RSF asks about reasons for detention of journalists' guide in Chechnya March 05, 2004 16:13 "This case once again demonstrates the Russian government do all they can to prevent the press from covering developments in Chechnya," RSF representatives say.
Two cars with 300 kg of explosives found in Chechnya March 05, 2004 16:07 "One can say for sure presently these vehicles were meant for large-scale terrorist acts," the officer on duty of Chechnya's Internal Affairs Ministry told us.
Georgian TV reporter beaten in Ajaria March 05, 2004 16:03 The Georgian television company Rustavi-2 says police officers beat its reporter Vakho Komakhidze in Batumi, Ajaria, on March 5.
Sixteen major criminals detained in Georgia March 05, 2004 16:00 A special operation under the personal command of Georgia's Interior Minister led to detention of a group of major criminals in the Imereti region.
Victims of terrorist act on Dubrovka sue to get indemnity for Vladimir Putin's interview March 05, 2004 15:52 The suit concerning Vladimir Putin's interview about "Nord-Ost" published by the Kommersant-Vlast weekly was filed with the Tverskoy Court of Moscow by the Nord-Ost organization. The plaintiffs ask for the indemnity at the rate of 1 million rubles to be paid by the magazine and 10 million rubles to be paid by Vladimir Putin to each plaintiff.
Information Center of the Council of Chechen NGOs faces threat of closure March 05, 2004 15:51 The only professional and constantly working independent journalistic organization in Chechnya receives no subsidies and grants and publishes a daily news summary using its own funds.
Azerbaijan oppositionists condemned for participation in riots on October 15-16, 2003 March 05, 2004 15:14 The Court for Grave Crimes sentenced four defendants to imprisonment for the periods from 3 to 5 years and put five defendants on probation for the periods from 4 to 5 years.
Fund to support Vitaly Kaloyev, charged with murdering Skyguide air traffic controller, to be established in North Osetia March 05, 2004 15:11 The head of the information and analytical section of the North Osetian parliament, Fatima Khabalova, announced it on March 4.
Azerbaijan opposition calls upon Ilkham Aliyev to release political prisoners March 05, 2004 14:14 The Committee to Struggle Against Repressions and Election Fraud in Azerbaijan appealed to Azerbaijan President Ilkham Aliyev to release persons arrested in connection with the developments of October 15 and 16, 2003.
About 500 women from Azerbaijan kept in sexual slavery in Pakistan March 05, 2004 14:02 "Women are lured into the net under the pretext of subsequent placement in a job and all kinds of promises. Girls are often bought from their own parents for a mere song. Then they are transported to Pakistan, where "bosses" buy them," said head of the Center for Legal Assistance to Migrants Aliovsat Aliyev.
Final ceremony of Peace Prize competition to take place on March 10 March 05, 2004 11:00 The ceremony will take place at the conference hall of the State Tretyakov Gallery, 10 Lavrushinsky Pereulok, at 3 p.m. on March 10, 2004.
South Osetian NGOs will have ether to change style of work or to give up activity March 05, 2004 10:57 A post of the president's aide responsible for non-government organizations (NGOs) and foreign missions has been introduced into the government of South Osetia.
Seminar on resolution of armed conflicts in North Caucasus to be held in Moscow March 05, 2004 10:55 A two-day seminar arranged by the Norwegian Center for Peacemaking and Conflict Studies with the assistance of the Russian-British Center for Peacemaking and Community Development will be conducted at the Andrey Sakharov Museum and Public Center on March 11-12.
Representative of Meskhetian Turks reports to UN on discrimination of his people in Krasnodar Territory March 05, 2004 10:52 Akhmed Mazmanov of the International Society of Meskhetian Turks "Vatan" made a report within a framework of the thematic discussion on the state of non-citizens at the 64th session of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) in Geneva on March 1.
Presentation of three numbers of Krasnodar rights catalogue-digest March 05, 2004 10:48 First three numbers of the rights catalogue-digest published by the regional branch of the Russian Memorial Society were presented to the public during a round table discussion held by the Krasnodar Club of Civil Education of the Krasnodar Regional NGO Creative Union "Southern Wave".
Students of Chechen State University request classmate be released March 05, 2004 10:45 About 200 students from the Department of Medicine of the Chechen State University staged a demonstration in front of the building of the Chechen government in Grozny. Participants demanded that their classmate, Aslambek Khambiyev, be freed.
Georgian rights defenders concerned with state of Chechen refugees March 04, 2004 23:59 Mulkoyev and Alkhanov, Chechens abducted in Georgia and transported to Russia, are being held in an investigatory isolation ward of the Federal Security Service in Yessentuki.
Popular Front Party: report by US Department of State confirms mass human rights violations in Azerbaijan March 04, 2004 23:58 The Azerbaijan Popular Front Party also laid strictures on the attempt by Azerbaijan authorities to prejudice the objectivity of the report by the Department of State. The Party called upon the authorities to give up the actions aimed at "oppressing democratic values."
Inspection of documents of prayers in Historic and Memorial Mosques in Moscow March 04, 2004 23:08 Law-enforcement agencies conducted "total inspections" of documents of prayers in the Historical and Memorial Mosques in Moscow on February 27, Nafigulla Ashirov, co-chairman of the Council of Muftis of Russia and chairman of the Spiritual Administration of Moslems of the Asiatic Part of Russia, reported to Ekho Moskvy Radio.
Basmanny Court delivers guilty verdict against participant in a meeting for peace in Chechnya March 04, 2004 18:17 A hearing of the administrative case against Mikhail Kukobaka, an activist of the Transnational Radical Party and former Soviet political prisoner, was held at the Basmanny District Court on March 2. Mikhail Kukobaka was detained by the police on Lubyanskaya Square on February 23, during a meeting for peace and democracy in Chechnya banned by the Moscow authorities.