News

April 29, 2004 19:24

• Chechen police officer kills local by inadvertence, then takes his own life

  The incident occurred on April 28 in the village of Staraya Sunzha, Chechnya's Grozny district.

April 29, 2004 19:21

• Terrorist receives life sentence

  Dokka Dzhantemirov, one of the terrorists who shot down a Mi-26 helicopter killing 127 people, was sentenced to life by the Rostov Regional Court.

April 29, 2004 17:27

• Three Russian soldiers hit landmine in Chechnya

  One soldier died on the way to a hospital, the other two are in grave condition.

April 29, 2004 17:01

• Russian special operations soldiers accused of murdering civilians in Chechnya, jury to return verdict

  According to the investigators, three special operations soldiers under command of Captain Eduard Ulman shot down a UAZ car with civilians.

April 29, 2004 16:31

• Administrations in Russia's South infringe on rights of veterans and disabled people

  Officials of the Rostov mayor's office are suspected of robbing 3.5 thousand veterans and disabled people living in Rostov, a capital of Rostov Region, of legal benefits.

April 29, 2004 14:27

• Georgia ready to assure Abashidze's safety if he voluntarily resigns

  "This is the only question the Georgian authorities are ready to discuss with Abashidze," said, a leader of the ruling bloc United National Movement - Democrats.

April 29, 2004 14:08

• Chechen journalist receives citation from Overseas Press Club of America

  Chechen journalist Timur Aliyev has become a laureate of the 2003 Artyom Borovik Award, instituted by the New York-based Overseas Press Club of America.

April 29, 2004 13:21

• Leader of Our Adjaria movement beaten in Adjaria

  Commenting on the incident, David Berdzenishvili, a Georgian MP and a leader of the Our Adjaria movement, blamed the leadership of the Adjarian interior ministry for the beating of the opposition activists.

April 29, 2004 12:57

• Law on meetings finally passed by Armenian parliament

  "The law provides for clear rights and obligations of the organizers of and participants in public actions, it regulates authorities of the police and empowered organ, as well as the grounds and procedure for stopping the actions," said the Armenian Minister of Justice.

April 29, 2004 12:52

• Adjarian armed units equipped with antiaircraft emplacements

  Aslan Abashidze bought a large consignment of arms from Russian arsenals from Zviadists [followers of Zviad Gamsakhurdia] in 1994, and this armament is in the hands of General Dumbadze now.

April 29, 2004 12:05

• Abashidze: 'If Georgian special operations units enter Adjaria, they will meet with fitting rebuff'

  "The autonomy's authorities are ready to defend constitutional order in Adjaria and the republican population," head of Adjaria Aslan Abashidze said.

April 29, 2004 11:33

• Some 1,500 refugees remain in Ingushetia's last tent city

  "According to our information, people will be leaving the tent city more actively at the end of May. This is for objective human reasons: children will finish their school year, and it's also more convenient to move in the summer," Igor Yunash, first deputy head of the Russian Federal Migration Service, said.

April 29, 2004 11:23

• Chechen newspaper is prohibited from telling truth about compensation payments

  Gunmen in masks rushed into the house of the deputy editor of the Marsho newspaper and demanded that the newspaper stop publishing articles containing negative information about the process of paying compensations for lost housing and property to residents of Chechnya.

April 28, 2004 17:59

• Two warships based near Adjarian leader's residence

  The ships stay on the territory of the yacht-club without crews. The yacht-club is situated right in front of the residence of Adjarian leader Aslan Abashidze, and his leader reinforced guard defend it.

April 28, 2004 17:44

• Armenian opposition hold another meeting, police detain its participants

  "If the power doesn't respond to our demands by May 4, we will undertake resolute actions," said Aram Sargsian.

April 28, 2004 16:56

• Georgian interior ministry: 'special police operation' is possible in Adjaria

  "No one will tolerate the existence of a feudal microstate within Georgia," Georgian Interior Minister Georgy Baramidze emphasized.

April 28, 2004 16:20

• Aslan Abashidze's supporters threaten with mass protest actions

  They accused President of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili of taking aggressive actions against the autonomy's leadership and demanded that the confrontation between the center and the region be resolved in a peaceful way.

April 28, 2004 15:45

• ICRC arranges round table for media workers in Makhachkala

  The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has been working in Dagestan for almost 10 years. ICRC employees, Zumrat Magomedova and Luisa Khazhgeriyeva, told the media workers what had been done for this period.

April 28, 2004 15:20

• Conference on interethnic relations and xenophobia held in Krasnodar Region

  More than 50 people representing public and religious organizations, ethnic minorities of Russia's South, and government took part in the conference "The Role of Human Rights Organizations in Normalizing Interethnic Relations and Overcoming Xenophobia in the South Federal District". The Commission on Human Rights in Krasnodar Region was among them.

April 28, 2004 14:03

• Terrorist suspects report on torture against them

  Aliaskhab from the village of Miatli was tortured by putting ice on his head, which created a center of brain fever, he said. Aliaskhab went mad after it, and blew up himself when he was set free. The mother of Khanali Umakhanov asserts that her son lost his reason not having stood the torture which he was subjected to during the investigation.