News

December 26, 2003 22:45

• Armenia ratifies European Social Charter

  The Charter is one of the fundamental documents of the Council of Europe, it supplements the European Convention on Human Rights.

December 26, 2003 22:44

• Two police officers killed in Chechnya

  A police department was fired at in the Chechen village of Petropavlovskaya. Two police officers were killed as a result.

December 26, 2003 22:41

• Resident of Serzhen-Yurt village detained, then released

  The Serzhen-Yurt village administration rendered much help to set Ayub Bedigov free.

December 26, 2003 19:36

• Visit by Nino Burdjanadze to Moscow - details

  Vladimir Putin met Acting President of Georgia Nino Burdjanadze in the Kremlin on Thursday December 25. It was a face to face meeting.

December 26, 2003 18:59

• Red Cross to continue joint projects with Abkhazian Ministry of Education in 2004

  2,500 pupils of the 9th form study various aspects of international humanitarian law (IHL) within the limits of such disciplines as history and social science.

December 26, 2003 18:08

• Seminar on Georgian-Abkhazian conflict in Austria

  The 12th meeting in the Georgian-Abkhazian Dialogue, a series of seminars on the conflict between Georgia and Abkhazia and its peaceful resolution, was held in Stadtschlaining, Austria, on December 15-20, 2003. Participants discussed a political situation in Georgia and Abkhazia and opportunities that appear due to the change of power in Tbilisi.

December 26, 2003 17:13

• Armenian president ready to accept all responsibility for Karabakh conflict resolution

  "I am ready to accept all the responsibility for the resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and do not shift it onto anybody," stated President of Armenia Robert Kocharian.

December 25, 2003 16:31

• Two rebels surrender their banners in Chechnya

  One of the banners belonged to the so-called Abkhazian Battalion, which took part in the Georgian-Abkhazian conflict under the command of Shamil Basayev. The other banner belonged to the so-called Central Front of the Ichkerian Armed Forces.

December 25, 2003 16:26

• 40 bandits believed to be holed up in Dagestani mountain cave

  The military use the tactics of contactless elimination of the extremists. The latter are under ceaseless artillery and mortar gunfire and air strikes.

December 25, 2003 14:42

• Memorial to participants in Chechen war to be erected in Krasnodar

  The model presented by sculptor Alan Karnayev was chosen to be the best one. This model represents a man and a sweet - a killed soldier and his immortal sole.

December 25, 2003 13:58

• Conference on ethnic and social problems took place in Nevinnomyssk

  The conference "Ethnic and Social Problems in North Caucasus in Present Context" has been held at the Nevinnomyssk branch of the Stavropol Basic Medical College.

December 25, 2003 13:34

• Ombudswoman of Azerbaijan prepares proposals to improve legislation in human rights field

  Elmira Suleymanova reported she has received 4500 complaints from the citizens in 2003. A little more than a half of them came within her authority as the ombudswoman and was taken for consideration.

December 25, 2003 12:06

• Azerbaijan Parliament condemns Swiss Parliament for recognition of Armenian Genocide

  The Azerbaijan Parliament regarded the decision of the Swiss Parliament as "appropriation of the role of a judge and intervention in internal affairs of the other state."

December 25, 2003 12:04

• Azerbaijan becomes active in Karabakh settlement

  Azerbaijan Foreign Minister Vilayat Guliyev stated that official Baku and specifically his department intend to activate efforts aiming at attaining a final solution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.

December 25, 2003 12:02

• Group of mercenaries destroyed in Chechnya

  A large group of separatists was routed in Chechnya. Turkish, Algerian and German citizens were among its members. 17 separatists were killed as a result of a short combat.

December 25, 2003 12:01

• Citizen kidnapped in Ingush town of Karabulak

  When being stopped by police officers at the town exit, the kidnappers showed regional operations headquarters passes.

December 25, 2003 11:58

• Akhmad Kadyrov's security service made street skirmish in Ingushetia

  On December 11, there was a skirmish in a many-storied building on Ordjonikidze Street in Malgobek. An accidental passer-by, Bekkhan B. Kartoyev, 1953, was killed as a result.

December 25, 2003 11:57

• Russian journalists familiarize themselves with situation in Abkhazia

  Correspondents of ORT and NTV TV companies and of the Trud, Krasnaya Zvezda and Izvestiya newspapers are in the delegation. Representatives of Sukhumi authorities arrange special press-conferences for them.

December 24, 2003 22:23

• Authorities try to prevent preparation of Extraordinary Congress of the People of Kalmykia

  The heads of law-enforcement agencies demanded that the members of the Organizational Committee cancel the Congress. Their demand had the nature of an ultimatum as they threatened they would institute criminal proceedings against all the organizers if they disobeyed.

December 24, 2003 21:10

• Resident of Samashki village abducted

  Russian servicemen abducted Khavazhi Shamayev, a 33-year-old resident of the Samashki village, and took him away from his own house in the direction of the district center of Achkhoy-Martan.