Azerbaijan sustains 'diplomatic defeat' September 14, 2004 19:18 Political scientist Zardusht Alidaze holds NATO's decision to cancel military exercises in Baku can create complications in NATO's relations with Azerbaijan.
Terror attack in Dagestan prevented September 14, 2004 19:16 "Rebels planned to carry out in a Dagestani town, admittedly Khasavyurt, something similar to what happened in Beslan," a source in the Chechen military commandant's office said.
Putin's statements produce various reactions September 13, 2004 21:15 President Putin announced during today's enlarged session of the Cabinet that higher officials in Russia's regions must be elected by Legislative Assemblies at the president's suggestion.
Armenian servicemen can arrive in Azerbaijan September 13, 2004 21:01 The Azerbaijan Foreign Ministry is negotiating it with the NATO leadership and the US Embassy to Azerbaijan.
No tough measures towards Azerbaijan September 13, 2004 20:58 The next meeting of the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights of the Council of Europe's Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) is to be held in Paris on September 16.
No precise information about two terrorist suspects September 10, 2004 20:34 According to available information, Aminat Nagayeva, who was considered a Shakhid who blown up the Tu-134 plane in August 24, is alive. She stays in Rostov Region and trades at a local market.
Search for Georgian saboteurs underway in Abkhazia September 10, 2004 20:31 "The Abkhazian leadership has information that subversive and terrorist groups are being prepared in Georgia to arrange provocations on the threshold of the presidential election in the country," Vice President of Abkhazia Valery Arshba said.
Fit of violence apprehended in North Osetia September 10, 2004 20:28 Such suppositions are caused by several incidents that occurred both in the Prigorodny district itself and on the border with Ingushetia.
Armenian officers' participation in military exercises undecided September 09, 2004 20:30 Representatives of the Azerbaijan Foreign Ministry and Defense Ministry negotiated with NATO officials in Brussels and came to the agreement that no more than three Armenian officers would be able to take part in the exercises.
Detainees undergo torture in Georgia September 09, 2004 18:59 The Former Political Prisoners for Human Rights NGO has reported on 72 cases of using torture against detainees recorded since new authorities came to power in Georgia.
Azerbaijan's Chechen diaspora denies financing terrorists September 09, 2004 18:55 It is not inconceivable that the September 7 attack against Ruslan Zelimkhanov may have been the Russian special services' doing, Chechen human rights activist Mairbek Taramov said. The Kremlin actively uses "Chechens against Chechens" in recent years, he added.
Joint NGO statement on Beslan hostage tragedy September 08, 2004 19:51 "A coalition of Russian and international human rights organizations united today to condemn in the strongest terms the taking hostage and killing of hundreds of children, parents and teachers by a group of armed men and women in a school in the city of Beslan, North Ossetia in the North Caucasus region of Russia," reads the document.
OSCE delegation visits Sukhum September 08, 2004 19:49 Meeting participants touched upon questions concerning the resolution of the Georgian-Abkhazian conflict, Abkhazia's political status, the return of refugees and internally displaced persons, and the honoring of Sochi agreements by the Russian, Georgian and Abkhazian leadership.
NGO denies accusations brought against it September 08, 2004 19:25 "Such repressive actions have a single goal - to block information about human rights abuse coming from Chechnya and Ingushetia," head of the Chechen National Rescue Committee Ruslan Badalov said.
Georgian Embassy to Russia gives support to detained journalists September 07, 2004 21:17 The embassy will guarantee that the Rustavi 2 journalists detained in Beslan will come to an interrogation at the first instance of investigators in case the Russian authorities set them free.
House explosion in Chechen village September 07, 2004 21:14 On the night of September 5, a private house was completely destroyed as a result of an explosion in the village of Chechen-Aul. Investigators have established the happening was caused by mortar fire.
Anti-presidential meeting held in Vladikavkaz September 07, 2004 21:11 Speakers demanded that republican authorities, in particular President of the Republic of North Osetia - Alania Aleksandr Dzasokhov, should resign.
Talish separatist leader granted pardon September 06, 2004 23:49 Ilkham Aliyev issued two decrees on September 3. By one of them he granted a pardon to Alikram Gumbatov, the leader of the self-proclaimed Talish-Mugan Republic who led a revolt in the south of Azerbaijan and was sentenced to life imprisonment then. By the other decree the President revoked Gumbatov's Azerbaijan citizenship.
Chechen field commanders' relatives persecuted September 06, 2004 20:15 According to information spread by the Regional Operations Headquarters on September 4, Maskhadov, Basayev and other field commanders planned to commit terror attacks against their close relatives and then put the blame on Russian servicemen.
Beslan hostage crisis over September 03, 2004 19:23 Approximately 340 wounded people have been taken to hospitals in Beslan and Vladikavkaz after the storm of the school captured by rebels in Beslan, reported the North Osetian Health Minister.