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April 28, 2003 22:07

• Resolution of Organizational Committee for Antiwar Actions on campaign for United Nations Administration Mission for Chechnya

  ?The Organizational Committee for Antiwar Actions declares its support of the proposal made by the Transnational Radical Party on April 20, 2003 in its appeal ?For the United Nations Administration Mission in Chechnya? to the Secretary-General of the United Nations, the heads of the Member States of the United Nations, and the heads of their governments?, it is said in the statement.

April 26, 2003 22:35

• Pressure upon employees of Azerbaijan newspaper ?Milliyet?

  The newspaper employees got the official notification that it was inadmissible to publish materials insulting honour and dignity of the president of the country.

April 26, 2003 22:32

• Armenians in United States are dissatisfied with George Bush?s statement on occasion of 88-th anniversary of Armenian genocide

  The Armenian National Committee of America reported the President of the USA ?again broke his February 2000 campaign pledge to properly recognize the Armenian Genocide?.

April 26, 2003 22:29

• Yastrzhembsky has urged other countries to close Chechen sites

  ?The countries counting on mutually beneficial relations with Russia do not have to place the informational resources of terrorists?, the Russian President?s Aide Sergey Yastrzhembsky announced while answering journalists? questions.

April 26, 2003 22:24

• ?Memorial?s? gift to Stepanakert?s Press Club

  The director of regional network programmes and informational projects Grigory Shvedov handed over about 70 various books and publications to the Stepanakert?s Press Club.

April 26, 2003 20:06

• Rudnik Dudayev has accused Russian military of illegal arrests and abductions of people

  Speaking in Grozny on April 24 he reported 251 people were illegally detained and abducted in Chechnya since the beginning of the year, overwhelming majority of them were law-abiding citizens.

April 25, 2003 20:15

• OSCE representative has arrived in Baku

  Christian Strohal, who arrived in Baku for a two-day visit yesterday, intends to acquaint himself with the process of preparation for elections of the President of Azerbaijan that have to be held coming autumn.

April 25, 2003 20:09

• Attempt against Special Representative of President of Russia has been committed

  A self-made explosive assembly exploded in the center of Grozny. It happened when the motorcade of the responsible member of the staff of the Special Representative of the President of Russia for Human and Civil Rights and Freedoms in Chechnya Nurdi Nukhazhiyev was passing along the road.

April 25, 2003 20:06

• Oliver Dupuis asks Council of Europe about its awareness of situation in Chechnya

  ?Whether the Council is informed of numerous international observers? testimonies, indicating gross breaches during the period which preceded so-called referendum, as well as during the so-called referendum itself?? the Secretary of the Transnational Radical Party asks.

April 25, 2003 10:51

• Caucasian Mineralnye Vody was 200 yesterday

  On April 24, 1803 Emperor Alexander I issued the Imperial Decree on imparting the status of the medical region of national importance to the Caucasian Meneralnye Vody.

April 25, 2003 10:49

• Conflict in Georgian Parliament

  The conflict arose after the Armenian Deputy Hamlet Movsesian had appealed to the parliamentarians to keep the minute of silence in memory of victims of the Armenian genocide in the Ottoman Empire in 1915, and the Azerbaijan Deputy disliked it.

April 25, 2003 01:54

• Russian radicals have proceeded to collect signatures for United Nations Administration Mission in Chechnya

  Moscow activists of the Transnational Radical Party and the "Club Khramov - Association for Libertarian Reforms? proceed to collect citizens? signatures on the streets of Moscow under the international appeal ?For the United Nations Administration Mission in Chechnya?.

April 25, 2003 01:51

• 88-th anniversary of Armenian genocide in Ottoman Empire is celebrated in Erevan

  The President of Armenia Robert Kocharyan, the Speaker of the Parliament Armen Hachatryan, the Prime Minister Andranik Markaryan, the Chairman of the Constitutional Court Gagik Arutyunyan, other statesmen and foreign diplomats were also presented at the ceremony that was held in the Tsitsirnakberd complex.

April 25, 2003 01:49

• Federal Center is dissatisfied with actions of Chechen Ministry of Internal Affairs

  Particularly serious claims were raised by the deputy head of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs to the heads of the regional departments of Grozny, where great number of acts of terrorism and sabotage, underminings, and fires take place.

April 24, 2003 16:23

• Chechens from Polish refugee camps continue to apply for asylum in the Czech Republic

  Seventy two Chechens applied for asylum in the Czech Republic today; since April 16 the total number of requests has reached 384.

April 24, 2003 13:53

• People are persecuted in Chechnya for their relationship to field commanders

  People of Chechnya express growing anxiety regarding political persecution of persons who are disloyal to Kadirov?s administration and Russian authorities.

April 24, 2003 13:50

• Georgia does not exclude a possibility of Chechen soldiers break into Pankissi Gorge coming summer

  The Georgian Ambassador to the RF reported that the ?multiecheloned? defense from among the employees of the Georgian Frontier Service, special forces of Internal Affairs organs, and police-officers was organized on the Russian-Georgian frontier to prevent the break.

April 23, 2003 23:27

• Council of Europe has stated violation of rights of Armenians and refugees in Azerbaijan

  It is stated in the report prepared by the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance.

April 23, 2003 23:25

• Verdict has been read out at trial of Budanov

  The public prosecutor at the trial Viktor Rastorguev accuses Budanov of two episodes.

April 23, 2003 23:23

• Azerbaijan will send 150 peacemakers to Iraq

  150 Azerbaijan peacemakers are ready to leave for Iraq before May 12. The President of Azerbaijan Geydar Aliyev stated it on April 22 while meeting with the US Ambassador to Baku Ross Wilson.