News

March 24, 2004 18:04

• Extraordinary parliamentary elections to be held in Georgia on March 28

  The elections will be held at 85 districts and 2,867 polling stations, including those in Russia, Ukraine, Turkey, the United States, and other countries.

March 24, 2004 17:29

• Georgian Foreign Ministry annuls Aslan Abashidze's diplomatic passport

  The Georgian Foreign Ministry does not rule out the possibility that diplomatic and service passports of members of the Revival political party, led by Aslan Abashidze, will also be annulled.

March 24, 2004 17:12

• Stavropol rights defenders to consult draftees

  "We implement the project in spite of the fact that the Department of Justice in Stavropol Territory refused to register us on March 1," noted chairman of the Caucasian Youth Human Rights League Maksim Abrakhimov.

March 24, 2004 15:32

• Timur Aliyev's Institute for Social Development announces War Prize action

  The organizers of the action say they want to understand the reasons for the ongoing tragedy and to reveal concrete people responsible for the war in Chechnya.

March 24, 2004 14:34

• Amtsakhara movement accuses Abkhazian authorities of murdering its activist

  The Abkhazian social and political movement Amtsakhara accuses Abkhazian authorities of political terror and the murder of its activists Aleksandr Psardia. The movement's political council issued a statement in connection with the death of Psardia on March 23, in which it accuses the authorities of persecuting the opposition and terrorizing political opponents.

March 24, 2004 13:47

• Nizhny Novgorod rehabilitation school receives deaf children from Chechnya

  The action was initiated by the Society for Russian-Chechen Friendship and sponsored by the Moscow-based Fund for the Support of Democracy and Social Progress.

March 24, 2004 12:54

• 3 thousand Russian soldiers to be withdrawn from Chechnya till end of April

  The withdrawal of the 3-thousand-strong military contingent will not adversely affect the fighting efficiency of the Russian military group in Chechnya, a source at the republican military commandant's office said to the Caucasian Knot correspondent.

March 24, 2004 12:24

• Both central and regional media exploit nationalist themes

  The researches found out that almost all of the newspapers exploited nationalist themes. The most intolerant regional newspapers are Vechernyaya Ryazan, Kuban Segodnya, and Krasnodarsky Kuryer.

March 24, 2004 11:23

• Aslan Maskhadov to decide on destiny of Russian captive soldiers

  As reported by the website of Chechen separatists Ichkeria, the Chechen military command decided to be indulgent with respect to the Russian soldiers proceeding from the fact that they did not put up armed resistance and gave frank evidence.

March 24, 2004 09:36

• Anti-war meeting trial details

  On March 17, Moscow's Meshchansky District Court heard an administrative case against Nikolai Khramov, secretary of Russian Radicals and an organizer of a meeting for peace and democracy in Chechnya.

March 23, 2004 22:16

• Compact disk "Victims of Political Terror in the USSR" created

  A press conference devoted to the presentation of the compact disk "Victims of Political Terror in the USSR" is to be held at the concert hall of the Central House of Journalists on March 24.

March 23, 2004 21:58

• Chechen refugees leave Sputnik camp

  The reason for it is that the authorities officially announced the camp would be closed on April 1.

March 23, 2004 21:50

• Gogi Topadze is indignant at pre-election situation in Adjaria

  "It is true that the extremely tense atmosphere in Adjaria has been relieved. But gunmen in masks are standing at Choloki again, there are tanks hidden in the land again," said one of the leaders of the right opposition.

March 23, 2004 21:19

• Both soldiers and civilians keep dying in Chechnya

  Two Russian soldiers were killed and five others injured when a radio-controlled mine exploded in the village of Tsa-Vedeno in the Vedeno district. Meanwhile, a 16-year-old schoolboy was killed and three others injured in Urus-Martan by an artillery shell launched by the Russian military.

March 23, 2004 20:22

• Purges in Chechnya's Achkhoy-Martan district

  The purges were caused by the murder of Chersi Gatayev, deputy chief of the Achkhoy-Martan district police department, and his driver, Inderbiyev, which was committed by a group of unknown people on a road between the villages of Davidenko and Noviy Sharoy on March 19.

March 23, 2004 14:35

• New victim of arbitrariness in Grozny streets

  The funeral of Ilyas Khatatayev was held on March 19 in the village of Serzhen-Yurt, Chechnya's Shali district. The man was killed by a gunman in camouflage uniform in broad daylight in the center of Grozny the day before.

March 23, 2004 13:53

• Russian soldier shoots dead two residents in Chechen village

  A Russian contract soldier opened fire without provocation in a Chechen village, killing two local men.

March 23, 2004 13:40

• National cultural center of Kabardino-Balkarian Osetins arranges conference

  The national cultural center of Osetins living in Kabardino-Balkaria held a conference in Nalchik on March 21.

March 23, 2004 13:34

• Command-and-staff exercises begin in Armenia

  In accordance with the plan of the exercises, mobilization reserves will be called up on the first day for the purpose of personnel replacement.

March 23, 2004 13:17

• Complaint lodged by Movement for Human Rights, lost by Moscow City Court

  A complaint lodged by the Movement for Human Rights with the Moscow City Court in connection with the case on the hostage taking on Dubrovka was expected to be considered on March 24, but court officials "confessed they had lost the complaint," head of the movement Lev Ponomarev said to the Ekho Moskvy Radio.