News

February 09, 2005 23:45

• Martial law extended in Nagorny Karabakh

  An attempt to set legal and democratic values above security issues was made for the first time in the modern history of Nagorny Karabakh.

February 08, 2005 23:16

• Kadyrov's people commit 75% of crimes in Chechnya

  On February 7, the International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights (IHF) and the Human Rights Center Memorial presented statistic and correspondents' information on the violations in Chechnya committed in 2004 and told about a new aspect of the crisis – Chechenization of the conflict.

February 07, 2005 23:59

• Assault victims stage rally

  People living at 6th Magistralnaya Street in Makhachkala whose houses were damaged in the 15 January assault against rebels have staged a rally in the Dagestani capital today.

February 07, 2005 23:49

• Chechen police do not confirm Basayev's death

  The information about Shamil Basayev's alleged death is being checked now, a Chechen police source told the Caucasian Knot correspondent.

February 07, 2005 23:40

• Former president, speaker wanted by Azerbaijan police

  Azerbaijan law enforcement agencies search for over 2 thousand people now.

February 04, 2005 23:59

• No Greek houses burnt in Georgia recently

  Chairwoman of the Georgian parliamentary Committee on Human Rights and Civil Integration Elena Tevdoradze has denied reports that houses owned by local Greeks have been burnt in Georgia's Tsalksky district for the last two weeks.

February 04, 2005 23:37

• Human rights activists protest against early marriages

  In her interview with the Caucasian Knot correspondent, human rights activist Leyla Yunus stated that the country's authorities must draw attention to the fact that early marriages have become more frequent in Azerbaijan recently.

February 03, 2005 23:48

• Dagestani deputy interior minister murdered

  At about 9 p.m. on February 2, unknown people opened fire on the Niva car that Dagestani Deputy Interior Minister Magomed Omarov was in. The incident occurred in the center of Makhachkala.

February 03, 2005 23:17

• Opposition urges unbiased investigation of Zhvania's death

  Preliminary results of Georgian prime minister Zurab Zhvania's blood test confirm the version that he died from carbon monoxide poisoning, expert Irina Tandilashvili told journalists.

February 02, 2005 23:59

• Ashuba prejudices Saakashvili's peace initiatives

  "It wasn't seen from Saakashvili's speech in Strasbourg that Georgia has new thinking now," said the Abkhazian speaker.

February 02, 2005 23:55

• OSCE monitoring group works in Nagorny Karabakh

  The OSCE monitoring group examining Azerbaijan's territory controlled by Nagorny Karabakh for the purpose of checking the implementation of the state settlement program continues its work.

February 02, 2005 23:40

• Abduction of Maskhadov's relatives investigated

  Chechen law enforcement agencies are investigating an abduction of Aslan Maskhadov's closest relatives. Abductors have not been found, the whereabouts of the abducted people and their further destiny are not known.

February 01, 2005 23:59

• Don federal road blocked up

  Experts of the Rostov regional ministry of transportation and communication hold that the critical situation on the road is caused mainly by its technical condition.

February 01, 2005 23:48

• Taramov denies reports about Basayev's death

  On January 31, Russian mass media spread information about the death of Shamil Basayev referring to representatives of the Chechen diaspora in Azerbaijan.

February 01, 2005 23:19

• Azerbaijan can be excluded from PACE

  "If the problem of political prisoners hasn't been solved in Azerbaijan by the April session of the Council of Europe's Parliamentary Assembly (PACE), the country can lose its mandate in this organization," stated PACE rapporteur on political prisoners in Azerbaijan Malcolm Bruce.

January 31, 2005 23:24

• Two children died in assault, relatives say

  Relatives of Muslim Attayev, leader of the extremist jamaat (group) Yarmuk killed in Nalchik, have filed an application with the Kabardino-Balkarian prosecutor's office to give them the bodies of his two children that are allegedly hided by instructions of the republican interior minister, some sources say.

January 31, 2005 23:15

• OSCE fact-finding mission goes to Karabakh

  An OSCE fact-finding mission set off for Stepanakert on January 30 to collect facts about the creation of Armenian settlements in seven districts of Azerbaijan adjacent to Nagorny Karabakh and controlled by Armenia.

January 31, 2005 23:00

• 9 killed in car explosions

  Officers of the Chechen presidential security service, not Russian soldiers were killed when cars were blown up near the village of Alkhan-Kala, Chechnya's Urus-Martan district.

January 28, 2005 23:42

• European Court declares IDP's application admissible

  The European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg has declared admissible an application lodged by an internally displaced person (IDP) from Chechnya living on the territory of Stavropol Region.

January 28, 2005 23:35

• Arrested opposition leader nominated for election

  Chair of the Umid (Hope) party Igbal Agazade, who is imprisoned now, may be at the head of the party list of this opposition party in the forthcoming parliamentary elections in Azerbaijan.