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November 27, 2003 13:36

• "The first Chechen war" began 9 years ago

  At dawn of November 26, 1994, squads of armed opposition, backed up by Russian tanks and infantry, attacked Grozny from three directions.

November 27, 2003 12:54

• Five presidential contenders already known in Georgia

  Igor Georgadze, ex-state security minister, was the last who submitted an application for registration as a presidential contender to the Central Election Commission (CEC), reported the CEC news center.

November 27, 2003 12:22

• International Herald Tribune: "Shevardnadze was a perfect symbol of the illusion"

  "However badly Eduard Shevardnadze ruled his mountain republic of Georgia, and however tardy his departure, he exited with the grace that will allow him to retain his stature as one of the great statesmen in the final chapter of the cold war," writes The International Herald Tribune.

November 26, 2003 23:23

• Candidate for the State Duma from Chechnya Akhmar Zavgayev: "My election program coincides with Akhmad Kadyrov's program by 90 per cent"

  "I think, we all: both western "masters" of political technologies and our leaders are guilty of what have happened in Chechnya, as well as of what is happening in Iraq and other hot spots. Dudayevs, Maskhadovs have plunged our people into a legal jumble, and they will be given the people's appraisal," stated the candidate.

November 26, 2003 19:25

• Criminal investigation launched in Georgia into vote fraud during parliamentary elections

  A criminal investigation has been launched into the vote fraud during the November 2 parliamentary elections.

November 26, 2003 17:50

• Interview with Gersolt Elmurzayev, candidate for the State Duma from Chechnya

  "Taking into consideration a number of national features, I object to the privatization of lands," says Gersolt Elmurzayev.

November 26, 2003 15:32

• Results of parliamentary elections in Georgia were garbled, admitted Shevardnadze

  Eduard Shevardnadze told it in his interview with CNN. But the Ex-President of Georgia did not want to name those people who borne relation to the substitution of the election results.

November 26, 2003 13:45

• New presidential election in Georgia to be held on 4 January 2004

  Deputies also elected Vice Speaker Gigi Tseriteli as Acting Chair of the Parliament by a majority.

November 26, 2003 13:01

• Monograph "Russians in the North Caucasus: Analysis of Transformation of Social and Cultural Status" appeared in print in Rostov-on-Don

  The monograph is devoted to the complex analysis of ethnosocial processes in the republics of the North Caucasus, which are visibly displayed in the field of ethnopolitical relations.

November 26, 2003 10:53

• U.S. Senators urge suspension of Russia's G-8 membership

  The McCain-Lieberman resolution would express the Sense of Congress that the Russian Government's selective prosecution of its political opponents, suppression of free media, and commission of widespread atrocities against civilians in Chechnya do not reflect the minimum standards of democratic governance and rule of law that characterize every other member of the G-8.

November 25, 2003 23:54

• Claim against Public TV Company

  "The director of Armenian Public TV Company has illegally released me from my job", journalist Sevak Grigoryan announces. The contract concluded with him was suspended on July 1, 2003, without any substantiation.

November 25, 2003 22:40

• Armenia hopes for resumption of talks with Azerbaijan on Nagorny Karabakh

  "Armenia hopes for the resumption of talks with Azerbaijan on Nagorno-Karabakh, because any military solution to the Karabakh problem is ruled out," said Armenian Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanian.

November 25, 2003 22:23

• 2,600 people in seven cities signed an appeal demanding decent life for disabled children

  The action was aimed at drawing attention of the public to the state of children with mental disabilities, who are treated with no respect for their rights, and to urge the President to assist in providing the fulfillment of all fundamental rights of these children.

November 25, 2003 19:46

• 17 militants killed during special operation in Chechnya

  Ilya Shabalkin, a spokesman of the regional headquarters on the counter-terrorist operation in the North Caucasus, reported it.

November 25, 2003 16:47

• Residents of refugee camp in Maysky village live without heat and electricity

  Over 2,000 displaced persons - 500 of them are children - from the Prigorodny district of North Osetia living in a refugee camp in the village of Maysky still have no electricity and gas.

November 25, 2003 16:43

• Adjaria imposes boycott on new parliamentary and pre-term presidential elections in Georgia

  Adjaria also breaks all the ties with the center as it does not recognize the legitimacy of Acting Georgian President and Speaker of the Georgian Parliament Nino Burdjanadze, according to one of the leaders of the parliamentary Revival Party Tsotne Bakuria.

November 25, 2003 15:43

• Conference for leaders of public organizations and movements of North Caucasian people started in Nalchik

  The conference is aimed at discussing those tasks of public organizations and movements fulfillment of which makes for preserving peace and providing stability in the region, informed leader of the Alan movement Sufiyan Beppayev.

November 25, 2003 15:14

• Four people abducted in Achkhoy-Martan district of Chechnya

  Four young people were forcibly taken from their houses by unidentified gunmen in masks.

November 25, 2003 14:55

• Symposium on interethnic relations took place in Rostov

  The symposium was arranged by the Administration of the Rostov region, where the issue of interethnic relations is regarded very seriously.

November 25, 2003 13:22

• Salambek Maigov's election staffer about detention of his colleague

  According to head of Salambek Maigov's election staff Adlan Khasuyev, his deputy, Ibragim Umarkhadzhiyev, was truly detained by security forces in the Staropromyslovsky district of Grozny.