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September 30, 2003 19:33

• Appeal of Russian human rights organizations: "Dangerous tendencies in the development of the Russian society in view of human rights violations"

  The appeal reads, "The increasing pressure on the mass media, public organizations, and business has been added to the despotism of the law-enforcement agencies, bloody war in Chechnya, which existed in Russia before too."

September 30, 2003 17:43

• FSB was denied access to Kavkaz Center website

  Kavkaz Center has figured out the hacker because of the hacker's own negligence. The hacker turned out to be the FSB of Russia.

September 30, 2003 17:41

• Talk show on issue of access to information took place in Stepanakert

  Stepanakert's Press Club jointly with a number of public organizations did a talk show on September 28 on the Artsakhskoye Public Television within the framework of the program of the international organization "Article 19" that is aimed at the development of freedom of speech in the Southern Caucasus.

September 30, 2003 15:13

• Ruben Shugarian: "The return to Europe for Armenia is a return home"

  Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Deputy Foreign Minister Ruben Shugarian stated that the search for regional stability in the Southern Caucasus was a complex one.

September 30, 2003 15:11

• High-ranking official of disbanded Ministry for Press was killed in Chechnya

  Deputy director general of the "Chechenpechat" union Said-Husein Khamzatkhanov was killed on Saturday in the Chechen-Aul village, Chechnya's Groznensky rural district.

September 30, 2003 15:09

• National Press Club condemns violence against journalists

  The last case, as it is noted in the NPC statement of September 28, is that which happened with editor-in-chief of the Or newspaper Gayane Mukoian.

September 30, 2003 13:03

• Alex Goldfarb: "The trial against war criminals of the Russian Federation will be given earlier than the many think"

  The Chechnya Film Festival, which was held in New York and Washington last week, with the rooms being overcrowded, is moving to Moscow.

September 30, 2003 12:59

• EU doubts elections in Chechnya will be held in compliance with law

  Italy, which is in the chair of the European Union now, stated its concern in respect of the presidential elections in Chechnya scheduled for October 5.

September 30, 2003 12:56

• Tent camp "Bella" will no longer exist

  The Chechen refugee camp "Bella", which has been in the center of heated debates recently, is likely to be liquidated.

September 29, 2003 23:34

• International Chechnya Film Festival

  The International Chechnya Film Festival is to take place in Moscow on October 1-4, 2003.

September 29, 2003 23:31

• Refugees are being offered to take vote

  The distribution of application forms with a request for the permission to take vote has been started in the tent camps and places of compact residence of Chechen refugees on the territory of Ingushetia.

September 29, 2003 18:41

• Chechen Premier is returning to republic tomorrow

  Anatoly Popov was taken to a hospital on the night of September 27 when he felt bad after the launch in the Gudermes district on the occasion of opening a local gas pipeline.

September 29, 2003 17:26

• Police patrol guarding polling station was attacked in Chechnya

  Unidentified people shelled a police patrol guarding polling station 232 from sub-machineguns in the Ayti-Mokhk settlement, Chechnya's Nozhay-Yurt district, on Sunday. It was reported at the interior ministry of the Chechen Republic.

September 29, 2003 17:21

• Kidnappers of Russian peacemaker have been identified in Georgia

  Russian and Georgian security men are currently conducting talks with the kidnappers of Russian peacemaker Grigory Derevyannykh to get the soldier released.

September 29, 2003 16:02

• Interview with Chechen presidential contender Abdula Bugayev

  "There is a serious anxiety that district administrations will use unfair methods to proclaim Akhmad Kadyrov President of Chechnya already on October 6." said Abdula Bugayev.

September 29, 2003 11:41

• Human rights monitoring of Moscow Helsinki Group

  The second number of the MHG Bulletin which is devoted, like the first one, to the theme "Presidential Elections in Chechnya: Human Rights Monitoring" came out on September 26.

September 27, 2003 16:41

• Shamil Burayev: "Morality, law and order are a foundation of our common home - the Chechen Republic"

  The interview with the Chechen presidential contender Shamil Burayev was conducted by Ruslan Umarov, a correspondent of the "Caucasian Knot".

September 27, 2003 11:34

• Interview with Chechen presidential contender Nikolay Payzulayev

  The interview with the Chechen presidential contender Nikolay Payzulayev was conducted by Ruslan Umarov, a correspondent of the "Caucasian Knot".

September 26, 2003 16:02

• Abdul-Kerim Arsakhanov: "The sooner we form power organs, the sooner we restore our republic"

  The Chechen presidential election is a subject of general attention and interest both in the republic and outside. One can not say it is going impeccably, but no one has expected it. Chechen Election Commission Chairman Abdul-Kerim Arsakhanov told in his interview to Ruslan Umarov, a correspondent of the "Caucasian Knot", how the course of the election campaign is seen out of the commission's office.

September 25, 2003 18:43

• "Mkhedrioni" leader overstayed his prison term

  Head of non-government organization "Former Political Prisoners for Human Rights" Nana Kakabadze accused the judiciary of dragging out a case of Giga Gelashvili, one of the leaders of "Mkhedrioni" organization.