News

November 06, 2003 11:24

• Georgian Interior Ministry instituted criminal action against opposition leaders

  According to Interior Minister Koba Narchemashvili, the police do their best to keep up order. And the use of force is not excluded if necessary.

November 06, 2003 11:21

• Discord between Georgian opposition activists: one part calls upon the other to refrain from holding protest actions

  Leader of the opposition bloc "New Rules" David Gamkrelidze said it was inadmissible "to show muscles so that to put pressure on the Central Election Commission."

November 05, 2003 23:21

• Statement of Scientific and Information Center "Memorial" concerning rejection of former political prisoner Yuli Ribakov's registration as candidate for State Duma Deputy chair

  The statement reads, "A new totalitarian regime has been finally established in the country today. The KGB officer, dictator, who has unleashed state terror in the country, is at the head of it. The methods are still the same: falsification and elimination. And we have no choice but to defend out civil stand and independence."

November 05, 2003 22:52

• Commissioner for Human Rights in Russia offers cooperation in special report preparation

  As it is known, when the Commissioner presented a report on his activity in 2002 at a round table, he came to the agreement with NGO leaders that their organizations would take part in the preparation of the Commissioner's reports.

November 05, 2003 17:40

• Internews protests against monopolization of electronic media by authorities

  Yesterday Internews' Media Rights Institute made a statement regarding the monopolization of Azerbaijan electronic media by the authorities.

November 05, 2003 17:02

• Society for Russian-Chechen Friendship volunteer was released

  On November 1, 2003, the Information Center of the Society for Russian-Chechen Friendship received a report that Zairkhanov Ibragim (Rustam) Zelimkhanovich, 1979, was released on October 29, 2003.

November 05, 2003 15:43

• Alan Chochiev continues hunger strike in prison

  Information and analytical Internet agency "Caucasian Knot" keeps on watching the situation with the arrest of Alan Chochiev, the well-know South Osetian public figure.

November 05, 2003 14:52

• Human rights defense was discussed in Khasavyurt

  The seminar participants studied and discussed international legal documents, analyzed specific cases that had been heard in the Strasburg Court and UN system, got practical training and consultations.

November 05, 2003 13:49

• Former Armenian premier urges opposition to unite to remove authorities

  "The opposition must unite and take resolute actions to dismiss the authorities by the active Constitution," announced Aram Sarkisian.

November 05, 2003 12:55

• Temporary accommodation centers for IDPs in Chechnya are to be equipped with autonomous power supply sources

  A spokesman of the Chechen presidential press service reported it referring to the data of the Chechen Migration Service Department.

November 05, 2003 12:29

• Nino Burdjanadze met with short-term OSCE observation mission head

  "I expressed my position regarding the elections. The authorities are playing with us. They want us to be silent regarding the mass ballot fraud in order to let us clear the 7% barrier. But we are not going to do so," Nino Burdjanadze said after the meeting with the OSCE observer.

November 05, 2003 11:57

• Valery Khatazhukov: "The Kremlin is in many respects responsible that there is no civil society in Kabardino-Balkaria"

  "While Moscow imposes the political regime on the republic, the public organizations of Kabardino-Balkaria that does not accept this regime turn out outsiders for the Russian legal system," stated executive director of the republican human rights public center in Kabardino-Balkaria Valery Khatazhukov.

November 05, 2003 11:26

• Tbilisi center was paralyzed by Georgian opposition protest

  A protest action by the Georgian opposition practically paralyzed Tbilisi's central artery, Rustaveli Avenue, on Tuesday night. Nearly 10,000 opposition supporters moved to the Central Elections Commission building.

November 04, 2003 23:08

• Poet Rasul Gamzatov died in Moscow

  The poet wrote dozens of books in poetry and prose and articles in the Avar and Russian languages.

November 04, 2003 22:37

• World community forgot about Karabakh conflict

  This is an opinion of the British journalist, Caucasian office coordinator of the Institute for War & Peace Reporting Thomas de Waal, who is the author of the book about Karabakh "The Black Garden". Thomas de Waal presented his book - the first English language edition on the Karabakh conflict - at the International Press Center in Baku on October 30.

November 04, 2003 21:38

• Cold weather seriously complicated life in tent camps of Chechen refugees

  As the pressure in gas lines leading to the camps is low, the temperature in many tents does not rise higher than several degrees above zero.

November 04, 2003 20:54

• Memorial: Chechen deputy prosecutor's assertions are contrary to fact

  The information and analytical Internet agency "Caucasian Knot" publishes a text of the declaration of the Human Rights Center "Memorial" concerning the recent statements of the Chechen Public Prosecutor's Office on the number of people disappeared without a trace on the territory of Chechnya.

November 03, 2003 17:01

• Dispute between Turkish citizen deported from Kabardino-Balkaria and republican law-enforcement bodies was finished by court

  The Nalchik City Court disaffirmed the decisions made before to impose an administrative penalty on Khadzhy Bayram Bolat and annul his Kabardino-Balkarian residential permit, the Turkish citizen's lawyer announced.

November 03, 2003 16:05

• Russian soldiers and police are attacked in public in Chechnya

  Attacks on Russian soldiers and policemen are quite common in public places in Chechnya and most often occur in marketplaces and public telephone centers.

November 03, 2003 16:02

• Local observers: "Parliamentary election in Georgia was chaotic and uncoordinated"

  The Georgian Young Lawyers Association, which observed the course of the voting, declared that it was about to register claims, as well as to lodge complaints to election commissions concerning the violations during the election.