News

A large crowd of about 40 women from the New Azerbaijan Party is smashing Arif and Leyla Yunusovs? office. They have already broken the panes, pelted the walls with eggs. They are trying to rush inside, breaking the doors.

On April 30 it will be 35 years since the day when ?The Chronicle of Current Events?, a typewritten informational bulletin of soviet human rights activists, a main dissident periodical of the end of 1960s ? the beginning 1980s, appeared in print in 1968 for the first time.

The Federation of Azerbaijan Human Rights Organizations issued a statement denouncing the pogroms of the office of Eldar Zeynalov?s Human Rights Center and the threats towards the director of the Institute of Peace and Democracy Leyla Yunus.

?The Organizational Committee for Antiwar Actions declares its support of the proposal made by the Transnational Radical Party on April 20, 2003 in its appeal ?For the United Nations Administration Mission in Chechnya? to the Secretary-General of the United Nations, the heads of the Member States of the United Nations, and the heads of their governments?, it is said in the statement.

The newspaper employees got the official notification that it was inadmissible to publish materials insulting honour and dignity of the president of the country.

The Armenian National Committee of America reported the President of the USA ?again broke his February 2000 campaign pledge to properly recognize the Armenian Genocide?.

?The countries counting on mutually beneficial relations with Russia do not have to place the informational resources of terrorists?, the Russian President?s Aide Sergey Yastrzhembsky announced while answering journalists? questions.

The director of regional network programmes and informational projects Grigory Shvedov handed over about 70 various books and publications to the Stepanakert?s Press Club.

Speaking in Grozny on April 24 he reported 251 people were illegally detained and abducted in Chechnya since the beginning of the year, overwhelming majority of them were law-abiding citizens.

Christian Strohal, who arrived in Baku for a two-day visit yesterday, intends to acquaint himself with the process of preparation for elections of the President of Azerbaijan that have to be held coming autumn.

A self-made explosive assembly exploded in the center of Grozny. It happened when the motorcade of the responsible member of the staff of the Special Representative of the President of Russia for Human and Civil Rights and Freedoms in Chechnya Nurdi Nukhazhiyev was passing along the road.

?Whether the Council is informed of numerous international observers? testimonies, indicating gross breaches during the period which preceded so-called referendum, as well as during the so-called referendum itself?? the Secretary of the Transnational Radical Party asks.

On April 24, 1803 Emperor Alexander I issued the Imperial Decree on imparting the status of the medical region of national importance to the Caucasian Meneralnye Vody.

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.

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?.

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.

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.

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

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

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.