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May 13, 2004 17:26

• No suspects detained yet in connection with terrorist act in Grozny

  "The Chechen president's security service spread this information, we have nothing to do with it. No exact people suspected of organizing and executing this terrorist act have been detained by law-enforcement agencies so far," a source at the Chechen interior ministry said.

May 13, 2004 17:07

• NGO activists stage protest actions in front of Armenian Prosecutor General's Office

  Representatives of Armenian non-governmental organizations (NGOs) gathered with handcuffs on their hands and transparencies demanding that all political prisoners be released.

May 13, 2004 16:31

• Human rights activists accused of protecting criminal structure's interests

  When a group of activists of the Krasnodar regional NGO Mothers in Defense of Rights of Arrested Persons, Persons Under Investigation, and Convicts came to a high security penal institution in Adygeya to make an initial medical examination of convicts who had complained about cruel treatment, it turned out that those convicts were being conveyed to other institutions.

May 13, 2004 15:11

• Azerbaijan journalists get access to trial against opposition leaders

  Representatives of approximately 25 media organizations can attend the preliminary hearing in the case of opposition leaders in the Court for Grave Crimes set for May 12.

May 13, 2004 14:11

• New 'address purges' in Grozny

  As reported by locals, servicemen in masks conducted unwarranted searches in several houses and detained three Yashikhanov brothers at the ages between 18 and 25.

May 13, 2004 13:54

• Large-scale purge conducted in Chechen village

  No one was allowed to enter and to leave Ulus-Kert.

May 13, 2004 13:37

• Presidential election in Chechnya to be held on September 5

  "No alleged alterations and supplements to the Constitution of Chechnya and the Law on Elections of the President of the Republic will be made," said an official of the Chechen election commission.

May 13, 2004 13:15

• IHF: conditions must be created for free and fair elections of Chechen president

  Akhmad Kadyrov was elected president of Chechnya in October 2003 in elections that were neither free nor fair. All of the main contenders for the post either withdrew their candidacy or were disqualified prior to election day.

May 13, 2004 12:35

• Press conference on 'Ulman's case' to be held in Moscow

  The press conference titled "Crime Without Punishment? New Details, an Assessment of the Case on the Murder of Civilians by Special Operations Soldiers in Chechnya's Shatoy District in January 2002" will be held at the Independent Press Center on May 14.

May 13, 2004 11:42

• Workers, who reconstructed stadium, suspected of implication in Kadyrov's assassination

  "According to experts, the explosive device was set into the central stand of the Dinamo stadium in the summer of 2003, when a serious reconstruction was done there," an officer of the Chechen interior ministry said.

May 12, 2004 17:40

• Aslambek Aslakhanov 'never had presidential ambition'

  Aslambek Aslakhanov is convinced "there will be much more candidates for the post of head of the republic than there were during the previous presidential campaign."

May 12, 2004 17:20

• No money for presidential election in budget of Chechnya

  "Such funds are not provided for in the budget of the Chechen republic," the Russian President's Plenipotentiary in the South Federal District Vladimir explained.

May 12, 2004 17:07

• Armenian PM: situation in Karabakh must be settled by people of unrecognized republic

  "If the Karabakh people solve some question, Armenia will always assist. In other words, this question should not be presented as the one only between Armenia and Azerbaijan," Andranik Margarian added.

May 12, 2004 16:27

• Svetlana Gannushkina convinced any Chechen can be given refugee status rightfully

  We publish the full text of a statement by Svetlana Gannushkina, chair of the Civic Assistance committee for refugees, head of the Migration and Law Network of the Memorial Human Rights Center and a member of the Commission on Human Rights for the Russian President.

May 12, 2004 15:52

• Statement by Chechen National Salvation Committee

  Valery Kraev, first deputy chief of the main penal authority at the Russian Justice Ministry, said on May 7 that the Justice Ministry had information that human rights organizations provide funding for gangs.

May 12, 2004 15:44

• Abkhaz public, political organizations make joint statement

  "There are reasons to believe the ruling political elite are not going to learn their lesson from the Georgian-Abkhaz war," reads the statement.

May 12, 2004 15:32

• Strength of Defense Ministry forces in Chechnya to remain unchanged

  "We think that the composition and strength of Defense Ministry forces, interior troops, and other security agencies are enough for today," said Russian Minster of Defense Sergey Ivanov.

May 12, 2004 14:44

• Armenian opposition keeps on demanding president's resignation

  The opposition still intends to hold a meeting in Yerevan on May 14, in spite of negotiations with the coalition. Moreover, today it will hold a meeting in Vanadzor, another Armenian town.

May 12, 2004 13:58

• Center to Protect Rights of Azerbaijan Refugees and IDPs created in Baku

  One of the Center's main goals is to seek recognition of the Khodzhaly residents as genocide victims.

May 12, 2004 13:27

• Moscow government pays out compensations to victims of Dubrovka terrorist act

  The court has satisfied 26 claims for the compensation of material damage in connection with the loss of the breadwinner, reminded the lawyer. Approximately 30 claims are under consideration.