News

September 17, 2003 12:38

• ARF "Dashnaktsutyun" attaches high profile to death penalty abolition

  Levon Mkrtchian, the leader of the National Assembly's faction "ARFD", declared it. According to him, the mortals can not be given the right to kill a man.

September 17, 2003 11:48

• Judge decided to imprison former deputy - human rights activist

  Prosecutor of the Lazarevsky District Court of Sochi Kovalenko brought criminal proceedings by the article "slander" against Leonid Teleleyko, a well-known human rights activist and public figure of the Krasnodar region and Sochi. The writ was handed in by former Lazarevsky District Court Deputy Chairman Trukhan N. I. Teleleyko is articled for his publications in the Chernomorskaya Zdravnitsa and the Sochi newspapers in 2002.

September 16, 2003 23:44

• Turks-Meskhetians are being forced to acknowledge themselves to be migrants in Kuban

  In the village of Varennikovskaya local administration officials and policemen seized passports of the people of four houses, promising to give the documents back if the Turks fill in migration cards.

September 16, 2003 23:41

• Maskhadov ordered rebels to leave Russia

  As it was reported at the Regional Operations Staff for the Control of the Antiterrorist Operation in the Northern Caucasus, this information was received from Lechi Aydiyev detained on suspicion of his belonging to armed units.

September 16, 2003 23:36

• Territorial police department's officer was abducted in Chechnya

  "The day before ten people armed with submachine guns, wearing masks and camouflage rushed into the house of police officer Ruslan Khalidov, which is situated on Sharipov Street in the Shalinsky district's Germenchuk village," said the interior ministry's official.

September 16, 2003 23:34

• European Court on Human Rights holds hearings of claim registered by group of Chechens who do not want to be extradited to Russia

  As it is indicated in the writ, they are threatened with life sentences and tortures in case of their extradition to Russia, and this contradicts the articles of the European Convention on Human Rights.

September 16, 2003 19:50

• Opposition activist was held at Azerbaijan Department for Straggle Against Organized Crime

  According to the oppositionist, it had been done to prevent him from taking part in a rally scheduled by his party for September 6.

September 16, 2003 17:20

• Azerbaijan leadership is suspected of corruption

  The other day Hans Bodmer, a Swiss citizen, was arrested in Seoul. He was called a key figure in the bribery payments of tens of millions of dollars that were made to Azerbaijan top officials in 1997-1999 for giving the opportunity of taking part in the process of privatization in this country.

September 16, 2003 16:34

• Chechen rebels are preparing to use poison

  Chechen rebels are preparing new actions of intimidation, but this time terrorists are going to use virulent poison instead of bombs stuffed with bearings and ragged iron. This was reported at the Regional Operations Headquarters.

September 16, 2003 16:08

• "Human Rights and the Media" is theme of seminar in Krasnodar

  As it was reported at the Creative Union "Southern Wave", guests from the University of Cologne will appear at the seminar.

September 16, 2003 15:34

• Basayev launches "Boomerang"

  Russian Interior Minister Boris Gryzlov announced that Chechen separatists were preparing a series of terrorist acts on the threshold of the presidential election in Chechnya. This information was confirmed by field commander Shamil Basayev.

September 16, 2003 14:36

• Armenian church and cultural center will be built in Yekaterinburg

  The studies of the Armenian Sunday school, which have been working for ten years already and basing in one of the secondary educational institution of the city, will be transferred into the Center.

September 16, 2003 12:13

• Action "For Fair Elections" is to take place in Krasnodar on September 16

  On the threshold of the elections activists of "GOLOS" is going into the streets to remind citizens that it is important to vote during elections.

September 15, 2003 20:38

• "Large-scale purge" in Staraya Sunzha village

  As a result of the military men's action 9 local residents, mainly young people of 20-25 years old, were captured and taken away in an unknown direction.

September 15, 2003 19:34

• Interior Ministry of Ingushetia: two people were killed as result of terrorist act

  According to the preliminary data of the Ingush Interior Ministry, two people were killed and over twenty wounded, as a result of an explosion near the building of the Federal Security Service Department in Magas.

September 15, 2003 18:59

• Local residents were kidnapped in Chiri-Yurt village

  According to some data, two of the kidnapped were thrown away on the outskirt of the settlement, having been savagely tortured and beaten.

September 15, 2003 18:57

• EU representative and humanitarian organization members visited Chechen refugees' camp

  Tent camp inhabitants asked the guests to do their best not to allow forced liquidation of the tent camp "Bella", authorities trying to close it at all costs.

September 15, 2003 13:37

• Pious Moslems of Kabardino-Balkaria are indignant at closure of republican mosques

  The head of the Moslems of Kabardino-Balkaria Anas Pshikhachyov told it in an interview on Friday.

September 15, 2003 13:36

• International community should help Russia to solve problem of displaced persons

  It was claimed by Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Internally Displaced Persons Francis Deng at a press-conference in Moscow.

September 15, 2003 13:34

• Attempt on life of regional administration chief in Dagestan

  A car with the chief of the Kizilyurt region of Dagestan, Abdurakhman Gadzhiyev, was fired at from an automatic gun on Saturday, reported the Interior Ministry of Dagestan.