News

April 13, 2004 18:09

• Novaya Gazeta: 72 rebels were destroyed out of court after giving themselves up in Komsomolskoye in 2000

  Earlier they were considered to be missing. As the Novaya Gazeta newspaper reports, this fact has become known due to a video record made by an officer of the Ministry of Justice.

April 13, 2004 18:07

• Georgian president ready to buy arms from residents of Adjaria

  "If Aslan Abashidze cannot disarm these people, I am ready to open stations and buy arms from the population," Mikhail Saakashvili said to journalists.

April 13, 2004 18:04

• Shamil Basayev sentences Ingush president to death

  The letter signed by Basayev reads: "We warn everybody not to come near to Zyazikov, to beware of his presence since we will use any chance to attack him, no matter who will be near."

April 12, 2004 21:22

• Over 200 refugees left Satsita camp in April

  212 people left the Satsita tent camp, which is in Ingushetia's Sunzha district, for places of their permanent residence on the territory of Chechnya from 5 to 11 April 2004.

April 12, 2004 20:01

• Five Russian soldiers killed in Chechnya's Shali district

  A column of Russian soldiers was attacked in the Shali district of Chechnya in the morning of April 12.

April 12, 2004 19:56

• Armed clash in vicinity of Avtury village in Chechnya

  On the night of April 9-10, an armed clash between a rebel group and officers of Akhmad Kadyrov's security service took place on the outskirts of the Avtury village, Chechnya's Shali district.

April 12, 2004 19:54

• Deputy head of republican veterinary station abducted in Grozny

  Doctor Vakhab Vatsayev, deputy head of the republican veterinary station, was abducted by unknown criminals in Grozny on April 10.

April 12, 2004 18:03

• Second festival of documentary films about Chechnya to be held in Estonia

  The round table discussion "Intercontinental and Ethnic Conflicts in the Context of Globalization" will follow the demonstration. Representatives of Estonian Moslems, the Chechen Diaspora in Estonia, and the clergy are expected to be its participants.

April 12, 2004 17:19

• Terrorist act against leaders of breakaway republic averted in Abkhazia

  The name of the detained man is not disclosed in the interests of investigation. He is being held in the investigatory isolation ward of the Abkhazian State Security Service.

April 12, 2004 16:22

• Armenian opposition reports on abductions of its activists by police

  "All the efforts we have made to learn anything about the destiny of meeting participants being held by the police have been unsuccessful," reads the statement by the opposition party Anrapetutiun (Republic).

April 12, 2004 16:05

• Revival Party postpones peace march to Tbilisi

  "In case of an inadequate reaction from Tbilisi, the peace march may have any ending," Tsotne Bakuriya, a member of the Revival Party, emphasized. "We don't want to have common people suffer from that," he added.

April 12, 2004 15:40

• Krasnodar Club of Civil Education arranges round table in Krimsk

  It was devoted to the violations of human rights in the Krimsk district.

April 12, 2004 15:11

• Ultimatum presented by Armenian opposition to authorities expires today

  The factions Justice and National Unity demanded that the parliament should adopt the amendments and supplements to the Law on the Referendum that the opposition need to conduct a referendum on the vote of confidence to President Robert Kocharian.

April 12, 2004 13:57

• Bodies of lynched people found in Chechnya

  Residents of Duba-Yurt are convinced their killed fellow-villages were taken away by officers of Russian security structures.

April 12, 2004 13:26

• Georgia, Adjaria agree to start new round of talks

  Georgian Prime Minister Zurab Zhvania and Security Council Secretary Vano Merabishvili will arrive in Batumi for a new round of talks on April 13.

April 12, 2004 13:23

• Another bodyguard of Maskhadov surrenders

  The press service for the Combined Federal Forces in Chechnya reported on April 11 that the man was Magomed Kazayev, who was a member of the rebel group led by Shaa Turlayev, chief of Maskhadov's security.

April 12, 2004 13:16

• Head of MSF mission in Dagestan released

  Non-governmental organizations in Dagestan arranged many actions to second the demand to release Arjan. It may be that they contributed to his release.

April 10, 2004 15:47

• Opposition promise daily meetings in Yerevan

  The Armenian opposition held a meeting on April 9. Among the slogans were "Robert Kocharian, leave," "The illegitimate president must leave."

April 10, 2004 14:55

• Supreme Court to consider suit of department of justice vs. human rights center

  The director of the center, Valery Khatazhukov, called the actions of the regional department of justice "hysterics" and said it had no formal legal grounds for not registering his organization.

April 10, 2004 14:39

• Danish Refugee Council liquidated in Stavropol

  On April 9, the Stavropol Regional Court made a decision to liquidate the humanitarian aid agency Danish Refugee Council.