News

March 25, 2004 13:22

• Aprasidze's gang liquidated in Georgia

  On March 24, special operations units of the Georgian Interior Ministry conducted a special operation in the village of Etseri, in a mountain part of Georgia's Svanetia. Three dangerous gangsters - Gocha, Omekhi and Yevgeny Aprasidze - were liquidated during the operation.

March 25, 2004 12:58

• Adjarian leader refuses to disarm militia

  "The militia in the autonomous republic will be disarmed when democracy is built in Georgia," Aslan Abashidze said to the local television early on March 25.

March 25, 2004 12:56

• Protest action of air traffic controllers in southern Russia

  The people are not satisfied with the last indexation of their pay, which has been increased by 13 rubles.

March 25, 2004 12:04

• Businessmen in Rostov Region dissatisfied at police officers' illegal actions

  The Minister of Economy of Rostov Region, Viktor Deryabkin, announced it at a joint conference of the regional Small Business Council and the Interdepartmental Committee on Overcoming Bureaucratic Barriers to Entrepreneurship.

March 25, 2004 11:02

• New movement unites Georgian NGOs

  The National Movement "Board of Trustees of Georgia" has been created in Georgia. It unites about 130 non-government organizations (NGOs).

March 25, 2004 10:39

• Moscow authorities ban antiwar picket again

  The prefecture of Moscow's Central Administrative District refused for the third time to consider an application for the holding of a picket against war in Chechnya.

March 25, 2004 10:12

• Azerbaijan president critical of OSCE Minsk Group

  "The Minsk Group's current approach and its position on settling this conflict cannot play a positive role since the group has restricted itself to merely monitoring the situation in Nagorny Karabakh," Ilkham Aliyev said.

March 24, 2004 18:07

• Azerbaijan kidnappers detained in Moscow

  Four citizens of Azerbaijan who abducted a Palestinian have been detained in Moscow, reported the information and public relations division of the Moscow City Interior Department.

March 24, 2004 18:04

• Extraordinary parliamentary elections to be held in Georgia on March 28

  The elections will be held at 85 districts and 2,867 polling stations, including those in Russia, Ukraine, Turkey, the United States, and other countries.

March 24, 2004 17:29

• Georgian Foreign Ministry annuls Aslan Abashidze's diplomatic passport

  The Georgian Foreign Ministry does not rule out the possibility that diplomatic and service passports of members of the Revival political party, led by Aslan Abashidze, will also be annulled.

March 24, 2004 17:12

• Stavropol rights defenders to consult draftees

  "We implement the project in spite of the fact that the Department of Justice in Stavropol Territory refused to register us on March 1," noted chairman of the Caucasian Youth Human Rights League Maksim Abrakhimov.

March 24, 2004 15:32

• Timur Aliyev's Institute for Social Development announces War Prize action

  The organizers of the action say they want to understand the reasons for the ongoing tragedy and to reveal concrete people responsible for the war in Chechnya.

March 24, 2004 14:34

• Amtsakhara movement accuses Abkhazian authorities of murdering its activist

  The Abkhazian social and political movement Amtsakhara accuses Abkhazian authorities of political terror and the murder of its activists Aleksandr Psardia. The movement's political council issued a statement in connection with the death of Psardia on March 23, in which it accuses the authorities of persecuting the opposition and terrorizing political opponents.

March 24, 2004 13:47

• Nizhny Novgorod rehabilitation school receives deaf children from Chechnya

  The action was initiated by the Society for Russian-Chechen Friendship and sponsored by the Moscow-based Fund for the Support of Democracy and Social Progress.

March 24, 2004 12:54

• 3 thousand Russian soldiers to be withdrawn from Chechnya till end of April

  The withdrawal of the 3-thousand-strong military contingent will not adversely affect the fighting efficiency of the Russian military group in Chechnya, a source at the republican military commandant's office said to the Caucasian Knot correspondent.

March 24, 2004 12:24

• Both central and regional media exploit nationalist themes

  The researches found out that almost all of the newspapers exploited nationalist themes. The most intolerant regional newspapers are Vechernyaya Ryazan, Kuban Segodnya, and Krasnodarsky Kuryer.

March 24, 2004 11:23

• Aslan Maskhadov to decide on destiny of Russian captive soldiers

  As reported by the website of Chechen separatists Ichkeria, the Chechen military command decided to be indulgent with respect to the Russian soldiers proceeding from the fact that they did not put up armed resistance and gave frank evidence.

March 24, 2004 09:36

• Anti-war meeting trial details

  On March 17, Moscow's Meshchansky District Court heard an administrative case against Nikolai Khramov, secretary of Russian Radicals and an organizer of a meeting for peace and democracy in Chechnya.

March 23, 2004 22:16

• Compact disk "Victims of Political Terror in the USSR" created

  A press conference devoted to the presentation of the compact disk "Victims of Political Terror in the USSR" is to be held at the concert hall of the Central House of Journalists on March 24.

March 23, 2004 21:58

• Chechen refugees leave Sputnik camp

  The reason for it is that the authorities officially announced the camp would be closed on April 1.