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December 02, 2003 15:40

• Workers of Red Metalworker plant in Stavropol Territory went on strike

  About 300 strikers demand that their six-month wages are paid off.

December 02, 2003 14:03

• Law Is Superior to Power public organization summing up action of protest in Vladikavkaz

  We call your attention to some extracts from the leaflet "Is Power Superior to Law? Or Distressing Results of the Human Rights Action (from September 30 to November 30)" by participants of the protest action on Svoboda Square in Vladikavkaz.

December 02, 2003 12:08

• Statement of independent Chechen NGOs concerning elections for Russian State Duma

  "Despite the genocide in the Chechen Republic, which has been perpetrated for more that four years, the Russian authorities mislead the international community by pursuing the policy aimed at the legitimation of violence and terror in the zone of this bloody conflict," reads the statement.

December 01, 2003 21:05

• Abkhazian refugees occupied building of topography institute in Tbilisi

  The refugees' representatives hold that "the topography institute has not been functioning for several years already but the building of the institute is quit suitable for living in it."

December 01, 2003 20:29

• $5 million reward offered for Shamil Basayev's capture

  Earlier President of Chechnya Akhmad Kadyrov, former commander-in-chief of the federal forces in the North Caucasus Gennady Troshev, as well as leaders of the Rodina election bloc promised to pay out a reward for Shamil Basayev's capture.

December 01, 2003 20:16

• Action "Caucasus Against Terrorism"

  The action "Caucasus Against Terrorism" took place in Vladikavkaz on November 27. Trade unions, woman, youth, sport and veteran organizations of North Osetia, Kabardino-Balkaria, Stavropol Territory and Ingushetia took part in it.

December 01, 2003 17:37

• 12 aspirants for presidency in Georgia

  Observers say that Mikhail Saakashvili, the candidate of the National Movement and Burdjanadze-Democrats blocs, and former presidential representative in Imereti (West Georgia) Teimuraz Shashiashvili have the highest chances to win the election.

December 01, 2003 15:29

• Azerbaijan Organization for Karabakh Liberation threatening to commit terrorist acts in Armenia

  OKL Deputy Chairman Barat Imani addressed such a statement to the picketers gathered in front of the British embassy in Baku on November 28.

December 01, 2003 15:24

• Andreas Gross: "Presidential elections became one of the biggest problems for Azerbaijan"

  The elections in Azerbaijan did more than not contribute to strengthening stability, they became one of the biggest problems for Azerbaijan, Andreas Gross, a member of the PACE Monitoring Committee, stated in his interview with Deutsche Welle Radio.

December 01, 2003 13:26

• High-handedness in Itum-Kali district

  On November 26, a reconnaissance party went uphill from the settlement of Chinnakh, Chechnya's Itum-Kali district, to the Zumsoy village. Locals inform that the Russian servicemen rushed into the houses and behaved aggressively provoking a stampede.

December 01, 2003 12:39

• Human rights through children's eyes

  The student essay competition "Human Rights in Modern World" is annually conducted within the framework of the UN Human Rights Education in Russia Project.

December 01, 2003 12:21

• Oil well security guards shot down

  On November 20, unknown men killed two non-departmental security guards near the oil well at the 57th sector of Grozny's Oktyabrsky district. The purpose of the criminals was to take the guards' guns.

December 01, 2003 11:14

• "Purge" in Grozny's suburb

  A so called "purge" was conducted in the village of Ilyinovskaya, the Grozny district, on November 16. Two young people were detained as a result of it.

December 01, 2003 11:07

• Azerbaijan rejects "Pridnestrovian model" for resolution of conflicts

  Head of the Azerbaijan President's administration department for foreign relations Novruz Mamedov announced it.

December 01, 2003 10:46

• Abkhazia intends to maintain self-proclaimed independence

  Abkhazian Prime Minster Raul Khadzhimba has stated that the republic intends to maintain its self-proclaimed independence.

December 01, 2003 10:28

• Wives of arrested Azerbaijan oppositionists going on hunger strike

  Wives of Azerbaijan opposition leaders arrested in connection with the October 15-16 events in Baku are going on hunger strike on December 1.

November 29, 2003 21:11

• Woman tried to commit self-immolation in front of presidential palace

  On November 28, Khatin Salimkhanova, 45, poured kerosene over herself and made an attempt to commit self-immolation in front of the presidential palace.

November 29, 2003 21:01

• Polling station attacked in Chechnya, policeman killed

  Unidentified attackers have fired at a school building where a polling station is located in the Chechen settlement of Mesker-Yurt, the Shali district. The attack was committed last Thursday, the Russian Interior Ministry's press centre in the North Caucasus informed on Saturday.

November 29, 2003 20:45

• Forced migrants to meet with territory's migration department head

  This meeting is designed by the Coordinating Board, the Public Expert Migration Council under the Main Interior Department of Stavropol Territory as a part of the informational and explanatory work among forced migrants living on the territory of the Caucasian Mineralnye Vody.

November 29, 2003 20:45

• Pre-term voting in elections for State Duma being held in Chechnya today

  No one international observer has declared intention to visit the republic during the elections, reported an informed source in Moscow.