News

January 05, 2004 16:34

• Arrested sniper confessed to murder of Ingush deputy interior minister

  The arrested soldier explained that he was hunting birds. According to him, he hit the car where the deputy interior minister was by accident.

January 05, 2004 10:33

• Mikhail Saakashvili celebrates victory in Georgian presidential election

  Immediately after the polling stations in Georgia were closed, the Georgian media publicized the results of the exit polls, which showed that Saakashvili garnered about 85% of the vote.

January 03, 2004 18:43

• FSB officers seize edition of book "FSB Blows Up Russia"

  According to the driver of the car, FSB officers talked to him, in particular the FSB investigator who said the books were withdrawn as an "antistate propaganda".

January 03, 2004 14:27

• Rescuers in Dagestan find body of soldier, lost last week

  Six rescuers, headed by Colonel Gadzhimurad Abdulatipov, were looking for three soldiers, lost during an army operation to destroy the armed gang which had broken into the Tsuntinsky district of the Dagestani Republic.

January 03, 2004 14:13

• Mikhail Saakashvili stands highest chances of winning Georgian presidential election

  Originally, 15 candidates intended to run for the presidency but eight of them failed to gather the necessary number of signatures.

January 03, 2004 14:09

• Georgia is getting ready for presidential election

  Approximately 3 million voting ballots were to be sent on Friday to all election polls, including the Adjarian Autonomy, the press-service of the Central Election Commission disclosed.

January 02, 2004 12:28

• Motherland-Ayrenik Front takes on responsibility for working out proposals on resolution of Karabakh conflict

  According to the authors of the statement, recently the Karabakh problem has appeared to be in the center of the country's political life again.

January 02, 2004 12:27

• Round table devoted to defense of Rauf Arifoglu

  Ali Kerimli, APFP chairman and a Milli Majlis deputy, summed up the exchange of opinions. He spoke for the organization of mass actions in defense of the people arrested in connection with the events of October 15 and 16.

January 02, 2004 12:26

• Illegal migrants deported from Kuban region

  Governor of Krasnodar Territory Aleksandr Tkachyov took a firm stand towards the migratory law breakers.

January 02, 2004 12:26

• Children of IDPs get presents from President of Ingushetia

  On the instructions of the Ingush President, New Year presents were given on behalf of him on December 26 to all the children who were in the camps for internally displaced persons (IDPs) from North Osetia and Chechnya.

December 30, 2003 23:57

• "Come To Know Yourself Through Law" Project summed up in Rostov

  Semen Filatov, a student of the 11th form, became a winner in the "Learn Your Rights" Internet contest.

December 30, 2003 23:48

• Student club "Justice" to bring action against Sergey Dorenko

  The academic council of the student club "Justice" (Chechen State University) made a decision to bring an action against journalist Sergey Dorenko, who stated in the Zavtra newspaper that to annihilate all the Chechen people would be enough for the elimination of terrorism.

December 30, 2003 23:46

• Special operation in Stariye Atagi

  According to preliminary information, the military killed three residents of the village. But it remains unknown so far if they were members of the armed resistance or civilians.

December 30, 2003 23:27

• Operation to eliminate rebel group in Dagestan completed

  "On Monday, army commandos eliminated the last rebels trying to break out of the encircled area destroying 15 of them," said Colonel Igor Konashenkov, an aide to the commander of the North Caucasian military district.

December 30, 2003 21:23

• Georgian, Abkhazian sides exchange hostages

  On December 29, the Abkhazian side released ten Georgians abducted from the Gali district of breakaway Abkhazia a few days ago, in exchange for release of three Abkhazians.

December 30, 2003 19:53

• Relatives of abducted Ingush resident seek human rights activists' help

  We call your attention to the extracts from the statement Ruslan Mutsolgov handed in to Imran Ezhiev, head of the Ingush office of the Society for Russian-Chechen Friendship and Moscow Helsinki Group coordinator.

December 30, 2003 18:38

• Three Abkhazian servicemen abducted, then released

  The ministry of defense regards the incident as the one throwing discredit upon the peacekeeping forces as it occurred in the area they are responsible for.

December 30, 2003 17:59

• Act of charity for disabled children in Abkhazia

  Activists of the Humanitarian Programs Center took the lead in conducting such an action in 1995. Both the number of its participants and the number of children getting New Year presents and congratulations has been increasing year after year.

December 30, 2003 17:04

• Sitting of Coordinating Center on Issues of Civil Society Development in Dagestan

  Participants considered the Regulations on the Coordinating Center and a plan of work for the first six months of 2004. The Chairman of the Dagestani National Assembly, Mukhu Aliyev, presided at the sitting.

December 30, 2003 16:32

• Rebels surrounded in Dagestan try to break into Georgia

  The surrendering militant said that Arab mercenaries had killed two other gunmen who wanted to surrender together with him, sources from the public relations centre of the Federal Security Service reported.