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20:06, 26 April 2003

Rudnik Dudayev has accused Russian military of illegal arrests and abductions of people

Speaking in Grozny on April 24 he reported 251 people were illegally detained and abducted in Chechnya since the beginning of the year, overwhelming majority of them were law-abiding citizens.

20:15, 25 April 2003

OSCE representative has arrived in Baku

Christian Strohal, who arrived in Baku for a two-day visit yesterday, intends to acquaint himself with the process of preparation for elections of the President of Azerbaijan that have to be held coming autumn.

20:09, 25 April 2003

Attempt against Special Representative of President of Russia has been committed

A self-made explosive assembly exploded in the center of Grozny. It happened when the motorcade of the responsible member of the staff of the Special Representative of the President of Russia for Human and Civil Rights and Freedoms in Chechnya Nurdi Nukhazhiyev was passing along the road.

20:06, 25 April 2003

Oliver Dupuis asks Council of Europe about its awareness of situation in Chechnya

?Whether the Council is informed of numerous international observers? testimonies, indicating gross breaches during the period which preceded so-called referendum, as well as during the so-called referendum itself?? the Secretary of the Transnational Radical Party asks.

10:51, 25 April 2003

Caucasian Mineralnye Vody was 200 yesterday

On April 24, 1803 Emperor Alexander I issued the Imperial Decree on imparting the status of the medical region of national importance to the Caucasian Meneralnye Vody.

10:49, 25 April 2003

Conflict in Georgian Parliament

The conflict arose after the Armenian Deputy Hamlet Movsesian had appealed to the parliamentarians to keep the minute of silence in memory of victims of the Armenian genocide in the Ottoman Empire in 1915, and the Azerbaijan Deputy disliked it.

01:54, 25 April 2003

Russian radicals have proceeded to collect signatures for United Nations Administration Mission in Chechnya

Moscow activists of the Transnational Radical Party and the "Club Khramov - Association for Libertarian Reforms? proceed to collect citizens? signatures on the streets of Moscow under the international appeal ?For the United Nations Administration Mission in Chechnya?.

01:51, 25 April 2003

88-th anniversary of Armenian genocide in Ottoman Empire is celebrated in Erevan

The President of Armenia Robert Kocharyan, the Speaker of the Parliament Armen Hachatryan, the Prime Minister Andranik Markaryan, the Chairman of the Constitutional Court Gagik Arutyunyan, other statesmen and foreign diplomats were also presented at the ceremony that was held in the Tsitsirnakberd complex.

01:49, 25 April 2003

Federal Center is dissatisfied with actions of Chechen Ministry of Internal Affairs

Particularly serious claims were raised by the deputy head of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs to the heads of the regional departments of Grozny, where great number of acts of terrorism and sabotage, underminings, and fires take place.

16:23, 24 April 2003

Chechens from Polish refugee camps continue to apply for asylum in the Czech Republic

Seventy two Chechens applied for asylum in the Czech Republic today; since April 16 the total number of requests has reached 384.

13:53, 24 April 2003

People are persecuted in Chechnya for their relationship to field commanders

People of Chechnya express growing anxiety regarding political persecution of persons who are disloyal to Kadirov?s administration and Russian authorities.

13:50, 24 April 2003

Georgia does not exclude a possibility of Chechen soldiers break into Pankissi Gorge coming summer

The Georgian Ambassador to the RF reported that the ?multiecheloned? defense from among the employees of the Georgian Frontier Service, special forces of Internal Affairs organs, and police-officers was organized on the Russian-Georgian frontier to prevent the break.

23:27, 23 April 2003

Council of Europe has stated violation of rights of Armenians and refugees in Azerbaijan

It is stated in the report prepared by the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance.

23:25, 23 April 2003

Verdict has been read out at trial of Budanov

The public prosecutor at the trial Viktor Rastorguev accuses Budanov of two episodes.

23:23, 23 April 2003

Azerbaijan will send 150 peacemakers to Iraq

150 Azerbaijan peacemakers are ready to leave for Iraq before May 12. The President of Azerbaijan Geydar Aliyev stated it on April 22 while meeting with the US Ambassador to Baku Ross Wilson.

23:20, 23 April 2003

Speaker of Georgian Parliament believes that country is turning to dictatorship

Nino Burdjanadze announced that ?the superior executive power and the election bloc ?New Georgia? ignore democratic values, and the country is turning to dictatorship establishment?.

23:18, 23 April 2003

About 5 metres are left to access a tunnel entry in Kardamon Gorge

As experts estimate, the depth of the hope is to be about seventy metres for the twenty-second hole to reach an air hole of the tunnel.

23:14, 23 April 2003

More than 200 thousand people has left Chechnya irretrievably

According to the words of the First Deputy Head of the Federal Migration Service of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs Igor Yunash, there is no data bank of forced migrants from Chechnya, it is just being created.

16:21, 23 April 2003

War in Chechnya: a Chechen militiaman tells his story

Here is what Rustam Azizov, a member of the Chechen armed resistance movement, says about fighting for the village of Komsomolskoye in the spring of 2000 and his time in Russian captivity.

15:57, 23 April 2003

?Ararat? film won?t be shown in Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan?s ministry of communications will suspend re-transmission of the Russian television channel ?Rossiya? at 00:40 hrs local time on April 24. The Azeri authorities took this decision to prevent screening of ?Ararat?, the movie made by Canadian producer Atom Gegoyan.

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