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13:10, 7 August 2003

Armenian, Georgian, and Azerbaijan journalists went through retraining within framework of program ?Press, Prosperity, and Peace in the Southern Caucasus?

The goal of the program is to stimulate by means of press representatives processes of peace and prosperity establishment in the Southern Caucasus, and especially the processes of changing negative stereotypes that shaped among Armenians, Georgians, and Azerbaijanians towards each other.

13:07, 7 August 2003

Second International Summer University ?International Relations in the Modern World? opened in Pitsunda on August 5

The Summer University is organized by the British non-government organization ?Sources of Reconciliation?, which implements a program in the region on problems of transformation of the Georgian-Abkhazian conflict and civil society development.

23:58, 6 August 2003

Customs officials responded to disaster

North Osetia customs officials decided to transfer one-day pay of the customs personnel on the account of the families of those who died and suffered in the terrorist attack in Mozdok.

23:56, 6 August 2003

One week seminar for journalists of government and non-government mass media took place in the capital of South Osetia

The seminar was conducted by the American non-government organization ?Night Fellow? by the initiative of the Tskhinvli office of the OSCE mission.

23:54, 6 August 2003

Boris Berezovsky: ?One needs to negotiate with Chechens?

?Chechnya is a part of Russia, and there is a civil war there now. It is being spread into other regions of the country and already reached Moscow?, stated the businessman.

23:52, 6 August 2003

Activists from Youth Movement ?Kmara? against entry of Russian UES into Georgia

Today representatives of the Youth Movement ?Kmara? organized actions of protest against the deal between the ?Unified Energy System of Russia? (RAO UESR) and the American company AES.

20:30, 6 August 2003

Requests of relatives of the ?disappeared? are continually received in Society for the Russian-Chechen Friendship

On August 4 Ibragimov Arbi Sultanovich, a citizen of Urus-Martan, requested help in the search of his brother Ibragimov Zaur Sultanovich detained in September 2000.

20:28, 6 August 2003

Chechen schoolgirl abducted in Samashki has been set free

The head of the Achkhoy-Martan region administration Ali Dalnayev has reported today that Elsa Katsayeva, a schoolgirl from the 10-th form of the Samashki secondary school, abducted by unknown people on Saturday night has been set free.

17:39, 6 August 2003

Terrorist act in Mozdok was committed by Shamil Basayev?s confidant ? Khromoy

On August 5 information appeared that the third suspect was detained in the case on the act of terrorism committed in Mozdok on August 1.

17:36, 6 August 2003

Ural Federal District continues its action of providing assistance to Chechnya

Two schools are being restored in the village of Stariye Atagi (the Grozny region) and Khattuni (the Vedensk region) by the efforts of the district.

17:35, 6 August 2003

First conference of Regional Public Organization ?Voice of Motherland? will be held on September 20

The Public Organization ?The Voice of Motherland? was created to assist all those who wish to move to the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic

17:33, 6 August 2003

Armenian-Turkish boundary opening is on foreign policy agenda of the US

The US Ambassador to Armenia John Ordway noticed it is early to speak about the exact date of the boundary opening.

17:31, 6 August 2003

Chechen militia men were shifted to barracked state

According to the words of the authorities, the reinforcement is connected with hearsays being spread in all settlements of the republic that illegal armed units may ostensibly become more active on August 6 (the 7-th anniversary of intrusion of Maskhadov?s separatists into Grozny in 1996).

13:03, 6 August 2003

Number of "addressed special operations" in Chechnya grows

People of the republic express their anxiety in connection with sudden increase in number of "addressed special operations" during which dozens of civil people are detained and disappear without traces.

13:01, 6 August 2003

Punitive ?cleanups? are awaited in regional center Nozhay-Yurt

It was indicated in the federals? leaflets thrown from helicopters that a lot of separatists were located in the settlement of Nozhay-Yurt, and on the ground of it scaled passport regime checks would be conducted in this settlement.

12:58, 6 August 2003

Anatoly Popov was appointed Acting President of Chechen Republic yesterday

The Head of the Chechen Administration Akhmad Kadirov, who signed an edict on Popov?s appointment, announced he went on leave till October 5, in other words, till the day of the republican presidential election.

12:56, 6 August 2003

Official list of people died in act of terrorism in Mozdok

Officially specified by the acting duty soldiers of the ?Hot Line? in Mozdok, the list of 46 people died in the act of terrorism is placed on the pages of the Internet project ?My Pain?.

19:53, 5 August 2003

Two soldiers were killed in Chechnya

According to the evidences of the local residents, they saw a ?Zhiguli? car of light color near the place of the murder. Several people in camouflage were in the car.

19:52, 5 August 2003

250 refugees returned to Chechnya

60 families of temporal migrants who found shelter in the tent camp ?Bella? in Ingushetia has returned to Chechnya today.

19:50, 5 August 2003

Ministry for Emergency Situations is warning about possibility of emergency situations because of heavy showers

Water-levels in some small rivers of Kabardino-Balkaria, Ingushetia, and Chechnya may reach dangerous points.

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