News

January 31, 2004 12:32

• Mikhail Saakashvili: success in Georgia means success for entire region

  "If anything, the non-violent Rose Revolution served as a message to the world - that all Georgians aspire to build and live in a democratic, independent and stable state," he said, addressing the 26-30 January session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg.

January 30, 2004 20:29

• Abkhazian side promises to set Georgian NGO activist David Badjagua free till end of week

  According to the data of the Association of Young Lawyers and Political Scientists, the activist of the organization was abducted by Gena Ashkhartsava, who leads a 30-strong group operating in the Gali district.

January 30, 2004 20:25

• Interrogation of Aleksandr Podrabinek as witness in the case on book "FSB Blows Up Russia" - details

  Editor-in-chief of PRIMA News Agency Alexander Podrabinek was told when he was questioned by FSB (Federal Security Service) on January 28 that criminal proceedings had been instituted in connection with disclosure of state secret in the books "FSB Blows Up Russia" and "LCG - Lubyanka Criminal Group."

January 30, 2004 20:23

• Night shelling in Achkhoy-Martan and Urus-Martan districts

  Highlands and woodlands lying on the border between Chechnya's Achkhoy-Martan and Urus-Martan districts were battered on the night of January 27-28.

January 30, 2004 20:12

• 11 European Parliament members call on Interpol to consider arrest warrant against Akhmed Zakayev to be null and void

  Last year a group of members of the European Parliament awarded the "Passport for Freedom" to Akhmed Zakayev, Minister of Culture in the Chechen government of President Maskhadov, shortly after the Danish authorities had rejected the application for extradition made by the Russian Federation.

January 30, 2004 17:39

• Damage from helicopter shelling of Shali town eatimated at 305 rubles

  Sad results of the incident that took place in the district center of Shali on January 20 are being reckoned in Chechnya. Then the northwestern outskirts of the town were shelled with missiles from a helicopter.

January 30, 2004 17:16

• Abductors set known Chechen doctor and masseur Khamzat Osmayev free

  Khamzat Osmayev, the known Chechen doctor and body-builder abducted from his consulting room in the village of Pliyevo on January 12, was found in Ingushetia's Sunzhensky district.

January 30, 2004 16:55

• Volgodonsk journalist continues hunger strike

  Aleksandr Zhabsky, the Volgodonsk journalist who went on hunger strike almost a month ago, is not able to get out of bed now.

January 30, 2004 16:29

• New York Life insurance company launches payments to Armenians - victims of genocide in Turkey

  Specialists hold that the total sums of payments by insurance companies in Turkey will likely run up to hundreds of milliards of dollars.

January 30, 2004 13:29

• Book "FSB Blows Up Russia" can be distributed by anyone who wishes

  People who want to print and distribute the seditious books "FSB Blows Up Russia" (see also here) and "LCG ? Lubyanka Criminal Group" on the territory of the Russian Federation can do it freely, without being afraid to infringe upon authors' rights, the Foundation for Civil Liberties announced yesterday.

January 30, 2004 12:00

• Adjarian authorities release Kmara activist Avto Beridze

  Avto Beridze told journalists that first he had been threatened and then he had been offered a good job and privileges as a way of gaining him over.

January 30, 2004 11:51

• Azerbaijan authorities consider report by Human Rights Watch to be ordered

  The ruling circles in Azerbaijan are incensed over the report by Human Rights Watch (HRW), an international human rights organization, on the human rights situation in the country.

January 29, 2004 16:04

• Saakashvili hopes for Russian assistance in returning refuges to Abkhazia

  Speaking about the Georgian foreign policy, Mr Saakashvili declared, "Georgia will be neither pro-Russian nor pro-American. It will be pro-Georgian and European."

January 29, 2004 15:58

• Open letter from Olivier Dupuis to Under-Secretary of Italian Foreign Ministry Margherita Boniver

  The open letter reads, "I would obviously be very glad to be able to meet you to discuss whether, and in what way, you can contribute to restore hope to the Chechens and dignity to Europe, with respect, at least, to more specifically humanitarian questions."

January 29, 2004 15:52

• Defense Ministry denies reports on Russian peacekeeper's death in Abkhazia

  "There have been no incidents in which Russian peacekeeping units incurred losses in Abkhazia's Gali district," the ministry's press service reported.

January 29, 2004 14:06

• Human rights activists are anxious about ecological situation in Chechnya

  "Ecological conditions in Chechnya today are very bad, which is a result of the hostilities," Aleksandr Cherkasov, an activist of the Human Rights Center "Memorial", said in Strasbourg.

January 29, 2004 13:37

• UN to allocate $1 million as help to refugees in Ingushetia

  Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Jan Egeland announced it on January 27, while meeting with Ingush President Murat Zyazikov during a short visit to Ingushetia.

January 29, 2004 13:23

• Over 260 thousand refugees and IDPs registered in Georgia

  There are 12 thousand IDPs from the zone of the Georgian-Osetian conflict among them and 250 thousand IDPs from Abkhazia. 3 thousand refugees from Chechnya are living in Georgia today too.

January 29, 2004 13:09

• Activist of Kmara movement detained in Batumi

  Avto Beridze was detained not long before the action of protest which was to be held in Batumi by activists of the movement, who demand that Adjarian leader Aslan Abashidze should resign.

January 29, 2004 12:49

• Gypsies to be deported from Grozny

  District police departments of Grozny plan to hold a joint action soon to deport Tajik Gypsies from the territory of the Chechen Republic.