News

October 02, 2003 16:56

• Website www.pankisi.info has been launched

  A new Russian-Georgian information and analytical website www.pankisi.info was launched on October 1. This is a joint project of the Center of Journalism in Extreme Situations and the Caucasian Institute for Peace, Democracy and Development.

October 02, 2003 16:21

• Tent camp "Bella" does not exist any longer

  The tent camp "Bella", which was situated on the outskirt of the Ordzhonikidzevskaya village, Ingushetia's Sunzha district, ceased to exist de facto and de jure on October 1. The last two tents were carried from the former place of temporary accommodation "Bella" to the neighboring camp of Chechen refugees "Satsita" yesterday.

October 02, 2003 16:19

• Chechen refugees staying on Georgian territory can not elect president

  "Georgian legislation does not provide for opening of polling stations for refugees, therefore Chechen refugees can not take part in the Chechen presidential elections," the minister explained speaking at the press conference in Tbilisi.

October 02, 2003 16:17

• Statement of Chechen non-government and human rights organizations on occasion of refugee camp "Bella" liquidation

  The statement reads, "We call upon the UNHCR, international humanitarian organizations, Russian human rights organizations to express their attitude to the illegal actions of the Russian authorities on the tent camp "Bella" liquidation and demand that the Russian leadership should leave off the practice of forced liquidation of tent camps and centers of temporary accommodation of Chechen refugees of the territory of Ingushetia."

October 02, 2003 12:56

• Moscow Helsinki Group on presidential elections in Chechnya

  The third number of the Moscow Helsinki Group Bulletin, which came out on October 1, proceeds with the theme of the human rights monitoring of the presidential elections in Chechnya.

October 02, 2003 12:54

• Culture of peace and non-violence

  The four-day conference "Culture of Peace and Non-Violence" has been taking place in Vladikavkaz since September 29.

October 02, 2003 11:47

• International Chechnya Film Festival was to be opened in Moscow yesterday, however action turned out to be under threat of failure

  The Cinema Center on Krasnaya Presnya, where the festival program was to be demonstrated, pulled out.

October 02, 2003 11:13

• Interregional Conference of Young Leaders "Technology of Cooperation"

  The 7th Interregional Conference of Young Leaders "Technology of Cooperation" is to take place on October 2-5, with 150 representatives of youth public unions from Rostov-on-Don, Novocherkassk, Shakhti, Kamensk-Shakhtinsk, the Volgorgad, Stavropol and other Russian regions participating.

October 02, 2003 11:10

• Law on education will be put for public judgment in Armenia

  As Open Society Institute President Artak Kirakosian said, the legal regulation of the educational sphere in Armenia stays far from democratic standards.

October 02, 2003 11:07

• Russian peacekeeper has been released from captivity in Georgia

  The Russian servicemen had been abducted by unknown people in the center of Zugdidi last Saturday.

October 01, 2003 23:33

• Action against Kadyrov in Kurchaloy district

  Akhmad Hajji Kadyrov's own words which he said after the end of the first Russian-Chechen war are given in the leaflets. They sound in translation about like this, "A Moslem who has offered his hand to a Christian and embraced him, takes a risk of becoming a Christian himself".

October 01, 2003 16:57

• Statement of deputies of unacknowledged Chechen Republic of Ichkeria

  The statement reads, "We claim that the issue of making announcement about the impeachment of President of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria Maskhadov on September 5, 2003 was not discussed with our participation at the sessions of the Parliament of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, hence it has no legal effect."

October 01, 2003 15:49

• Girl - student of Grozny university was abducted in Grozny

  About 400 people gathered yesterday to hold a meeting in front of the building of the Chechen government in Grozny. They protested against the abduction of Elina Gakayeva.

October 01, 2003 15:46

• 4th world congress of International Association of Abkhazian-Abazin People took place in Sukhumi on September 29

  More than 200 delegates and guests from Russia, Turkey, and Germany participated in the congress.

October 01, 2003 14:27

• Actions of Lithuanian State Security Department, which closed Chechen separatists' website, were pronounced illegal

  A court official reported it.

October 01, 2003 14:26

• Internews Azerbaijan denounced violence against journalists and human rights activists

  The Media Rights Institute calls upon the country's government to make normal conditions for the publication of the Our Nakhchivan newspaper, hold an inquiry into the incident, and punish the guilty.

October 01, 2003 12:54

• Abduction of Roshni-Chu villager

  On the night of September 28, officers of Russian security structures abducted local Musa Ganayev in the village of Roshni-Chu, Chechnya's Achkhoy-Martan district.

October 01, 2003 12:53

• Bombing in mountain districts of Chechnya

  For the last few days Russian air forces have been massively bombing mountain gorges and forest tracts in the Vedensk, Nozhay-Yurt, Sunzha, Urus-Martan, and Achkhoy-Martan districts of Chechnya.

October 01, 2003 12:51

• Anatoly Popov left hospital and departed for Grozny

  This was reported at the press service of the republic's government.

October 01, 2003 12:49

• Refugees were left roofless in rain

  On September 29, twelve families of Chechen refugees in Ingushetia were roofless during the torrential rain.