News

February 10, 2004 19:01

• "Collective Action" Initiative Group alarmed at aggravating situation around terrorist act in Moscow

  "We consider the hasty conclusions and accusations, which are exacerbating people's grief and suffering and provoking ethnic hatred and aggression in our society, to be blasphemy," reads the statement.

February 10, 2004 17:08

• Rebel attacks leave 2 army servicemen dead in Chechnya

  Gunmen attacked a group of Russian army servicemen in Grozny and blew up an armored vehicle in Achkhoy-Martan on February 9, leaving two servicemen killed and two injured.

February 10, 2004 16:50

• Armenia waits for Ilkham Aliyev to give variants of Karabakh conflict resolution

  The Karabakh problem is territorial only in the sense that Azerbaijan has no legal or historic claims on Nagorny Karabakh, said Armenian Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanian.

February 10, 2004 16:30

• Armenian Scientific and Information Cultural Center wins regional competition in Kaliningrad Region

  The organization is the winner in the Commonwealth nomination, which supposes the assessment of the nominees' activity in the field of preservation and development of national traditions.

February 10, 2004 15:49

• Chechen refuges block railway in Austria

  On 8 February, refugees from Chechnya blocked a railway in the Austrian town of Gmuend for several hours as a sign of protest against possible deportation.

February 10, 2004 15:21

• Suicide bombing is main theory behind Moscow metro blast

  Federal Security Service (FSB) deputy director Vyacheslav Ushakov suggested studying the experience of the United States. The United States drafted a national patriotic platform after the notorious terrorist act of September 11 and afterwards enacted it into law.

February 10, 2004 14:40

• Political prisoners go on hunger strike in Bailovskaya prison

  The main demands of the oppositionists are: to speed up the investigation into the disturbances of 15-16 October and the handover of criminal cases to courts, and to hold the court hearings in large rooms, in the presence of the local and foreign mass media; and to oblige the authorities to fulfill all the recommendations by the Council of Europe and OSCE concerning human rights following the election of the new Azerbaijan president.

February 10, 2004 14:12

• Residents of Satsita camp stage meeting to protest against closure of refugee camps

  Participants opposed the closure of refugee camps planned for March 1. Over 200 refugees took part in the action. They still name lack of security guarantees in Chechnya as the main reason for them not to return.

February 09, 2004 23:17

• Statement by Human Rights Center "Memorial" Council Chairman, Society "Memorial" Board member Oleg Orlov "On the Initiative of European Parliament members"

  The statement reads, in particular, "The European parliamentarians' initiative should be considered solely as a vivid demonstration of their distrust of Moscow's policy in Chechnya."

February 09, 2004 17:12

• Statement by Human Rights Center "Memorial" on terrorist act in Moscow metro

  The statement reads, in particular, "Only a resolute change in the policy of the Russian leadership can bring peace and serenity to the Russian people."

February 09, 2004 15:46

• Georgian policemen kill officer of special operations forces in South Osetia

  A company commander, Mamitov Viktor, 1981, was killed as a result of the fire. The incident is under investigation now.

February 09, 2004 15:41

• Book about traditions of resolving conflicts in Caucasus

  The authors believe the readers are given a chance to feel as participants in the honest and thorough discussion on the situation in the Caucasian region.

February 09, 2004 14:35

• 4th anniversary of bloody "purge" in Noviye Aldy

  46 civilians, including women and old people, were shot dead in the course of the police operation in the village of Noviye Aldy on 4 February 2000. 10 more people, including a one-year-old child, were shot down in residential areas of Grozny adjacent to the village.

February 09, 2004 13:04

• Lonely residents find shelter in Grozny old people's home

  Inmates are fed 3 times a day, with the Chechen Labor Ministry and the International Committee of the Red Cross supplying the full complement of foodstuffs.

February 09, 2004 12:43

• Aleksandr Litvinenko: FSB is involved in terrorist act in Moscow metro

  Alexander Litvinenko states that FSB is behind this and all the similar terrorist acts, and that President Vladimir Putin bears personal responsibility for the people's deaths.

February 09, 2004 12:20

• Officer of Chechen Interior Ministry killed in Grozny

  The body of Major Khabilyayev was found in the morning of February 6 in Lisitsyna Street in Grozny's Oktyabrsky district, reported a spokesman for the Chechen Interior Ministry.

February 09, 2004 12:07

• Ilkham Aliyev: no compromises or haste in settling Karabakh conflict

  The Azerbaijan president specially stressed that the settlement is possible "only under the condition of restoring territorial integrity of Azerbaijan and the withdrawal of invading forces from the occupied lands."

February 09, 2004 11:54

• Chechen refugees in Pankisi Gorge resist deportation to Russia

  Chechen refugees temporarily living in the Pankisi Gorge will not welcome being unceremoniously transported to Russia like bandits, and their response to any illegal action may be "unpredictable", head of the Chechen International Human Rights Committee Aslanbek Abdurzakov told journalists on February 6.

February 07, 2004 15:35

• Anna Politkovskaya denies information about "decent conditions" being created for Chechen refugees

  Ms Politkovskaya also noted that at present they "do not load refugees onto carts, as it was in 1944", in order to forcibly evict them. "The first means is to cut off gas supply, and one will not be able to live in a tent for long. The other means is to constantly seize people they plan to evict," the journalist said.

February 07, 2004 14:03

• Akhmad Kadyrov opposes statements fanning ethnic tensions

  Chechnya's President Akhmat Kadyrov said February 6 he shared the grief over the terrorist act in the Moscow metro, but he believed at the same time that statements fanning ethnic tensions were incorrect even in that situation.