News

October 21, 2003 14:28

• Ilkham Aliyev makes Musavat party leaders responsible for disorders in Baku

  "We did not start the disorders, but Musavat leader Isa Gambar and his companions did start them," Aliyev declared in his interview to the "Rossiyskaya Gazeta".

October 21, 2003 14:26

• Germany allots another sum of about one million euro as aid to Chechen refugees

  Thus, the total sum that the German Foreign Ministry has allotted in 2003 to help Chechen refugees exceeds 1,800,000 euro.

October 21, 2003 13:33

• Murad Petrosian: "Karabakh settlement will be speeded up right after elections in Azerbaijan"

  Murad Petrosian, an independent expert and editor of the author newspaper "What To Do" published in Nagorny Karabakh expressed such an opinion in his interview to the Karabakh "Azat Artsakh" newspaper.

October 21, 2003 11:03

• Experts from Northern Caucasus took active part in seminar on conflict prevention

  An annual seminar of the Early Warning and Conflict Prevention Network (EAWARN) was held in the town of Kumbor (Chernogoria) from October 4 to October 11, 2003.

October 21, 2003 11:01

• Over 380 people have disappeared without trace in Chechnya since beginning of year

  The republican interior ministry has reported it.

October 21, 2003 10:59

• Delegation of International Charitable Foundation named after Dmitry Likhachev visited Makhachkala

  Ekaterina Geniyeva told a press conference for Dagestani journalists the Foundation had many prospective plans in Dagestan.

October 21, 2003 10:57

• Central Election Commission announced final election results and confirmed Ilkham Aliyev's victory

  A source at the Chechen presidential staff told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent the inauguration ceremony was planned to be held on October 22.

October 20, 2003 22:20

• Leaders of Azerbaijan Musavat opposition party seek political asylum in Norway

  One of them is editor-in-chief of the party newspaper Rauf Arif-oglu. He has been declared wanted on suspicion of arranging disorders in Baku during presidential elections.

October 20, 2003 22:18

• Chechen human rights activists are going to submit report on situation in Chechnya to UN

  This was discussed at the seminar on UN methods for protection of human rights and economic, social and cultural rights that was held by the World Organization Against Torture in Ingushetia on October 17 and 18.

October 20, 2003 17:18

• Ombudsmen of Russia's South discussed in Astrakhan problems of interaction with public authorities

  "This seminar is a continuation of the program to assist with making the institution of the ombudsman in the South Federal District, which is one of the most problem districts in Russia," said chairwoman of the presidential commission on human rights Ella Pamfilova.

October 20, 2003 17:16

• Well-known stickler for independence of Chechen Republic Hoj-Akhmed Nukhayev get back to Chechnya

  Hoj-Akhmed Nukhayev is an author of a number of books, in which he proposed the ways of the Russian-Chechen military conflict settlement. His proposals caused an ambiguous critical reaction of the Chechen politicians and leadership.

October 20, 2003 14:55

• Seminar for Chechen NGO activists in Karabulak

  The seminar was focused on the issues concerned with protection of human rights in economic, social, and cultural fields.

October 20, 2003 14:33

• Public organization's newspaper became laureate in competition of social periodical press of Russia's South

  The newspaper "Overcoming of Informational Barriers" is issued by the Association of Stavropol Territory's Migrant Organizations "Solidarity" with the assistance of the Caucasian Knot Internet website, the Memorial society and the Soros Foundation.

October 20, 2003 14:30

• Urgent problems of legal proceedings are discussed in Stavropol region

  The seminar "Urgent Problems of Legal Proceedings on Civil and Criminal Cases" took place in Pyatigorsk on October 16-17.

October 20, 2003 13:00

• Akhmad Kadyrov was sworn in as president of Chechnya

  Akhmad Kadyrov took his oaths of office and swore to serve the peoples of Chechnya and to abide by the constitutions of the Russian Federation and the Chechen Republic.

October 20, 2003 12:37

• U.S. advocate decriminalization of defamation and say failure to grant broadcast licenses to A1+ and Noyan Tapan TV companies is politically driven

  The Bureau of International Information Programs of the U.S. Department of State disseminated the speech of Ronald McNamara made on October 7 at the OSCE Human Dimension Implementation Meeting in Warsaw.

October 20, 2003 11:27

• 2003 elections: Armenia, Georgia, Azerbaijan

  On October 10-12, the seminar "Elections of 2003 in South Caucasian Countries and Their Impact on Regional Processes" took place in Tsakhkadzor. It was organized by the Yerevan Press Club with the support of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation.

October 18, 2003 14:07

• Action of protest against attacks on media has taken place in Poti

  The participants protested against the frequent cases of attacks on representatives of mass media by law-enforcement agencies.

October 18, 2003 13:33

• Elections in Azerbaijan: post-election clashes turn deadly

  From the roof of a nearby building, a Human Rights Watch researcher saw police and military troops chase down protesters, surround them and viciously beat them.

October 18, 2003 13:27

• Minister of Defense of Nagorny Karabakh: "The election of Ilkham Aliyev as President of Azerbaijan will lead to the progress in the Karabakh settlement"

  The minister stressed that the truce on the contact line of the Azerbaijan-Karabakh conflict was sustained mainly due to the balance of military forces, which was to a large extent conditioned by the level of economic development of the conflict parties.