News

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.

April 22, 2003 23:15

• Chechnya needs United Nations Administration Mission

  The Transnational Radical Party has called for the Secretary-General of the United Nations as well the heads of the Member States of the United Nations to undertake all initiatives needed ?for study and subsequent realization of an Akhmadov?s plan to establish peace and democracy in Chechnya?.

April 22, 2003 15:44

• Security tightened in Baku

  Speaking at the military college?s anniversary ceremony in Baku on April 21, president Geidar Aliyev felt unwell twice.

April 21, 2003 17:01

• Armenian Church has been accused of Karabah conflict unleashing

  ?The Armenian Church has played an important role in Karabah conflict unleashing and now as before does not revise its stand?, the Head of the Spiritual Administration of Moslems of the Caucasus Sheyhulislam Allakhshukyur Pasha-zade declared.

April 21, 2003 16:14

• Human kidnappings continue in Chechnya

  In the early hours of April 18 Russian soldiers in three armored personnel carriers rounded up the houses of Mansur Dzhaubatyrov, 20, and his acquaintance Aslan, in Grozny. According to parents of the detained, the military forced the young men into an armored personnel carrier and took them away. The servicemen did not bother to introduce themselves or give reasons for the detention.

April 21, 2003 16:08

• Chechnya needs a UN provisional administration

  The Transnational Radical Party has called upon United Nations secretary-general Kofi Annan and leaders of the UN member states to take all necessary initiatives for promoting the ?study and further implementation of Akhmadov?s plan to ensure peace and democracy in Chechnya?.

April 21, 2003 00:36

• Financial breaches to amount of more than 365 million rubles have been revealed in Chechnya

  The inspection displayed that institutions obliged to provide addressed distribution of pensions, social and other payments to the people of Chechnya, not fully executed their functions.

April 20, 2003 14:02

• Death penalty has been revoked in Armenia

  In the new Criminal Code, which will come in force beginning from the August 1 of the current year, death penalty is substituted for life sentence.

April 20, 2003 13:59

• Statement of representatives of Chechen public organizations on murder of Deputy S. Yushenkov

  ?The outrage committed by unknown criminals in Moscow on April 17, without any doubts, has political nature, and it is pointed first of all against human ideas that Sergey Yushenkov hold", it is reported in the statement.