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15:57, 5 February 2004

Georgian Interior Minister accuses Russian peacekeepers of involvement in smuggling in Abkhazia

Georgy Baramidze has characterized the role of the Russian peacekeeping force in the Georgian-Abkhazian conflict area as "extremely destructive".

15:55, 5 February 2004

263 Defense Ministry servicemen killed in Chechnya in 2003

The Defense Ministry's group in Chechnya has been reduced from 53,000 to 31,000 servicemen, with 20,000 of them being stationed there permanently.

14:20, 5 February 2004

Abkhazian Forum of People's Consent urges politicians to gather to work out solution to crisis situation in republic

The Forum of People's Consent finds it necessary to demand that the President and the Parliament should pass amendments to the Law on Presidential Elections within a month.

13:49, 5 February 2004

58% of consumers in Armenia are not aware of law protecting their rights

Journalists learnt it from Melita Akopian, chairwoman of the National Association of Consumers, when she summed up the program to raise public awareness of this law.

13:27, 5 February 2004

Commissioner for Human Rights in Ingushetia: no violations of refugees' rights in republic

Internally displaced persons (IDPs) who temporary live in Ingushetia filed no complaint with the Ingush ombudsman's office in 2003.

12:52, 5 February 2004

"Purges" in Kurchaloy district of Chechnya

Large-scale special operations have been conducted in the Kurchaloy district of the republic for several days without a break.

12:40, 5 February 2004

Leader of Armenian Greens accuses British Petroleum and World Bank of bribing local population in areas of Baku-Tbilisi-Jeikhan oil pipeline construction

Organizations concerned with the oil pipeline construction disregard interests of the region's people and conceal all information from them, said leader of the Armenian Green Union Akop Sanasarian.

12:09, 5 February 2004

Conflict in Nechaevka village, Dagestan's Kizilyurt district

The other day, Nechaevka people with transparencies and posters in their hands threatened to block the Kavkaz federal route.

21:29, 4 February 2004

Russian servicemen detain resident of Kalinovskaya village

An explosive device was allegedly found in the house of Movsar Dagalayev, which served as a ground for his detention. But the man's relatives insist the device was put stealthily by the servicemen themselves.

21:19, 4 February 2004

Human rights activists object to monument to Geidar Aliyev in Kiev

Activists of the Shield human rights organization hold that Aliyev persecuted Soviet dissidents and Azerbaijan democrats when being Azerbaijan KGB (State Security Committee) chief and a member of the Political Bureau of the Soviet Communist Party. To build a monument to him in Ukraine is a "shameful and foolish" undertaking.

19:15, 4 February 2004

Three locals detained in Chechen village of Zumsoy

Russian servicemen came in an UAZ car and armored troop carriers to the village and abducted three locals there.

18:56, 4 February 2004

Local resident detained in Shelkovskaya district of Chechnya on suspicion of arranging terrorist act

Ruzana Shibzakharova, a local resident, was detained by Russian servicemen in the district center of Shelkovskaya several days ago.

18:27, 4 February 2004

Only 3 families left Bart camp of Chechen refugees in Ingushetia last week

The process of the refugees' home-coming to Chechnya, which started last spring so actively, has almost come to naught after New Year.

17:19, 4 February 2004

Georgia conducts special operation near Abkhazian border

Early in the morning today, the Georgian Interior Ministry launched a special operation in Georgia's Zugdidi district to disarm gangs acting in the Georgian-Abkhazian conflict zone.

16:59, 4 February 2004

Azerbaijan human rights defenders raise alarm at child prostitution

The head of the NGO Clear World, Mekhribana Zeynalova, is convinced that the night bars where facts of child prostitution have been established are "in ward" of officials connected with law-enforcement agencies.

14:41, 4 February 2004

Yalta Initiative denies information that winners of Peace Prize competition have already been chosen

We call your attention to the statement by the Coalition of Chechen and Russian NGOs "Yalta Initiative for Peace in Chechnya."

13:51, 4 February 2004

Conference on issues of counteraction to national and religious extremism takes place in Stavropol

Various religious sects have been quite active in their missionary work in the region for the last ten years. Participants of the conference were offered to pay attention to two confessions: Wahhabism and Jehovism.

13:50, 4 February 2004

South Caucasian Press Club of Refugee Journalists established

Its creation was initiated by refugee journalists as a result of their meeting in Tbilisi in late January.

12:09, 4 February 2004

Red Cross calls for release of employee abducted in Chechnya

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) calls for the immediate and unconditional release of Usman Saidaliev and wishes to stress that the abduction of civilians is prohibited under international humanitarian law.

11:47, 4 February 2004

Elena Bonner: "I am ashamed of Europe"

The statement reads, in particular, "Olivier Dupuis, a member of the European Parliament, has gone without food for thirteen days but has received no glance from his parliamentary colleagues, from the Council of Europe, from other European bodies or from the transatlantic UN or White House."

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