News

September 22, 2003 13:12

• Conference of NGOs took place in Chechnya

  A conference of non-government organizations and representatives of the Chechen intelligentsia took place in Grozny on September 19.

September 22, 2003 13:10

• UNHCR Office made protest to Russian Interior Ministry against ban on easy visits of refugee camps in Ingushetia

  On September 18 the police did not let representatives of humanitarian organizations in the Bella camp explaining it with toughening of security measures after the terrorist act in Magas.

September 22, 2003 12:07

• Pre-election passions run high

  An extemporaneous meeting of people showing support for Shamil Burayev's candidacy for the post of the Chechen Republic's president was held in Achkhoy-Martan, Chechnya's district center, on September 13. Shamil Burayev is a former district administration head dismissed from his post by "Chechnya's Acting President" Akhmad Kadyrov on the threshold of the elections.

September 22, 2003 12:00

• Entrepreneurs will be able to hold out only if they unite

  The round table discussion "Administrative Barriers Preventing the Development of Small-Scale Enterprise in Krasnodar Territory" was held in the conference hall of the Krasnodarskiye Izvestiya newspaper.

September 20, 2003 12:04

• Issues concerned with Georgian-Abkhazian settlement were discussed at meeting of Abkhazian Foreign Minister and Special Representative of UN Secretary-General in Georgia

  Sergey Shamba and Heidi Tagliavini spoke about a Georgian-Abkhazian meeting on the guarantees of security and nonrenewal of military operations in Tbilisi scheduled for September 23 and about a forthcoming arrival of 20 UN Civilian Police in the zone of the Georgian-Abkhazian conflict.

September 20, 2003 12:01

• Press conference in Baku

  A press conference of Enver Berusoy, a representative of the Caucasian Institute of Strategic Researches, and Mairbek Taramov, the director of the Chechen Human Rights Center was held at the Press Club of Baku on September 19.

September 20, 2003 11:55

• Journalists and politics agreed upon correct behavior

  The interregional conference "Political Parties and the Media in the Election Process. New Features of Electoral Legislation" was held in Rostov-on-Don on September 17.

September 20, 2003 11:53

• TV and Turks-Meskhetians

  An interest to the problem of discrimination against the Turks-Meskhetians in Krasnodar Territory has appeared on central TV channels.

September 20, 2003 11:50

• Conflict between district authorities and farmers in Rostov region

  The authorities of the Kuibyshev district's head Tamara Zaborodnyaya have been ceased ahead of time for an unlawful dismissal of a farm head.

September 20, 2003 11:49

• In his exclusive interview to Deutsche Welle Akhmed Zakayev informed of conflict escalation laid down

  According to his words, the so called State Defense Committee of Ichkeria, which is immediately under Aslan Maskhadov, decided during its last session not to limit operations to the territory of the Chechen Republic, but extend them to the whole territory of the Russian Federation.

September 19, 2003 18:37

• Mass beating of Chechens took place in Nalchik

  Over a hundred people rushed into a hospice of the economic and law lyceum and beat Chechen students living there.

September 19, 2003 18:13

• Field commander Eli Yandarbiyev was killed in Chechnya

  The commander of the group offered the separatist to yield, but Yandarbiyev began firing back from the automatic and was killed.

September 19, 2003 18:09

• Ingur Hydroelectric Power Station guard head, who had been taken hostage on September 16 in Gali district, was released

  He had been held on the territory of Georgia's Tsalenjikhsky district for over a day; the state of health of the released hostage is satisfactory.

September 19, 2003 17:41

• Search in office of Internet newspaper "Grani.ru"

  Today, at 11 am, at the office of the Internet newspaper "Grani.ru" investigative officer of the Moscow city prosecutor's office A.A. Galkin began a seizure of documents related to a publication about the last year's abduction of Nadezhda Pogosova and Aleksey Klimov who worked for the Chechen prosecutor's office.

September 19, 2003 16:03

• Public in Stavropol Territory concerns about nonobservance of women's rights

  The mass exclusion of women from social production has taken place in Stavropol Territory for the last years. Since 1990 the rate of women's participation in the production has reduced by 4 - from 51 to 47.

September 19, 2003 15:44

• In opinion of political scientist Agasi Yenokian, rapid development of Karabah conflict settlement issue should be awaited

  The seminar "New Geopolitical Reality and the Southern Caucasus" was devoted to the regional problems of the Southern Caucasus, evaluation of the situation that has arisen in the world after the terrorist act of September 11, 2001, and possible evolution in the region of the Large Near East.

September 19, 2003 15:43

• Three servicemen participating in "address cleanups" in Goyskoye were killed

  According to the data of the Central Commandant's Office of Chechnya, 14 locals suspected of their connection with Chechen illegal armed units were detained as a result of the operation.

September 19, 2003 15:35

• Monument devoted to Russian-Armenian friendship was unveiled in Tula

  As Ara Abramian, the president of the Union of Russia's Armenians, marked the day before yesterday in Yerevan, only the strong and solidary Armenian Diaspora could be helpful to its country.

September 19, 2003 15:28

• Caucasian Four is to discuss in Moscow situation around "frozen" conflicts

  Chairpersons of the higher legislative bodies of Russia, Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan will participate in the meeting.

September 19, 2003 15:25

• Presentation of project "Organization of Public Campaign for Struggle Against Racism, Xenophobia, Anti-Semitism, and Ethnic Discrimination in the Multinational Russian Federation"

  Moscow Helsinki Group Chairwoman Lyudmila Alekseyeva, Director of the Moscow Bureau on Human Rights Alexander Brod, UCSJ International Director Leonid Stonov, as well as Russian human rights activists, writers, journalists, and political scientists took part in the press conference.