News

July 27, 2004 17:00

• New attack against opposition journalists in Azerbaijan

  Two unknown people attacked Eynulla Fatullayev, a reporter for the Monitor weekly yesterday, July 26.

July 26, 2004 19:42

• Armenians from US help their nationals in Iraq

  There are 22 thousand Armenians in Iraq, 15 thousands of them living in Baghdad. There are 9 Armenian churches with large estates in Iraq. None of them has suffered.

July 26, 2004 19:40

• Rebels hunt for heads of district administrations

  A terrorist act in Chechnya left three people dead, the head of the Samashki village administration, Khizir Aldamov, being among them.

July 23, 2004 18:42

• Seven presidential candidates registered in Chechnya

  Chechnya's electoral commission has disqualified one candidate for president of Chechnya for what it has not disqualified the supposed protege of the Kremlin.

July 22, 2004 14:36

• Meskhetians start leaving

  A first group of Meskhetian Turks living in the Krasnodar territory, Russia, has left for the US.

July 21, 2004 14:19

• RSF demands releasing Arifoglu

  Reporters Without Borders call on Azerbaijan's authorities for releasing Rauf Arifoglu, editor-in-chief of Yeni Musavat newspaper.

July 20, 2004 20:11

• Journalists worldwide condemn editor's abduction

  Reporters Without Borders believe the abduction of the editor-in-chief of Azerbaijani-based Baki Habar newspaper an action against freedom of speech.

July 20, 2004 20:01

• S. Ossetia speaking about war

  S. Ossetia's Foreign Ministry says the possible denunciation of the Dagomys Agreement means a return to war.

July 19, 2004 19:41

• Soros Foundation head detention details

  Three Georgian NGO representatives were detained in S. Ossetia for coming there without prior adjustment with the pertinent agencies.

July 19, 2004 16:15

• Oppositional newspaper editor abducted, beaten

  Four strangers abducted and beat Aidyn Guliev, editor-in-chief of a newspaper, which other journalists believe "contracted for" by the government.

July 16, 2004 14:41

• OSCE Minsk Group's activity believed 'untalented'

  A Social Democratic Party leader accuses the OSCE Minsk Group of inability to facilitate the solution of the Nagorno-Karabakh problem.

July 16, 2004 14:32

• Demonstrators demand deporting OSCE Mission head

  The OSCE Mission to Tskhinvali is criticized for its "pro-Georgian position" and failure to provide objective information to the OSCE.

July 15, 2004 22:14

• Elections in Azerbaijan, Armenia massaged - IHF

  The International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights calls the OSCE for considering facts of manipulation of election results in Armenia, Azerbaijan and Chechnya.

July 15, 2004 22:09

• Registration launched of presidential candidates

  The republican electoral commission has started registration of candidates for the office of president of Chechnya this afternoon.

July 14, 2004 16:06

• Presidential election scheduled in Abkhazia

  The parliament of Abkhazia has scheduled the presidential election in the republic for October 3, 2004.

July 14, 2004 16:00

• Over 100 political prisoners still in jail - Zeinalov

  Eldar Zeinalov, director of Azerbaijan's human rights center AIHMM, speaks about new lists of political prisoners, overlooked previously.

July 13, 2004 15:58

• Protest meeting dispersed in Sunzha district

  Law enforcement and security agencies disperse a protest meeting conducted after the abduction of high school students.

July 13, 2004 15:54

• Arrested oppositionists go on hunger-strike

  Seven opposition leaders have yesterday gone on hunger strike demanding improved conditions for legal defense.

July 12, 2004 15:09

• Dagestani separatist ideologist sentenced

  Magomed Tagaev, an ideologist of Dagestani separatists, has been sentenced to ten years in hard labor camp.

July 12, 2004 14:57

• Chechnya's State Council reluctant to see OSCE Mission back

  Oddly enough, Chechnya's leadership is against the return of the OSCE Mission to the region, even when Russia's leaders are not.