News

March 18, 2004 11:16

• Lyudmila Alekseyeva: displaced persons return to Chechnya from Ingushetia under pressure

  Chairwoman of the Moscow Helsinki Group Lyudmila Alekseyeva does not agree with the authorities' plan to resettle people from the last two tent camps for Chechen refugees in Ingushetia.

March 18, 2004 10:14

• Our Adjaria to fight against Aslan Abashidze till "victorious end"

  "He must leave or we will clear him off," Guram Saladze, an activist of the Our Adjaria coalition, declared.

March 18, 2004 10:00

• Saakashvili, Abashidze to meet in Batumi

  The agreement on this meeting was reached during the talks in Batumi between chairman of the Georgian parliament Nino Burdjanadze and the Adjarian leader.

March 17, 2004 18:25

• Council of Europe conducts workshop for Georgian judges

  The workshop is conducted within the framework of the program of the European Commission and the Council of Europe. It is arranged by the Judicial Training Center with the assistance of the Media Division of the Council of Europe Directorate General of Human Rights.

March 17, 2004 18:22

• OSCE to do its best to facilitate talks between Baku and Yerevan on Karabakh

  The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Bulgarian Foreign Minister Solomon Passy, announced it at a press conference, summarizing results of his visit to Baku.

March 17, 2004 17:03

• Antiwar picket to be held in Moscow on March 18

  The application for the holding of the action on March 18 filled by the organizers of the picket, who have been protesting against the war in Chechnya for already four years, was rejected almost for the first time.

March 17, 2004 16:09

• Azerbaijan court obliges rights defender to deny her assessment of school director's behavior

  On March 12, the Sabailsky Court pronounced judgment on the suit brought by the former director of school No 249, Mirfaig Mirgeidarli, against the Azadlig newspaper and human rights defender Saida Godjamanli.

March 17, 2004 14:48

• Nino Burdjanadze arrives in Batumi

  Speaker of the Georgian Parliament Nino Burdjanadze and State Security Minister Zurab Adeishvili arrived in Batumi to conduct negotiations with Adjaria's leader Aslan Abashidze.

March 17, 2004 14:25

• Two ministers and five NGO leaders not allowed in Adjaria

  Armed supporters of Adjarian leader Aslan Abashidze did not let Georgian Minister of Education Khakha Lomaia through the Choloki post, which is at the autonomy's administrative border. The minister's trip was concerned with the information that studies were suspended at local schools.

March 17, 2004 14:02

• Nine Russian servicemen taken prisoners in Chechnya

  Rebels encircled a group of federal forces in the mountains of the Itum-Kali district, Chechnya. "As the Russian soldiers saw the despair of the situation, they decided to surrender," reported Chechen separatists' website.

March 17, 2004 13:48

• Karabakh war death-roll published in Armenia

  Names of 7,000 victims appeared in central newspapers in Armenian and Russian.

March 17, 2004 13:39

• Administrative cases against antiwar picket organizers considered in court

  Nikolay Khramov thinks the authorities are trying to limit citizens' constitutional right to freedom of assembly, "basing on indistinct by-laws, which have become old, and their own high-handedness."

March 17, 2004 12:23

• Nino Burdjanadze to meet with Adjarian leader for talks

  The speaker of the Georgian parliament told reporters that she was going to discuss with Abashidze a way out of the crisis situation that had arisen in relations between Tbilisi and Batumi.

March 17, 2004 12:16

• Georgian president to discuss situation around Adjaria with Luzhkov

  Secretary of the Russian Security Council Igor Ivanov pointed out that the efforts of the Moscow Mayor in the interests of establishing a dialogue between Tbilisi and Batumi were supported by the Russian leadership.

March 17, 2004 11:41

• Kadyrov dismisses Chechen premier, appoints new one

  Sergey Abramov, 32, an official of the Russian Accounts Chamber has been appointed to replace Anatoly Popov.

March 16, 2004 23:46

• Association "Golos" publishes results of March 14 election monitoring in Stavropol

  The Association's team was not allowed in one of the polling stations, which attracted attention by servicemen's mass voting. Police officers were posted at the entrance, who threatened to launch criminal investigation.

March 16, 2004 19:06

• Elena Batenkova: authorities want to ban antiwar picket

  Elena Batenkova, a member of the Feedback group and the Committee for Antiwar Actions, is a participant in the picket on Pushkinskaya Square, protesting against the war in Chechnya and appealing to stop the conflict their through negotiations.

March 16, 2004 16:12

• Explosive assembly found in Dagestani school

  An explosive assembly weighting about 15 kilograms was found by a school watchman.

March 16, 2004 16:03

• Ruslan Gelayev's relatives cannot take his body for burial

  The body of Ruslan (Khamzat) Gelayev, a notorious Chechen commander, has not been given to his relatives so far. The agreement that the relatives were allowed to take his body was reached a week ago, one of them said in his interview with the Caucasian Knot correspondent.

March 16, 2004 14:59

• Adjaria is ready to resist armed invasion

  Adjarian Interior Minister Djemal Gogitidze made such a statement.