News

April 23, 2004 13:59

• European experts: Armenian draft law on meetings conflicts with fundamental human rights

  Natalia Vutova, representative of the Council of Europe Secretary General in Armenia, said that the draft law conflicted with the European Convention on Human Rights and a number of other international documents.

April 23, 2004 13:26

• Irina Sarishvili warns Adjarian leader of possible terrorist act

  "I warned Aslan Abashidze about the terrorist act two days ago and advised him to reinforce his bodyguard," the chairwoman of the League of People's Defense said.

April 23, 2004 13:06

• Chechen Society newspaper receives warning

  The Chechen regional department of the Russian Ministry for Press, TV, Radio Broadcasting, and Mass Media issued an official warning to the editorial staff of the independent social and political newspaper Chechen Society on April 19.

April 23, 2004 12:05

• Nino Burdjanadze elected head of Georgian parliament

  Nino Burdjanadze is a deputy for the city of Kutaisi.

April 23, 2004 12:02

• Two Russian soldiers shot dead in Ingushetia

  Two unknown men shot and killed two Russian soldiers and wounded a third on April 20 in the outskirts of Nazran, Ingushetia's largest town.

April 23, 2004 11:51

• Chechen warlord says all his subordinates have surrendered

  Magomed Khambiyev, a Chechen separatist leader and former "interior minister of Ichkeria," who surrendered in early March, said all his subordinates have surrendered their arms and have turned themselves in to the law enforcement agencies.

April 23, 2004 11:39

• Armenian party denies alleged destruction of monuments in Shushi

  Head of the Department for Protection and Study of Monuments, the Ministry for Education, Culture and Sports of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR), Slava Sargsyan categorically disagreed with the statement of Azerbaijani Milli Majlis Speaker Murtuz Aleskerov that the cultural monuments in the town of Shushi, in particular, the fortification of the town, are allegedly destroyed by the NKR authorities.

April 22, 2004 18:58

• Chechen law-enforcement agencies look for evidence of Abu al-Walid's death

  Information about the death of Abu al-Walid in Chechen mountains appeared in the Arab press on April 16.

April 22, 2004 17:58

• Armenian opposition to hold decisive meeting on April 27

  Aram Sargsian announced that the opposition invited people to the decisive meeting, which will be held on April 27. "All Armenians must gather here that day," he said.

April 22, 2004 17:16

• Kheda Saratova: Chechnya's administration, refugees should hold talks

  A unique press conference devoted to the problem of Chechen refugees occurred in Moscow, Russia, on April 20. Organized by the Independent Press Center, it was titled "Bound westward: what makes refugees seek emigration? What prevents them from going back to Chechnya?"

April 22, 2004 16:41

• Svetlana Gannushkina: Kadyrov wants dissension among Chechens, Ingushetians

  Svetlana Gannushkina, a member of the Board of the Human Rights Center Memorial and the Commission on Human Rights for the Russian President, comments on the situation with regard to Chechen refugees in Ingushetia.

April 22, 2004 16:14

• First session of new Georgian parliament

  Mikhail Saakashvili said that the priority tasks of the parliament were to assist with the restoration of Georgia's territorial integrity, to carry out reforms in all fields of the country's life, to improve the people's standard of living, and to liberalize the tax code.

April 22, 2004 15:53

• Saakashvili orders to withdraw rebellious brigade from Adjaria

  Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili has signed the order to relocate the 25th motorized rifle brigade from Batumi to Tbilisi.

April 22, 2004 15:22

• Yabloko party in Krasnodar to stage demonstration against arbitrariness

  The action will be conducted within the framework of the all-Russian public campaign Civil Society Against Police State. In the course of it, activists will call upon citizens to take part in the actions against arbitrariness.

April 22, 2004 14:35

• Classic textbook for journalists published in Georgian

  The book holds fundamentals of the American journalism, it is important to know them in the period of development of democracy and free press, said WPFC' executive official.

April 22, 2004 14:07

• Youth action against neonazism in Krasnodar

  Several tens of students, NGO activists, and journalists made their way to places in Krasnodar where neonazis were known to gather and leave their typical marks and inscriptions.

April 22, 2004 12:53

• Doctors Without Borders alarmed at attacks on its employees in North Caucasus

  "It is an infrequent occurrence in the world when aid workers are attacked in hot spots. We haven't had such problems even in the Congo and Sudan," the organization's Dutch department director Kenny Gluck noted.

April 22, 2004 12:20

• 12 rebels destroyed in special operation in Chechnya

  "For five days, units of the defense ministry and army special operations force have been conducting a special operation to search for and eliminate field commander Doku Umarov's bandit groups hiding in thinly populated mountainous districts of the republic, which are difficult of access," a spokesman for the regional operations headquarters said.

April 22, 2004 12:04

• Meeting between opposition and pro-government Armenian politicians fails

  Representatives of coalition parties motivated their non-attendance by saying they would not sit down to the bargaining table until the opposition renounced its prior conditions.

April 22, 2004 12:02

• Antiwar picket to be staged on Pushkinskaya Square on April 22

  The prefecture of Moscow's Central administrative district granted permission for the action after a month ban. The picket will be devoted to the Aril 8 air bombing in the Chechen village of Rigakhoy.