THE ITALIAN PROSECUTOR'S OFFICE INVESTIGATES THE ASSASSINATION ANTONIO RUSSO.

TBILISI (Agency "PRIMA"). The Italian secutor's office has begun investigation of circumstances of destruction of the Italian radio journalist Antonio Russo. The corpse was found on october 16 in Gombori 40 km from Tbilisi. The employee of the ministry of internal businesses of Georgia has informed October 19, that the investigation began in connection with the preliminary data of judicial-pathological expert operation according which the reason of death the journalist became the traumatic shock called by numerous crises of edges and damage easy as a result of impacts by a blunt subject. The inquest has established, that from a flat in the house along on Nicoladze street in Tbilisi, where the journalist lived was stolen the computer satellite radio ,phone, video-camera and records. Recently Antonio Russo was occupied connecting materials about Chechen refugees living in Pankisy gorge.
The president of the Caucasian information bureau "CIBE" Surkho Idiev has answered the questions of radio "FREE EUROPE" about the reasons of assassination of the Italian journalist.


Possible connection of destruction of the Italian JOURNALIST Antonio Russo AND HIS RIGHT PROTECT activity,

Giorgi Kobaladze,
Radio "FREE EUROPE",

Tbilisi: Surkho Idiev is Chechen man, constantly living in Georgia, he knew Antonio Russo and within several months actively cooperated with him, and not only as a source of information. As a matter of fact, those details of activity of the Italian journalist, about which has told Idiev , reconfirm the ominous version that the Antonio Russo assassination is organized by forces interested in finishing his right-protective activity. Surkho Idiev affirms, that Antonio Russo was not only the journalist, but the link between right-protective organizations Chechnya and Russia, on the one hand and management of a Radical Party of Italy - with another. Russo was the correspondent of " Radio a Radical " and used trust and respect of the leaders of a Radical Party , which is rather appreciable on the European political arena.
Idiev has told in conversation with me, that when the Chechen problem was debated in council of Europe and the question on forfeiting the Russian delegate of a suffrage was staked, the decision PACE was influenced as the documents, which through Antonio Russo have got in hands of the Italian delegate, and then were distributed as the PACE diplomas as the evidence of roughest violations of rights of the man in Chechnya. The documents are collected by right-protective organization " Memorial". Then Antonio Russo has placed appropriate clauses on a site " Radio a Radical ". He was indignant occurring in Chechnya and staked before the management of a Radical Party a question on initiation of discussion of the Chechen problem in European parliament. In it he has found understanding on the Italian deputies side . So, behind some days up to Antonio Russo destruction has received from Idiev the new parcel of the documents, sufficient, at least, under the Idievs affirmations. To excite in the European Court on human rights business about crimes against humanity.
It is necessary to note, that the Antonio Russo colleagues on a Radical party actively participated in lodging similar business against Miloshevich and his transformations in international extol have achieved. Among the documents transferred Russo , were, certificates of mass shootings, places of mass graves and so on also were specified. All these documents were gone with the words of Surkho Idiev . Them have not detected neither on a place of assassination of the Italian journalist, nor in his flat in Tbilisi.