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April 21, 2004 16:28

• Gazeta daily: Abu al-Walid eliminated similarly to Dudayev

  The assault aircraft attacked the Arab mercenary's base in the mountains, according to a source at the Federal Security Service (FSB).

April 21, 2004 15:31

• New candidates nominated for War Prize

  Several human rights and antiwar organizations and movements have supported the War Prize action, the Andrey Sakharov Museum and Public Center, websites of public and human rights organizations, and the Caucasian Knot information agency being among them.

April 21, 2004 13:43

• Aslan Abashidze: 'The tragedy of Abkhazia and South Osetia can repeat itself in Georgia'

  "The measures that the center is taking against Adjaria are similar to those it took in its time against Abkhazia and South Osetia. Everybody knows what it ended with," said the head of Adjaria.

April 21, 2004 12:44

• New detentions of opposition activists in Adjarian autonomy

  Seven activists of the political movement Our Adjaria were detained by local law enforcers in the village of Gonio on the territory of Georgia's Adjarian autonomy on April 20.

April 21, 2004 12:28

• Georgian president: rebellious general to be declared wanted

  The President thanked the officers, who "have kept the oath and have not followed Brigadier General Dumbadze, who betrayed the motherland."

April 21, 2004 12:09

• Workshop on covering problems of minorities to be conducted in Stepanakert

  Meetings with heads of Karabakh non-governmental organizations representing minorities will be arranged for the workshop participants in addition to the educational program and exercises.

April 21, 2004 11:11

• Chechen rebels shell Russian military base

  4 Russian soldiers were injured as a result of bombardment in Chechnya on April 19.

April 21, 2004 10:41

• Authorities keep on 'extruding' refugees out of Ingushetia to Chechnya

  The press conference titled "Chechnya, Ingushetia: the Safety of the Population and State of IDPs [internally displaced persons]" was held at the Independent Press Center in Moscow on April 20.

April 20, 2004 21:45

• "The Story of Andrey Babitsky" by Oleg Panfilov presented in Moscow

  Andrey Babitsky was the only journalist who stayed in besieged Grozny when the storm of the city began.

April 20, 2004 21:03

• Rebellious general intends to become Adjarian defense minister

  According to Avtandil Galakhabadze, a leader of the Adjarian opposition movement Our Adjaria, a threat to the State system of Georgia will be created if the defense ministry does not take preventive measures.

April 20, 2004 19:39

• Parts of human body found at combat site in Ordzhonikidzevskaya

  Geliskhanov has become the fourth dead man extracted from the ruins of the destroyed house, according to official data.

April 20, 2004 18:50

• Criminal investigation launched into bombing in Rigakhoy village

  Mandash Tsintsayeva (b. 1975) and her five children were killed when an air bomb hit her house.

April 20, 2004 17:11

• Security service officers in Chechnya receive order to destroy all terrorist suspects

  Officers of Kadyrov's security service said they acted in conformity with the order received from Moscow according to which they must destroy all terrorist suspects.

April 20, 2004 16:51

• Georgian defense minister rates General Roman Dumbadze's actions as high treason

  "I do not understand what material interest made Roman Dumbadze come out of command of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief. We do not rule it out that he may have been pressured and even blackmailed," said Gela Bezhuashvili.

April 20, 2004 16:23

• Survey on access to information in Nagorny Karabakh

  The goal of the survey it to disclose the real situation with access to information and freedom of expression in Nagorny Karabakh as well as to determine what problems in the given field people in the republic face with.

April 20, 2004 16:00

• Georgian Labor Party starts staging rallies

  The party's leader Shalva Natelashvili calls upon the whole Georgia "to teach the forgers some good sense and to take part in the actions for the protection of self-respect."

April 20, 2004 15:41

• 600 Russian soldiers said missing in Chechnya

  "578 servicemen of the defense ministry and other security agencies of the country went missing on the territory of Chechnya from 1994 till 1 April 2004," reported Maria Fedulova, a member of the Presidential Commission on War Prisoners, Interned Persons, and the Missing.

April 20, 2004 15:19

• Georgian parliament to look into Adjarian problem

  The date of the parliament's first session has not been fixed yet. According to Nino Burdjanadze, it will sit on April 22 or 23.

April 20, 2004 15:09

• Militants killed in 17 April operation in Ingushetia appear to be Wahhabis

  The killed militants appeared to have been Wahhabis, a source in the Ingush interior ministry reported. The terrorists also proved to have been linked to Chechen militant groups.

April 20, 2004 15:06

• Kavkaz Center: Abu al-Walid killed in air bomb explosion

  The leader of Arab mercenaries was offering a prayer at a mountain base of Mojaheds when a bomb blew up near him, according to the Chechen rebel website Kavkaz Center.