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October 06, 2004 19:27

• Repeated voting to be held in Abkhazia's Gali district

  The Abkhazian Central Election Commission (CEC) has declared valid results of the voting in the presidential election in all districts of Abkhazia, except for the Gali district.

October 06, 2004 18:58

• Chechen president appoints commissioner for human rights

  "I think it's just another "democracy game" played by our authorities. Alkhanov is going to Strasbourg, where the Chechen problem will be touched upon," 54-year-old Umar Musayev, a resident of Grozny who worked in the system of the Interior Ministry in the time of the USSR, said.

October 06, 2004 18:24

• PACE levels sharp criticism at Azerbaijan

  A report made by members of the PACE Monitoring Committee Andreas Gross and Andres Herkel was discussed during the session of the Council of Europe's Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) in Strasbourg yesterday, October 5.

October 05, 2004 23:28

• NATO seminar in Baku may be frustrated

  The opposition Azerbaijan Popular Front Party considers Armenian deputies' arrival in Baku for the participation in the Rose-Roth Seminar inadmissible. The Organization for Karabakh Liberation has also voiced its discontent about the arrival of Armenian parliamentarians.

October 05, 2004 22:53

• Book published by Memorial Society to be presented in Frankfurt

  The largest book fair in the world is to open in Frankfurt am Main tomorrow, October 6. Over 6,000 participants from 110 countries will present their products at the fair.

October 05, 2004 22:26

• Ingush refugee beaten in North Osetia

  Now Magomed Khamkhoyev is in a Nazran hospital. Doctors say he is in grave condition with numerous rib fractures, craniocerebral injuries, having his liver, kidneys and spleen injured.

October 04, 2004 23:37

• Maskhadov's capture rumored in Chechnya

  According to unconfirmed reports, Ramzan Kadyrov will present the captured Ichkerian leader to the public on October 5, the day of Alu Alkhanov's inauguration.

October 04, 2004 23:27

• Armenia does not expect much help from PACE in resolving Karabakh conflict

  Both Terry Davis and the present PACE rapporteur on the Karabakh conflict, David Atkinson, are representatives of Great Britain, which is one of the few countries that have recognized Azerbaijan's territorial integrity, including Nagorny Karabakh.

October 04, 2004 21:13

• Presidential election held in Abkhazia

  According to preliminary information, Prime Minister Raul Khadzhimba was elected President of Abkhazia. He won 101,500 votes (52.84%).

October 02, 2004 18:59

• Internal political situation in Abkhazia complicated

  Russian State Duma deputies who attended the celebration of Abkhazia's Independence Day on the republican stadium called upon Abkhazian citizens to give their votes to presidential candidate Raul Khadzhimba in the forthcoming presidential election.

October 01, 2004 21:53

• 70,000 soldiers has nothing to oppose to 1,500 rebels

  "Some dirty game aimed at dragging the war out for many long years is played in Chechnya," Vakhid Salamov, a former officer of the Interior Ministry of the USSR, said.

October 01, 2004 21:11

• UN considers presidential election in Abkhazia illegitimate

  In the words of Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General in Georgia Heidi Tagliavini, the Abkhazian authorities were illegal before the election and will still be after it.

October 01, 2004 21:10

• Chechen NGO suspends its activity

  Head of the Information Center of the Council of Chechen Non-governmental Organizations (NGOs) Taisa Isayeva said the main problem because of which the organization had to suspend its work was the lack of any funds to continue its activity.

September 30, 2004 20:16

• Turkey denies Chechen rebels' training on Cyprus

  "Greek Cypriotes bring such ungrounded accusations and lie shamelessly from time to time. I condemn capture and murder of people," President of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) Rauf Denktas said in an address.

September 30, 2004 20:03

• Maskhadov's presence among surrounded rebels unconfirmed

  First Deputy Prime Minister of the Chechen Government Ramzan Kadyrov believes Chechen separatist leader Aslan Maskhadov to be among rebels who are being blocked off in the Nozhay-Yurt district of Chechnya.

September 29, 2004 22:31

• IMC doctors wrongly and repeatedly exposed as suspected terrorists

  The International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights (IHF) is seriously concerned with the repeated exposure as suspected terrorists of the fourteen doctors on staff of the prominent humanitarian organization International Medical Corp (IMC).

September 29, 2004 22:08

• Georgia 'generates tension' on eve of presidential election in Abkhazia

  The Abkhazian State Security Service has issued a statement today that meetings are being held in western districts of Georgia with the demand to return refugees to Abkhazia. Organizers of the meetings threaten to arrange actions of disobedience in case their demand is not satisfied.

September 29, 2004 21:46

• Paul Khlebnikov murder case under investigation

  The Caucasian Knot correspondent was told in the Public Relations Department of the Russian Prosecutor General's Office that "the investigation into the murder of Paul Khlebnikov is going on, the Moscow police have no relation to it, and it is not clear what Mr Pronin makes such statement for."

September 28, 2004 19:32

• Opposition wants Azerbaijan to be expelled from Council of Europe

  The Great Creation party believes Azerbaijan ruled over with "feudal" laws, where even deputies are subjected to torture, cannot be a member of the Council of Europe.

September 28, 2004 19:01

• Kabardino-Balkarian Human Rights Center registered

  In the words of Valery Khatazhukov, the Department of Justice has to register the center this time since documents for the registration were submitted by Lev Ponomarev, head of the All-Russian Movement for Human Rights, to the Department of the Russian Ministry of Justice in Moscow.