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September 16, 2004 22:43

• Operational headquarters 'had no information about terrorists' demands'

  "I was enlisted in the headquarters to release hostages as a possible mediator in negotiations. But even on the second day of the capture nobody knew what the terrorists were seeking after," Ruslan Badalov head of the Chechen National Rescue Committee said.

September 16, 2004 22:32

• State officials met with Wahhabis

  There are 43 names in the list of Wahhabis. They all were kept under special observation after the developments in Beslan.

September 16, 2004 19:16

• PACE Monitoring Committee criticizes Azerbaijan, Armenia

  PACE co-rapporteurs on Azerbaijan Andreas Gross and Andres Herkel spoke at the session. They mentioned the recent presidential pardon decree among positive factors.

September 15, 2004 22:11

• New PACE rapporteur on Nagorno-Karabakh conflict appointed

  New rapporteur on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict was appointed at the session of the PACE Political Committee in Paris yesterday. He is David Atkinson, head of the Azerbaijan Delegation to the PACE Samed Seidov told the Caucasian Knot correspondent.

September 15, 2004 21:36

• Azerbaijan parliament discusses cancellation of NATO's maneuvers

  Summing up the debates, Speaker Murtuz Aleskerov said: "We protested against the arrival of servicemen who occupied our lands and shed our people's blood and secured our object."

September 15, 2004 21:06

• 'No terrorists' in Pankissi Gorge

  "In Georgia, the matter always concerned terrorists' living in the Pankissi Gorge, but I've got no information about their number and exact whereabouts," said US Ambassador to Georgia Richard Miles.

September 14, 2004 20:24

• Only one mosque functions in Nalchik

  The other six mosques are closed at Mayor Berdov's direction because of the difficult situation.

September 14, 2004 19:18

• Azerbaijan sustains 'diplomatic defeat'

  Political scientist Zardusht Alidaze holds NATO's decision to cancel military exercises in Baku can create complications in NATO's relations with Azerbaijan.

September 14, 2004 19:16

• Terror attack in Dagestan prevented

  "Rebels planned to carry out in a Dagestani town, admittedly Khasavyurt, something similar to what happened in Beslan," a source in the Chechen military commandant's office said.

September 13, 2004 21:15

• Putin's statements produce various reactions

  President Putin announced during today's enlarged session of the Cabinet that higher officials in Russia's regions must be elected by Legislative Assemblies at the president's suggestion.

September 13, 2004 21:01

• Armenian servicemen can arrive in Azerbaijan

  The Azerbaijan Foreign Ministry is negotiating it with the NATO leadership and the US Embassy to Azerbaijan.

September 13, 2004 20:58

• No tough measures towards Azerbaijan

  The next meeting of the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights of the Council of Europe's Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) is to be held in Paris on September 16.

September 10, 2004 20:34

• No precise information about two terrorist suspects

  According to available information, Aminat Nagayeva, who was considered a Shakhid who blown up the Tu-134 plane in August 24, is alive. She stays in Rostov Region and trades at a local market.

September 10, 2004 20:31

• Search for Georgian saboteurs underway in Abkhazia

  "The Abkhazian leadership has information that subversive and terrorist groups are being prepared in Georgia to arrange provocations on the threshold of the presidential election in the country," Vice President of Abkhazia Valery Arshba said.

September 10, 2004 20:28

• Fit of violence apprehended in North Osetia

  Such suppositions are caused by several incidents that occurred both in the Prigorodny district itself and on the border with Ingushetia.

September 09, 2004 20:30

• Armenian officers' participation in military exercises undecided

  Representatives of the Azerbaijan Foreign Ministry and Defense Ministry negotiated with NATO officials in Brussels and came to the agreement that no more than three Armenian officers would be able to take part in the exercises.

September 09, 2004 18:59

• Detainees undergo torture in Georgia

  The Former Political Prisoners for Human Rights NGO has reported on 72 cases of using torture against detainees recorded since new authorities came to power in Georgia.

September 09, 2004 18:55

• Azerbaijan's Chechen diaspora denies financing terrorists

  It is not inconceivable that the September 7 attack against Ruslan Zelimkhanov may have been the Russian special services' doing, Chechen human rights activist Mairbek Taramov said. The Kremlin actively uses "Chechens against Chechens" in recent years, he added.

September 08, 2004 19:51

• Joint NGO statement on Beslan hostage tragedy

  "A coalition of Russian and international human rights organizations united today to condemn in the strongest terms the taking hostage and killing of hundreds of children, parents and teachers by a group of armed men and women in a school in the city of Beslan, North Ossetia in the North Caucasus region of Russia," reads the document.

September 08, 2004 19:49

• OSCE delegation visits Sukhum

  Meeting participants touched upon questions concerning the resolution of the Georgian-Abkhazian conflict, Abkhazia's political status, the return of refugees and internally displaced persons, and the honoring of Sochi agreements by the Russian, Georgian and Abkhazian leadership.