News

December 17, 2003 16:05

• Russian families to Chechen children: charitable action

  Humanitarian aid will be send to tent camps in Ingushetia, schools and orphan's homes in Chechnya on the eve of New Year's Day within the framework of the action "Gifts from Santa Claus".

December 17, 2003 14:07

• Public figures of Armenia, Azerbaijan and Nagorny Karabakh drew out project of Karabakh conflict settlement

  The Project of Peacemaking Process in the Region Covering Armenia, Azerbaijan and Nagorny Karabakh has been drawn out as a result of the meeting between public figures of Armenia, Azerbaijan and Nagorny Karabakh in Dortmund. The meeting was arranged and sponsored by the Kettering Foundation, the U.S.

December 17, 2003 13:17

• Book by well-known Kuban publicist Vsevolod Tikhomirov to be presented in Krasnodar

  The book includes selected pamphlets, satirical and critical articles published in 1988-2002 in Moscow and Kuban regional editions partly under the author's own name and partly under the pseudonyms "Heinrich Korbes, rat-catcher" (simply "Heinrich Korbes" sometimes) and "Angelica Kozobrod".

December 17, 2003 12:48

• South Caucasian Inter-Parliamentary Initiative meeting in Scotland: main subject-matter is Nagorny Karabakh

  The main sitting will be held in the Scottish capital of Edinburgh on December 17-20, where the delegations of the three South Caucasian countries will discuss urgent regional problems.

December 17, 2003 12:14

• Group of rebels is trying to left Dagestan for Azerbaijan

  Tsuntinsky district administration deputy head on public security Khizri Labayev has reported it today.

December 17, 2003 12:04

• New Georgian leadership intends to amnesty convicted followers of Zviad Gamsakhurdia

  The amnesty will apply not only to those people who are imprisoned now but also to those - there are about 150 of them, according to some data - who have been hiding in the forests of western Georgia for all these years.

December 16, 2003 21:26

• Appeal of Aslan Maskhadov to Chechen people

  "Nine years have passed since the criminal Russian leadership scorned all the rules and norms of international law and committed direct military aggression against the independent Chechen state," reads the appeal.

December 16, 2003 20:32

• Regional headquarters on counter-terrorist operation in North Caucasus proclaimed killed civilians as rebels

  At the end of November 2003, the Human Rights Center "Memorial" received the following information about killed civilians who were proclaimed to be rebels.

December 16, 2003 16:21

• Most Russians believe Chechen war is still going on

  Only 28% of respondents said they believe life in Chechnya is becoming more peaceful. What is more, 67% said they think that talks should now begin to establish peace in the republic.

December 16, 2003 15:59

• Moscow: round table discussion on Akhmadov's plan

  This action was initiated by the Viktor Popkov Information and Analytical Center and the Sintar human rights organization.

December 16, 2003 14:24

• Chechen film director Murad Mazayev presented his new films in Lvov

  Films about Chechnya were demonstrated in Lvov on December 10 as a part of the program timed to Human Rights Day. Film director Murad Mazayev, who was invited by the organizers as a special guest, presented two projects: the documentary one "Things I Remember" shot by Chechen journalists and cut by Poles in Krakow and the feature film "Marsho", which is already world-famed.

December 16, 2003 12:52

• Two Chechen journalists became finalists in All-Russian competition "For Journalism as a Deed"

  The award ceremony took place on December 10, International Human Rights Day, in the Andrey Sakharov Public Center.

December 16, 2003 12:13

• Seven separatists killed in Dagestan

  Seven separatists were killed in the Tsuntinsky district of Dagestan in the morning on Tuesday, announced head of the North Caucasian frontier department of the Russian Federal Security Service Lieutenant-General Nikolay Lesinsky.

December 16, 2003 12:05

• Round table discussion in Krasnodar on violations during State Duma elections

  MP candidates, election commission members of different levels, observers, and activists of public organizations were participants in the discussion.

December 15, 2003 20:50

• Separatists who captured Shauri village divided into groups

  Chechen separatists who captured a hospital in the village of Shauri in the Tsuntinsky district of Dagestan have divided into three or four groups, which are moving away in the direction of Chechnya and Georgia.

December 15, 2003 19:59

• Abkhazian and Georgian commissions to search for the missing met on initiative of Georgian party

  In conformity with the agreement reached in Ochamchira on November 17, the Georgian party had to produce information on Abkhazians who remain missing after the 1992-1993 Patriotic War.

December 15, 2003 19:14

• Workshop for teachers of journalism took place in Stepanakert

  The action was held within the framework of the "Strengthening Democracy in the South Caucasus through Freedom of Expression" Project implemented by the Article 19 international organization.

December 15, 2003 18:21

• Azerbaijan opposition condemns meeting of Azerbaijan and Armenian presidents

  The Yeni Musavat newspaper expresses regret that the opposition in Azerbaijan is splintered today and will not be able to stand against the signing of the defeatist peace treaty.

December 15, 2003 17:30

• Russian troops reportedly wiped out village of Dzumsoy

  Locals report that the village of Dzumsoy, which numbered 40 houses, was razed to the ground by Russian soldiers several days ago.

December 15, 2003 16:46

• Hundreds of thousands gathered in Baku to bid farewell to Geidar Aliyev

  The ex-president of Azerbaijan died at the age of 80 on Friday December 12 in the clinic in Cleveland, the U.S., where he had been receiving treatment for heart and kidney problems since August 6.