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16:52, 21 February 2004

Moscow: no meeting on day in memory of genocide of Chechen people, but placement of flowers

The Moscow Mayor's Office banned the meeting to commemorate victims of the war, to protest against it, and to urge a political settlement of the Russian-Chechen conflict that was planned to be held at the memorial stone on Lubyanskaya Square in Moscow on February 23.

20:15, 20 February 2004

Cooperative Best Effort military exercises will likely not be conducted in Baku

The possible change of the place for the exercises is connected with the brutal murder committed in Budapest on February 19, when a lieutenant of the Armenian Armed Forces was killed by an Azerbaijan officer.

18:36, 20 February 2004

Arrested Azerbaijan oppositionists stop hunger strike

"The state of the hunger strike participants is normal; medical intervention is not needed. Just some changes have been made to their nourishment, with their state being taken into consideration," said the official of the Ministry of Justice.

18:15, 20 February 2004

Georgia will fire on ships violating Abkhazia's sea border

"We are not going to start a war, but we shall not allow Abkhazia to become an exporter of arms and drugs," said the Georgian President.

16:54, 20 February 2004

Gas and water supply to accommodation centers for refugees cut off with view of safety, Ingush authorities say

Refugees believe they are simply being forced to leave Ingushetia by the deliberate worsening of their living conditions.

16:51, 20 February 2004

Statement by Olivier Dupuis in connection with ban on meeting timed to 60th anniversary of deportation of Chechens

"Whatever sphere of the Russian social life we take (not to mention the developments in Chechnya), everywhere we witness the growth of overt violations of fundamental rights," reads the statement.

15:04, 20 February 2004

Azerbaijan officer kills Armenian colleague at NATO courses in Hungary

Both the officers were taking part in English courses within the framework of NATO's Partnership for Peace program in Hungary.

13:55, 20 February 2004

Chechnya takes first place in number of antipersonnel mines

About 500 thousand antipersonnel mines are buried and wait for their time in Chechnya.

13:37, 20 February 2004

First Armenian ombudsperson is woman

Larisa Alaverdian, chairwoman of the Foundation Against Illegality, has been appointed the first ombudsperson of Armenia.

12:46, 20 February 2004

Moscow metro blast may have been arranged by Abu al-Walid

$4.5 dollars have come in on al-Walid's foreign account the other day, according to special services' information.

12:43, 20 February 2004

Armenia is not ready to start negotiations for Nagorny Karabakh from scratch

"We have been working for many years to form a certain field for the resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, and I am not going to throw all this work into the water," stressed the President of Armenia.

12:06, 20 February 2004

Ban on lessons of peace arranged by center of Chechen culture "Vaynakh" in Yekaterinburg schools

The police watched the Chechens and human rights activists being evicted from the school but preferred to remain aloof and not to interfere in the situation.

21:22, 19 February 2004

Amnesty International: anti-Chechen sentiment in Moscow post-metro blast

According to information received by Amnesty International, minority ethnic groups from the Caucasus region have once again become the target of discriminatory rhetoric, arbitrary document checks and searches, and racially-motivated revenge attacks.

19:43, 19 February 2004

Temporary accommodation center for refugees "Angusht" left without gas

The authorities explained their actions by saying that the NGO Danish Refugee Council had illegally built housing for displaced persons from liquidated tent camps on the territory of the accommodation center.

16:59, 19 February 2004

Yeni Musavat editor-in-chief Rauf Arifoglu stops hunger strike

As reported by a high-ranking official at Bailovsky Investigatory Isolation Ward 1, the state of Arifoglu's health worsened and isolation ward workers had to warn him of the possibility of using forced feeding.

16:26, 19 February 2004

Films of international Chechnya Film Festival to be shown in Kazan

The films to be shown are Murder with International Consent (Poland), Terror in Moscow (Great Britain), Chechen Lullaby (France), and Children's Stories - Not for Kids (Russia).

15:49, 19 February 2004

Moscow Mayor's Office bans rally timed to 60th anniversary of Stalin's deportation of Chechen people

The organizers of the rally were going to commemorate the victims of the Chechen genocide, to urge the political settlement of the Russian-Chechen conflict and establishment of a United Nations interim administration in Chechnya.

14:59, 19 February 2004

"Against Numbering of People" association founded in Armenia

More than twenty non-government organizations, foundations and parties founded the association "Against Numbering of People". Its main task is to stop the process of introducing the system of social cards in Armenia.

14:24, 19 February 2004

Member of presidential Commission on Human Rights asks Luzhkov to place barrier to Fascist ideology

Svetlana Gannushkina has appealed to Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov drawing his attention to leaflets extremist in content that appeared in Moscow metro trains. These leaflets call upon the citizens to come to the meeting "Clear Moscow of Chechen Bandits."

13:57, 19 February 2004

Georgia to declassify KGB archives

The State Security Ministry of Georgia will make KGB (State Security Committee of the USSR) archives accessible to the wide public in the near future.

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