News

April 15, 2004 23:04

• Armenian oppositionists enter their headquarters sealed up by police

  Albert Bazeian, a leader of the party Anrapetutiun (Republic), said they were going to turn to the European Court of Human Rights in view of the illegal closure of the party's office and the damage done to it.

April 15, 2004 18:26

• Hotline for victims of ethnic discrimination

  By means of it, qualified lawyers will give primary advice to the suffered.

April 15, 2004 17:46

• Adjarian Interior Minister: no velvet revolution in autonomy

  "I want Tbilisi to know that the November [2003] developments will not repeat themselves in the Adjarian autonomy. The local population will defend the elected power to the end," said Djemal Gogitidze.

April 15, 2004 16:21

• Armenian opposition promise safety to President Kocharian

  The opposition is ready to guarantee safety for Armenian President Robert Kocharian, said leader of the opposition National Unity party Artashes Gegamian.

April 15, 2004 15:47

• South Osetian defense minister dies

  Defense Minister of the Republic of South Osetia Zelim Muldarov was found dead in his flat in Tskhinvali in the morning of April 15. The cause of his death has not been established so far.

April 15, 2004 15:24

• Press secretary of Armenian People's Party released

  Ruzanna Khachatrian gave a written undertaking not to leave a place.

April 15, 2004 15:22

• Chechen rebels deny reports by Russian military command about combats in Gudermes district

  The military assert they know who leads the bandits in spite of the fact that no member of the gang that attacked Ishkhoy-Yurt has been captured.

April 15, 2004 15:19

• Details of bombing in Rigakhoy village

  "We hope that the tragedy in the village of Rigakhoy will be thoroughly investigated nevertheless, and the guilty will be punished," reads the statement by the Memorial Center.

April 15, 2004 12:31

• Chechen president offers reward for capture of Maskhadov

  Akhmad Kadyrov says he has had no contacts at all, telephone talks included, with Aslan Maskhadov ever since the second Chechen campaign broke out late in summer 1999.

April 15, 2004 12:23

• Terrorist suspect detained in Chechnya

  Zagra Muchuyeva, 51, who was on a wanted list, was detained in the Gudermes district in the east of Chechnya. She is suspected of preparing a number of crimes, RIA Novosti was told on April 14 by the official spokesman for the regional headquarters on the counter-terrorist operation in the North Caucasus.

April 15, 2004 12:19

• Russia opposes UN Commission's passing resolution on Chechnya

  Representatives of the Russian delegation said in Geneva that, despite its rather quiet nature, some clauses of the resolution are utterly not true to fact.

April 15, 2004 12:00

• Georgian TV cameramen beaten up in Adjarian autonomy

  A cameraman of the Tbilisi-based Rustavi-2 TV channel was beaten up on April 14 near a bridge across the Choloki River that separates Georgia's autonomous region of Adjaria from the rest of the country. The incident occurred after a crowd of 200 to 300 Adjarians had not allowed the chairman of the Georgian Central Election Commission, Zurab Chiaberashvili, to enter the autonomy on his car.

April 15, 2004 11:54

• Access to Adjaria denied for Georgian Central Election Commission chairman

  Zurab Chiaberashvili voiced hope that the leaders of the autonomy understood what they did since the frustration of the elections is "a penal action, for which they will have to account."

April 15, 2004 11:06

• Cache with poison and radio stations disclosed in Chechnya's Vedeno district

  People involved in the creation of the cache are being searched for.

April 14, 2004 17:51

• Danish Refugee Council to continue humanitarian activity in Ingushetia

  "It should be taken into consideration that the Stavropol Danish Refugee Council was registered as a Russian non-governmental organization. It is an independent juridical person. The decision by the Stavropol Court cannot be rated as the liquidation of our organization as a whole," the Council's representative said via phone.

April 14, 2004 17:39

• Situation in Yerevan remains tense

  Headquarters of the opposition parties, and first of all of the National Unity and Republic parties, are still under the control of the police.

April 14, 2004 17:12

• Chechen rights defender accuses Azerbaijan of illegal extradition of Magomed Tagayev

  Mairbek Taramov referred to the ruling by the European Court that bans the extradition of people detained in connection with the developments in Chechnya to Russia.

April 14, 2004 15:55

• Armenian ombudsperson: no due attention to Budapest murder case

  There is one episode in the case on the murder of an Armenian officer in Budapest, namely an attempt to murder another officer of the Armenian Armed Forces, which has been disregarded for some reason.

April 14, 2004 15:18

• Azerbaijan Musavat Party's appeal to world media

  The following opposition leaders will go on trial some day soon: Arif HajЩlЩ and Ibrahim Ibrahimli, deputy leaders of the Musavat Party, Rauf Arifoglu, editor-in chief of the newspaper Yeni Musavat, Serdar Jelaloglu, chief secretary of the Azerbaijan Democratic Party (ADP), Penah Huseynov, leader of the Azerbaijan Peoples' Party, Igbal Agazade, chairman of the Umid Party, and Etimad Esedov, chairman of the Karabakh Invalids Society.

April 14, 2004 14:18

• Russian military command: murderers of 9 Duba-Yurt residents established

  The March 27 murder of nine peaceful residents of the Duba-Yurt settlement, Chechnya, was perpetrated by the gangs of Rapani Khalilov (subordinate to Basayev) and Akhmed Avdorkhanov (subordinate to Maskhadov). RIA Novosti learnt this on Wednesday from spokesman for the regional headquarters on the counter-terrorist operation in the North Caucasus Colonel Ilya Shabalkin.