation of the situation in Chechnya in spring and summer.

March 29, 2004 14:17

• Mother of "Nord-Ost" victim turns to European Court of Human Rights

  The press conference "Having Despaired of the Russian Justice, an Injured Party in the "Nord-Ost" Criminal Case Turns to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg" will take place at the Independent Press Center on March 30.

March 29, 2004 14:09

• 1,473,284 voters took part in Georgian parliamentary elections, according to latest data

  The 28 March elections for the Georgian parliament were held at 2,867 polling stations, 265 of them being opened in Adjaria.

March 29, 2004 13:26

• Zurab Zhvania declares elections in Adjaria valid, Aslan Abashidze calls them tendentious

  Aslan Abashidze holds the presence of Prime Minister Zurab Zhvania in Adjaria during the elections were "a kind of agitation for the Georgian authorities."

March 29, 2004 13:06

• Saakashvili's party wins elections

  The only thing unknown yet is whether the National Movement - Democrats party will be the only one represented in the parliament.

March 29, 2004 12:47

• Parliamentary elections in Georgia declared valid

  In conformity with the law on the elections, elections are declared valid if one third of voters took part in the voting.

March 27, 2004 17:53

• Kabardino-Balkarian Human Rights Center to assist with settling land disputes

  The Baksanyonok residents report that the plots of land and shares of property were allotted to them during the reorganization of a state farm but they were not given any documents certifying their title.

March 27, 2004 15:50

• Eduard Shevardnadze's arrested son-in-law shares cell with people accused of grave crimes

  Temur Lomsadze, an acting public lawyer, visited Gia Dzhokhtaberidze on March 25. He found him sharing the cell with four prisoners accused of grave crimes.

March 27, 2004 15:04

• Russian Radicals mobilizes for collection of signatures for UN interim administration in Chechnya

  The nearest picket of those planned for the period of mobilization is to take place at the Kursky railroad terminal on Sunday, March 28.

March 27, 2004 14:00

• Four-year boy hit by APC in Grozny

  A four-year boy was hit by an APC (armored personnel carrier) with Russian servicemen in one of the streets of Grozny on March 25. Later, the child died from injures in the 9th city hospital.

March 27, 2004 13:49

• State official loses to Business Express weekly

  On March 25, the court of first instance of Yerevan's Arabkir and Kanaker-Zeytun Communes rejected the suit of Artashes Bakhshian, a member of the Armenian State Commission on Protection of Economic Competition, versus the Business Express weekly.

March 26, 2004 18:42

• Mother's four-year search for abducted son produced no results

  Ramzan Alaudinov was held in a temporary district police department until May 2000. But when the Siberian policemen's assignment was over and they returned to Khanty-Mansiysk, Tamara Tabulayeva lost connection with her son.

March 26, 2004 18:06

• NGO activist released in Georgian-Abkhazian conflict zone

  David Badjagua, a 25-year-old activist of the Georgian NGO Association of Young Lawyers and Political Scientists, has been released in the zone of the Georgian-Abkhazian conflict. Abductors have been holding him on the territory of Abkhazia for two months.

March 26, 2004 17:27

• Military helicopters attack teenagers in Ingushetia

  On March 25, a 15-year-old teenager was killed and two teenagers were badly wounded in a missile attack from a military helicopter on the outskirts of the village of Ordzhonikidzevskaya, Ingushetia's Sunzha district.

March 26, 2004 16:30

• Adjarian police search house of opposition activists

  Approximately 20 police officers armed with automatic weapons took part in the search, according to information of the movement.