News

November 10, 2004 23:46

• Relatives of Beslan victims hold rally in Vladikavkaz

  The rally resulted in the agreement that a meeting between Beslan residents and members of the North Osetian parliament as well as Moscow officials would be arranged in the Beslan Palace of Culture on November 18.

November 10, 2004 23:10

• Georgian Defense Ministry reduces number of personnel

  The Georgian Defense Ministry is planning to reduce the number of its personnel from 23,000 to 17,000 people in the near future.

November 09, 2004 23:49

• Azerbaijan denies existence of Armenian war prisoners

  Earlier, the Board Council of the Association of Relatives of the Missing Nagorno-Karabakh Soldiers delivered an address raising concern about destinies of the soldiers taken prisoners and civilians taken hostages.

November 09, 2004 23:48

• Number of abductions grows in Chechnya

  Abductors, wearing camouflage uniforms and masks and moving in cars without number plates, enter local houses by force. And the Chechen Interior Ministry opens criminal cases in connection with the adductions.

November 09, 2004 22:11

• Protesters demand president's resignation

  Today relatives of seven young men killed in Karachaevo-Cherkessia occupied the ground floor of the republican Government House and entered the private office of the president of Karachaevo-Cherkessia by force.

November 05, 2004 23:55

• Parliamentary elections to be held in Chechnya in 2005

  Elections for the Chechen parliament will most likely be held in October 2005, Chechen President Alu Alkhanov told a press conference in Grozny yesterday, November 4.

November 05, 2004 23:44

• Representatives of European Economic Chamber visit Ingushetia

  Ingushetia has all necessary prerequisites and conditions for European businessmen to invest in its economy, the head of the delegation, vice president of the European Economic Chamber Viktor Mikheyev, believes.

November 05, 2004 23:23

• US concerned about course of municipal election campaign in Azerbaijan

  The United States is dissatisfied with the course of the election campaign and society's low interest in the municipal elections.

November 04, 2004 23:59

• Greek company accused of bribing Armenian officials

  "I've got a video record of how two different persons are giving evidence that the ArmenTel majority owner, the Greek company OTE, promised some Armenian officials a bribe of $7 million," deputy of the Armenian National Assembly Arshak Sadoian announced.

November 04, 2004 23:55

• Infant mortality increases in Chechnya

  Medics believe that the grave ecological situation in Chechnya as well as stress situations in which residents of the republic regularly are contributes to the increase in the infant mortality, sickness rate, and birth of physically unhealthy children.

November 04, 2004 23:42

• NATO Secretary General arrives in Azerbaijan

  Jaap de Hoop Scheffer is expected to discuss with Azerbaijan political and military leaders the preparation for the international Rose-Roth Seminar planned to be conducted by the NATO Parliamentary Assembly in Baku in late November.

November 03, 2004 23:28

• Abkhazian presidency remains undecided

  Raul Khadzhimba and Sergey Bagapsh, two candidates for the Abkhazian presidency, visited Moscow on November 1-2.

November 03, 2004 23:26

• Azerbaijan human rights activists, journalists invited to UN session

  A session of the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) is to be held in Geneva on November 16-17. Azerbaijan's official report on implementing the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights will be presented at the session.

November 03, 2004 23:06

• Car explosion in Makhachkala

  Eye-witnesses of the explosion in the center of Makhachkala confirm law enforcers' reports that nobody was in Oka at the moment of the explosion.

November 02, 2004 23:59

• Convicted opposition leaders may be pardoned soon

  Commenting on this report, human rights activist Leyla Yunus said that "recently the Azerbaijan authorities have faced pressure from international organizations, which demand that the opposition leaders should be released, and evidently this circumstance prompted them to make such a decision."

November 02, 2004 23:58

• Armenian opposition to continue protest actions

  "It's very difficult to fight with such a system of course. Mass repressions against participants in meetings and demonstrations in spring and summer confirm it," chair of the Anrapetutiun (Republic) party and deputy of the National Assembly Albert Bazeian said.

November 02, 2004 23:57

• Chechen variant possible in Abkhazia

  In his interview with the Caucasian Knot correspondent, Musa Shanibov, the former chairman of the Confederation of Mountain Peoples, said that Abkhazia faced the most dangerous problem. And this problem is created by those who traditionally consider both the authorities and people their property.

November 01, 2004 23:49

• Abkhazian deputies not allowed in parliament

  "This action is caused by today's intention of the parliament to pass a resolution canceling the presidential decree about a repeated election of the head of the republic and to claim a vote of no-confidence in Vladislav Ardzinba," Vasiliy Avidzba, head of Raul Khadzhimba's election staff, said to the Caucasian Knot correspondent.

November 01, 2004 23:49

• Azerbaijan 'did not plan to remove OSCE monitoring group from Karabakh peace process'

  In his interview with the Caucasian Knot correspondent, Novruz Mamedov, head of the foreign relations department in the Azerbaijan presidential administration, commented on the recent decision by the General Committee of the UN General Assembly to recommend putting the question about the situation on the country's occupied territory on the agenda.

November 01, 2004 23:33

• Armenian Foreign Ministry denies resettlement to occupied Azerbaijan territory

  "We claim one more time there's no state policy of resettlement," spokesman for the Armenian Foreign Ministry Gamlet Gasparian said commenting on Azerbaijan's initiative to put the question "About the Situation on the Occupied Azerbaijan Territory" on the agenda of the 59th Session of the UN General Assembly.