News

November 26, 2003 19:25

• Criminal investigation launched in Georgia into vote fraud during parliamentary elections

  A criminal investigation has been launched into the vote fraud during the November 2 parliamentary elections.

November 26, 2003 17:50

• Interview with Gersolt Elmurzayev, candidate for the State Duma from Chechnya

  "Taking into consideration a number of national features, I object to the privatization of lands," says Gersolt Elmurzayev.

November 26, 2003 15:32

• Results of parliamentary elections in Georgia were garbled, admitted Shevardnadze

  Eduard Shevardnadze told it in his interview with CNN. But the Ex-President of Georgia did not want to name those people who borne relation to the substitution of the election results.

November 26, 2003 13:45

• New presidential election in Georgia to be held on 4 January 2004

  Deputies also elected Vice Speaker Gigi Tseriteli as Acting Chair of the Parliament by a majority.

November 26, 2003 13:01

• Monograph "Russians in the North Caucasus: Analysis of Transformation of Social and Cultural Status" appeared in print in Rostov-on-Don

  The monograph is devoted to the complex analysis of ethnosocial processes in the republics of the North Caucasus, which are visibly displayed in the field of ethnopolitical relations.

November 26, 2003 10:53

• U.S. Senators urge suspension of Russia's G-8 membership

  The McCain-Lieberman resolution would express the Sense of Congress that the Russian Government's selective prosecution of its political opponents, suppression of free media, and commission of widespread atrocities against civilians in Chechnya do not reflect the minimum standards of democratic governance and rule of law that characterize every other member of the G-8.

November 25, 2003 23:54

• Claim against Public TV Company

  "The director of Armenian Public TV Company has illegally released me from my job", journalist Sevak Grigoryan announces. The contract concluded with him was suspended on July 1, 2003, without any substantiation.

November 25, 2003 22:40

• Armenia hopes for resumption of talks with Azerbaijan on Nagorny Karabakh

  "Armenia hopes for the resumption of talks with Azerbaijan on Nagorno-Karabakh, because any military solution to the Karabakh problem is ruled out," said Armenian Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanian.

November 25, 2003 22:23

• 2,600 people in seven cities signed an appeal demanding decent life for disabled children

  The action was aimed at drawing attention of the public to the state of children with mental disabilities, who are treated with no respect for their rights, and to urge the President to assist in providing the fulfillment of all fundamental rights of these children.

November 25, 2003 19:46

• 17 militants killed during special operation in Chechnya

  Ilya Shabalkin, a spokesman of the regional headquarters on the counter-terrorist operation in the North Caucasus, reported it.

November 25, 2003 16:47

• Residents of refugee camp in Maysky village live without heat and electricity

  Over 2,000 displaced persons - 500 of them are children - from the Prigorodny district of North Osetia living in a refugee camp in the village of Maysky still have no electricity and gas.

November 25, 2003 16:43

• Adjaria imposes boycott on new parliamentary and pre-term presidential elections in Georgia

  Adjaria also breaks all the ties with the center as it does not recognize the legitimacy of Acting Georgian President and Speaker of the Georgian Parliament Nino Burdjanadze, according to one of the leaders of the parliamentary Revival Party Tsotne Bakuria.

November 25, 2003 15:43

• Conference for leaders of public organizations and movements of North Caucasian people started in Nalchik

  The conference is aimed at discussing those tasks of public organizations and movements fulfillment of which makes for preserving peace and providing stability in the region, informed leader of the Alan movement Sufiyan Beppayev.

November 25, 2003 15:14

• Four people abducted in Achkhoy-Martan district of Chechnya

  Four young people were forcibly taken from their houses by unidentified gunmen in masks.

November 25, 2003 14:55

• Symposium on interethnic relations took place in Rostov

  The symposium was arranged by the Administration of the Rostov region, where the issue of interethnic relations is regarded very seriously.

November 25, 2003 13:22

• Salambek Maigov's election staffer about detention of his colleague

  According to head of Salambek Maigov's election staff Adlan Khasuyev, his deputy, Ibragim Umarkhadzhiyev, was truly detained by security forces in the Staropromyslovsky district of Grozny.

November 24, 2003 23:41

• People in Chechnya differ with General Troshev's opinion

  The other day, the Russian President's adviser General Troshev claimed there was "no war" in Chechnya. He was quoted as saying, "the Russian servicemen were ordered not to conduct sweeps and not to enter private houses in Chechnya."

November 24, 2003 22:40

• Chechen rebels refute Abu al-Walid death report

  On November 17, Chechnya's military commandant's office alleged the death of Abu al-Walid, who is called a main financier of the Chechen rebels, in the vicinities of the Neftiyanka settlement, the Vedeno district of the republic.

November 24, 2003 22:13

• Locals of Vedeno district in Chechnya flee from their houses

  According to the Russian command, militants get shelter in the villages supported by locals who sympathize with them openly or secretly.

November 24, 2003 20:07

• Azerbaijan does not intend to join Collective Security Treaty

  It is most like connected with the opinion of official Baku that Russia has too close contacts with Armenia in the military field.