News

November 12, 2003 12:54

• Rauf Arifoglu arrested for long

  Experts hold Rauf Arifoglu will surely be imprisoned for a month or two, and after it President Ilkham Aliyev's petition will let him be released.

November 12, 2003 12:08

• Unauthorized demonstration of anarchists held under antiwar slogans

  "We feel with the persecuted Chechens and want to remind everybody that things happening in Chechnya will have an inevitable effect on our own life, and not only by regular kamikaze explosions," the organizers of the action note in their press release.

November 12, 2003 11:09

• Expert of "Yeni Musavat" newspaper to be under arrest

  On November 3, the Nasiminsky District Court pronounced judgment to hold in custody Eldar Tagiev, an expert of the "Yeni Musavat" newspaper.

November 11, 2003 22:58

• Antiwar conference in Boston

  The conference "Chechnya: Humane Catastrophe and Way to Peace" is to be held in Boston, the U.S., on November 14-15, with documentaries being shown.

November 11, 2003 22:54

• Pro-government bloc leads Georgia's parliamentary elections

  According to information received by the Central Election Commission from 2,716 out of 2,870 polling stations, For New Georgia won 20.6% of the vote. At some of the polling stations the elections have been declared invalid because of the violations and at some other stations the second round of the elections will be held.

November 11, 2003 19:14

• Organization for Karabakh Liberation to picket embassies of UN Security Council Member States in Baku

  The protest is caused by the passive, as the organization believes, activity of Russia, the U.S., China, France, and Great Britain on the Karabakh conflict settlement.

November 11, 2003 18:30

• Georgian opposition rallies continue in Tbilisi

  Despite the rain, about three hundred people gathered at the square and the crowd of protesters was gradually growing.

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.