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February 27, 2004 16:07

• Lyudmila Alekseyeva: "Only international peacekeeping forces can settle the situation in Chechnya"

  In her interview with the Interfax news agency, the chairwoman of the Moscow Helsinki Group expressed the opinion that negotiations with Chechen leader Aslan Maskhadov would barely resolve the conflict.

February 27, 2004 15:56

• Residents of Novomikhailovskoye village suspend hunger strike

  14 people went on a hunger strike because they had not received housing in return of that lost in the flood of 2002.

February 27, 2004 15:38

• Mikhail Saakashvili: Tbilisi is ready to grant Abkhazia broad autonomy within Georgia

  "When we talk about the autonomy, we mean that we are ready to introduce federal elements in relations between the centre and the autonomy," said the Georgian president.

February 26, 2004 23:38

• 8 thousand Chechen retirees unable to receive proper pensions

  Nearly 8,000 retirees in Chechnya are unable to receive retirement benefits for which they are eligible, announced Bogdan Istamulov, deputy director of the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation for Chechnya.

February 26, 2004 22:34

• Signatures for UN interim administration in Chechnya collected in Moscow

  The collection of signatures for the United Nations interim administration in Chechnya took place on Pushkinskaya Square in Moscow on February 21 and 22. The action was arranged by members of the Transnational Radical Party.

February 26, 2004 16:22

• Foreign Minister of Nagorny Karabakh: refugees in republic have no legal status

  Summarizing the visit of Terry Davis, rapporteur of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, to Stepanakert, Foreign Minister of the Republic of Nagorny Karabakh Ashot Gulyan noted in his interview with the Caucasian Knot correspondent that the rapporteur was especially interested in the problems of refugees in the context of the Karabakh settlement.

February 26, 2004 16:03

• Chechens demand to restore Aukhovsky district in Dagestan

  On February 23, about 4 thousand people held an authorized meeting in Dagestan. The main demand of its participants was that Akkinsky Chechens (Chechens who have originally been living in Dagestan) should be given their lands back and the Aukhovsky district of Dagestan should be restored.

February 26, 2004 14:24

• Actions in commemoration of 60th anniversary of deportation take place in refugee camps

  Representatives of the republican interior ministry recommended refuges in categorical terms not to hold the action in the open air. The functionaries said such an action would be broken up by police.

February 26, 2004 14:01

• Action of Moscow anarchists against war in Chechnya

  The purpose of the demonstration was to express a protest against actions of the Russian army in Chechnya, against abductions and extrajudicial punishments of civilians there, and against the discrimination of Chechens by their ethnic belonging all over Russia.

February 26, 2004 13:30

• PACE rapporteur on Karabakh conflict arrives in Baku

  The purpose of his visit is to prepare a report on the Karabakh conflict by the PACE fall session.

February 26, 2004 13:14

• Armenian General Staff Chief: Armenia ready for war with Azerbaijan

  "If we see that they are readying for war, we will take corresponding measures. The Armenian army is ready for war. If a war begins, it will be a brutal one," said Chief of the Armenian Armed Forces' General Staff Mikhail Arutyunian.

February 26, 2004 13:02

• Action devoted to 60th anniversary of deportation of Chechens takes place in Kazan

  The Center for Peacekeeping and Human Rights Actions jointly with the All-Tatar Public Center arranged a demonstration of films from the program of the international Chechnya Film Festival.

February 25, 2004 20:30

• Meeting in Petersburg in commemoration of 60th anniversary of deportation of Chechen people

  Liberal human rights defenders, former political prisoners, about twenty anarchists and Workers' Democracy members participated in the action.

February 25, 2004 19:13

• Terry Davis: "I arrived in Karabakh not as a mediator"

  PACE rapporteur on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict Terry Davis met with the leaders of Nagorny Karabakh on February 23.

February 25, 2004 19:05

• Films of international Chechnya Film Festival shown in Ryazan

  In Ryazan on February 23, the 60th anniversary of the deportation of the Chechen people, the Sasovo human rights center Choice of Conscience and the Human Rights School attached to Ryazan's Memorial Society arranged a demonstration of films from the program of the international Chechnya Film Festival.

February 25, 2004 18:14

• Attack on participants in antiwar picket in Izhevsk

  On February 23, after anarchists, antimilitarists and activists of the Ataka (Attack) movement had held an unauthorized picket against the war in Chechnya, some 30 people of the local branch of the Fascist organization Party of Freedom attacked them.

February 25, 2004 17:31

• US journalist's assistant detained in Chechnya

  According to Rebecca Santana, Ruslan Sopakhanov, a resident of the Chechen Republic, worked with her for four days as a driver helping her collect information.

February 25, 2004 16:55

• Over 200 people in Prague stage rally for peace in Chechnya

  On February 23, the anniversary of Stalin's deportation of the Chechens and Ingushetians to Central Asia and West Siberia in 1944, a rally was held at Namesti Miru Square in Prague.

February 25, 2004 16:39

• Georgian Prosecutor General's Office opens investigation into 21 February incident at Omega Group company

  The prosecutor has not yet specified details of the investigation, except saying that members of special forces who presented in the Omega Group office at the time of the incident have already been interrogated.

February 25, 2004 15:51

• Number of Russian asylum seekers in Europe rose by 73% in 2003

  Russians - mostly Chechens - were easily the top asylum-seeking nationality in 2003, with a total of 33,400 (data from 29 rather than the full 36 industrialized countries), announced the UN refugee agency.