News

April 22, 2003 23:30

• NATO?s military exercises will be conducted in Armenia

  According to the words of the Armenian Minister of Defense Serzh Sarkisyan, this action will be extremely useful for the Armenian soldiers, since they have got things to learn from their NATO colleagues.

April 22, 2003 23:24

• Public organization ?Nord-Ost? functions

  The Society ?Nord-Ost? unites people suffered in Moscow in October 2002 and invites victims of other acts of terrorism and ?antiterrorist operations? of the recent years in Russian towns to enter the organization for joint advocacy of interests.

April 22, 2003 23:18

• Moscow Helsinki Group is against persecution of public organizations in Krasnodar Territory

  The Moscow Helsinki Group makes a request to the mass media for paying rapt attention to this situation, as the broadest publicity is able to stop despotism of Krasnodar authorities.

April 22, 2003 23:15

• Chechnya needs United Nations Administration Mission

  The Transnational Radical Party has called for the Secretary-General of the United Nations as well the heads of the Member States of the United Nations to undertake all initiatives needed ?for study and subsequent realization of an Akhmadov?s plan to establish peace and democracy in Chechnya?.

April 22, 2003 15:44

• Security tightened in Baku

  Speaking at the military college?s anniversary ceremony in Baku on April 21, president Geidar Aliyev felt unwell twice.

April 21, 2003 17:01

• Armenian Church has been accused of Karabah conflict unleashing

  ?The Armenian Church has played an important role in Karabah conflict unleashing and now as before does not revise its stand?, the Head of the Spiritual Administration of Moslems of the Caucasus Sheyhulislam Allakhshukyur Pasha-zade declared.

April 21, 2003 16:14

• Human kidnappings continue in Chechnya

  In the early hours of April 18 Russian soldiers in three armored personnel carriers rounded up the houses of Mansur Dzhaubatyrov, 20, and his acquaintance Aslan, in Grozny. According to parents of the detained, the military forced the young men into an armored personnel carrier and took them away. The servicemen did not bother to introduce themselves or give reasons for the detention.

April 21, 2003 16:08

• Chechnya needs a UN provisional administration

  The Transnational Radical Party has called upon United Nations secretary-general Kofi Annan and leaders of the UN member states to take all necessary initiatives for promoting the ?study and further implementation of Akhmadov?s plan to ensure peace and democracy in Chechnya?.

April 21, 2003 00:36

• Financial breaches to amount of more than 365 million rubles have been revealed in Chechnya

  The inspection displayed that institutions obliged to provide addressed distribution of pensions, social and other payments to the people of Chechnya, not fully executed their functions.

April 20, 2003 14:02

• Death penalty has been revoked in Armenia

  In the new Criminal Code, which will come in force beginning from the August 1 of the current year, death penalty is substituted for life sentence.

April 20, 2003 13:59

• Statement of representatives of Chechen public organizations on murder of Deputy S. Yushenkov

  ?The outrage committed by unknown criminals in Moscow on April 17, without any doubts, has political nature, and it is pointed first of all against human ideas that Sergey Yushenkov hold", it is reported in the statement.

April 19, 2003 17:20

• USA voted for UN resolution on Chechnya

  ?The breaches are very serious, and they must be eliminated by the Russian government if we really want to secure a political solution of this lingering and painful conflict?, - a representative of the US delegation Michael Sautvik declared.

April 19, 2003 17:15

• Trial on case of leader of Talish separatists has been resumed in Baku

  On April 16 judicial hearing of the case of Alikram Gumbatov, a leader of the Talish separatists, was resumed. A public prosecutor asked the Court to pass life sentence on the accused.

April 19, 2003 17:11

• New Head of Ministry of Internal Affairs of Chechnya has been appointed

  A new Minister of Internal Affairs of the Republic has been appointed in Chechnya. Militia Colonel Ali Alkhanov became an appointee, was announced in the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs.

April 19, 2003 16:04

• Fallen between two millstones

  Since 17 April Kazbich Chechenskii, a Chechen refugee, has been on hunger strike in the village of Duisi, in the Pankisi region of Georgia. The 43-year-old writer and commentator has set up a tent in the very centre of the village, demanding that he and other Chechens who sought refuge from the war in Georgia, should be allowed to move on to other countries.

April 18, 2003 18:44

• UN will help refugees from Chechnya who decided to stay in Ingushetia for living

  The constant representative of the UN Program for Development in Russian Federation Stephan Vasilyev announced it while meeting with the President of Ingushetia on April 17 in Magas.

April 18, 2003 18:39

• Reporter of Parliamentary Assembly of Council of Europe on conflict in Karabah will meet leadership of Nagorny Karabah

  Tarry Davis underlined the European Council did not intend to be ?a substitution? for the OSCE in the question of settlement of conflict in Nagorny Karabah.

April 18, 2003 16:01

• The National Press Club of Armenia intends to work out a draft legislation ?On Mass Information?

  ?We call on all representatives of the Armenian mass media to take part in elaboration of the document and present their projects?, the Press Club stated.

April 18, 2003 15:57

• Chechen Referendum has been contested in court

  The organization ?For Human Rights? has applied to the Supreme Court of Russia with the claim to nullify the Referendum on Constitution conducted in Chechnya at the end of March.

April 18, 2003 12:17

• Lithuanian Ambassador to Russia: "Chechen Information Center in Lithuania will not be closed"

  "Lithuania is a democratic country, we can not expel or close anyone", the Lithuanian Ambassador to Russia Rimantas Shidlauskas underlined.