News

January 22, 2004 16:36

• Abdul-Khakim Sultygov dismissed as Special Envoy of the Russian President for Human Rights and Freedoms in Chechnya

  Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed an appropriate order, reports the president's press service.

January 22, 2004 16:17

• Soldiers opened fire on car with police officers in Chechnya

  An APC with servicemen rammed a Volga car on the Rostov-Baku federal route in the village of Gikhi.

January 22, 2004 15:20

• North Caucasian forum on migration focuses on issues of cooperation between state structures and public associations

  The North Caucasian forum on migration "Ways and Methods of Cooperation and Coordination in the Work of State Structures, NGOs and International Humanitarian Organizations That Solve Problems of Refugees and IDPs in the Region" opened in Nalchik on January 21.

January 22, 2004 14:54

• Novorossiysk human rights activist Mikhail Konstantinidi released

  Local ecologists and human rights activists believe the authorities started to prosecute Konstantinidi in response to the fact that with his legal assistance, citizens of Novorossiysk gained an unprecedented court victory over Kaspiysk Pipeline Consortium (KTK).

January 22, 2004 12:45

• UN raises concern about Russian authorities' intention to close all tent camps in Ingushetia by 1 March

  The United Nations believes that the principle of sanctuary as such is seriously compromised if refugees are forced to move out without being provided with another place to live.

January 22, 2004 12:20

• Some 4 thousand Meskhetian Turks received Russian citizenship

  Russian Deputy Interior Minister Colonel-General Aleksandr Chekalin reported it.

January 22, 2004 12:06

• Human Rights Center "Memorial": Chechenpress Agency has nothing to do with book "Russia's Crimes of the Century in Chechnya"

  Executive director of the Human Rights Center "Memorial" Tatyana Kasatkina has denied information that the book "Russia's Crimes of the Century in Chechnya" was published jointly with Chechenpress Agency.

January 22, 2004 11:44

• Kofi Annan urges extension of UNOMIG

  In a report released on January 19 that says progress in resolving the Georgian-Abkhaz conflict remains "painfully slow," United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan appeals to the Abkhaz side to negotiate a settlement with the new Georgian Government.

January 21, 2004 19:55

• Representatives of Chechen refugees meet with Ingush Migration Service deputy head

  As reported by the Council members, the main subject matter of the discussion was the reinstatement in the Ingush Migration Service's lists of those Chechen refugees who have been take off the books before without any grounds.

January 21, 2004 18:46

• US National Democratic Institute changes priorities in Armenia

  The decision has been made to direct NDI's activity towards cooperation with political parties so that to promote their political and social potential.

January 21, 2004 17:31

• Ilkham Aliyev: Azerbaijan reserves right to liberate Karabakh by force at any moment

  At the same time Ilkham Aliyev told that at this point he considered necessary to continue negotiations with Armenia.

January 21, 2004 17:00

• "House of Peace" to open in Karabakh and Azerbaijan

  "Those who will feel a need for peace will be able to come to this house, which will be a kind of cultural center," said coordinator of the NGO Nagorno-Karabakh Committee "Helsinki Initiative - 92" Karen Ogandzhanian.

January 21, 2004 15:57

• Two locals shot dead in Achkhoy-Martan

  Servicemen in masks rushed into a private house and shot down two young people between the ages of 25 and 30 who were in there.

January 21, 2004 15:41

• David Shakhnazarian: talks between presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan lead Karabakh problem to deadlock

  "These meetings substitute the confrontation between Armenia and Azerbaijan for the problem of Nagorny Karabakh," stated the board member of the Armenian National Movement.

January 21, 2004 15:08

• Georgia investigates swindling with aid to Abkhazian refugees

  State Minister Zurab Zhvania demanded on Wednesday that law enforcement bodies should speed up investigation into financial machinations with issuing allowances to refugees from the Abkhazian Autonomous Republic.

January 21, 2004 14:05

• Competitive program of social projects for NGOs of South Russia presented

  The aim of the competitions is to stir up citizens' activity in the field of finding solutions to social problems and to develop charity in Southern Russia.

January 21, 2004 13:21

• Eduard Shevardnadze raises question about occupation of Abkhazia and South Osetia

  Former Georgian president Eduard Shevardnadze stated that Abkhazia and South Osetia were occupied by Russian troops and called upon new Georgian president Mikhail Saakashvili to solve this problem.

January 21, 2004 12:40

• Round table discussion "War in Chechnya: Myths and Reality" to take place in Krasnodar

  The discussion is arranged within the framework of the enlightening project "What Do You Know and Think of the War in Chechnya?" with the support of the Caucasian Knot information and analytical Internet media and the Memorial International Society.

January 21, 2004 11:56

• Results of Georgian-Abkhazian meeting on security matters

  "Having positively assessed the results of the ad hoc high-level meeting of 8 October, the sides agreed to take every measure to ensure the strict observance of the Moscow Ceasefire Agreement of 1994 and refrain from any action, which may destabilize the situation in the zone of conflict and have a negative impact on the peace process," reads the protocol of the meeting of 19 January.

January 20, 2004 23:21

• Chechen field commander arrested in Kemerovo region

  The former second-in-command of the so called "Islamic special operations regiment" under the command of Arbi Barayev was arrested in the Kemerovo region.