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August 25, 2003 20:26

• Statement of International Amnesty on Chechen refugees

  "Local and federal authorities in Ingushetia must immediately cease any attempts to coerce these refugees into returning to what continues to be an unsafe environment," Amnesty International urges.

August 25, 2003 17:48

• Some of refugees from Azerbaijan who became Armenian citizens are permitted to privatize hostel rooms free of charge

  As the head of the Department for Migration and Refugees under the republican government Gagik Eganian informed in his interview on Tuesday, this decision was made by the Armenian government on Wednesday.

August 25, 2003 17:39

• Chechen NGOs are going to hold conference devoted to forthcoming election in Chechen Republic

  Ruslan Badalov, a chairman of the Regional Public Movement "Chechen National Rescue Committee" told the correspondent about it on Saturday.

August 25, 2003 17:35

• Chechen journalists canceled boycott conducting

  Representatives of the Chechen national media did not suspend their work as they had announced before. It was reported by Deputy Director of the Information Agency "Grozny-Inform" Ayshat Akhmayeva.

August 25, 2003 17:34

• Statement of President's Representative of self-proclaimed Republic of Ichkeria in Russia Salambek Maigov on his resignation

  "I declare my political position of adherence to peace and political adjustment remains unalterable. I believe that sooner or later plenipotentiaries of Chechnya and Russia will sit down at the bargaining table so as to put an end to the centuries-old confrontation between our nations," reads the statement.

August 25, 2003 13:04

• "Brigade members" will set up barrier to bribery of voters

  An enlarged meeting took place at the Government of the republic to discuss the results of the first round of the presidential election in Karachaevo-Cherkessia and the preparation for the second round of the vote.

August 25, 2003 13:02

• Officials of republican law-enforcement structures and Election Commission gave Karachaevo-Cherkessia's media representatives joint press-conference

  Prosecutor of the Republic Vladimir Gannochka, Interior Minister Alexey Lapin, Vice-Chairman of the Election Commission of the Republic of Karachaevo-Cherkessia Marat Tebuyev assured republican journalists there had not been any significant breaches of the electoral legislation during the past presidential election.

August 25, 2003 13:01

• Muslim Cultural Center of North Osetia participated in round table "World Through Religion"

  Women-representatives of the Muslim Cultural Center of North Osetia - Alania took part in the round-table meeting devoted to the topic "World Through Religion", where they discussed a role of a woman in the contemporary world.

August 25, 2003 12:59

• Hostilities in Chechnya

  A military motorcade was fired on Saturday morning in Grozny; one serviceman died and three more got wounded.

August 25, 2003 12:58

• Senior State Inspector Bogatirev Magomet Akhmetovich arrived in Azov to meet green activists

  The participants of the protest campaign consider this event a step toward the solution of the problem.

August 23, 2003 22:58

• Aslambek Aslakhanov: "One third of Chechen electoral rolls is formed by "dead souls"

  200 thousand names of 540 thousand included into the electoral rolls in Chechnya were dead souls, State Duma Deputy Aslambek Aslakhanov, one of the contenders for the president of Chechnya, declared in his interview to the Agence France-Presse.

August 23, 2003 22:56

• Mahomet Tekeyev: "There is menace of endo-ethnical conflict in Karachaevo-Cherkessia"

  The part of the Karachai people supporting the active president of the Republic of Karachaevo-Cherkessia Vladimir Semyonov arranges meetings of protest against the first round results of the presidential election in the republic and demands to put out Mustafa Batdyev from the election race.

August 23, 2003 15:15

• Azerbaijan intends to forbid country for those who visit Karabah without permission

  "I presume that we should not let any foreigner in Azerbaijan - whether it is a congressman, a mass media representative, a public figure or a politician - if he or she visits Nagorny Karabah without a permission of the official Baku", declared the Azerbaijan Foreign Minister.

August 23, 2003 15:13

• Chechen human rights activists as refugees' last hope

  The refugees of the tent camp "Bart" situated in the city of Karabulak in the Nazran region of Ingushetia appealed to the Ingush office of the Society for the Russian-Chechen Friendship.

August 23, 2003 15:09

• Nine servicemen died by landmine explosion in Chechnya

  Two unknown people in a camouflage uniform detonated a landmine near the Petropavlovsky settlement on Thursday; the landmine was put into a VAZ 2106 car left on the curb.

August 23, 2003 15:06

• Angelina Jolie personally studies Chechen refugees' condition

  On August 21 Angelina Jolie, an American actress, arrived in Russia with an informal visit as a Goodwill Ambassador to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.

August 22, 2003 20:42

• 1st Congress of Representatives of Kuban Public Self-government will be held in Novorossiysk

  The deputy of the Legislative Assembly of the Krasnodar region Mikhail Kovalyuk appeared with the initiative to organize the 1st Congress of Representatives of the Kuban Public Self-government.

August 22, 2003 20:38

• Members of 4th Congress of International Circassian Association appealed to Vladimir Putin and Leonid Kuchma with request to lift sanctions against Abkhazia

  "The post-war situation in Abkhazia has convinced us that the policy of force pressure and isolation of the multinational population of Abkhazia from the outer world has made the process of negotiations even more complicated," reads the appeal.

August 22, 2003 20:36

• Public organizations condemn liquidation of regional department of "Liberal Russia"

  The statement of public organizations of the Astrakhan region on the situation arisen with the Astrakhan regional department of the party "Liberal Russia"

August 22, 2003 20:33

• In September National Assembly of Armenia will ratify Protocol 6 of European Convention abolishing death penalty in republic

  Armenian National Assembly Speaker Artur Bagdasarian received PACE co-rapporteurs Jerzy Jaskiernia, Rene Andre, and Valery Klamer yesterday.