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23:14, 7 December 2004

Police do not confirm abduction of Maskhadov's relatives

Chechen law enforcement agencies have not confirmed reports that close relatives of Aslan Maskadov, president of the unrecognized Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, were taken hostages.

23:33, 6 December 2004

Juvenile delinquency grows in Azerbaijan

Some 8 thousand children tramp in Azerbaijan, official sources say. Approximately 20% of them are children who arrived in Azerbaijan from Russia.

23:30, 6 December 2004

Terrorist killed in Ingushetia

Special services know Alikhan Saduyev, whose nickname is Dodi, as one of the organizers of a series of terror attacks in Chechnya and Ingushetia, including the explosions at the buildings of the Chechen Government House and the FSB Department in Ingushetia.

23:25, 6 December 2004

Bagapsh, Khadzhimba to be one team

Sergey Bagapsh and Raul Khadzhimba have come to the agreement that they will participate in a new presidential election in Abkhazia as members of one team: Bagapsh as a presidential candidate, and Khadzhimba as a candidate for the post of vice president.

23:37, 3 December 2004

South Osetia accuses Georgia of preparing aggression

"South Osetia's aspiration to be prepared to repulse the enemy's attacks is quite explicable under conditions when the militarist policy in Georgia becomes more and more evident," said South Osetian Minister for Special Affairs Boris Chochiyev.

23:36, 3 December 2004

Azerbaijan oil workers protest against violations of their rights

"Foreign oil companies don't stop violating Azerbaijan laws and labor rights of its citizens," chairwoman of the Committee to Protect Oil Industry Workers Mirvari Gakhramanly said to the Caucasian Knot correspondent.

23:03, 3 December 2004

President Ardzinba does not recognize Bagapsh's inauguration

The Abkhazian president's press service claims that the forthcoming ceremony of taking an oath by Sergey Bagapsh as a president elect is illegal.

23:52, 2 December 2004

Japanese journalist to be deported from Russia

A court in Nazran declared the journalist to be guilty of violating the regime of foreign citizens' stay on the territory of the Russian Federation.

23:59, 1 December 2004

Presidential candidates suggest different methods of checking election results

Sergey Bagapsh, the candidate for the Abkhazian presidency, has declared against the expert examination of materials related to the presidential election in Abkhazia by Russian lawyers.

23:58, 1 December 2004

Young Azerbaijan oppositionists participate in rallies in Kiev

Members of the opposition Musavat party hold there is nothing illegal in the fact that several young people from Azerbaijan decided to support the Ukrainians in their struggle for "freedom and democracy".

22:54, 1 December 2004

Withdrawal of troops from Karachaevo-Cherkessia begins

The troops were brought in Karachaevo-Cherkessia when riots and mass rallies with appeals to overthrow the power and a storm of the Government House of Karachaevo-Cherkessia took place in the republic.

23:30, 30 November 2004

Human rights activist reports on violations in judicial system

Lawyer Iskhak Kuchukov addressed a letter to the members of the congress of judges that began in Moscow today, the Caucasian Knot correspondent was told in the Kabardino-Balkarian Human Rights Center.

23:25, 30 November 2004

Azerbaijan opposition supports Yushchenko

On November 29, the leader of the Azerbaijan opposition party Musavat, Isa Gambar, made a speech at the meeting held by the opposition in the center of Kiev and expressed solidarity with the people participating in the action.

23:16, 30 November 2004

Student suspected of involvement in terror attack

The 16-year-old resident of Ingushetia detained on suspicion of pandering terrorists who captured a school in the town of Beslan is being held in a temporary detention isolator in Vladikavkaz.

23:39, 29 November 2004

OSCE concerned about legal reforms in Azerbaijan

"We consider the possibility to receive legal aid from all lawyers able to represent citizens of the Azerbaijan Republic to be the citizens' fundamental right," Ambassador Maurizio Pavesi said.

23:10, 29 November 2004

Prosecutor general lodges protest against presidential decree

"On October 28, the panel of judges for common pleas of the Supreme Court determined to recognize as grounded the Central Election Commission's decision concerning the protocol on the election results under which Bagapsh was elected Abkhazian president," reads Rauf Korua's document.

22:58, 29 November 2004

Sentence upon Armenian pilots pronounced

The court sentenced the commander of the Armenian aircraft to 24 years' imprisonment, the other pilots were sentenced to 14 years' imprisonment.

23:59, 26 November 2004

Azerbaijan President meets with UN High Commissioner for Refugees

Azerbaijan President Ilkham Aliyev has received a UN delegation, headed by UN High Commissioner for Refugees Ruud Lubbers, in the Presidential Palace.

23:18, 26 November 2004

One rebel killed, three FSB officers wounded in Ingushetia

The killed rebel has been identified. He turned out to be Akhmet Sambiyev, Shamil Basayev's closest associate and a successor of Arab Abu Kuteib Akhmet, reported the FSB Department in Ingushetia.

23:17, 26 November 2004

Abkhazian parliament recognized Bagapsh as winner of presidential election

The parliament of the Republic of Abkhazia has passed a resolution according to which "the presidential election is considered valid", and "Sergey Bagapsh is president elect".

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