People are persecuted in Chechnya for their relationship to field commanders April 24, 2003 13:53 People of Chechnya express growing anxiety regarding political persecution of persons who are disloyal to Kadirov?s administration and Russian authorities.
Georgia does not exclude a possibility of Chechen soldiers break into Pankissi Gorge coming summer April 24, 2003 13:50 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.
Council of Europe has stated violation of rights of Armenians and refugees in Azerbaijan April 23, 2003 23:27 It is stated in the report prepared by the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance.
Verdict has been read out at trial of Budanov April 23, 2003 23:25 The public prosecutor at the trial Viktor Rastorguev accuses Budanov of two episodes.
Azerbaijan will send 150 peacemakers to Iraq April 23, 2003 23:23 150 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.
Speaker of Georgian Parliament believes that country is turning to dictatorship April 23, 2003 23:20 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?.
About 5 metres are left to access a tunnel entry in Kardamon Gorge April 23, 2003 23:18 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.
More than 200 thousand people has left Chechnya irretrievably April 23, 2003 23:14 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.
War in Chechnya: a Chechen militiaman tells his story April 23, 2003 16:21 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.
?Ararat? film won?t be shown in Azerbaijan April 23, 2003 15:57 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.
S. Stepashin has proposed making an offshore zone in Chechnya April 23, 2003 09:41 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.
Antimonopoly committee has fined Government of Karachaevo-Cherkessia April 22, 2003 23:33 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.
NATO?s military exercises will be conducted in Armenia April 22, 2003 23:30 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.
Public organization ?Nord-Ost? functions April 22, 2003 23:24 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.
Moscow Helsinki Group is against persecution of public organizations in Krasnodar Territory April 22, 2003 23:18 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.
Chechnya needs United Nations Administration Mission April 22, 2003 23:15 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?.
Security tightened in Baku April 22, 2003 15:44 Speaking at the military college?s anniversary ceremony in Baku on April 21, president Geidar Aliyev felt unwell twice.
Armenian Church has been accused of Karabah conflict unleashing April 21, 2003 17:01 ?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.
Human kidnappings continue in Chechnya April 21, 2003 16:14 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.
Chechnya needs a UN provisional administration April 21, 2003 16:08 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?.