News

March 01, 2004 16:00

• Meeting in memory of victims of Sumgait tragedy takes place in Stepanakert

  A meeting in memory of victims of the tragedy in the Azerbaijan town of Sumgait, where mass killings of Armenians took place on February 26-28, 1988, was held at the Memorial Complex in Stepanakert on February 28.

March 01, 2004 15:49

• Karabakh military report on combat with Azerbaijan commandos

  The press service of the Defense Ministry of the Republic of Nagorny Karabakh issued a statement, claiming that a group of Azerbaijan commandos was neutralized in the outskirts of the Bash Karvend settlement on February 26.

March 01, 2004 15:31

• Helicopters rocket outskirts of Borzoy village in Chechnya

  On the night of February 26-27, several Russian combat helicopters rocketed the outskirts of the Borzoy village, Chechnya's Shatoy district.

March 01, 2004 15:23

• Death toll from truck explosion in Assinovskaya village reaches 10

  A GAZ-53 truck with civilians going to pick damsons hit a landmine near the village of Assinovskaya on February 25.

March 01, 2004 14:10

• NGO activists detained during a meeting on February 23 to stand trial on March 16 and 17

  As a press release by the Transnational Radical Party reads, Khramov is to appear in court as there will be a hearing of the administrative case in connection with his detention during a meeting on Lubyanskaya Square in commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the Chechen genocide ordered by Stalin. To remind, the meeting was banned by the Moscow authorities.

March 01, 2004 13:42

• Azerbaijan Defense Minister: "If the Karabakh conflict is not resolved soon, Azerbaijan will restore its territorial integrity"

  Azerbaijan Defense Minister Safar Abiyev discussed the situation around the resolution of the Karabakh conflict with PACE rapporteur on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict Terry Davis on February 27.

March 01, 2004 12:38

• Krasnodar Territory mentioned 11 times in report by US Department of State on human rights

  On February 25, the US Department of State presented its annual Country Reports on Human Rights Practices.

March 01, 2004 12:21

• Flood victims rally in Grozny

  About 50 people from the Oktyabrsky district of the Chechen capital Grozny, displaced by the Sunzha River overflowing in June 2002, held an unauthorized meeting on February 26 to demand compensation for their homes destroyed by the flood.

March 01, 2004 12:12

• Three numbers of rights catalogue-digest to be presented in Krasnodar

  The presentation of and discussion about three numbers of the Krasnodar rights catalogue-digest published by the regional branch of the Russian Society Memorial will take place in Krasnodar on March 3.

March 01, 2004 11:55

• European Parliament recognizes deportation of Chechens and Ingushetians ordered by Stalin as genocide

  The text adopted on February 26 contains a call to the EU Member States to promote peace in Chechnya.

February 28, 2004 20:15

• Lev Ponomaryov: Russia needs propaganda television campaign to counteract spread of xenophobia

  The main reason why some Russian politicians apply the rhetoric of nationalism and xenophobia is the ongoing war in Chechnya, stated Lev Ponomaryov, executive director of the all-Russian public Movement for Human Rights, on 26 February 2004, at the 1st All-Russian Assembly of Public Forces to Counteract Xenophobia and Extremism.

February 28, 2004 18:45

• Search at headquarters of Executive Committee of Extraordinary Congress of the People of Kalmykia

  Police officers seized all posters that contained at least some criticism against President of Kalmykia Kirsan Ilyumzhinov.

February 28, 2004 15:05

• Last refugees left Bart camp in Ingushetia

  Only several dozens of tents are left in Bart, a camp for Chechen refugees situated in the Ingush town of Karabulak. Inhabitants of this temporary accommodation center leave the camp under pressure of the authorities.

February 28, 2004 14:43

• International Helsinki Federation urges immediate investigation into abduction of Ruslan Soltakhanov

  We call your attention the open letter addressed by Executive Director of the International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights Aaron Rhodes to Prosecutor of the Republic of North Osetia Aleksandr Bigulov in connection with the abduction of Ruslan Soltakhanov, a driver for journalist Rebecca Santana.

February 28, 2004 14:16

• Chechen Interior Ministry: tent camps in Ingushetia to close in March

  The tent camps for refugees from Chechnya in Ingushetia will be liquidated in March, Deputy Head of the Chechen Interior Ministry's Migration Service Lema Bichuyev said to Interfax on February 28.

February 27, 2004 23:58

• HRW representative Mathilda Bogner familiarizes herself with media situation in Azerbaijan

  The HRW representative's trip is to result in the report on the media situation in Azerbaijan in the aftermath of the presidential election.

February 27, 2004 23:55

• Young people in Karabakh condemn crime in Budapest

  Picketers condemned the murder of an Armenian officer in Budapest and declared against efforts of some political circles calling to join Karabakh to Azerbaijan by force.

February 27, 2004 23:54

• Officer of Chechen Interior Ministry disappears in Urus-Martan

  Timerlan Akhayev, an officer of the Chechen Interior Ministry, disappeared without a trace in Urus-Martan on February 23.

February 27, 2004 23:22

• Head of Krasnodar regional association of Meskhetian Turks "Vatan": "We are Russian citizens and want to go nowhere!"

  The information campaign to familiarize Meskhetian Turks compactly residing in the region with the conditions of their resettlement to the United States as refugees by the program carried out by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) has been taking place in Krasnodar Territory for the second week already.

February 27, 2004 23:09

• Refugees who departed for Chechnya are left to mercy of fate

  Families of Chechen refugees who departed for Chechnya from the Satsita tent camp the day before yesterday have been forsaken in the street in fact.