News

March 08, 2004 09:58

• Georgian security officers' riot leads to imprisonment

  Three senior Georgian security officers have been convicted to three months' detention for insubordination.

March 08, 2004 09:53

• Saakashvili threatens Ajaria with repressions

  "Unless Ajaria's leadership abolishes the republican State Security Ministry, there will be tough repressions," said the Georgian President.

March 06, 2004 15:41

• Kaloev denies involvement in Skyguide controller's murder

  This is what Zurich Prosecutor Pascal Gossner said yesterday.

March 06, 2004 15:39

• Chechen leadership uninformed about Murids of Jihad supposed to have claimed responsibility for explosions in Moscow's Metro

  There is no such group in the republic, Chechnya's Security Council Secretary Rudnik Dudaev told Interfax.

March 06, 2004 15:31

• Ingush leader promises homes to refugees reluctant to return to Chechnya

  Displaced persons unwilling to return to Chechnya can stay in Ingushetia, and they will be provided with accommodation, Ingush President Murat Ziazikov said.

March 06, 2004 15:25

• Duma member sees no politics in denial of visa to Lord Judd

  Duma international committee head Kosachiov says Lord Judd was not given a visa because he mentioned the wrong host information in his papers.

March 06, 2004 15:20

• Saakashvili: 'I want to establish control over Ajaria, and I will'

  "Self-will is coming to a close. I am not Shevardnadze, and I am not going to dismember and destroy Georgia," Saakashvili said.

March 06, 2004 14:22

• Law-enforcement/security operation in refugee camp Satsita, Ingushetia

  Officers of some yet unidentified law-enforcement/security agencies blocked the refugee camp Satsita in Orjonikidzevskaia, Ingushetia, on March 6.

March 05, 2004 17:00

• Chechen residents having done paperwork to get compensations evicted from refugee accommodations

  Eleven people have received written notifications of compensations provided to them. Without having compensation cash on hand yet, the recipients must leave their rooms.

March 05, 2004 16:50

• Lord Judd denied Russian visa

  The Russian Foreign Ministry has denied a visa to Lord Judd, the former rapporteur on Chechnya to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. In Moscow he was to take part in a Peace Prize award ceremony on March 10.

March 05, 2004 16:16

• Another terrorist organization claims responsibility for explosion in Metro

  Kavkaz-Center agency received a message from a group called White Shadows claiming responsibility for the explosion in the Metro on February 6, 2004.

March 05, 2004 16:13

• RSF asks about reasons for detention of journalists' guide in Chechnya

  "This case once again demonstrates the Russian government do all they can to prevent the press from covering developments in Chechnya," RSF representatives say.

March 05, 2004 16:07

• Two cars with 300 kg of explosives found in Chechnya

  "One can say for sure presently these vehicles were meant for large-scale terrorist acts," the officer on duty of Chechnya's Internal Affairs Ministry told us.

March 05, 2004 16:03

• Georgian TV reporter beaten in Ajaria

  The Georgian television company Rustavi-2 says police officers beat its reporter Vakho Komakhidze in Batumi, Ajaria, on March 5.

March 05, 2004 16:00

• Sixteen major criminals detained in Georgia

  A special operation under the personal command of Georgia's Interior Minister led to detention of a group of major criminals in the Imereti region.

March 05, 2004 15:52

• Victims of terrorist act on Dubrovka sue to get indemnity for Vladimir Putin's interview

  The suit concerning Vladimir Putin's interview about "Nord-Ost" published by the Kommersant-Vlast weekly was filed with the Tverskoy Court of Moscow by the Nord-Ost organization. The plaintiffs ask for the indemnity at the rate of 1 million rubles to be paid by the magazine and 10 million rubles to be paid by Vladimir Putin to each plaintiff.

March 05, 2004 15:51

• Information Center of the Council of Chechen NGOs faces threat of closure

  The only professional and constantly working independent journalistic organization in Chechnya receives no subsidies and grants and publishes a daily news summary using its own funds.

March 05, 2004 15:14

• Azerbaijan oppositionists condemned for participation in riots on October 15-16, 2003

  The Court for Grave Crimes sentenced four defendants to imprisonment for the periods from 3 to 5 years and put five defendants on probation for the periods from 4 to 5 years.

March 05, 2004 15:11

• Fund to support Vitaly Kaloyev, charged with murdering Skyguide air traffic controller, to be established in North Osetia

  The head of the information and analytical section of the North Osetian parliament, Fatima Khabalova, announced it on March 4.

March 05, 2004 14:14

• Azerbaijan opposition calls upon Ilkham Aliyev to release political prisoners

  The Committee to Struggle Against Repressions and Election Fraud in Azerbaijan appealed to Azerbaijan President Ilkham Aliyev to release persons arrested in connection with the developments of October 15 and 16, 2003.