News

August 08, 2003 19:58

• Ilykham Aliyev does not regard opposition candidates as worth rivals at election

  Aliyev standing for a president said he made his election platform within the line of the country?s president Geydar Aliyev, in particular, he does not see the necessity of changing Baku?s policy in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict settlement.

August 08, 2003 16:14

• Two pilots from Mi-8 helicopter brought down in Chechnya survived

  Head of the crew Viktor Tyurikov perished, Alexander Orlov and Yuri Potskevich were heavily injured and were taken to hospital, the Russian Defense Ministry reported.

August 08, 2003 16:12

• Azerbaijan Minister of Foreign Affairs assumes possibility of trilateral negotiations with Armenia and Turkey

  ?We have no objection to the idea of a trilateral meeting, however, we object to its conversion into goalless discussions. If there are concrete goals, we are ready to discuss them?, said the minister.

August 08, 2003 16:10

• 11-th Festival of National Cultures will take place in Novorossiysk

  Festival conducting is combined with the days of celebration of a town?s jubilee and an anniversary of the liberation of Novorossiysk from fascist invaders.

August 08, 2003 16:08

• Rebels shoot down federal Mi-8 helicopter in Chechnya

  The helicopter was shot down by a rocket launched from the land during an operation on landing troops in mountainous wood terrain. Three crew members were killed.

August 08, 2003 16:06

• Column of federal forces was fired by separatists in Ingushetia, six soldiers were killed

  The column was fired on Thursday while the armored group was moving to the place of permanent disposition after convoying a column of federal forces to the administrative border with Chechnya.

August 08, 2003 13:40

• Chechen separatists? site resumed its activity in Lithuania

  The site contains no information on where the server which provides site functioning is situated and who it belongs to. At the same time it is mentioned that ?the activity of the site had been resumed due to the firm position of Lithuanian human rights activists, deputies of the Lithuanian Seym and the head of the Elnet company Rimantas Pasys?.

August 08, 2003 13:39

• Project of memorial to victims of Kolka glacier has been approved

  A stone monument, 6 meters in height, represents a young man confined within the ice mass.

August 08, 2003 13:36

• People from Alkhan-Yurt settlement blocked federal route "Kavkaz"

  The route was blocked as a sign of protest against actions of the Russian military.

August 08, 2003 13:34

• Candidates for Chechen president?s post are forming ?coalition against Kadirov?

  Chechen politician and businessman Malik Saydulayev announced in Moscow that candidates for the post of the Chechen President want to unite in the election struggle against Akhmad Kadirov.

August 07, 2003 19:54

• Azerbaijan peacemaking forces are leaving for Iraq next week

  As the head of the international cooperation department of the Defense Ministry Ramiz Nadzhafov reported, about 150 Azerbaijan soldiers are planned to be sent to Iraq.

August 07, 2003 19:51

• Vladimir Putin received report on human rights observance in Chechnya

  On Thursday Vladimir Putin held a routine meeting with his envoy for human rights in Chechnya Abdul Khakim Sultygov.

August 07, 2003 19:50

• Chechen journalist has been kidnapped in Grozny

  Unknown gunmen broke into the house on Vyborgskaya street, 5, and forced 28-year old Isa Abayev out threatening him with sub-machine guns, reported the ministry.

August 07, 2003 19:48

• Large terrorist act was averted in Grozny

  As it was reported in the regional operations staff for control of the antiterrorist operation in the Northern Caucasus, a radio-controlled self-made explosive assembly containing 800 grams of trotyl was found by federal forces on Mayakovsky Street.

August 07, 2003 19:46

• New mass burial place was discovered in Naursky region

  6 corpses in all, as the witnesses say, with marks of cruel tortures were found in the communal grave.

August 07, 2003 19:44

• "Doctors Without Borders" believe Arjan Erkel is alive

  Almost one year passed since the coordinator of the mission of the International Humanitarian organization ?Doctors Without Borders? in Dagestan Arjan Erkel had been kidnapped in Makhachkala on August 12, 2002.

August 07, 2003 16:47

• Murder of Maysky settlement resident

  The man who fell a victim to an extrajudicial death penalty executed by the Russian soldiers was not identified.

August 07, 2003 16:45

• "Vesti, Dagestan? will be broadcasted by RTR

  A competitive commission functions to choose television presenters for the new program. The art director of the Dagestani television announcer department Galina Dulieva is a head of the commission.

August 07, 2003 16:42

• More than 100 Ingush families returned to village Tarskoye (North Osetia)

  Local residents say their relationships with neighbors (Osetins) considerably improved after the agreement of friendship and cooperation between Ingushetia and North Osetia had been signed.

August 07, 2003 16:39

• 136 former Chechen separatists will come out of Russian prisons and investigation wards because of amnesty

  9 people are released from investigation wards because of the amnesty. 127 people who were already condemned and stay prisoned now also fall under the amnesty.