News

November 01, 2003 22:26

• Commissioner for Human Rights in Krasnodar Territory seconded initiative of public associations in Territory's Legislatives Assembly

  He addressed an appropriate letter to chairman of the committee for culture, sport, information policy and relations with public associations of Krasnodar Territory's Legislative Assembly Kharchenko I. N., who took the initiative in the adoption of the aforementioned law.

November 01, 2003 22:18

• Children in North Osetia will be taught tolerance

  A two-day seminar devoted to tolerance and rights of the child finished in Vladikavkaz on October 30.

November 01, 2003 22:16

• UN Civilian Police in Abkhazia will not provide security and maintain public order

  The elements of 12 people on the Abkhazian side and 8 - on the Georgian one will be mandated to carry out the observation, to advise local law-enforcement agencies and to assist with their consolidation.

November 01, 2003 20:31

• Polish OSCE observers keep on working in Azerbaijan

  Director of the Institute of Peace and Democracy (Azerbaijan) Leyla Yunus expressed her admiration and gratitude to the Polish OSCE observers of the Institute for Democracy in Eastern Europe mission.

November 01, 2003 20:30

• Unauthorized picket of Organization for Karabakh Liberation activists was dispersed in Baku

  The OKL held the picket in front of the "Evropa" hotel building, protesting against the arrival of the Armenian Foreign Ministry's delegation in Baku to the 9th meeting of the Council of Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the Organization for the Black Sea Economic Cooperation Member States.

November 01, 2003 20:28

• MP candidate is chased by assassinators

  On the night of October 30, two unknown men fired at Zviad Chokheli, a candidate MP for "New Rules", when he was going out of a porch of his house. A flak jacket saved him.

November 01, 2003 18:53

• Guerrilla fighting continues in Chechen mountains

  The mountains of Chechnya are still the most difficult terrain for the Russian military in carrying out so called "counter-terrorist operation".

November 01, 2003 17:55

• Georgian parliamentary election is to be held from 1 to 3 November

  Residents of some mountain villages of Georgia are to vote in the parliamentary election not in one day, 2 November, but from 1 to 3 November.

October 31, 2003 19:51

• Workshop for Chechen NGOs on UN mechanisms of human rights defense took place in Nazran

  The workshop was arranged and held by the public organization "Echo of War" and the World Organization Against Torture.

October 31, 2003 19:49

• Chechen refugees can hardly count on compensation payments

  On October 28, 2003, a member of the Society for Russian-Chechen Friendship, along with a delegation of displaced persons who had been excluded from the Migration Service's computer data base, visited the Ingush Interior Ministry's Migration Service Department.

October 31, 2003 19:21

• Manifestation of non-government organization for fair elections

  The International Society for Fair Elections and Democracy (ISFED), along with 400 observers accredited to monitor the parliamentary elections, held an hour manifestation in the center of Tbilisi yesterday in support of free and fair elections.

October 31, 2003 19:17

• European Court of Human Rights is to try second case against Georgia

  The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) set November 16 as a date of holding hearing on the merits regarding the case of Tengiz Asanidze, who is currently in custody in Batumi, the Ajarian Autonomous Republic.

October 31, 2003 18:15

• Citizens of Krasnodar had chance to pass deputies mandates

  On October 28, on the threshold of parliamentary elections in the Russian Federation and Krasnodar Territory, a survey of citizens with the purpose of working out mandates to the future deputies was conducted in front of the Central Kolkhoz Market of Krasnodar.

October 31, 2003 14:56

• Open Club of Abkhazian NGOs advocates adoption of law on the official language

  "The public authority heads are unlikely to have a perfect command of the Abkhazian language by January 1, 2007," said participants in a round table discussion at the Open Club of NGOs.

October 31, 2003 14:54

• Abkhazian Foreign Minister and OSCE ODIHR Advisor discussed humanitarian projects

  At the meeting which took place in Sukhum on October 29, Foreign Minister of Abkhazia Sergey Shamba noted that the republic still needed humanitarian projects, however, the priority and necessity of some of them should be discussed with the public.

October 31, 2003 11:52

• First refugees from Pankisi returned to Chechnya

  At present, there are some 4,000 Chechen refugees in the Pankisi Gorge. Russia's Minister for Chechnya Stanislav Ilyasov conducted negotiations in Tbilisi over their return.

October 31, 2003 11:44

• Reporters Without Borders calls for release of Agence France-Presse correspondent kidnapped in Ingushetia

  The statement reads, "We call on Ali Astamirov's abductors to make themselves known and to release him as soon as possible. We also call on President Putin to do everything possible to find Ali and obtain his release without putting his life in danger."

October 31, 2003 11:40

• Terrorist act in Urus-Martan district of Chechnya

  According to witnesses, the explosive hurled the truck with the servicemen and totally destroyed it, killing several soldiers.

October 30, 2003 22:41

• UN office is closing in Sukhumi

  "The closure of the UNHCR office in Sukhumi is caused by financial difficulties," said head of the UNHCR Field Office in Georgia Catherine Bertrand.

October 30, 2003 22:36

• Opposition party leader survived attempt in Zugdidi

  A group of armed men tried to attack leader of the National Movement opposition election bloc Mikhail Saakashvili in the Western Georgian town of Zugdidi yesterday. But Saakashvili's supporters and his bodyguards stopped the car which tried to break into the crowd surrounding Saakashvili in the center of Zugdidi.