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June 24, 2004 18:35

• Exact number of attackers in Ingushetia unknown

  Aleksandr Cherkasov of the Human Rights Center Memorial also called reports about Ingush rebels into question. According to information he had, only one group acting in the area of the Nazran market was made up of Ingushetians, the composition of the other groups was mixed.

June 24, 2004 18:03

• Death toll from rebel attack in Ingushetia rises to 98

  Among the dead, there are 23 civilians, 29 police officers, 10 Federal Security Service officials, 5 prosecutors, 19 servicemen, 2 Chechen Interior Ministry officials and 7 border guards.

June 24, 2004 17:49

• OSCE Mission in Georgia brings up question of freedom of media and movement in South Osetia

  Head of the OSCE Mission in Georgia Ambassador Roy Reeve emphasized that "Georgian journalists have turned to the OSCE Mission many times after the South Osetian authorities started hampering the coverage of the situation in the conflict zone."

June 24, 2004 17:45

• 12 suspects in attack on Ingushetia detained

  Three of the arrestees had forged certificates of officers of the Chechen president's security service on them.

June 24, 2004 17:43

• Zyazikov denies conducting purges in Ingushetia

  The Ingush president also claimed that the group of security forces in Ingushetia would not be considerably enlarged. "I don't think it is necessary to increase the strength of security agencies radically," he said.

June 24, 2004 14:28

• Locals threaten Chechen refugees with pogroms in Ingushetia

  Appeals to organize pogroms were heard in the village on Yandare, Ingushetia's Nazran district, during funerals of people who fell victims to the developments of the night of June 21-22.

June 24, 2004 14:16

• Did Magomed Yevloyev lead rebel attacks in Ingushetia?

  As reported by the Ingushetia.ru website, Shamil Basayev or a man bearing resemblance to him was noted among the attackers.

June 24, 2004 14:13

• Victims of rebel attack on Ingushetia to get compensation

  The decision by the Ingush leadership to compensate for moral and material damage applies to both republican law enforcers and civilians.

June 24, 2004 14:10

• Georgian media make doubt about authenticity of firing incident

  The wound on the head of Tamar Tadtayeva looks much more like an injury with a deep abrasion. No proof that the woman was wounded by a shell fragment exists.

June 24, 2004 13:59

• Novocherkassk declared zone of ecological emergency

  For the last 10-15 years, ecological services and a group of scientists and specialists of Novocherkassk institutes of higher education have done serious researches on the city's ecology.

June 24, 2004 13:51

• Draft law on referendum causes public discontent

  The conference titled "Citizens' Constitutional Rights in the Draft Federal Constitutional Law on the Referendum in the Russian Federation" was held in Stavropol on June 21.

June 24, 2004 13:49

• Magomed Yevloyev led rebel attack on Ingushetia, Chechen Interior Minister says

  Yevloyev is commander of the group that acted on the territory of Ingushetia, Alu Alkhanov added.

June 23, 2004 21:02

• Former deputy premier of Chechen government to run for president

  Today, Movsar Khamidov officially notified the Chechen Central Election Commission of his intention to take part in the forthcoming presidential election in Chechnya.

June 23, 2004 20:21

• 95 killed by rebels in Ingushetia

  18 civilians were killed in Nazran, 1 - in Karabulak, 2 - in the Sunzha district and 20 - in the Nazran district of the republic.

June 23, 2004 17:03

• Amnesty International holds press conference in Moscow

  A press conference of Amnesty International devoted to the situation in Ingushetia has started in the Independent Press Institute in Moscow.

June 23, 2004 17:00

• Nephew of first Chechen president detained

  Officers of security agencies in masks and camouflage uniform, who came in several cars without number plates, captured Rezvan Dudayev without bringing any charges and took him away in an unknown direction.

June 23, 2004 16:56

• Human rights activists await repressions in Chechnya

  The International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights and the Moscow Helsinki Group have raised their concern in connection with the developments in Ingushetia.

June 23, 2004 14:01

• NATO conference held in Baku under anti-Armenian slogans

  Early in the morning of June 22, activists of the Organization for Karabakh Liberation with anti-Armenian transparencies surrounded the hotel in which the conference is being held. Several people were injured in the clash with law enforcers, and one activist was detained.

June 23, 2004 13:52

• Death toll from guerilla attacks in Ingushetia reaches 60

  These figures are tentative, the source said.

June 23, 2004 12:52

• Large rebel group detected in Chechnya

  A rebel group numbering up to 20 people assaulted a check-point with police officers from Khakasiya.