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18:10, 19 August 2003

Opposition is afraid of political terror boom

The Eni Musavat newspaper with a reference to the Turkish web-site Avrasiya.turk.com informs that some power circles of Azerbaijan are trying to form illegal armed units to get rid of several opposition leaders.

18:09, 19 August 2003

Lawyers of victims of terrorist act in Dubrovka lodged complaint to European Court of Human Rights

As Lawyer Lyudmila Trunova said, a complaint was made after the rejection of the Tverskoy Court to answer 24 claims for the compensation of moral damage.

16:03, 19 August 2003

Head of Commission on Human Rights supported the Moslems of Karelia

On August 14, 2003 there was a meeting of the Chairman of the Spiritual Administration of Moslems of the Republic of Karelia Mufti Visam Ali Bardvil with the chairman of the Commission on Human Rights in Karelia Marat Tarasov, which was devoted to the events that had taken place on August 2, 3, 4, 2003 in the town of Kondopoga. Then so-called troopers attacked people of non-Slavic appearance working on the markets of the city.

15:57, 19 August 2003

Problem of military and patriotic education of children and young people was discussed during "round table" in regional Duma on August 15.

Representatives of the region's government, bodies of local authorities, ministries, committees, military and patriotic public organizations, mass media, cultural and educational institutions from all over the Stavropol region assembled to share experience, problems and their solutions.

15:55, 19 August 2003

Territorial Election Commission of Stavropol calls mass media not to break law

The Territorial Election Commission of Stavropol has prepared the Appeal to Leaders of Mass Media Organizations.

15:53, 19 August 2003

Structure to monitor mass media covering elections was set up in Azerbaijan

The results of the monitoring will be systematically delivered to the Council of Europe and other international organizations.

15:50, 19 August 2003

Chechens who had come for berries were deported from Karelia

The Spiritual Administration of Moslems of the Republic of Karelia sent letters to the prosecutor of the republic Vladimir Panasenko and Interior Minister Dmitry Mikhaylov on the matter of the deportation of Russian citizens of the Chechen nationality beyond the Karelian bounds.

15:48, 19 August 2003

Leader of Chechen refugees' public organization was released

On August 12 the Chairman of the International United Committee of Refugees from Chechnya Shirvani Gunayev was released in the village Sleptsovskaya in the Sunzhensky region of Ingushetia.

17:59, 18 August 2003

Two people were captured by Abkhazian party in Galsky region

A group of Abkhazian customs officials rushed in the house of the Tsulaias and captured 32-year old Merab Tsulaia, as well as a guest staying in the house; the name of the latter remains unknown.

17:57, 18 August 2003

Boris Gryzlov: "Situation in Chechnya is under control"

Interior Minister Boris Gryzlov has reported to Vladimir Putin that the situation in the Chechen Republic remained under control, a regional operations stuff under Russian Deputy Interior Minister functioned.

17:56, 18 August 2003

Deported Khadzhi Bolat is going to strive for his return to historical home

On August 7 Khadzhi Bayram Bolat, an ethnic Adyg being a citizen of Turkey now, was deported from Nalchik to Istanbul by force; on August 15 a press-conference was held on the initiative of the regional branch of the Russian Public Movement "For Human Rights" in Kabardino-Balkaria and the Committee for Defense of Khadzhi Bolat's Rights created the day before.

15:41, 18 August 2003

Georgia is deprived of electricity

The Tbilisi underground came to a standstill, and several dozen thousands of passengers were stranded in metro trains; metro workers made strenuous efforts to evacuate them to the surface.

15:38, 18 August 2003

Batdyev and Semyonov have reached run-off in presidential elections in Karachaevo-Cherkessia

Republican Election Commission Chairman Safar Geryukov noted that the date for the run-off will be set once the final results of the first round are available.

15:37, 18 August 2003

Chechen human rights activist is accused by migration official of bribing refugees

Ivan Pomeshchkenko, an acting head of the Department for Migration Affairs of Ingushetia, accused Chechen human rights activist Ruslan Badalov of bribing several refugees.

14:35, 18 August 2003

Separatists fired at commandant's building

Two soldiers were dead and about 10 soldiers got wounds of different severity as a result of a massive fire on the building from the automatic and grenade-guns.

14:33, 18 August 2003

Moscow radicals resume interrupted collection of signatures under appeal for UN administration mission in Chechnya

Earlier a collection of signatures on the streets of the capital was practically stopped because of the stubborn counteraction of Moscow's Central Administrative District Prefecture, and mainly because of complete destruction of the TRP Moscow's office as a result of a stealing of office equipment.

14:31, 18 August 2003

US Ambassador to Georgia urged Caucasians to think more contemporarily

He underlined the approaches of the US and Russia to the conflict settlement were similar; they are based on the principles of peaceful adjustment and territorial integrity of Georgia.

14:29, 18 August 2003

Punitive "special operation" in Samashki village

In the morning of August 15 Russian soldiers blocked several streets in the village of Samashki in the Achkhoy-Martan region to hold the next "cleanups".

14:24, 18 August 2003

Military men are interested in the dead

People of Chechnya express special concern of the fact that cases have become more frequent when officials of Russian special services come to the funeral and demand from relatives of the dead man to tell the cause of the death.

14:22, 18 August 2003

Kadirov's supporters collect favorable signatures using ?administrative sources?

"Kadirov`s security service seized our passports and then compiled lists using our personal statistics," said Zulfiya Zaurbekova.

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