News

February 20, 2004 12:43

• Armenia is not ready to start negotiations for Nagorny Karabakh from scratch

  "We have been working for many years to form a certain field for the resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, and I am not going to throw all this work into the water," stressed the President of Armenia.

February 20, 2004 12:06

• Ban on lessons of peace arranged by center of Chechen culture "Vaynakh" in Yekaterinburg schools

  The police watched the Chechens and human rights activists being evicted from the school but preferred to remain aloof and not to interfere in the situation.

February 19, 2004 21:22

• Amnesty International: anti-Chechen sentiment in Moscow post-metro blast

  According to information received by Amnesty International, minority ethnic groups from the Caucasus region have once again become the target of discriminatory rhetoric, arbitrary document checks and searches, and racially-motivated revenge attacks.

February 19, 2004 19:43

• Temporary accommodation center for refugees "Angusht" left without gas

  The authorities explained their actions by saying that the NGO Danish Refugee Council had illegally built housing for displaced persons from liquidated tent camps on the territory of the accommodation center.

February 19, 2004 16:59

• Yeni Musavat editor-in-chief Rauf Arifoglu stops hunger strike

  As reported by a high-ranking official at Bailovsky Investigatory Isolation Ward 1, the state of Arifoglu's health worsened and isolation ward workers had to warn him of the possibility of using forced feeding.

February 19, 2004 16:26

• Films of international Chechnya Film Festival to be shown in Kazan

  The films to be shown are Murder with International Consent (Poland), Terror in Moscow (Great Britain), Chechen Lullaby (France), and Children's Stories - Not for Kids (Russia).

February 19, 2004 15:49

• Moscow Mayor's Office bans rally timed to 60th anniversary of Stalin's deportation of Chechen people

  The organizers of the rally were going to commemorate the victims of the Chechen genocide, to urge the political settlement of the Russian-Chechen conflict and establishment of a United Nations interim administration in Chechnya.

February 19, 2004 14:59

• "Against Numbering of People" association founded in Armenia

  More than twenty non-government organizations, foundations and parties founded the association "Against Numbering of People". Its main task is to stop the process of introducing the system of social cards in Armenia.

February 19, 2004 14:24

• Member of presidential Commission on Human Rights asks Luzhkov to place barrier to Fascist ideology

  Svetlana Gannushkina has appealed to Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov drawing his attention to leaflets extremist in content that appeared in Moscow metro trains. These leaflets call upon the citizens to come to the meeting "Clear Moscow of Chechen Bandits."

February 19, 2004 13:57

• Georgia to declassify KGB archives

  The State Security Ministry of Georgia will make KGB (State Security Committee of the USSR) archives accessible to the wide public in the near future.

February 19, 2004 13:35

• Russia opens Chechnya for OSCE

  The Russian authorities closed the OSCE mission in Chechnya twice: in 1998 and in 2002. They were displeased with the appeals to conduct negations with Chechen separatists and with the criticism of the human rights situation made by the organization.

February 19, 2004 13:32

• Armenians living in Georgia want to create their autonomy

  David Rstakian, who leads the Virk party acting in the region, noted with regret that "representatives of the new Georgian authorities, like their predecessors, do not want to consider this issue even on the level of a proposal."

February 18, 2004 23:59

• Chairman of Armenian Liberal Progressive Party urges regional cooperation in South Caucasus

  The geopolitical situation in the world and economic and political processes in the region have led the Party to the persuasion that the first thing Armenia needs is the development of liberalism and democracy, said Ovannes Ovannisian.

February 18, 2004 23:38

• "For Human Rights in Chechnya" group formed in Estonian parliament

  Deputy groups supporting Chechnya worked in the Estonian parliament of the seventh, eighth, and ninth convocations too.

February 18, 2004 23:24

• Abkhazian Foreign Ministry blames Georgia for aspiration to impose economic blockade on breakaway republic

  In the course of his first visit to Moscow on February 10-12, the new president of Georgia asserted that the territory of Abkhazia was used to convey drugs as transit goods and to expand terrorism.

February 18, 2004 17:02

• Militants' base found in Chechnya

  "The militants' base consisted of two dug-outs with the accommodation capacity of up to 10 people each, places for cooking food and for meals, and four combat security trenches situated along the perimeter of the base," a headquarters official said.

February 18, 2004 16:42

• International Helsinki Federation conducts workshops on international law in Ingushetia

  The goal of such seminars is to train human rights defenders, including lawyers, in methods and mechanisms of human rights protection in international instances.

February 18, 2004 16:03

• Sabailsky District Court answers to claim of ANS against Azadlyg newspaper

  The trial was caused by the article published in the newspaper on 22 October 2003 under the title "Reports from the Gestapo".

February 18, 2004 15:11

• Water supply to Satsita camp of Chechen refugees cut off because of technical reasons

  The UNHCR field office in Ingushetia has arranged the delivery of drinking water to the refugee camp in special tanks, but Satsita inhabitants still have to limit its use.

February 18, 2004 13:43

• Human Rights Center "Memorial" demands to stop fanning anti-Chechen sentiments in Moscow

  We call your attention to the text of the letters addressed by the Human Rights Center "Memorial" to the Moscow Mayor and Prosecutor in view of the forthcoming meeting titled "Clear Moscow of Chechen Bandits".