News

August 29, 2003 23:59

• Chechen refugees ask for restoration of justice

  Forced migrants from the Chechen Republic ask to help them reinstate 325 people in the lists of refugees. They were struck off the registration in the Federal Migration Service without any ground.

August 29, 2003 23:58

• Despotism of Russian servicemen in Sernovodsk settlement

  Russian servicemen without military insignia broke into the Asayevs' yard at 3 a.m. Without any charges they seized Shamkhan Asayev, his brother Magomed and the three brothers-in-law and took them away in an unknown direction.

August 29, 2003 23:52

• Armenian Foreign Minister: "Armenia is unlikely to be seriously sanctioned by Council of Europe"

  The Council of Europe motivates the necessity of sanctions against Armenia by the thought that otherwise it will be difficult to guarantee fair elections in neighboring Azerbaijan and Georgia which are to take place this autumn.

August 29, 2003 23:50

• Bad water causes mass poisoning of refugees

  The warden of the compact residence "Slavyanka-Fulat" situated in the stanitsa Troitskaya Zina Magomadova appealed to the Ingush office of the Society for the Russian-Chechen Friendship with a request to help her solve the problem of water supplies in the camp.

August 29, 2003 18:31

• Opponents of pipeline Baku-Jeikhan construction believe it is risky to build it until regional conflicts are settled

  Representatives of non-government organizations protesting against the construction of the pipe-line Baku-Tbilisi-Jeikhan held a press conference in Baku yesterday.

August 29, 2003 18:29

• Round-table meeting "Alternative Civil Service. 30 Days before Conscription" took place in Krasnodar

  A new federal law "About Alternative Civil Service (ACS)" will come into force on January 1, 2004. However, this law has a number of faults: the mechanisms of its maintenance are not completely worked out, there is a contradiction between some of its clauses, - all these things hinder the proper development of the ACS institution in Russia.

August 29, 2003 18:27

• Precedent was established in Dudinka: court sided to member of Azerbaijan diaspora in case against regional police department head

  The Azerbaijan diaspora of the Krasnodar region has already gained support on this issue from 22 regional national communes, including Russian one.

August 29, 2003 14:05

• Youth mini-football tournament took place in Grozny

  The tournament was organized by the public organization "Step into the Future" and financially supported by the International Committee of the Red Cross.

August 29, 2003 14:03

• Yesterday night there was raid on rooms of Russian Commissioner for Human Rights Oleg Mironov

  Staff officials believe the robbery was premeditated because the second round of the election to the Commissioner for Human Rights in the Russian Federation is to be held in September.

August 29, 2003 14:00

• Court acquitted oppositionist

  The Court of Appeal demanded that former Interior Minister Abdulla Allakhverdiev should prove that Azerbaijan National Independence Party Chairman Etibar Mamedov, one of the presidential contenders for the election lying ahead in October, was making for the Armenian occupation of the Lachinsky region of Azerbaijan or refute his words in the next issue of the Palitra newspaper.

August 29, 2003 13:58

• New Russian OSCE Minsk Group co-chairman is awaited in Baku

  The leadership of Azerbaijan assumes that the forthcoming change of the Russian OSCE Minsk group co-chairman will not affect the process of the Karabah conflict settlement.

August 29, 2003 11:00

• Civil rights activists has sued Central Election Commission

  The GYLA and other human rights advocacy organizations protest against the ruling adopted by the CEC on August 25, which defines the principles of coverage of the election process by the state and private mass media.

August 28, 2003 22:54

• Teachers and doctors of Ust-Donetsk held meeting of protest

  The Committee of the Russian Communist Party in the Rostov region says that people are displeased with the fact that this year they have been deprived of their privileges for housing and public utilities payments for the second time already.

August 28, 2003 22:52

• Slave-trader from Azerbaijan has been arrested in Novocherkassk

  A city resident addressed officials of the Novocherkassk Department for Struggle against Organized Crime. She said that her daughter was in the Arabian Emirates where she was forced to work as a prostitute. They started to check this information and found out that the girl managed to go abroad under the patronage of an Azerbaijan citizen.

August 28, 2003 22:50

• OSCE plans to hold regular monitoring on Armenian-Azerbaijan border

  The last OSCE monitoring was foiled by shooting on August 19.

August 28, 2003 22:48

• US wants to help Armenia to buy flats for refugees

  Over 300 thousand people fled from Azerbaijan to Armenia during the Karabah conflict in 1988-1991. Many of them still have no permanent residence.

August 28, 2003 22:46

• Group of public figures and human rights activists has spoken in defense of former head of Mozdok hospital Artur Arakelyan

  "A doctor who had taken on the responsibilities of the hospital head three weeks before the explosion can not be responsible for what happened", reads the statement.

August 28, 2003 22:45

• Kuban ecological organizations has launched campaign against construction of port "Zhelezny Rog" in Taman

  A meeting of protest against the ammoniac terminal of the corporation "TogliattiAzot" and the port "Zhelezny Rog" will take place in the center of Taman on August 31.

August 28, 2003 15:17

• Suspects of organization of Krasnodar explosions has been detained

  This was reported by the head of the Interior Department of the Krasnodar region Sergey Kucheruk after the meeting of the Regional Security Council.

August 28, 2003 15:15

• Despotism of Russian servicemen at block-post "Kavkaz-1"

  At about noon on August 25, 2003, Russian servicemen seized identity cards of two members of the Human Rights Center "Memorial" during the inspection of motor transport at the block-post "Kavkaz-1".