News

August 18, 2003 15:41

• Georgia is deprived of electricity

  The Tbilisi underground came to a standstill, and several dozen thousands of passengers were stranded in metro trains; metro workers made strenuous efforts to evacuate them to the surface.

August 18, 2003 15:38

• Batdyev and Semyonov have reached run-off in presidential elections in Karachaevo-Cherkessia

  Republican Election Commission Chairman Safar Geryukov noted that the date for the run-off will be set once the final results of the first round are available.

August 18, 2003 15:37

• Chechen human rights activist is accused by migration official of bribing refugees

  Ivan Pomeshchkenko, an acting head of the Department for Migration Affairs of Ingushetia, accused Chechen human rights activist Ruslan Badalov of bribing several refugees.

August 18, 2003 14:35

• Separatists fired at commandant's building

  Two soldiers were dead and about 10 soldiers got wounds of different severity as a result of a massive fire on the building from the automatic and grenade-guns.

August 18, 2003 14:33

• Moscow radicals resume interrupted collection of signatures under appeal for UN administration mission in Chechnya

  Earlier a collection of signatures on the streets of the capital was practically stopped because of the stubborn counteraction of Moscow's Central Administrative District Prefecture, and mainly because of complete destruction of the TRP Moscow's office as a result of a stealing of office equipment.

August 18, 2003 14:31

• US Ambassador to Georgia urged Caucasians to think more contemporarily

  He underlined the approaches of the US and Russia to the conflict settlement were similar; they are based on the principles of peaceful adjustment and territorial integrity of Georgia.

August 18, 2003 14:29

• Punitive "special operation" in Samashki village

  In the morning of August 15 Russian soldiers blocked several streets in the village of Samashki in the Achkhoy-Martan region to hold the next "cleanups".

August 18, 2003 14:24

• Military men are interested in the dead

  People of Chechnya express special concern of the fact that cases have become more frequent when officials of Russian special services come to the funeral and demand from relatives of the dead man to tell the cause of the death.

August 18, 2003 14:22

• Kadirov's supporters collect favorable signatures using ?administrative sources?

  "Kadirov`s security service seized our passports and then compiled lists using our personal statistics," said Zulfiya Zaurbekova.

August 16, 2003 15:36

• Trial on men accused of national overturn attempt has started in Azerbaijan

  According to the words of Rasim Abbasov, he testified on the preparation of violent power usurpation having yielded to threats and moral pressure.

August 16, 2003 15:33

• American human rights activists spoke supporting "School of Peace"

  "We are sure, that it is in the interests of Russian democracy to put an end to the antidemocratic actions of Krasnodar authorities against the widely known and high-performance human rights Fund "School of Peace", reads the statement.

August 16, 2003 15:30

• Militiamen were fired from antitank rocket launcher

  On August 13 the PPS (patrol and sentry service) post "Orpheus", located on the administrative border of North Osetia with Ingushetia not far from the village of Kurtag, was fired from an antitank rocket launcher. Two shots were made from the direction of the neighboring republic from a forest belt.

August 16, 2003 15:29

• London and Washington are worried about fate of Novorossiysk Fund "School of Peace"

  The main department of justice of the Krasnodar territory tries to liquidate the Novorossiysk Fund "School of Peace" through court. The cause is that the organization has only one founding member, the other two left it in 1999-2000. The department of justice was notified about it, but at that time it did not object to the Fund's work.

August 16, 2003 15:26

• UN subjected Russia to sharp criticism, for it took forced measures to return Chechen refugees home

  Chris Yanovsky, a representative of the UN department on refugees, informed that 200 refugees had been turned out by force from the tent camp "Bella" in Ingushetia the other day.

August 15, 2003 23:36

• State Duma deputy's car has been fired in Chechnya

  Neither deputy, nor chairman of the Chechen regional branch of the United Russia Party Ruslan Yamadayev, who was in the car too, has suffered.

August 15, 2003 23:34

• US recognize Karabah as a part of Armenia

  The analysis of recently declassified CIA documents evidences an official, though confidential recognition of the fact that Nagorny Karabah is a historical part of Armenia.

August 15, 2003 20:40

• Press-conference of Moscow Bureau on Human Rights "Russia Under Conditions of "Ruled Democracy". What shall intelligentsia do?"

  A press-conference will be held at the Institute of Press Development (Tverskoy Bulvar, 20) at 11:00 on August 19, 2003.

August 15, 2003 20:38

• "Doctors Without Borders" and volunteers passed through town wearing T-shots with "Where is Arjan?" inscription

  The procession was held within the framework of the exhibition that is opened in the Exhibition Hall of the Dagestan Republican Library. The exhibition is timed to the sad date: a year ago, on August 12, 2002, Arjan Erkel was kidnapped. His whereabouts is still unknown.

August 15, 2003 20:37

• 17 participators of protest action were arrested in Baku

  The police acted rather hard, batoning one and all regardless of age and sex of the oppositionists.

August 15, 2003 17:28

• Azerbaijan Defense Minister declares his country is ready to answer to provocations from outside

  "One in no circumstances should forget the war between Azerbaijan and Armenia goes on", declared Safar Abiyev.