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09:40, 1 June 2004

Son of late Chechen president Kadyrov dies

Zelimkhan Kadyrov was found dead in his home in the settlement of Tsentoroy.

09:38, 1 June 2004

Oppositionists go on hunger strike in Nakhichevan

Opposition activists started this action to protest against persecution and beatings on the part of the police. They demand that the persecution be stopped.

23:26, 31 May 2004

3 killed in landmine explosion in Chechnya

A high-capacity explosive device was mounted by unknown people in a garbage heap on Kraynyaya Street, reported a source at the Chechen interior ministry.

23:26, 31 May 2004

Abkhazian parliament passes law on presidential elections

Under the Constitutional Law on the Elections of the President of the Republic of Abkhazia, the candidate for the post of president will have to undergo testing by a special commission, which will be created by the Central Election Commission.

22:32, 31 May 2004

Chechen refugees abducted in Ingushetia

Military men who came out of the helicopter rushed into one house and captured five people who were in it - four young men and a girl.

22:07, 31 May 2004

Military men kill woman in Chechen village

When gunmen in camouflage uniform arrived at the village, they continued to drink up alcoholic drinks cursing loudly. When a local woman rebuked them, one of the men fired several shot in her direction.

21:11, 31 May 2004

Grozny-Moscow train makes first run

A passenger train left Grozny for Moscow in the morning of May 30, for the first time over the last several years.

20:56, 31 May 2004

1 local resident killed, 2 abducted in Chechnya

Criminals moved in three UAZ cars without number plates. They wore military uniforms.

20:38, 31 May 2004

Georgian forces to be withdrawn from South Osetian border

The sides will discuss the situation that has arisen at a scheduled session of the Combined Control Commission in Tskhinval tomorrow, June 1.

20:11, 31 May 2004

Historical competition award ceremony conducted in Rostov

The competition was organized by the International Society Memorial, the Council of Local Lore of the Russian Academy of Education, and the Russian State Humanitarian University.

18:06, 29 May 2004

NGOs to keep Georgian police departments under supervision

The project to create the Georgian Interior Ministry's Public Council has been worked out by the ministry.

17:36, 29 May 2004

Erkel's freedom cost 1 million euros

The Russian authorities claimed earlier that the release of the head of the Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) mission had become possible due to a special operation conducted by the Interior Ministry jointly with the Federal Security Service.

17:05, 29 May 2004

Georgia's development level does not meet any standards, Russian businessman says

Viktor Vekselburg thinks Russian businessmen may be interested in the Georgian tourism, hotel system, roads, transportation and communications.

12:48, 29 May 2004

Moscow-Vladikavkaz train blown up

The Russian Emergencies Ministry's Southern regional center reported that the first explosion took place under the last car, and the second one took place under the fourth car.

11:13, 29 May 2004

Round table on extremism to take place in Dagestan

Organizers of the discussion are Dagestani regional branches of political parties and the Union of Dagestani Journalists.

11:12, 29 May 2004

Local detained, then released in Urus-Martan

"It had become known to us that federals wanted to abduct him. And if we hadn't taken him, your son would have disappeared without a trace. We arrested him in order not to let it happen," a man working in a temporary detention isolator said to the mother of Said-Ibragim Rasayev.

11:09, 29 May 2004

Rebels to serve 15 years for taking part in attack on Budyonnovsk

The 14 June 1995 attack of Shamil Basayev's group on Budyonnovsk left 129 people dead and over 400 wounded.

19:01, 28 May 2004

Azerbaijan warns foreign companies against cooperation with Karabakh Telecom

The Azerbaijan side considers the existence of this mobile company on the territory of Nagorny Karabakh illegal.

18:28, 28 May 2004

Businessman to run for Chechen presidency

Malik Saidullayev, chairman of the board of directors of the Milan concern, has announced his intention to run for the Chechen presidency.

18:26, 28 May 2004

President of North Osetia proposes placing new item on agenda of Russian-Georgian talks

"We forecast developments, and we have no reason to think that a campaign with spiny roses comes into the picture," President of North Osetia Aleksandr Dzasokhov said at a press conference in Moscow.

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