News

September 29, 2005 19:34

• Weapons confirmed to have been in school

  Another former hostage confirms having seen weapons hidden in school in advance.

September 28, 2005 17:52

• Dead body found in Chechnya

  The body of a police inspector from Starye Atagi, abducted in early 2004, is found near Novye Atagi.

September 28, 2005 17:50

• City centre closed for opposition

  The Baku government again declines to authorise a public meeting of the opposition.

September 28, 2005 17:48

• Turkey stumbles over Genocide

  The EU calls on Turkey to admit the Armenian Genocide.

September 27, 2005 13:16

• Party candidate beaten in Azerbaijan

  A group of attackers beat Sahib Guseinov after accusing him of being a member of an opposition party.

September 27, 2005 13:12

• Beslan: official version disproved

  A ten-year-old Beslan hostage says that weapons had been hidden in the school before the attack.

September 27, 2005 12:06

• Gas used against children, possibly

  Doctors believe that a mass poisoning of pupils in Staroshchedrinskaia, Shelkovskaia district, on 24 September was caused by a poison gas.

September 26, 2005 15:49

• Public meeting in support of newspaper

  A public meeting is held in Makhachkala in support of Chernovik ("Rough Copy") newspaper actually banned by the republican government.

September 26, 2005 15:44

• Events in Chechnya

  Rebels and law enforcers are killed in the republic.

September 26, 2005 15:12

• Police prevent public meeting

  Several thousand oppositionists are prohibited from holding a public meeting in Baku.

September 23, 2005 13:35

• Another killing in Ingushetia

  One more police officer is killed in the republic.

September 23, 2005 02:28

• New action against rights defenders

  A new criminal case is opened against the Russian-Chechen Friendship Society.

September 23, 2005 02:26

• Police officer wounded in Chechnya

  A policeman is wounded in a skirmish between officers of law enforcement / security agencies.

September 22, 2005 13:25

• Five abducted in Chechnya

  Another "clean-up" is conducted in Novye Atagi, Shali district.

September 22, 2005 13:16

• Pressure on journalist suspected

  The son of a well-known journalist is killed in Kabardino-Balkaria.

September 22, 2005 13:13

• Developments in Chechnya

  One police officer is killed, and two dead bodies are found in the republic.

September 21, 2005 12:59

• More accurate wounded figures for Tskhinvali bombardment

  Ten people are wounded during the shelling of the capital of S Ossetia, according to the most recent information.

September 21, 2005 12:57

• Casualties in Chechnya

  One law enforcer is killed and another four are wounded in the republic.

September 21, 2005 12:53

• Public meeting held in Grozny

  Deaf-and-dumb children and their parents hold protest action.

September 20, 2005 13:30

• Explosion in Chechnya

  Three law enforcers are wounded by a bomb.