News

March 10, 2004 17:28

• Actions in commemoration of 60th anniversary of deportation of Balkarian people take place in Kabardino-Balkaria

  Experts say one of every four displaced persons died from hunger and privation during four years. The Balkars were able to return to their homeland only in 1957.

March 10, 2004 16:34

• Student Aslanbek Khanbiyev released

  The student from the Department of Medicine of the Chechen State University was released on March 5, said his classmates.

March 10, 2004 16:15

• Raid on Satsita refugee camp - details

  A large-scale search was conducted early in the morning on March 6 at the Satsita refugee camp in Ingushetia.

March 10, 2004 15:54

• Confrontation between Meskhetian Turks and local population in Krasnodar Territory continues

  A new incident happened on the eve of International Women's Day. The Caucasian Knot correspondent learnt about it from the Novorossiysk City Committee on Human Rights.

March 10, 2004 15:14

• Kalmyk opposition to hold picket in Moscow

  Delegates of the Extraordinary Congress of the People of Kalmykia are arriving in Moscow in two buses on March 10, 2004. They are going to hold a picket at the monument to Karl Marx on Teatralnaya Square from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on 10, 11, and 12 March, 2004. Up to 100 people are expected to be participants in the action.

March 10, 2004 14:39

• Lord Judd still has chance of coming to Russia

  Russia is ready to re-consider the question of giving a visa to Lord Judd, reported a source at the information and press department of the Russian Foreign Ministry.

March 10, 2004 14:10

• Vladimir Putin appoints new plenipotentiary in South Federal District

  The President dismissed Viktor Kazantsev as the President's Plenipotentiary in the South Federal District and appointed Vladimir Yakovlev to this position.

March 10, 2004 14:03

• Amnesty International calls upon EU to increase pressure on Russia in view of rights violations in Chechnya

  The human rights organization raises its concern about numerous disappearances of people in Chechnya and abuses on the part of the Russian military.

March 09, 2004 10:25

• No Murids of Jihad found in Chechnya

  A police check shows there are no "holy war disciples" in the republic.

March 09, 2004 10:23

• Hurricane kills three in Dagestan, Russia

  Dagestan experiences the strongest hurricane over the past 100 years.

March 09, 2004 10:21

• Georgia suffers natural disaster

  The NTV television company reports record fall-out in the Northwest of the republic.

March 09, 2004 10:18

• Chechen separatist leader surrenders

  A relative says he was forced to do that after security officers had threatened to shoot several close relatives of his.

March 09, 2004 10:14

• Abdullah Khamzaev awarded Peace Prize

  A Chechen lawyer becomes laureate of the prize set up by The Yalta Initiative for Peace in Chechnya coalition.

March 09, 2004 10:12

• New terrorist attacks in Moscow possible

  An American diplomat says Moscow police reported about possible new acts of terrorism to the U.S. embassy.

March 09, 2004 10:10

• Explosive device neutralized at Chechnya polling station

  A 1.5-m long metal tube filled with 6 kg of TNT and a plastic explosive was found at a polling station in a school.

March 09, 2004 10:09

• Most Turks think it time to discuss genocide

  A Turkish scholar first uses the word "genocide" speaking about the mass obliteration of Armenians in Ottoman Turkey in 1915.

March 09, 2004 10:07

• Flood emergency in Krasnodar territory, Russia

  A Belorechensk, Krasnodar territory, official said 12 settlements and thousands of hectares of land were flooded.

March 09, 2004 10:04

• Georgian leader suggests common Caucasus market, favorable investment climate for Russia

  "Stereotypes in relations with Russia should be changed," Saakashvili said, "and a favorable investment climate should be created in Georgia for Russia."

March 08, 2004 10:02

• Refugees have no hope in delegations

  Ella Pamfilova, head of the Human Rights Commission for the Russian president, visited Chechen refugee camps in Ingushetia on March 6.

March 08, 2004 10:00

• Giorgadze disqualified from parliamentary elections

  Igor Giorgadze, leader of the Justice Party, Georgia, was struck off the party's list of candidates for the parliamentary elections on March 28.