News

October 29, 2004 23:56

• Repeated presidential election to be held in Abkhazia

  Abkhazian President Vladislav Ardzinba has signed a decree to hold a repeated election of the head of the republic.

October 29, 2004 23:49

• Five repatriates from Middle East threatened with deportation

  Under the Law on the Legal Status of Foreign Citizens in the Russian Federation, an application for the prolongation of a residential permit must be submitted six months prior to its expiration. The repatriates claim no one has familiarized them with this document.

October 29, 2004 23:48

• Situation in Prigorodny district stabilizes, says Sultygov

  On October 23, from 200 to 500 people, supposedly relatives of the Beslan tragedy victims, blocked off the federal route Kavkaz on the administrative border with Ingushetia.

October 28, 2004 23:47

• Several people abducted during purges in Chechnya

  The Chechen Interior Ministry has refused to give any comments on the matter, claiming that Chechen policemen have conducted no actions in the village of Noviye Atagi recently.

October 28, 2004 23:34

• Picketers detained in Baku

  Police cruelly beaten picket participants. Several people received serious bodily injuries as a result, and more than 30 participants were detained.

October 28, 2004 23:32

• Azerbaijan authorities deny participating in US operation against Iran

  The Baztab website, close to Iranian special services, spread information yesterday about the gathering of Azerbaijan troops on the border with Iran.

October 27, 2004 23:25

• Teacher committee Beslan Tragedy continues its work

  On October 21, indignant residents of Beslan gathered at the building of the town administration. Their indignation was caused by the fact that material aid did not reach victims.

October 27, 2004 23:08

• Foreign Office urges British deputies not to visit Karabakh

  "Great Britain treats Azerbaijan's territorial integrity with respect, and such trips don't correspond with the interests of Great Britain therefore the government recommends not to pay such visits," embassy officials said.

October 27, 2004 22:51

• European Commission allocates 10 million euro for victims of conflict in Chechnya

  The recipients will include internally displaced persons (IDPs) and vulnerable groups in central and southern Chechnya as well as IDPs in Ingushetia and Daghestan. Assistance includes: food and non-food items, medical support, shelter and water/sanitation, education, psychological assistance and vocational training.

October 26, 2004 23:59

• Monitoring Group urges Council of Europe to seek release of opposition leaders

  The Monitoring Group of Human Rights Organizations has addressed a letter to Council of Europe Secretary General Terry Davis in connection with the conviction of seven opposition leaders.

October 26, 2004 23:25

• Two soldiers, six rebels killed in clash

  Encircled rebels blew themselves up by grenades when their ammunition was over.

October 25, 2004 23:45

• Forum of Intellectuals protests against bringing Armenian soldiers in Iraq

  According to Gevorg Yazychan, a historian from Syria, real panic has started in Armenian settlements in Arabian countries today. Armenians in Iraq are transferring their children from Armenian schools to other Christian schools apprehending acts of retribution.

October 25, 2004 23:43

• Human rights activists consider convicted oppositionists political prisoners

  "The sentence passed on seven leaders of opposition political parties has political motives, and the convicts themselves are political prisoners," said director of the Human Rights Center of Azerbaijan Eldar Zeinalov.

October 25, 2004 23:03

• No investigation into bombing of Chechen village

  On April 8, 2004, the Russian air force bombarded the mountain village of Rigakhoi, Chechnya's Vedeno district. A young woman and her 5 children, the oldest of whom was 7, were killed by an air strike.

October 22, 2004 23:45

• Seven opposition leaders convicted

  In his interview with the Caucasian Knot correspondent, chairman of the Musavat Party Isa Gambar stated that "today's statement has proved one more time there is no independent judicial system in Azerbaijan, and they [judges] depend on the will of the executive power, which chartered this shameful trial."

October 22, 2004 23:13

• Maskhadov plans to give up, says Ramzan Kadyrov

  Kadyrov did not imparted concrete sources from which this information was obtained.

October 22, 2004 22:59

• Azerbaijan wants to prevent civilians' migration to occupied territory

  Such a policy implemented by Armenia has a negative effect on the process of resolving the Armenian-Azerbaijan conflict by peaceful means, Metin Mirza, head of the Foreign Ministry's press service, said.

October 21, 2004 23:55

• Baku denies presence of Maskhadov's staff in Azerbaijan

  Co-chairman of the Azerbaijan-Russian inter-parliamentary commission Arif Ragimzade expressed a protest against accusations heard in Russia sometimes that Azerbaijan gives terrorists an opportunity to develop their activity in the country.

October 21, 2004 23:46

• No change in security agencies' tactics in Chechnya

  Attacks against federal soldiers and officers of local security agencies, which have become more frequent lately, are no more than rebels' try to show their abilities, Interior Ministry officials and Russian military men believe.

October 21, 2004 22:46

• South Osetian authorities cast doubt on Saakashvili's statement

  Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili announced yesterday, October 20, that a few days ago, officers of special services conducted an operation to detain saboteurs who had blown up a pier of a high-tension line in the Kaspsky district, bordering on South Osetia.