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April 26, 2004 14:26

• World community have legal grounds to recognize Armenian Genocide, says advisor to president of Nagorny Karabakh

  Armen Zalinian, advisor to the president of the Nagorno-Karabakh republic, presented an article in the local press in which he mentioned facts allowing the world community to recognize the genocide, which has been denied by the Turkish republic hitherto.

April 26, 2004 13:57

• Georgian president calls upon residents of Adjaria to disregard state of emergency

  The state of emergency in Adjaria is illegal, Mr Saakashvili told journalists on April 25. He promised to cancel it and the curfew by issuing a corresponding presidential act.

April 26, 2004 13:51

• Monument to victims of Armenian Genocide unveiled in Akhaltsikhe nevertheless

  Questions regarding the erection of the monument were solved by efforts of the Georgian president's envoy in the region of Samtskhe-Javakheti Nikoloz Nikolozoshvili and local authorities the day before the unveiling of Khachkar, reported the Armenian foreign ministry.

April 26, 2004 12:09

• Armenian rights defenders consider beating of Ashot Manucharian part of common scenario

  Three unknowns attacked head of the Armenian Union of Socialist Forces, ex-minister of foreign affairs, and former national security advisor to the president of Armenia Ashot Manucharian on April 22.

April 24, 2004 18:53

• Monument to genocide victims dismantled in Georgian town before unveiling

  Before the Khachkar monument was dismantled, policemen had detained Ludwig Petrosian, who was in charge of the work on its unveiling, and held him in a police department for 4 hours.

April 24, 2004 18:08

• Georgian parliament demands to neutralize illegal armed units in Adjaria

  The Georgian parliament passed a special resolution on the situation in Adjaria at the plenary session on April 23. 178 deputies voted for the document, and 2 abstained.

April 24, 2004 17:44

• Leader of Armenian Helsinki Association calls upon human rights organizations 'to raise alarm'

  Mikael Danielian called upon all human rights organizations "to raise the alarm and write to international organizations in order to inform them of what is happening in Armenia."

April 24, 2004 15:53

• Armenian NGOs indignant at skinheads' actions in Russia

  In the statement addressed to the Russian Embassy and the Armenian Foreign Ministry, the NGOs expressed their indignation at the skinheads' attack on an Armenian boy in Kostroma, whom they tried to burn.

April 24, 2004 15:00

• Kutaisi mayor resigns

  Nugzar Paliani, mayor of the largest city in Western Georgia, Kutaisi, resigned yesterday, April 23. He announced it himself at a session of the Kutaisi legislative assembly.

April 23, 2004 23:51

• Attempt to blow up opposition office in Kalmykia presented as anti-terrorist exercises

  On April 13, at about noon, officers of the FSB (Federal Security Service) department in the Republic of Kalmykia detained a certain Nakayev (b.1976) in a hotel situated in the heart of Elista by. A high-capacity explosive assembly was found on him.

April 23, 2004 22:18

• Opposition activists persecuted in Armenia

  "The terror against participants in opposition rallies is being executed in Armenia today by Robert Kocharian's order," Viktor Dallakian, a leader of the Armenian opposition and secretary of the opposition parliamentary faction Justice, said.

April 23, 2004 17:44

• Process of refugees' return to Chechnya slowed down

  Only 86 people have left the tent camp Satsita for the last 10 days.

April 23, 2004 16:45

• Chechen field commander died natural death in prison

  The Russian Justice Ministry has denied media reports that Lecha Islamov, a Chechen field commander, died a violent death in a prison hospital.

April 23, 2004 16:34

• Georgian president: Georgian authorities do not attempt Abashidze's life

  Mikhail Saakashvili has denied information spread by the head of Georgia's Adjarian autonomy, Aslan Abashidze, on April 22 that the Georgian leadership have plans of physical destruction of Abashidze.

April 23, 2004 16:06

• Republican Supreme Court refuses to register Kabardino-Balkarian Human Rights Center

  The center was created and operates in fact, but it is not a juridical person because the Kabardino-Balkarian department of justice hampers the registration by all means.

April 23, 2004 15:39

• Outstanding politician savagely beaten in Yerevan

  Ashot Manucharian, the outstanding Armenian politician and member of the political council of the Armenian Union of Socialist Forces and Intellectuals, was savagely beaten by three unknown people near the office of the Forum of Intellectuals Council of Elders on April 22.

April 23, 2004 14:13

• Moscow hopes Chechen issue in UN Commission on Human Rights closed once and for all

  "We hope that the Chechen issue in the UN Commission on Human Rights has been closed once and for all", Russian deputy foreign minister Yuri Fedotov said to a press-conference in RIA Novosti.

April 23, 2004 13:59

• European experts: Armenian draft law on meetings conflicts with fundamental human rights

  Natalia Vutova, representative of the Council of Europe Secretary General in Armenia, said that the draft law conflicted with the European Convention on Human Rights and a number of other international documents.

April 23, 2004 13:26

• Irina Sarishvili warns Adjarian leader of possible terrorist act

  "I warned Aslan Abashidze about the terrorist act two days ago and advised him to reinforce his bodyguard," the chairwoman of the League of People's Defense said.

April 23, 2004 13:06

• Chechen Society newspaper receives warning

  The Chechen regional department of the Russian Ministry for Press, TV, Radio Broadcasting, and Mass Media issued an official warning to the editorial staff of the independent social and political newspaper Chechen Society on April 19.