News

October 14, 2003 23:07

• Ingush migration service intends to liquidate tent camps in near future

  Department head Akhmed Parchiyev announced to them that unexampled pressure from the direction of the federal migration service was put upon their department, so he was forced to inform tents in all the places of compact residence were to be removed by October 11.

October 14, 2003 18:10

• Armenian parliament speaker met with delegation of ombudsmen from CIS and Eastern Europe

  The sides noted during the talks that the parliament of Armenia had passed the law on ombudsman, thereby it met the commitment undertaken to the Council of Europe.

October 14, 2003 18:06

• Chechen presidential elections in Kurchaloy distric

  Ruslan, a Kurchaloy villager, told after voting that his father, who had died 5 years ago, was on the voter lists.

October 14, 2003 15:40

• International student conference "Look into the Future" took place in Yerevan

  Bilateral agreements with the Association of Russian Students and the Georgian student movement "Georgia's Future" on the creation of the South Caucasian Student Confederation were signed during the conference.

October 14, 2003 12:32

• Series of seminars aimed at revelation of problems of national minorities is to be carried out with assistance of Council of Europe

  Olga Bagdasarian, a representative of the Assirian community, and Knyaz Gasanov, a representative of the Kurd community, told about problems which their communities are faced with.

October 14, 2003 12:30

• "Purges" in Grozny's Staropromislovsky district

  An "Ural" truck with Russian servicemen was hit by a landmine in the Staropromislovsky district of Grozny on October 11.

October 14, 2003 12:29

• Public committees of refugees unite

  The decision was made at the meeting to form the Union of IDPs' Public Committees, the aim of which will be the protection of displaced persons' rights.

October 13, 2003 20:25

• Azerbaijan: election run-up is not free and fair

  Azerbaijan's presidential elections cannot be considered free and fair because of widespread abuse and bias favoring government candidates, Human Rights Watch said in a briefing paper released yesterday.

October 13, 2003 20:24

• No less than 190 people were detained during last purges in Chechnya

  Overall losses of the federal forces and Chechen rebels came to 12 people killed as a result of Saturday clashes in Chechnya.

October 13, 2003 19:58

• Election program of Azerbaijan presidential contender Lala Shovket holds ultimatum to Armenia

  Shovket's election program holds the ultimatum to Armenia: either it withdraws troops from the "occupied territories" within 12 months, or the threat of starting military operations exists.

October 13, 2003 18:42

• Police dispersed activists of youth movement "Kmara" once again

  The "Kmara" activists were beaten up by police; reportedly some of them got severe injuries.

October 13, 2003 18:39

• Georgian Central Election Commission secretary was beaten up in Tbilisi

  "Gogi Mikanadze suffered an attack by political opposition members, as he possesses specific evidence confirming the fact that the opposition parties were involved in the falsification the voting lists," Irakly Gogava, a leader of the pro-government election bloc "For New Georgia", told the press.

October 13, 2003 17:09

• Four refugees were abducted in Ordzhonikidzevskaya village

  According to witnesses, the young people were abducted by Russian military men on Engels Street.

October 13, 2003 17:06

• Humanitarian aid is being conveyed to children of Chechnya

  The action "Journey of Peace" started in Yekaterinburg on October 6. Different things and gifts, letters and children's drawings for Chechen children were gathered there with the assistance of the local patriarchate and businessmen.

October 13, 2003 16:20

• President of North Osetia met with Russian President's Plenipotentiary in the South Federal District

  Issues of the effective realization of the federal targeted program "Russia's South" were considered at the meeting.

October 13, 2003 16:18

• Eurasia Foundation has awarded Armenia grants to sum of 9 million US dollars since 1995

  These grants were assigned mainly for the development of private enterprise, civil society and local government in Armenia.

October 13, 2003 16:16

• Internet website of "The III Sector" journal has been opened

  The website contains articles of Azerbaijan and foreign authors in the field of political science and philosophy, as well as ones of experts in the field of democracy development.

October 13, 2003 14:58

• Deputies of Parliament of Kabardino-Balkaria blamed Chechens themselves for beating of Chechen refugees

  Some other deputies believe the federal center is also to blame for the beating of Chechen young people in Kabardino-Balkaria as it disregards problems of Chechen refugees in the other regions of the Northern Caucasus.

October 11, 2003 18:59

• Presidential elections in Chechnya cannot be considered free and democratic

  The aim of this election "farce" was to give Kadyrov legitimacy. For in 2000, Moscow appointed him as its administrator of the republic even though at that time the republic had its own legally elected and internationally recognized president and parliament.

October 11, 2003 18:56

• Criminal Code of Armenia represents more serious danger to journalists than bill "On Mass Information"

  The articles on the inadmissibility of abuse of freedom of speech and transparency of financial resources are among the main disputable provisions of the bill.