News

April 25, 2003 10:49

• Conflict in Georgian Parliament

  The conflict arose after the Armenian Deputy Hamlet Movsesian had appealed to the parliamentarians to keep the minute of silence in memory of victims of the Armenian genocide in the Ottoman Empire in 1915, and the Azerbaijan Deputy disliked it.

April 25, 2003 01:54

• Russian radicals have proceeded to collect signatures for United Nations Administration Mission in Chechnya

  Moscow activists of the Transnational Radical Party and the "Club Khramov - Association for Libertarian Reforms? proceed to collect citizens? signatures on the streets of Moscow under the international appeal ?For the United Nations Administration Mission in Chechnya?.

April 25, 2003 01:51

• 88-th anniversary of Armenian genocide in Ottoman Empire is celebrated in Erevan

  The President of Armenia Robert Kocharyan, the Speaker of the Parliament Armen Hachatryan, the Prime Minister Andranik Markaryan, the Chairman of the Constitutional Court Gagik Arutyunyan, other statesmen and foreign diplomats were also presented at the ceremony that was held in the Tsitsirnakberd complex.

April 25, 2003 01:49

• Federal Center is dissatisfied with actions of Chechen Ministry of Internal Affairs

  Particularly serious claims were raised by the deputy head of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs to the heads of the regional departments of Grozny, where great number of acts of terrorism and sabotage, underminings, and fires take place.

April 24, 2003 16:23

• Chechens from Polish refugee camps continue to apply for asylum in the Czech Republic

  Seventy two Chechens applied for asylum in the Czech Republic today; since April 16 the total number of requests has reached 384.

April 24, 2003 13:53

• People are persecuted in Chechnya for their relationship to field commanders

  People of Chechnya express growing anxiety regarding political persecution of persons who are disloyal to Kadirov?s administration and Russian authorities.

April 24, 2003 13:50

• Georgia does not exclude a possibility of Chechen soldiers break into Pankissi Gorge coming summer

  The Georgian Ambassador to the RF reported that the ?multiecheloned? defense from among the employees of the Georgian Frontier Service, special forces of Internal Affairs organs, and police-officers was organized on the Russian-Georgian frontier to prevent the break.

April 23, 2003 23:27

• Council of Europe has stated violation of rights of Armenians and refugees in Azerbaijan

  It is stated in the report prepared by the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance.

April 23, 2003 23:25

• Verdict has been read out at trial of Budanov

  The public prosecutor at the trial Viktor Rastorguev accuses Budanov of two episodes.

April 23, 2003 23:23

• Azerbaijan will send 150 peacemakers to Iraq

  150 Azerbaijan peacemakers are ready to leave for Iraq before May 12. The President of Azerbaijan Geydar Aliyev stated it on April 22 while meeting with the US Ambassador to Baku Ross Wilson.

April 23, 2003 23:20

• Speaker of Georgian Parliament believes that country is turning to dictatorship

  Nino Burdjanadze announced that ?the superior executive power and the election bloc ?New Georgia? ignore democratic values, and the country is turning to dictatorship establishment?.

April 23, 2003 23:18

• About 5 metres are left to access a tunnel entry in Kardamon Gorge

  As experts estimate, the depth of the hope is to be about seventy metres for the twenty-second hole to reach an air hole of the tunnel.

April 23, 2003 23:14

• More than 200 thousand people has left Chechnya irretrievably

  According to the words of the First Deputy Head of the Federal Migration Service of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs Igor Yunash, there is no data bank of forced migrants from Chechnya, it is just being created.

April 23, 2003 16:21

• War in Chechnya: a Chechen militiaman tells his story

  Here is what Rustam Azizov, a member of the Chechen armed resistance movement, says about fighting for the village of Komsomolskoye in the spring of 2000 and his time in Russian captivity.

April 23, 2003 15:57

• ?Ararat? film won?t be shown in Azerbaijan

  Azerbaijan?s ministry of communications will suspend re-transmission of the Russian television channel ?Rossiya? at 00:40 hrs local time on April 24. The Azeri authorities took this decision to prevent screening of ?Ararat?, the movie made by Canadian producer Atom Gegoyan.

April 23, 2003 09:41

• S. Stepashin has proposed making an offshore zone in Chechnya

  The Chairman of the Accounts Chamber of the RF Sergey Stepashin claimed on April 18 in Grozny that Chechnya needs particular, ?breaking? decisions, for example, making a special economic zone.

April 22, 2003 23:33

• Antimonopoly committee has fined Government of Karachaevo-Cherkessia

  A local antimonopoly committee fined the government of the republic half a million rubles for the attempt to redistribute a property of ?Vodokanal? in favour of people close to the authorities.

April 22, 2003 23:30

• NATO?s military exercises will be conducted in Armenia

  According to the words of the Armenian Minister of Defense Serzh Sarkisyan, this action will be extremely useful for the Armenian soldiers, since they have got things to learn from their NATO colleagues.

April 22, 2003 23:24

• Public organization ?Nord-Ost? functions

  The Society ?Nord-Ost? unites people suffered in Moscow in October 2002 and invites victims of other acts of terrorism and ?antiterrorist operations? of the recent years in Russian towns to enter the organization for joint advocacy of interests.

April 22, 2003 23:18

• Moscow Helsinki Group is against persecution of public organizations in Krasnodar Territory

  The Moscow Helsinki Group makes a request to the mass media for paying rapt attention to this situation, as the broadest publicity is able to stop despotism of Krasnodar authorities.