News

February 17, 2004 15:14

• Al Qaeda calls upon Chechen rebels to take part in "holy war" in Iraq

  Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who leads Al Qaeda's operations on the territory of Iraq, calls upon "all the Jihad fighters" to go to Iraq to wage "holy war" under his command their. He intends to transfer from 1.5 to 2 thousand fighters who stay on the territory of Chechnya now to Iraq.

February 17, 2004 13:42

• Cache with great number of ammunition found in Chechnya

  The cache contained 132 mines of the 120 caliber.

February 17, 2004 13:34

• Abkhazian, South Osetian leaders to have talks in Moscow

  Abkhazian Prime Minister Raul Khajimba came to Moscow on February 15.

February 17, 2004 12:47

• Political scientist Paata Zakareishvili: Georgian society takes aggressive attitude to South Osetia and Abkhazia

  "The new authorities enjoy great confidence and have total carte blanche regardless of how much we criticize them. I hope everything they will do will be under strict control of the West, which will not allow them to move towards aggression," says the expert in the issues of resolution of the Georgian-Abkhazian conflict.

February 16, 2004 23:36

• Institute of Peace and Democracy: Azerbaijan authorities persecute political opponents under pretext of struggle against terrorism

  "We cannot prevent torture against detainees at the police departments. The Interior Ministry and the Prosecutor General's Office keep on disregarding all the appeals by international and republican human rights organizations," reads the statement.

February 16, 2004 22:37

• Leader of Dashnaktsutyun: Karabakh needs to establish dialogue with neighbors

  Vagram Balayan thinks that in the context of the Baku-Jeikhan oil pipeline construction, the interested countries may force the Armenian side to accept certain variants of the resolution.

February 16, 2004 18:15

• Abkhazian Defense Ministry denounces detention of Russian fishing boat by Georgian military

  General Vladimir Arshba warned that if such a situation recurred, Abkhazia would find a way to defend its interests at sea, as well as a way to defend peace fishermen.

February 16, 2004 17:39

• Position of Russian Society "Memorial" regarding Russian presidential election

  The Society "Memorial" does not back up the candidacy of the present President, and it is undoubted. At the same time, Memorial, as a united organization, does not support election campaigns of the other candidates either.

February 16, 2004 17:37

• Problem of oil spills is under discussion in Baku

  "Countries of the Caspian region do not have enough resources to prevent oil spills and liquidate their consequences. Therefore our goal is to draw the public's attention to this problem," said a representative of the NGO Crude Accountability, Michelle Kinman.

February 16, 2004 16:32

• Trade unions gain court victory over Stavropol administration

  A judicial contest between regional budget trade unions and the Stavropol administration has ended with the victory of the former.

February 16, 2004 15:59

• Chechen teenager detained by servicemen dies from wounds

  Rustam Djakalayev, 1989, a resident of the village of Assinovskaya, was shot down by Russian servicemen in the village of Ordzhonikidzevskaya, Ingushetia, on February 3.

February 16, 2004 14:50

• 1.3 million Armenians live in Russia, according to 2003 population census

  The number of Azerbaijanians living in Russia increased from 340 thousand in 1989 to 620 thousand in 2002.

February 15, 2004 17:02

• US Embassy prepares report on situation with trafficking in Georgia

  The risk exists that Georgia may be transferred from the second group of countries to the third one, which will damage the country's international image and may reduce financial help from abroad.

February 15, 2004 17:00

• Ex-president of unrecognized Chechen Republic of Ichkeria dies as a result of attempt on his life

  Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev died in a hospital in Qatar as a result of an attempt on his life, reported an Al Arabiya TV Channel correspondent with reference to medical sources in Doha (Qatar's capital).

February 15, 2004 16:56

• Information campaign on program of Meskhetian Turks' resettlement from Kuban region to US begins

  The first meeting of workers of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) with Meskhetian Turks will be held on February 16 in the village of Kholmskaya, Krasnodar Territory's Abinsky district. The IOM representatives will inform the Meskhetian Turks about the program of resettlement to the United States.

February 15, 2004 16:54

• LINKS director visits Nagorny Karabakh

  Representatives of British and American non-government organizations (NGOs) that worked out a joint project to promote the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict settlement and to create the atmosphere of trust in the region made a three-day visit to the Republic of Nagorny Karabakh.

February 13, 2004 23:55

• Zamoskvoretsky Court to consider complaint by mother of victim of terrorist act on Dubrovka

  On February 17, the Zamoskvoretsky Intermunicipal Court of Moscow will consider a complaint by people suffered as a result of the terrorist act on Dubrovka against actions of investigative bodies in the course of the investigation into the criminal case.

February 13, 2004 23:30

• New public movement created in Karabakh

  Eduard Agabekian, a deputy of the Karabakh parliament, made a statement to the National Assembly. He announced on behalf of the initiative group that Movement - 88 was a new political movement to be formed.

February 13, 2004 23:06

• Meeting in Gudermes devoted to explosion on Moscow metro

  A meeting arranged by the district administration and leaders of the Chechen regional branch of the United Russia party was held on the central square of Gudermes on February 10.

February 13, 2004 22:30

• Azerbaijan human rights activists on lack of freedom of assembly in republic

  "Article 49 "Freedom of Assembly" of the Constitution has been suspended in the republic in fact after the presidential election of 15 October 2003 and the clashes between demonstrators and the police that followed the election on 15 and 16 October," reads the statement.