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December 08, 2004 23:22

• Georgian parliamentarians prepare document on civic integration

  The Committee on Human Rights and Civic Integration of the Georgian parliament is preparing a concept of civic integration, chairwoman of the committee Elena Tevdoradze told the Caucasian Knot correspondent commenting on the discontent of Azerbaijanians living in Georgia.

December 08, 2004 22:54

• Azerbaijan authorities spy upon opposition leaders

  According to vice speaker of the Azerbaijan parliament Ziyafet Askerov, the Azerbaijan opposition receives financial resources from abroad and prepares to repeat the Georgian and Ukraine scenarios in the country.

December 07, 2004 23:57

• US welcomes negotiations between Azerbaijan and Armenia

  "I don't see another way of resolving this problem," US Ambassador to Azerbaijan Reno Harnish said.

December 07, 2004 23:40

• Abkhazian economy damaged by political crisis

  Following the developments in Abkhazia, Russia imposed serious restrictions on the admission regime on the border with Abkhazia along the Psou River.

December 07, 2004 23:14

• Police do not confirm abduction of Maskhadov's relatives

  Chechen law enforcement agencies have not confirmed reports that close relatives of Aslan Maskadov, president of the unrecognized Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, were taken hostages.

December 06, 2004 23:33

• Juvenile delinquency grows in Azerbaijan

  Some 8 thousand children tramp in Azerbaijan, official sources say. Approximately 20% of them are children who arrived in Azerbaijan from Russia.

December 06, 2004 23:30

• Terrorist killed in Ingushetia

  Special services know Alikhan Saduyev, whose nickname is Dodi, as one of the organizers of a series of terror attacks in Chechnya and Ingushetia, including the explosions at the buildings of the Chechen Government House and the FSB Department in Ingushetia.

December 06, 2004 23:25

• Bagapsh, Khadzhimba to be one team

  Sergey Bagapsh and Raul Khadzhimba have come to the agreement that they will participate in a new presidential election in Abkhazia as members of one team: Bagapsh as a presidential candidate, and Khadzhimba as a candidate for the post of vice president.

December 03, 2004 23:37

• South Osetia accuses Georgia of preparing aggression

  "South Osetia's aspiration to be prepared to repulse the enemy's attacks is quite explicable under conditions when the militarist policy in Georgia becomes more and more evident," said South Osetian Minister for Special Affairs Boris Chochiyev.

December 03, 2004 23:36

• Azerbaijan oil workers protest against violations of their rights

  "Foreign oil companies don't stop violating Azerbaijan laws and labor rights of its citizens," chairwoman of the Committee to Protect Oil Industry Workers Mirvari Gakhramanly said to the Caucasian Knot correspondent.

December 03, 2004 23:03

• President Ardzinba does not recognize Bagapsh's inauguration

  The Abkhazian president's press service claims that the forthcoming ceremony of taking an oath by Sergey Bagapsh as a president elect is illegal.

December 02, 2004 23:52

• Japanese journalist to be deported from Russia

  A court in Nazran declared the journalist to be guilty of violating the regime of foreign citizens' stay on the territory of the Russian Federation.

December 01, 2004 23:59

• Presidential candidates suggest different methods of checking election results

  Sergey Bagapsh, the candidate for the Abkhazian presidency, has declared against the expert examination of materials related to the presidential election in Abkhazia by Russian lawyers.

December 01, 2004 23:58

• Young Azerbaijan oppositionists participate in rallies in Kiev

  Members of the opposition Musavat party hold there is nothing illegal in the fact that several young people from Azerbaijan decided to support the Ukrainians in their struggle for "freedom and democracy".

December 01, 2004 22:54

• Withdrawal of troops from Karachaevo-Cherkessia begins

  The troops were brought in Karachaevo-Cherkessia when riots and mass rallies with appeals to overthrow the power and a storm of the Government House of Karachaevo-Cherkessia took place in the republic.

November 30, 2004 23:30

• Human rights activist reports on violations in judicial system

  Lawyer Iskhak Kuchukov addressed a letter to the members of the congress of judges that began in Moscow today, the Caucasian Knot correspondent was told in the Kabardino-Balkarian Human Rights Center.

November 30, 2004 23:25

• Azerbaijan opposition supports Yushchenko

  On November 29, the leader of the Azerbaijan opposition party Musavat, Isa Gambar, made a speech at the meeting held by the opposition in the center of Kiev and expressed solidarity with the people participating in the action.

November 30, 2004 23:16

• Student suspected of involvement in terror attack

  The 16-year-old resident of Ingushetia detained on suspicion of pandering terrorists who captured a school in the town of Beslan is being held in a temporary detention isolator in Vladikavkaz.

November 29, 2004 23:39

• OSCE concerned about legal reforms in Azerbaijan

  "We consider the possibility to receive legal aid from all lawyers able to represent citizens of the Azerbaijan Republic to be the citizens' fundamental right," Ambassador Maurizio Pavesi said.

November 29, 2004 23:10

• Prosecutor general lodges protest against presidential decree

  "On October 28, the panel of judges for common pleas of the Supreme Court determined to recognize as grounded the Central Election Commission's decision concerning the protocol on the election results under which Bagapsh was elected Abkhazian president," reads Rauf Korua's document.