News

August 15, 2003 20:40

• Press-conference of Moscow Bureau on Human Rights "Russia Under Conditions of "Ruled Democracy". What shall intelligentsia do?"

  A press-conference will be held at the Institute of Press Development (Tverskoy Bulvar, 20) at 11:00 on August 19, 2003.

August 15, 2003 20:38

• "Doctors Without Borders" and volunteers passed through town wearing T-shots with "Where is Arjan?" inscription

  The procession was held within the framework of the exhibition that is opened in the Exhibition Hall of the Dagestan Republican Library. The exhibition is timed to the sad date: a year ago, on August 12, 2002, Arjan Erkel was kidnapped. His whereabouts is still unknown.

August 15, 2003 20:37

• 17 participators of protest action were arrested in Baku

  The police acted rather hard, batoning one and all regardless of age and sex of the oppositionists.

August 15, 2003 17:28

• Azerbaijan Defense Minister declares his country is ready to answer to provocations from outside

  "One in no circumstances should forget the war between Azerbaijan and Armenia goes on", declared Safar Abiyev.

August 15, 2003 17:26

• Office of human rights center "Memorial" was attacked in Saint Petersburg on August 14

  According to the words of the local branch chairman of the "Memorial" Vladimir Shnidtke, about 14:00 two men rushed into the society's quarters, one of them wearing a mask; they call themselves representatives of the society for Colonel Budanov's protection and announced that they needed a central computer with information.

August 15, 2003 17:24

• "We will not surrender "School of Peace"!" Lyudmila Alekseyeva announced in Krasnodar

  More than fifty participants gathered for a round-table discussion "Public Organizations in Krasnodar region: Persecution Continues", which took place in Krasnodar; they discussed a situation arisen around the Novorossiysk Fund "School of Peace".

August 15, 2003 13:59

• Search for Chechen people abducted by Russian military men

  Chechen people were abducted by officers of Russian power structures; their whereabouts and further fate has not been ascertained yet.

August 15, 2003 13:55

• Angelina Jolie will visit Vladikavkaz with UN mission

  In her last interview to the Rolling Stone magazine the Hollywood star said it was in her nearest plans to visit refugee camps on the border with Chechnya and acquaint herself with situation in the Northern Caucasus.

August 15, 2003 13:53

• Despotism of Russian military men in Aldi settlement

  According to information of local residents, on August 11, 2003 Russian military men shoot down a car with 4 people in it in the village of Aldi (Zavodskoy District of Grozny).

August 15, 2003 13:51

• Chechen public urges rebels to speed up process of laying down arms

  As the Federation Council member, the Chechen Administration representative in the Federation Council Akhmar Zavgayev reported, an enlarged session of the Chechen regional branch of the United Russia Party was held in Gudermes on Thursday.

August 15, 2003 13:49

• Ilykham Aliyev believes in the US in matter of Nagorno-Karabakh conflict settlement

  According to the words of the prime-minister, "the US, being one of the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairmen, can do a lot for peaceful conflict settlement within the framework of Azerbaijan's territorial integrity".

August 15, 2003 13:47

• Trial on murder of television and radio company head has been resumed in Armenia

  A hearing of the case on the murder of Armenian Public Television and Radio Company Chairman Tigran Naglalian was continued under the chairmanship of Judge Saro Aramian in the court of first instance of the Kentron and Nork-Marash Communes of Erevan on Wednesday.

August 14, 2003 23:59

• 4-th congress of International Circassian Association will take place in Nalchik

  80 delegates from Jordan, Syria, Israel, Turkey, the US, and other countries where the Adygeis compactly live, as well as 200 invited guests are expected to be its participants.

August 14, 2003 23:59

• Second Summer School "Interaction of Power and Society" has finished its work in village of Lermontovo

  The action resulted in a decision to found an association that would be a coordinating body for development and promotion of public initiatives of its participants.

August 14, 2003 21:08

• Chechen authorities assure tent camps in Ingushetia will have been liquidated by October 1

  "All people who are now living in these tent camps in Ingushetia will be provided with housing," Chechen Acting President Anatoly Popov said. "At the beginning of the year about 20 000 refuges lived in the Ingush tent camps, at the present time only 9 500."

August 14, 2003 21:05

• Five people were killed in APC blast in Chechnya

  An armored personnel carrier hit a high-capacity landmine that had been planted by gunmen on a road.

August 14, 2003 21:04

• Human rights activists protest court decision against 60 Minutes program

  On August 13 human rights advocacy NGOs expressed concern regarding the Tbilisi District Court decision that obliged the investigative TV program 60 Minutes to pay 1 million lari (USD 450 000) to Georgian Railway Department Chairman Akaki Chkheidze.

August 14, 2003 21:01

• Attempt on administration representatives of Sernovodskaya village

  Separatists clothed in masks fired a building of the village administration from the automatic and escaped from the scene of the crime.

August 14, 2003 20:59

• Tortures are used to prisoners in Sochi investigation ward

  On July 27, 2003 withindoors of the Khostinsky Regional Interior Department Alexander Shvets and Tomaz Tsatsoria were beaten by militiamen with the purpose of giving false evidence.

August 14, 2003 17:06

• On August 12 "round table" on subject "Rights and Freedoms of Foreign Compatriots" was held in Azerbaijan

  A political scientist Aslan Khalidi noted in his report "Foreign Compatriots' Resources To Obtain Information About Azerbaijan" that there was a need of working out a mechanism of providing foreign compatriots with information about their historical native land.