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18:31, 25 August 2004

Maskhadov promises Georgia to help against Russia

"Mr Saakashvili is right stating that the Russian military sides with the Osetians," the leader of Chechen separatists said and begged pardon for Chechen rebels' participation in the Georgian-Abkhazian war on the Abkhazian side.

18:30, 25 August 2004

Candidates for Abkhazian presidency nominated

Altogether there are seven candidates proposed by initiative groups and political organizations.

19:22, 24 August 2004

International observers 'were not invited' to Karabakh municipal elections

Chairman of the Nagorno-Karabakh Central Election Commission Sergey Davidian has noted in his interview with the Caucasian Knot correspondent that the second round of municipal elections in the Republic of Nagorny Karabakh was held on a high level.

18:52, 24 August 2004

Kabardino-Balkarian border guards detain Turkish citizen

Hajji Bayram Bolat, a Turkish citizen and ethnic Kabardinian deported in August 2003, arrived by air in Nalchik from Istanbul yesterday, August 23. His residential permit had been reinstated by a decision of a Nalchik court.

17:28, 24 August 2004

Human rights activists speak in support of terrorist suspect

Dzhavashir Sadigov's lawyer says there is no evidence against his client.

19:28, 23 August 2004

Victims of clashes buried in South Osetia

Residents of Tskhinval bid farewell to two old men and their 15-year-old grandson.

18:47, 23 August 2004

Rebel attack leaves 44 dead

Residents of Grozny evidence many civilians were killed by disorderly fire opened by officers of security agencies already after Mojaheds' retirement.

18:45, 23 August 2004

Juma community worries about Moslem shrines in Iraq

The religious community of the Juma Mosque rates developments in Iraq as the unexampled jeering at religious feelings of Moslems living all over the world.

20:36, 20 August 2004

Ingushneftegazprom owner will not change

The President of Ingushetia has announced he will not allow the privatization of Ingushneftegazprom, the largest industrial enterprise in the republic, indirectly refuting media reports about the delivery of the company's control stock to Soyuzobshchemashbank.

20:15, 20 August 2004

Yesterday's attack staged by Georgian military, South Osetian sources say

South Osetian Defense Minister Anatoly Barankevich does not rule out that only soldiers of Georgian official structures were withdrawn from South Osetia, groups consisting of militiamen and mercenaries remaining in Georgian villages.

19:42, 20 August 2004

Consequences of gas pipeline explosion liquidated

Now the supply of gas to Azerbaijan and districts of Dagestan is resumed.

20:13, 19 August 2004

Evidence against oppositionists extracted under torture

The last witness, Nofel Nagiev, refused to give evidence at first, lawyer Samed Panakhov told the Caucasian Knot correspondent. But at the urgent request of the court he told what happened with him on October 16, 2003.

19:37, 19 August 2004

Azerbaijan ship, planes under arrest in Turkey

The Azerbaijan Ministry of Transportation has asked the republican government to settle with the Turkish government a question concerning the detention of the "Fikret Amirov" ship and two aircrafts for the debts of the Ministry of Agriculture to Saka Korkmaz, a private Turkish company.

18:46, 19 August 2004

ICRC to continue its work in Ingushetia

President of Ingushetia Murat Zyazikov met with representatives of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Magas on August 18 to discuss problems of internally displaced persons (IDPs) from Chechnya and North Osetia and prospects concerning the ICRC's help to the republic.

19:56, 18 August 2004

People flee from Grozny

Chechen law enforcers believe panic rumors are being spread by rebels and their accomplices in order to destabilize the situation in the republic before and during the election of the Chechen president.

19:24, 18 August 2004

South Osetian leaders meet with US congressmen

Minister for Special Affairs of the Republic of South Osetia Boris Chochiyev asked the American guests to bring the following questions to the attention of the US Congress: against whom does the US arm Georgia and what do 5 thousand gunmen from Georgia do in South Osetia?

18:22, 18 August 2004

Conflict death toll rises

Reports, confirmed by the press center of the Combined Peacekeeping Forces, claim there was a moment when Georgian positions near Eredvi were shelled by Georgian army units. Three people were killed as a result.

19:42, 17 August 2004

South Osetian units, Cossacks dislodged

As reported by parliamentarian Guram Vakhtangishvili, the Osetian side violated the August 13 ceasefire agreement at 11 p.m. yesterday. The gun-fire came from the direction of the villages of Sarabuki and Kokhati.

18:44, 17 August 2004

Developments in Georgia 'cannot become serious obstacle' for pipeline project

$2,760 million were invested for the first six months of 2004 within the limits of three projects, including the Baku-Tbilisi-Jeikhan pipeline project, BP Azerbaijan President David Woodward told a press conference in Baku.

19:01, 16 August 2004

Mobile communication 'inaccessible to people' in Chechnya

Only high-ranking officials of the government and ministries and officers of security agencies can use mobile phones until now.

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