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February 21, 2004 16:52

• Moscow: no meeting on day in memory of genocide of Chechen people, but placement of flowers

  The Moscow Mayor's Office banned the meeting to commemorate victims of the war, to protest against it, and to urge a political settlement of the Russian-Chechen conflict that was planned to be held at the memorial stone on Lubyanskaya Square in Moscow on February 23.

February 20, 2004 20:15

• Cooperative Best Effort military exercises will likely not be conducted in Baku

  The possible change of the place for the exercises is connected with the brutal murder committed in Budapest on February 19, when a lieutenant of the Armenian Armed Forces was killed by an Azerbaijan officer.

February 20, 2004 18:36

• Arrested Azerbaijan oppositionists stop hunger strike

  "The state of the hunger strike participants is normal; medical intervention is not needed. Just some changes have been made to their nourishment, with their state being taken into consideration," said the official of the Ministry of Justice.

February 20, 2004 18:15

• Georgia will fire on ships violating Abkhazia's sea border

  "We are not going to start a war, but we shall not allow Abkhazia to become an exporter of arms and drugs," said the Georgian President.

February 20, 2004 16:54

• Gas and water supply to accommodation centers for refugees cut off with view of safety, Ingush authorities say

  Refugees believe they are simply being forced to leave Ingushetia by the deliberate worsening of their living conditions.

February 20, 2004 16:51

• Statement by Olivier Dupuis in connection with ban on meeting timed to 60th anniversary of deportation of Chechens

  "Whatever sphere of the Russian social life we take (not to mention the developments in Chechnya), everywhere we witness the growth of overt violations of fundamental rights," reads the statement.

February 20, 2004 15:04

• Azerbaijan officer kills Armenian colleague at NATO courses in Hungary

  Both the officers were taking part in English courses within the framework of NATO's Partnership for Peace program in Hungary.

February 20, 2004 13:55

• Chechnya takes first place in number of antipersonnel mines

  About 500 thousand antipersonnel mines are buried and wait for their time in Chechnya.

February 20, 2004 13:37

• First Armenian ombudsperson is woman

  Larisa Alaverdian, chairwoman of the Foundation Against Illegality, has been appointed the first ombudsperson of Armenia.

February 20, 2004 12:46

• Moscow metro blast may have been arranged by Abu al-Walid

  $4.5 dollars have come in on al-Walid's foreign account the other day, according to special services' information.

February 20, 2004 12:43

• Armenia is not ready to start negotiations for Nagorny Karabakh from scratch

  "We have been working for many years to form a certain field for the resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, and I am not going to throw all this work into the water," stressed the President of Armenia.

February 20, 2004 12:06

• Ban on lessons of peace arranged by center of Chechen culture "Vaynakh" in Yekaterinburg schools

  The police watched the Chechens and human rights activists being evicted from the school but preferred to remain aloof and not to interfere in the situation.

February 19, 2004 21:22

• Amnesty International: anti-Chechen sentiment in Moscow post-metro blast

  According to information received by Amnesty International, minority ethnic groups from the Caucasus region have once again become the target of discriminatory rhetoric, arbitrary document checks and searches, and racially-motivated revenge attacks.

February 19, 2004 19:43

• Temporary accommodation center for refugees "Angusht" left without gas

  The authorities explained their actions by saying that the NGO Danish Refugee Council had illegally built housing for displaced persons from liquidated tent camps on the territory of the accommodation center.

February 19, 2004 16:59

• Yeni Musavat editor-in-chief Rauf Arifoglu stops hunger strike

  As reported by a high-ranking official at Bailovsky Investigatory Isolation Ward 1, the state of Arifoglu's health worsened and isolation ward workers had to warn him of the possibility of using forced feeding.

February 19, 2004 16:26

• Films of international Chechnya Film Festival to be shown in Kazan

  The films to be shown are Murder with International Consent (Poland), Terror in Moscow (Great Britain), Chechen Lullaby (France), and Children's Stories - Not for Kids (Russia).

February 19, 2004 15:49

• Moscow Mayor's Office bans rally timed to 60th anniversary of Stalin's deportation of Chechen people

  The organizers of the rally were going to commemorate the victims of the Chechen genocide, to urge the political settlement of the Russian-Chechen conflict and establishment of a United Nations interim administration in Chechnya.

February 19, 2004 14:59

• "Against Numbering of People" association founded in Armenia

  More than twenty non-government organizations, foundations and parties founded the association "Against Numbering of People". Its main task is to stop the process of introducing the system of social cards in Armenia.

February 19, 2004 14:24

• Member of presidential Commission on Human Rights asks Luzhkov to place barrier to Fascist ideology

  Svetlana Gannushkina has appealed to Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov drawing his attention to leaflets extremist in content that appeared in Moscow metro trains. These leaflets call upon the citizens to come to the meeting "Clear Moscow of Chechen Bandits."

February 19, 2004 13:57

• Georgia to declassify KGB archives

  The State Security Ministry of Georgia will make KGB (State Security Committee of the USSR) archives accessible to the wide public in the near future.