News

November 11, 2003 18:07

• Member of the European Parliament Oliver Dupuis considered Silvio Berlusconi's statements about Chechnya "haughty and cynical"

  "Mr. Berlusconi undertook another disgraceful deed: he supported the stance of President Putin, who had come into power and developed his muscles by perpetrating the genocide of the small nationality," reads the statement.

November 11, 2003 14:18

• Union of Russian Compatriots in Abkhazia offers national communities to unite into one organization

  The national communities came to the agreement they would initially discuss the proposal in their organizations and then would make a final decision and hold a joint congress.

November 11, 2003 13:42

• Azerbaijan Defense Minister: "Stability in the Southern Caucasus depends on the reestablishment of the country's territorial integrity"

  "We hope international organizations will recognize Armenia as occupant and take real measures to settle the Karabakh conflict," stressed Safar Abiev.

November 11, 2003 12:18

• Pupils of Grozny boarding school for deaf children spending holidays in Nizhniy Novgorod

  The trip is arranged by the Society for Russian-Chechen Friendship with the financial support of Husein Jabrailov, a Moscow businessman and deputy director general of the "Rossia" hotel complex.

November 11, 2003 11:27

• Large art exhibition in Sukhum

  The combined exhibition "Southern Transit" of the Abkhazian Union of Painters, Krasnodar Regional Organization and Sochi Branch of the Russian Union of Painters has opened in Sukhum for the first time in 10 years. The exposition at the exhibition hall of the Abkhazian Union of Painters presents 60 works by 20 authors.

November 11, 2003 11:05

• Abkhazian librarians to be participants in international conference

  Four employees of the National Library of Abkhazia are to take part in the VII International Conference "Information Technologies, Computer Systems, and Publishing Production for Libraries LIBCOM - 2003".

November 11, 2003 10:47

• Days of new German pictures in Rostov

  A film festival of the best German films of the last years is taking place at the Don State Public Library. This is a project of the German Cultural Center named after Goethe, Moscow.

November 10, 2003 23:11

• Two residents of Chechnya detained in Nazran

  The detention occurred on the territory of a car wash where the young people had come in a Zhiguli VAZ-21099 car.

November 10, 2003 22:58

• "Journey of Peace" Yekaterinburg-Grozny

  A press conference devoted to the peacemaking action "Journey of Peace - 2003" and the act of charity "From Hands to Hands", which had been taken place from October 6 to November 4, 2003, was held in Moscow on November 10.

November 10, 2003 22:34

• High-handedness of the military in Samashki village

  On November 7, Russian servicemen burst into the house of the Katsayevs in Samashki of the Achkhoy-Martan district and conducted an unwarranted search of the house.

November 10, 2003 20:10

• Mass meeting in Batumi in support of official Georgian authorities

  Either the Revival Union or the ruling "For New Georgia" bloc will be the first number in the parliament of new convocation, according to preliminary data.

November 10, 2003 17:44

• International forum of European ombudsmen to take place in Baku

  The ombudsmen, who will arrive mainly from the CIS countries and Eastern Europe, will exchange opinions on various aspects of their activity.

November 10, 2003 17:31

• Radical opposition in Georgia announced beginning of riot

  In spite of reinforced police cordons at the avenues of approach to Tbilisi, opposition supporters from Rustavi and the Kakhetinsky district in the east of Georgia managed to enter the city and join the meeting.

November 10, 2003 16:53

• Abducted press photographer freed in Ingushetia

  As it was reported by the Ingush Interior Ministry, Petrosian had been kept in a private house, in a pit 80 to 150 centimeters in size.

November 10, 2003 14:13

• Official results of parliamentary elections in Georgia to be announced on November 20

  "Preliminary data of the counting in all the districts will be available tomorrow, and the final official data will do on November 20," said the spokesman of the Central Election Commission.

November 10, 2003 13:46

• UN Human Rights Committee is concerned about human rights violation in Russia

  The committee urges the authorities in Moscow to see not to allow human rights violations during the counter-terrorist operation in Chechnya.

November 10, 2003 12:04

• Shevardnadze's meeting with opposition activists produced no results

  "The demands made by the opposition in the meeting were impossible to fulfill, because they were demanding that the elections be invalidated," said Eduard Shevardnadze.

November 10, 2003 11:41

• "Ertoba" - Unity in Georgia" opposition bloc brought suit demanding parliamentary elections results should be declared invalid

  The bloc's writ reads that several hundreds of thousands of people were not put on the lists and did not participate in the parliamentary elections.

November 08, 2003 12:51

• List of Azerbaijan opposition activists who face criminal charges

  The list contains brief information about people arrested as a result of the events of October 15-16, 2003 against whom criminal actions by Article 220.1 of the Azerbaijan Criminal Code have been launched.

November 08, 2003 12:42

• Conflict situation around Soros Foundation building in Moscow

  Owners of the building that the Open Society Institute (Soros Foundation) is situated in raise claims to the American management of the Foundation. Kantemir Karamzin, head of the "Sektor-1" Close Corporation - the owner of the building, announced it.