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22:41, 11 November 2004

Aslan Usmayev, and Vakhit and Abubakar Abuyevs were captured by rebels from Akhmed Avdorkhanov's group, who assaulted the Alleroy village on the night of May 1.

23:54, 10 November 2004

Azerbaijan public television 'will depend on authorities'

The Law on Public Broadcasting was published by the official Azerbaijan press and thus came into force yesterday, November 9.

23:46, 10 November 2004

Relatives of Beslan victims hold rally in Vladikavkaz

The rally resulted in the agreement that a meeting between Beslan residents and members of the North Osetian parliament as well as Moscow officials would be arranged in the Beslan Palace of Culture on November 18.

23:10, 10 November 2004

Georgian Defense Ministry reduces number of personnel

The Georgian Defense Ministry is planning to reduce the number of its personnel from 23,000 to 17,000 people in the near future.

23:49, 9 November 2004

Azerbaijan denies existence of Armenian war prisoners

Earlier, the Board Council of the Association of Relatives of the Missing Nagorno-Karabakh Soldiers delivered an address raising concern about destinies of the soldiers taken prisoners and civilians taken hostages.

23:48, 9 November 2004

Number of abductions grows in Chechnya

Abductors, wearing camouflage uniforms and masks and moving in cars without number plates, enter local houses by force. And the Chechen Interior Ministry opens criminal cases in connection with the adductions.

22:11, 9 November 2004

Protesters demand president's resignation

Today relatives of seven young men killed in Karachaevo-Cherkessia occupied the ground floor of the republican Government House and entered the private office of the president of Karachaevo-Cherkessia by force.

23:55, 5 November 2004

Parliamentary elections to be held in Chechnya in 2005

Elections for the Chechen parliament will most likely be held in October 2005, Chechen President Alu Alkhanov told a press conference in Grozny yesterday, November 4.

23:44, 5 November 2004

Representatives of European Economic Chamber visit Ingushetia

Ingushetia has all necessary prerequisites and conditions for European businessmen to invest in its economy, the head of the delegation, vice president of the European Economic Chamber Viktor Mikheyev, believes.

23:23, 5 November 2004

US concerned about course of municipal election campaign in Azerbaijan

The United States is dissatisfied with the course of the election campaign and society's low interest in the municipal elections.

23:59, 4 November 2004

Greek company accused of bribing Armenian officials

"I've got a video record of how two different persons are giving evidence that the ArmenTel majority owner, the Greek company OTE, promised some Armenian officials a bribe of $7 million," deputy of the Armenian National Assembly Arshak Sadoian announced.

23:55, 4 November 2004

Infant mortality increases in Chechnya

Medics believe that the grave ecological situation in Chechnya as well as stress situations in which residents of the republic regularly are contributes to the increase in the infant mortality, sickness rate, and birth of physically unhealthy children.

23:42, 4 November 2004

NATO Secretary General arrives in Azerbaijan

Jaap de Hoop Scheffer is expected to discuss with Azerbaijan political and military leaders the preparation for the international Rose-Roth Seminar planned to be conducted by the NATO Parliamentary Assembly in Baku in late November.

23:28, 3 November 2004

Abkhazian presidency remains undecided

Raul Khadzhimba and Sergey Bagapsh, two candidates for the Abkhazian presidency, visited Moscow on November 1-2.

23:26, 3 November 2004

Azerbaijan human rights activists, journalists invited to UN session

A session of the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) is to be held in Geneva on November 16-17. Azerbaijan's official report on implementing the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights will be presented at the session.

23:06, 3 November 2004

Car explosion in Makhachkala

Eye-witnesses of the explosion in the center of Makhachkala confirm law enforcers' reports that nobody was in Oka at the moment of the explosion.

23:59, 2 November 2004

Convicted opposition leaders may be pardoned soon

Commenting on this report, human rights activist Leyla Yunus said that "recently the Azerbaijan authorities have faced pressure from international organizations, which demand that the opposition leaders should be released, and evidently this circumstance prompted them to make such a decision."

23:58, 2 November 2004

Armenian opposition to continue protest actions

"It's very difficult to fight with such a system of course. Mass repressions against participants in meetings and demonstrations in spring and summer confirm it," chair of the Anrapetutiun (Republic) party and deputy of the National Assembly Albert Bazeian said.

23:57, 2 November 2004

Chechen variant possible in Abkhazia

In his interview with the Caucasian Knot correspondent, Musa Shanibov, the former chairman of the Confederation of Mountain Peoples, said that Abkhazia faced the most dangerous problem. And this problem is created by those who traditionally consider both the authorities and people their property.

23:49, 1 November 2004

Abkhazian deputies not allowed in parliament

"This action is caused by today's intention of the parliament to pass a resolution canceling the presidential decree about a repeated election of the head of the republic and to claim a vote of no-confidence in Vladislav Ardzinba," Vasiliy Avidzba, head of Raul Khadzhimba's election staff, said to the Caucasian Knot correspondent.

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