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19:10, 10 August 2004

People in Gali district wait for presidential election with hope

Providing security of the population and central authorities' paying attention to the residents of the district will contribute to the greater integration of the Gali district into the economy of Abkhazia, Chairman of the Gali District Assembly Otar Latsuzbaya holds.

19:05, 10 August 2004

NGO plans to build housing for IDPs

A meeting of internally displaced persons (IDPs) arranged by the non-governmental organization Aist (Stork) took place in Stavropol on August 8.

19:02, 10 August 2004

Car with Russian policemen blown up in Grozny

Senior Sergeant Aleksey Vaynalovich died on the scene. Two other policemen, Dmitry Kotelnikov and Aleksandr Maslovsky, received severe injuries and were taken to a military hospital.

19:36, 9 August 2004

Human Rights Summer School opens in Baku

Government officials, parliamentarians, representatives of diplomatic institutions acting in Azerbaijan, journalists, and NGO activists are expected to attend the opening ceremony.

19:33, 9 August 2004

Ingushetia to have local governing bodies

President of Ingushetia Murat Zyazikov has issued a decree the other day to set up the Working Group to Implement Regulations of the Federal Law on General Principles of Organizing Local Government.

19:31, 9 August 2004

President of Chechnya to be elected in 20 days

20 days prior to Election Day, only one candidate, Alu Alkhanov, is active in his election campaign.

22:08, 6 August 2004

ACPC welcomes Akhmadov asylum decision

"The fact that the US government did not oppose the immigration decision, which had rejected unsubstantiated allegations by the Russian government, is a strong affirmation of the long held position of the opposition government that a peaceful solution is in the best interests of all parties in this long-standing dispute," said ACPC Executive Director Glen Howard.

18:49, 6 August 2004

United Abkhazia holds conference, nominates presidential candidate

Beslan Kubrava, a board member of the movement, gave a report about main directions of the movement's activity. According to him, the movement will pay special attention to the group of social issues, problems of demography and repatriation. "Our strategic task is to improve the people's well-being," Mr Kubrava said.

18:47, 6 August 2004

Tense situation in Armenia caused by rigged elections, MP says

In Arshak Sadoian's opinion, a wrong structure of the ruling system has been created, which gives too much power to the authorities.

18:45, 6 August 2004

Moscow Government promotes economic cooperation with Abkhazia

Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov mentioned one more time that his visit to Abkhazia had only business purposes. He said he would have to solve some economic questions during it.

22:53, 5 August 2004

Basayev hided in Kabardino-Balkaria for two months

According to information obtained by investigative agencies, officers of the road and sentry service helped the rebel leader make his way to the Republic of Kabardino-Balkaria. Criminal proceedings have been instituted against these officers.

19:57, 5 August 2004

Karabakh minister does not deny printing national currency

Minister of Finance and Economy of the Republic of Nagorny Karabakh Spartak Tevosian neither denied these reports nor gave any information about the purposes and place of the printing.

18:57, 5 August 2004

Human rights activists tell PACE rapporteurs about corruption

Members of the Federation of Human Rights Organizations of Azerbaijan raised problems of corruption, political prisoners, municipal elections, dependence of courts, human rights activists' access to prisons, and persecution of human rights activists and journalists.

19:19, 4 August 2004

IFC to give $2 million credit to Armenian bank

This deal shows that the Armenian banking system has improved and is trustworthy.

19:17, 4 August 2004

Presidential candidate calls to be fair

"I call on everybody to be fair. I call to be active. Only the fair election can stabilize the situation," Abdula Bugayev said.

18:50, 4 August 2004

Security agencies practice abductions, Chechen Deputy PM asserts

The battalions Zapad, Vostok and others are to be withdrawn from the town. They all are interested in appropriating as much money as possible, but we will not let them do it," Ramzan Kadyrov said.

19:40, 3 August 2004

Military convoy blown up in Chechnya

Rebels set off a bomb of high-capacity when a column of federal forces, numbering 3 armored vehicles, was moving in the vicinity of the village of Agishti, Chechnya's Shali district. The bomb had been mounted on the roadside.

19:38, 3 August 2004

Pre-election atmosphere in Nagorny Karabakh becomes hot

5 people are nominated for the post of Stepanakert Mayor. But experts believe three candidates will be the main rivals. They are Amik Avanesian, the present mayor, Eduard Agabekian, a deputy of the National Assembly of the Republic of Nagorny Karabakh, and Pavel Nadzharian, a board member of the pro-government Democratic Artsakh Union.

19:36, 3 August 2004

OSCE demands investigation of attacks against journalists

OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Miklos Haraszti addressed a letter to Azerbaijan Foreign Minister Elmar Mamedyarov last Thursday in connection with recent attacks against Aydin Guliyev, editor-in-chief of the Baki Khabar newspaper, and Eynulla Fatullayev, a reporter for the Monitor weekly, reported the OSCE Office in Baku.

19:43, 2 August 2004

CPJ calls on Putin to end harassment of Chechen newspaper

We call your attention to the press release issued by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) on July 29.

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