Night shelling in Achkhoy-Martan and Urus-Martan districts January 30, 2004 20:23 Highlands and woodlands lying on the border between Chechnya's Achkhoy-Martan and Urus-Martan districts were battered on the night of January 27-28.
11 European Parliament members call on Interpol to consider arrest warrant against Akhmed Zakayev to be null and void January 30, 2004 20:12 Last year a group of members of the European Parliament awarded the "Passport for Freedom" to Akhmed Zakayev, Minister of Culture in the Chechen government of President Maskhadov, shortly after the Danish authorities had rejected the application for extradition made by the Russian Federation.
Damage from helicopter shelling of Shali town eatimated at 305 rubles January 30, 2004 17:39 Sad results of the incident that took place in the district center of Shali on January 20 are being reckoned in Chechnya. Then the northwestern outskirts of the town were shelled with missiles from a helicopter.
Abductors set known Chechen doctor and masseur Khamzat Osmayev free January 30, 2004 17:16 Khamzat Osmayev, the known Chechen doctor and body-builder abducted from his consulting room in the village of Pliyevo on January 12, was found in Ingushetia's Sunzhensky district.
Volgodonsk journalist continues hunger strike January 30, 2004 16:55 Aleksandr Zhabsky, the Volgodonsk journalist who went on hunger strike almost a month ago, is not able to get out of bed now.
New York Life insurance company launches payments to Armenians - victims of genocide in Turkey January 30, 2004 16:29 Specialists hold that the total sums of payments by insurance companies in Turkey will likely run up to hundreds of milliards of dollars.
Book "FSB Blows Up Russia" can be distributed by anyone who wishes January 30, 2004 13:29 People who want to print and distribute the seditious books "FSB Blows Up Russia" (see also here) and "LCG ? Lubyanka Criminal Group" on the territory of the Russian Federation can do it freely, without being afraid to infringe upon authors' rights, the Foundation for Civil Liberties announced yesterday.
Adjarian authorities release Kmara activist Avto Beridze January 30, 2004 12:00 Avto Beridze told journalists that first he had been threatened and then he had been offered a good job and privileges as a way of gaining him over.
Azerbaijan authorities consider report by Human Rights Watch to be ordered January 30, 2004 11:51 The ruling circles in Azerbaijan are incensed over the report by Human Rights Watch (HRW), an international human rights organization, on the human rights situation in the country.
Saakashvili hopes for Russian assistance in returning refuges to Abkhazia January 29, 2004 16:04 Speaking about the Georgian foreign policy, Mr Saakashvili declared, "Georgia will be neither pro-Russian nor pro-American. It will be pro-Georgian and European."
Open letter from Olivier Dupuis to Under-Secretary of Italian Foreign Ministry Margherita Boniver January 29, 2004 15:58 The open letter reads, "I would obviously be very glad to be able to meet you to discuss whether, and in what way, you can contribute to restore hope to the Chechens and dignity to Europe, with respect, at least, to more specifically humanitarian questions."
Defense Ministry denies reports on Russian peacekeeper's death in Abkhazia January 29, 2004 15:52 "There have been no incidents in which Russian peacekeeping units incurred losses in Abkhazia's Gali district," the ministry's press service reported.
Human rights activists are anxious about ecological situation in Chechnya January 29, 2004 14:06 "Ecological conditions in Chechnya today are very bad, which is a result of the hostilities," Aleksandr Cherkasov, an activist of the Human Rights Center "Memorial", said in Strasbourg.
UN to allocate $1 million as help to refugees in Ingushetia January 29, 2004 13:37 Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Jan Egeland announced it on January 27, while meeting with Ingush President Murat Zyazikov during a short visit to Ingushetia.
Over 260 thousand refugees and IDPs registered in Georgia January 29, 2004 13:23 There are 12 thousand IDPs from the zone of the Georgian-Osetian conflict among them and 250 thousand IDPs from Abkhazia. 3 thousand refugees from Chechnya are living in Georgia today too.
Activist of Kmara movement detained in Batumi January 29, 2004 13:09 Avto Beridze was detained not long before the action of protest which was to be held in Batumi by activists of the movement, who demand that Adjarian leader Aslan Abashidze should resign.
Gypsies to be deported from Grozny January 29, 2004 12:49 District police departments of Grozny plan to hold a joint action soon to deport Tajik Gypsies from the territory of the Chechen Republic.
Two Samashki villagers disappeared without a trace January 29, 2004 12:24 At the end of 2003, the Shamayev father and son were detained by officers of Russian security agencies on the road leading to Molsovkhoz 15 and taken away in an unknown direction.
Local of Tsotsin-Yurt village killed January 29, 2004 12:15 A local Tazbiyev was killed by officers of Russian security agencies in the course of the so called "address purges" in the village of Tsotsin-Yurt, Chechnya's Kurchaloy district, on January 26.
Dead body of Russian peacekeeper found in Georgian-Abkhazian conflict zone January 29, 2004 12:06 One of the versions concerns the January 27 developments in the Georgian-Abkhazian conflict zone, when a skirmish happened between Georgian policemen and an Abkhazian criminal group of 10 people.