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February 06, 2004 13:46

• Manifestations for establishment of UN Interim Administration in Chechnya to be held in Europe

  Manifestations for the establishment of the United Nations Interim Administration in Chechnya will be held in some European capitals, including Moscow, on February 23.

February 06, 2004 13:25

• Ingush President and Russian Minister for Chechnya discuss return of refugees

  Ingush President Murat Zyazikov and Russian Minister for Chechnya Stanislav Ilyasov met in Magas to discuss the return of refugees from Ingushetia to Chechnya.

February 06, 2004 11:37

• Explosion strikes Moscow metro

  A blast took place in a train of the Moscow metro between the Paveletskaya and Avtozavodskaya stations on February 6 at 08:40 Moscow time. The blast resulted in an extensive fire. There are casualties. The main version of the blast is a terrorist act.

February 05, 2004 21:09

• NGO legal experts and practicing lawyers meet at workshop

  The workshop is aimed at making contacts between lawyers of human rights organizations and practicing lawyers, and raising their educational level.

February 05, 2004 17:54

• Russian human rights defenders second initiative of European Parliament members who suggest accepting plan of peaceful settlement in Chechnya

  In opinion of Oleg Orlov, head of the Memorial human rights center, the European parliamentarians' initiative is a vivid demonstration of their distrust of Moscow's policy in Chechnya.

February 05, 2004 17:18

• US Ambassador to Georgia: numerous Georgian-Abkhazian meetings have no noticeable results

  Prime Minister of Abkhazia Raul Khajimba and US Ambassador to Georgia Richard Miles discussed the situation that has arisen after the change of power in Georgia with the negotiation process on the resolution of the conflict between Georgia and Abkhazia.

February 05, 2004 17:16

• Soldier's mothers intend to form party and strive for cessation of war in Chechnya

  The Union of Russian Committees of Soldier's Mothers has notified the Russian Ministry of Justice of its intention to found a political party.

February 05, 2004 15:57

• Georgian Interior Minister accuses Russian peacekeepers of involvement in smuggling in Abkhazia

  Georgy Baramidze has characterized the role of the Russian peacekeeping force in the Georgian-Abkhazian conflict area as "extremely destructive".

February 05, 2004 15:55

• 263 Defense Ministry servicemen killed in Chechnya in 2003

  The Defense Ministry's group in Chechnya has been reduced from 53,000 to 31,000 servicemen, with 20,000 of them being stationed there permanently.

February 05, 2004 14:20

• Abkhazian Forum of People's Consent urges politicians to gather to work out solution to crisis situation in republic

  The Forum of People's Consent finds it necessary to demand that the President and the Parliament should pass amendments to the Law on Presidential Elections within a month.

February 05, 2004 13:49

• 58% of consumers in Armenia are not aware of law protecting their rights

  Journalists learnt it from Melita Akopian, chairwoman of the National Association of Consumers, when she summed up the program to raise public awareness of this law.

February 05, 2004 13:27

• Commissioner for Human Rights in Ingushetia: no violations of refugees' rights in republic

  Internally displaced persons (IDPs) who temporary live in Ingushetia filed no complaint with the Ingush ombudsman's office in 2003.

February 05, 2004 12:52

• "Purges" in Kurchaloy district of Chechnya

  Large-scale special operations have been conducted in the Kurchaloy district of the republic for several days without a break.

February 05, 2004 12:40

• Leader of Armenian Greens accuses British Petroleum and World Bank of bribing local population in areas of Baku-Tbilisi-Jeikhan oil pipeline construction

  Organizations concerned with the oil pipeline construction disregard interests of the region's people and conceal all information from them, said leader of the Armenian Green Union Akop Sanasarian.

February 05, 2004 12:09

• Conflict in Nechaevka village, Dagestan's Kizilyurt district

  The other day, Nechaevka people with transparencies and posters in their hands threatened to block the Kavkaz federal route.

February 04, 2004 21:29

• Russian servicemen detain resident of Kalinovskaya village

  An explosive device was allegedly found in the house of Movsar Dagalayev, which served as a ground for his detention. But the man's relatives insist the device was put stealthily by the servicemen themselves.

February 04, 2004 21:19

• Human rights activists object to monument to Geidar Aliyev in Kiev

  Activists of the Shield human rights organization hold that Aliyev persecuted Soviet dissidents and Azerbaijan democrats when being Azerbaijan KGB (State Security Committee) chief and a member of the Political Bureau of the Soviet Communist Party. To build a monument to him in Ukraine is a "shameful and foolish" undertaking.

February 04, 2004 19:15

• Three locals detained in Chechen village of Zumsoy

  Russian servicemen came in an UAZ car and armored troop carriers to the village and abducted three locals there.

February 04, 2004 18:56

• Local resident detained in Shelkovskaya district of Chechnya on suspicion of arranging terrorist act

  Ruzana Shibzakharova, a local resident, was detained by Russian servicemen in the district center of Shelkovskaya several days ago.

February 04, 2004 18:27

• Only 3 families left Bart camp of Chechen refugees in Ingushetia last week

  The process of the refugees' home-coming to Chechnya, which started last spring so actively, has almost come to naught after New Year.