News

September 16, 2003 16:34

• Chechen rebels are preparing to use poison

  Chechen rebels are preparing new actions of intimidation, but this time terrorists are going to use virulent poison instead of bombs stuffed with bearings and ragged iron. This was reported at the Regional Operations Headquarters.

September 16, 2003 16:08

• "Human Rights and the Media" is theme of seminar in Krasnodar

  As it was reported at the Creative Union "Southern Wave", guests from the University of Cologne will appear at the seminar.

September 16, 2003 15:34

• Basayev launches "Boomerang"

  Russian Interior Minister Boris Gryzlov announced that Chechen separatists were preparing a series of terrorist acts on the threshold of the presidential election in Chechnya. This information was confirmed by field commander Shamil Basayev.

September 16, 2003 14:36

• Armenian church and cultural center will be built in Yekaterinburg

  The studies of the Armenian Sunday school, which have been working for ten years already and basing in one of the secondary educational institution of the city, will be transferred into the Center.

September 16, 2003 12:13

• Action "For Fair Elections" is to take place in Krasnodar on September 16

  On the threshold of the elections activists of "GOLOS" is going into the streets to remind citizens that it is important to vote during elections.

September 15, 2003 20:38

• "Large-scale purge" in Staraya Sunzha village

  As a result of the military men's action 9 local residents, mainly young people of 20-25 years old, were captured and taken away in an unknown direction.

September 15, 2003 19:34

• Interior Ministry of Ingushetia: two people were killed as result of terrorist act

  According to the preliminary data of the Ingush Interior Ministry, two people were killed and over twenty wounded, as a result of an explosion near the building of the Federal Security Service Department in Magas.

September 15, 2003 18:59

• Local residents were kidnapped in Chiri-Yurt village

  According to some data, two of the kidnapped were thrown away on the outskirt of the settlement, having been savagely tortured and beaten.

September 15, 2003 18:57

• EU representative and humanitarian organization members visited Chechen refugees' camp

  Tent camp inhabitants asked the guests to do their best not to allow forced liquidation of the tent camp "Bella", authorities trying to close it at all costs.

September 15, 2003 13:37

• Pious Moslems of Kabardino-Balkaria are indignant at closure of republican mosques

  The head of the Moslems of Kabardino-Balkaria Anas Pshikhachyov told it in an interview on Friday.

September 15, 2003 13:36

• International community should help Russia to solve problem of displaced persons

  It was claimed by Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Internally Displaced Persons Francis Deng at a press-conference in Moscow.

September 15, 2003 13:34

• Attempt on life of regional administration chief in Dagestan

  A car with the chief of the Kizilyurt region of Dagestan, Abdurakhman Gadzhiyev, was fired at from an automatic gun on Saturday, reported the Interior Ministry of Dagestan.

September 15, 2003 13:32

• Ella Pamfilova commented on disinclination of Russian human rights activists to send observers to Chechen presidential elections

  On September 11 Ella Pamfilova, the Chairwoman of the Commission on Human Rights under the President of the Russian Federation, called the disinclination of the country's leading human rights activists to send observers to the Chechen presidential elections a "moral defeat of the whole community of human rights defenders".

September 15, 2003 13:30

• Freedom of speech is under serious threat in Armenia today

  Chairwoman of the Armenian National Press Club, Ambion Newspaper Editor-in-Chief Narine Mkrtchian announced it in Yerevan on Saturday speaking at a hearing on the issue of the adoption of the new law of Armenia "On the Mass Media".

September 15, 2003 13:29

• UN envoy spotted gap between "words and deeds"

  "Statements of Russian officials do not always reflect the reality," said Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Internally Displaced Persons Francis Mading Deng wrapping up his visit to Russia. During his visit to Russia on September 8-12, Mr. Deng traveled to Ingushetia and Chechnya.

September 15, 2003 12:45

• Statement of Chechen Republic's State Council

  The statement reads: "The fight against criminality has for, above all, the object to protect peaceful citizens and it can not be conducted by criminal methods. Each fact of lawlessness and despotism must be investigated, and the guilty must be called to account.

September 15, 2003 11:04

• New proposals for Karabah settlement will be presented to parties during forthcoming visit of OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairmen to region

  "I am not ready to bare the core of the proposals that mediators intend to discuss in Vienna on September 15 owing to objectives reasons. But terms used by the media, in particular, "new" and "modified" proposals, speak for themselves and there is no need for further comments." New OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairman Yuri Merzlyakov of Russia told it at a briefing in Yerevan on September 10.

September 13, 2003 18:23

• Akhmad Kadirov's letter to Defense Minister, Interior Minister, Federal Security Service Director, and Russian Prosecutor General

  The letter reads: "I, Akhmad Hajji Kadirov, the Acting President of the Chechen Republic, demand to establish an interdepartmental commission with your assistance, empower it, find missing people at the highest level, and, which it the most important, reveal and punish the "werewolves on APCs", this "squadron of death", hard, fully according to the law."

September 13, 2003 18:15

• US Administration holds Georgia has achieved much success in fighting trafficking

  On September 11 the White House made public US President George Bush's determination regarding trafficking. It is pointed out in the determination that Georgia made notable progress in fighting trafficking in persons.

September 13, 2003 16:28

• Georgian party will bring suit to the Hague International Criminal Court on facts of Georgian population genocide in Abkhazia

  Georgian State Minister Avtandil Jorbenadze declared it after he had met with Tamaz Nadareishvili, the leader of the legitimate authorities of the Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia in exile, on September 11.