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May 12, 2004 12:47

• Residents of Kabardino-Balkarian village seek help from human rights activists

  The people have been huddling together in a village drugstore for a month already, women and children sleeping on the floor and men living in a garage.

May 12, 2004 11:55

• Trial against Azerbaijan opposition leaders goes without representatives of influential media

  A representative of Azerbaijan Themis, who came out of the court building, suddenly told the people gathered that only selected media could attend the court hearing.

May 12, 2004 11:12

• Lyudmila Alekseyeva: state of servicemen injured in Chechnya 'is tragic'

  Producer Sergey Govorukhin said many times that the state was not able even to provide disabled soldiers with prosthetic appliances.

May 12, 2004 10:24

• Court martial acquits four commandos charged with murder

  A North Caucasus district court martial has acquitted four commandos of the reconnaissance unit in the Russian armed forces' General Staff, citing lack of evidence.

May 11, 2004 21:27

• 2 Russian soldiers killed, 3 wounded in Chechnya

  A place of temporary disposition of an interior unit was shelled by rebels from underbarrel grenade-launchers and fired from automatic weapons.

May 11, 2004 21:08

• New presidential election to be held in Chechnya in September

  The overwhelming majority of people in the republic are convinced that only a candidate having the support of the Kremlin can become head the Chechen Republic.

May 11, 2004 20:23

• New chairman of State Council of Chechnya elected

  Earlier Husein Dzhabrailov held the post of Minister for Nationalities, Information and Foreign Relations in the Chechen government.

May 11, 2004 20:14

• Address purges conducted in Grozny

  Muslim Khadzhiev, a young man, was reportedly detained during these actions and taken in an unknown direction.

May 11, 2004 20:12

• Local detained in Chechnya's Naursky district

  Ali Yusupov, a local resident, was detained by officers of security agencies at a post in the Naursky district of Chechnya.

May 11, 2004 19:44

• Revival party, led by Abashidze, exists no longer in fact

  The Revival party "cannot continue its work since the founder of the party, Aslan Abashidze, has left the county, Gamlet Chipashvili, the former head of the delegation of the Adjarian Autonomous Republic in Tbilisi, said.

May 11, 2004 17:36

• Maskhadov suspects Russian special services of organizing terrorist act in Grozny

  "We have every reason to suspect that the terrorist act was organized by special services of the invaders to get rid of the puppet government that has exhausted all resources of the pseudo-political process," stated the Chechen separatist leader.

May 11, 2004 16:58

• Armenia authorities, opposition agree on start of dialogue

  Parliament Speaker Artur Bagdasarian announced it at the close of a regular meeting between officials of the ruling pro-president coalition and the opposition.

May 11, 2004 16:43

• Georgian president: military exercises in Poti were conducted 'with bead drawn on Adjaria'

  The exercises were conducted not with the purpose of launching an invasion of Adjaria but in order to show Aslan Abashidze the power of federal troops, Mikhail Saakashvili said.

May 11, 2004 16:11

• Armenian NGOs: human rights and freedoms cannot be subject of political bargaining

  Violence and infringements of human rights and freedoms cannot be a subject of political bargaining, regardless of the results of negotiations between the Armenian authorities and the opposition, reads a statement by the forum of Armenian non-governmental organizations (NGOs) Civil Will For and Against.

May 11, 2004 15:55

• Landmine at stadium in Grozny may have been mounted several months ago

  "The bomb had been set into ferroconcrete elements. That is why it was not found during examination of the territory. Terrorists just waited for an opportune moment," a source at the interior ministry said.

May 11, 2004 15:48

• Chechens stage protest action in Pankissi Gorge

  Rights of the Chechens-Kistins are violated as there have been ungrounded arrests and searches, Nana Kakabadze, chairwoman of The Former Political Prisoners for Human Rights NGO, said.

May 11, 2004 15:30

• Federal Migration Service seeks pretext to close Satsita camp

  A representative of the Russian Federal Migration Service, Mr Panasyuk, has demanded that the warden of the Chechen refugee tent camp Satsita should reduce the number of refugees living in the camp to 940 people by all means.

May 11, 2004 15:15

• Akhmad Kadyrov's son becomes deputy PM of Chechen government

  The decree on the appointment of Kadyrov junior was signed by Acting President of Chechnya Sergey Abramov on May 10, the Caucasian Knot correspondent was told at the presidential administration in Grozny.

May 10, 2004 17:12

• Investigation of terrorist act in Chechnya continues

  Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Interior Troops General Vyacheslav Tikhomirov heads the commission.

May 10, 2004 16:52

• Counteraction to Language of Hostility project presented in Krasnodar

  The task of this project is to attract society's attention to the problem of "language of hostility" and to create moral bars which can stop mutual intolerance, the organizers said.