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January 13, 2004 16:07

• Having been denied visas, Armenian servicemen still left for Baku

  Without giving any comments, the Azerbaijan Embassy in Tbilisi refused to grant the Armenian officers the visas to take part in the conference forestalling NATO's military exercises that are to take place in Baku.

January 13, 2004 14:15

• Unhappy with bombing verdict family will sue in Strasbourg

  "Yesterday's conclusion of the bombing trial in Moscow left us with feelings of profound dismay and frustration. We believe that justice has not been served, but the continued cover-up of a heinous crime has reached a new horrific proportion," reads the statement of Tatyana and Alyona Morozova, daughters of a woman killed in the 1999 apartment bombings.

January 13, 2004 12:46

• Film by Russian director about explosions of apartment houses to be presented at Sundance Film Festival

  Disbelief, a documentary directed by Andrey Nekrasov of Russia, will be presented at the international Sundance Film Festival, Utah, the U.S. This festival is one of the main independent film forums in the world. Disbelief is devoted to the explosions of apartment houses in Moscow in the autumn of 1999.

January 13, 2004 11:56

• Abkhazia's proposals on resumption of Georgian-Abkhazian settlement to be delivered to new Georgian president

  A source at the UN office in Tbilisi reported that this package of new proposals was to be handed in to Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General in Georgia Heidi Tagliavini during her visit to Sukhum on January 12.

January 12, 2004 21:11

• Interior Minister of Adjaria denies existence of political repressions in republic

  "Nobody in Adjaria is persecuted by political motives. The Interior Ministry will always act within the limits of the law, regardless of who violates the law," declared the Adjarian Interior Minister during a specially convoked briefing.

January 12, 2004 19:56

• Statement by Akhmed Zakayev on non-participation of Chechens in international terrorism

  The appeal reads: "There can be only one explanation why the West is making such efforts to discredit the Chechen Resistance and is untiring in its attempts to link it with "international terrorism" - the Western politicians and state leaders are seeking a pretext for not interfering in the genocide of the Chechen people which is being carried out by Putin's criminal clique before the whole civilized world. Everything is happening as in the Chechen proverb: "Before gobbling her cub baby bear, the she-bear dragged it through the mud.""

January 12, 2004 19:00

• Office of human rights NGO in Ingushetia searched

  An unauthorized search was conducted in the office of the Institute of Political Culture "Lamast" in Ingushetia at about 6 a.m. today.

January 12, 2004 18:09

• Fire in Chechen refugee camp "Satsita"

  A fire happened in the tent camp of Chechen refugees "Satsita" in the village of Ordzhonikidzevskaya on January 10. A tent for ten people, which the Batiyev family having many children lived in, was completely burnt down as a result of it. Six people who were in the tent when the fire started had time to run out.

January 12, 2004 18:05

• Detention of resident of Roshni-Chu village - details

  A resident of the Roshni-Chu village Amagov was detained in his house by Russian servicemen on December 28, 2003.

January 12, 2004 16:29

• Abducted Board of Directors Deputy Chairman of United Georgian Bank set free

  Information on the whereabouts of the abducted banker was received from the three people arrested in the morning of January 10 on suspicion of the crime.

January 12, 2004 15:55

• Mikhail Saakashvili ready to cooperate with Adjarian leadership

  He noted that the presidential election had been held on the territory of Adjaria. Both the people of the autonomy and its head, Aslan Abashidze, contributed to it. Abashidze "took a judicious stand" on this issue, according to Saakashvili.

January 12, 2004 14:48

• Attack on director general for reconstruction of Makhachkala trade port

  Two unknown people in masks, who were armed with pistols, rushed into the house of 54-year-old Magomed Ersalov in the evening of January 9. He is director general for the reconstruction of the Makhachkala trade port.

January 12, 2004 14:29

• Abductors of Chechen prosecutors established

  Head of the press service of the North Caucasian Police Directorate Tamerlan Kazikhanov reported it on January 9

January 12, 2004 13:55

• Militants fired at government buildings in Grozny

  On Monday morning, January 12, militants fired at the complex of government buildings in Grozny with a grenade-launcher, a source at the press service of Chechnya's president reported.

January 10, 2004 16:39

• The Former Political Prisoners for Human Rights on human rights situation in Georgia

  We call your attention to the statement by The Former Political Prisoners for Human Rights NGO. Its authors raise concern about the human rights situation in Georgia after the so called velvet revolution.

January 10, 2004 14:17

• Georgian authorities demand evidence of guilt of Kmara movement activists arrested in Adjaria

  Otherwise, the reaction to the unjust court decision will be keen, said Acting President of Georgia Nino Burdjanadze.

January 10, 2004 13:40

• Representatives of social and political organisations of Abkhazian refugees restart protest action in Tbilisi

  The action participants suggest holding elections of the refugees' representatives for the Abkhazian Supreme Soviet along with the Georgian parliamentary elections in March of 2004.

January 10, 2004 13:16

• Azerbaijan Diaspora accuses German Sterligov of sowing seeds of interethnic strife

  The "Azerros" organization, which unites Azerbaijanians with Russian citizenship, addressed the Moscow Public Prosecutor's Office demanding that the former candidate for the post of the mayor of Moscow German Sterligov be called to account for sowing the seeds of interethnic strife.

January 10, 2004 13:14

• Addressed "purges" in Grozny

  Russian security agents conducted addressed "purges" in the Oktyabrsky district of Grozny on January 7.

January 09, 2004 19:38

• Victims of capture of Kizlyar by Salman Raduyev's rebels commemorated in Dagestan

  In the morning, thousands of people went to the central park of Kizlyar to lay flowers at the memorial to the people killed by the rebels.