News

November 18, 2003 16:08

• Professor Alan Chochiev articled in North Osetia for kindling interethnic strife

  The criminal action against Alan Chochiev was caused by his open letter in which he asked to condemn Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze for "carrying out a pro-fascist policy raised to the state level in the republic."

November 18, 2003 15:03

• First Youth Forum took place

  The forum "Young People of Kuban. The Present and the Future" was conducted at the Krasnodar Exhibition Center on November 14. Establishments and youth public organizations, institutions of higher and specialized secondary education, and charitable foundations from 48 municipal areas of the territory participated in the forum.

November 18, 2003 14:13

• Political forum against actions of radical opposition to be held in Tbilisi

  The action is to take place simultaneously at the Sport Palace, at the City Philharmonic Hall, at Tbilisi's theatres and houses of culture.

November 18, 2003 13:49

• Mikhail Saakashvili : "People of Georgia will peacefully march to the State Chancellery"

  "We will peacefully march to the State Chancellery as no law forbids us to hold a meeting near this building," said the leader of the radical Georgian opposition.

November 18, 2003 12:52

• Chechen Cultural and Social Center in Ufa preparing for Festival of People's Friendship

  The Chechen Cultural and Social Center "Bart" (Agreement) has been successfully functioning in Ufa, Bashkorstan's capital, for 8 years. This public organization headed by Vom-Ali Israilov works to make the lives of more than one and a half thousand Chechens in Bashkorstan a little bit more interesting and diverse.

November 18, 2003 12:44

• 60th anniversary of Turks-Meskhetians' deportation by Stalin commemorated in Krasnodar Territory

  Co-Chairs of the Society for Kuban-Turkish-Meskhetian Friendship Tamara Karastilyova and Sarvar Tedorov announced that an exhibition of documents and photos is to open in Moscow in mid December and hearings on the discrimination of the Turks-Meskhetians in Krasnodar Territory are also to be held at that time.

November 18, 2003 11:51

• Aslan Maskhadov plans to set up "Independent Mountainous Ichkeria"

  It was reported by a spokesman of the regional headquarters on the counter-terrorist operation in the North Caucasus Colonel Ilya Shabalkin.

November 17, 2003 22:41

• First meeting of discussion club in Stepanakert

  Politicians in the Republic of Nagorny Karabakh believe the negotiation process should be resumed, with Karabakh being its obligatory participant and the Republic of Nagorny Karabakh being recognized as a part in the conflict.

November 17, 2003 19:17

• New assault against Open Society Institute in Moscow

  Unknown people reportedly attacked the Foundation's guard at about 10:50 p.m. Moscow time. Four security guards suffered as a result and were taken to the Sklifosofsky Institute of Emergency Care.

November 17, 2003 18:59

• Supreme Court of Azerbaijan reduced convicts' sentences

  On November 14, the Supreme Court of Azerbaijan reduced sentences of Alikram Aliyev, leader of the Islamic Party of Azerbaijan, and Jabrail Alizade, chair of the Union of Baku and Baku Villages.

November 17, 2003 17:53

• Murder of refugee in Ingushetia

  On November 8, the body of Imran Kagirov was found on a bank of the Sunzha River near the Ingush village of Barsuki. Imran had been a 1972-year born displaced person from Chechnya; he had lived in the place of IDPs' compact residence in the Nasir-Kort settlement, Nazran.

November 17, 2003 15:46

• Institute of Peace and Democracy about tasks of democratic public organizations

  We call your attention to the statement by Leyla Yunus, director of the Institute of Peace and Democracy.

November 17, 2003 14:47

• Vladikavkaz: attempt on candidate for Russian State Duma elections

  Since September 30, human rights activist Ruslan Makayev has been advocating constitutional rights of the officers of law-enforcement structures as leader of the public organization "Law Is Superior to Power".

November 17, 2003 14:27

• National Movement leader Mikhail Saakashvili: 2-thousand contingent of Adjarian police to be shifted to Tbilisi

  "Two thousand Adjarian police in mufti are about to arrange provocations in the places where the opposition holds meetings against the official authorities," announced Mikhail Saakashvili.

November 17, 2003 13:31

• Use of fentanyl on Dubrovka recognized by FSB

  The office of the All-Russian Movement "For Human Rights" received a reply made by the FSB (Federal Security Service) Department for Moscow and Moscow region to the movement's September inquiry about the composition and concentration of the gas and the duration of it use when storming the theatre building.

November 17, 2003 12:54

• Teachers from Grozny participated in seminar on civil education in Kamensk-Shakhtinsk

  The seminar started close contacts between Chechen and Don teachers. Many ideas of joint projects in the field of legal education and enlightenment of pupils occurred.

November 17, 2003 12:08

• 50,000 US dollars demanded by security structure for kidnapped Chechen teenager

  Magomed Akhayev, a 17-year-old resident from the Alkhan-Yurt village in the Urus-Martan district, was kidnapped from his home a month ago and his family is convinced the operation was carried out by members of one of the Chechen security forces.

November 17, 2003 12:06

• Amnesty International welcomes the November 13 decision of Bow Street Magistrates' Court, London, to decline the request of the Russian Federation for the extradition of the Chechen envoy Akhmed Zakayev

  "The widespread use of torture and ill-treatment by the Russian authorities, as documented by Amnesty International and other human rights groups, had given rise to well-based fears for Akhmed Zakayev's physical safety if sent back to Russia," Amnesty International said.

November 15, 2003 17:17

• London's court refused to extradite Akhmed Zakaev to Russia

  Judge Timothy Workman announced the court decision. He pointed out that Zakaev's return to Russia would be an unfair decision.

November 15, 2003 15:22

• Two prosecutors taken hostages a year ago were released in Chechnya

  Deputy Public Prosecutors of the Shatoysky and Shalinsky districts of Chechnya Nadezhda Pogosova and Aleksey Klimov were released during a special operation by republican security agencies.