News

December 06, 2003 22:33

• Dismissal as instrument of putting pressure on electorate in Kabardino-Balkaria

  The administration of the Kabardino-Balkarian State University gathered all the university staff in the rector's office, gave them a task to vote for the United Russia party, and threatened to dismiss those who would not follow the instruction.

December 06, 2003 16:45

• Martin Ennals Award goes to coordinator of Memorial Office in Grozny Lida Yusupova

  The Grozny Office of the Human Rights Center "Memorial" is one of the few human rights organizations still operating in Chechnya and providing the world with crucial information on violations of human rights in this Russian republic.

December 06, 2003 15:49

• Explosion in electric train in Essentuki left 42 people dead

  35 people died at the site of the terrorist act, the other 7 died in a hospital.

December 06, 2003 15:48

• Russian Embassy to Georgia demanded that Georgian authorities inquire into attack on Russian diplomat

  The Russian Embassy to Georgia demanded that Georgian authorities immediately launch an investigation in the armed attack on charge de'affaires of the embassy Viktor Rynza, press secretary of the Russian Embassy in Tbilisi Denis Gonchar reported via phone.

December 06, 2003 14:45

• Train explosion committed by three Shakhid women and one kamikaze

  According to FSB director Nikolay Patrushev, two women were in the carriage and jumped out of it before the explosion. One woman led the action and observed. She has hardly survived, Mr. Patrushev noted.

December 06, 2003 14:29

• Murat Zyazikov met with representative of Islamic Relief

  On December 3, President of Ingushetia Murat Zyazikov received in his Magas residence Islamic Relief's Country Director for the Russian Federation Mohammed Allaa Ammar.

December 06, 2003 14:00

• Banker reportedly abducted in Tbilisi

  Tamaz Maghlakelidze, Supervisory Board Chairman of the United Georgian Bank, was kidnapped early in the morning yesterday, December 5.

December 05, 2003 17:31

• Abductions of people in Chechnya can be stopped

  A press conference of Oleg Orlov, Council Chairman of the Human Rights Center "Memorial", was held at the Independent Press Center on December 3. Its subject was "Chechnya After the Election: Abductions, Illegal Prisons, and Torture".

December 05, 2003 13:41

• Number of victims in explosion of Kislovodsk-Minvody train reached 32 people

  The total number of victims has reached 155 people, a spokesman for the South Regional Center of the Russian Ministry for Emergency Situations (MEC) told Interfax-South.

December 05, 2003 13:39

• No less that 300 thousand Russian soldiers involved in hostilities in Chechnya

  According to the data by the Independent Military Review, altogether the group of forces in Chechnya and around it (in the North Caucasian Military District) comes to no less than 300 thousand soldiers.

December 05, 2003 13:03

• Explosion in Kislovodsk-Minvody train

  According to the preliminary data, 4 people were killed and 50 were injured.

December 05, 2003 12:25

• Project of Stavropol Regional Library for the Blind marked in Moscow

  The contest for libraries in memory of Doctor Gaaz has been summed up in Moscow. It was held by the Tolerance Institute of the All-Russian State Library of Foreign Literature, the Russian Ministry of Culture and the Open Society Institute (Soros Foundation).

December 05, 2003 11:55

• Nino Burdjanadze discussed ways of Georgian-Abkhazian settlement with Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General in Georgia

  The parties stressed it was necessary that negotiations between Tbilisi and Sukhumi on the conflict settlement should continue, Heidi Tagliavini told journalists after the meeting.

December 04, 2003 23:58

• Appeal by human rights activists in Kuban region to the territory's governor

  The round table "How Not To Be Afraid of the Militia" took place in Krasnodar on December 2, 2003. It was organized by the Fund "School of Peace", the Novorossiysk Committee on Human Rights, and the Krasnodar Club of Civil Education of the Krasnodar Regional Public Organization "Creative Union "Southern Wave".

December 04, 2003 23:56

• Aki Yurt camp of Chechen refugees in Ingushetia closed

  Russian authorities have closed down Ingushetia's Aki Yurt camp, evicting some 1,500 displaced Chechens despite appeals by the UN refugee agency, which is now trying to follow up on their location and condition.

December 04, 2003 19:00

• Chechen refugees: from Russia to Europe

  If last year there were about 150 Chechens in Czechia, now there are about 3,000 of them there. Only one positive aspect can be discerned in this cheerless picture: the large Chechen Diaspora in Europe is aimed to become a serious political force so that to influence on the situation in the homeland and to convince Western politicians and public opinion of the necessity to demand that Russia should end the bloody war.

December 04, 2003 17:48

• Armenian Foreign Minister: "We are interested in the stability in Georgia not less that the Georgians themselves"

  At the 11th Ministerial Council meeting of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, Foreign Minister of Armenia Vardan Oskanian touched upon the OSCE's economic policy and organization's strategy to solve threats to security and stability in the 21st century, as well as upon documents on trafficking, the Armenian Foreign Ministry's press service informs.

December 04, 2003 16:46

• "Peace to Our Home!" action

  The invitation by the Human Rights Center "Memorial" in Nazran to take part in the "Peace to Our Home!" action.

December 04, 2003 15:35

• OSCE Minsk Group co-chairmen to arrive in Baku

  The Russian, French and U.S. co-chairmen of the OSCE Minsk Group, the mission of which is to promote the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, are arriving in Baku on Thursday, December 4, informed the Azerbaijan Interior Ministry's department of information.

December 04, 2003 14:42

• Russia took the first place by number of people applying for asylum in industrialized countries

  According to the data by UNHCR, the 29 industrialized countries covered by the UNHCR report received 321,724 asylum applications during the first nine months of the current year.