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September 08, 2003 19:18

• Governor of Kuban declares war on illegal migrants and promises to win

  "We will pursue them until they leave, no matter where," declared Aleksandr Tkachyov.

September 08, 2003 19:16

• Ella Pamfilova visited camps of Chechen refugees in Ingushetia

  A delegation of Russian human rights defenders led by Ella Pamfilova, the chairwoman of President Putin's Commission on Human Rights, paid a visit to refugee camps in Ingushetia, primarily to the Bella camp. According to Pamfilova, their aim was "to see for themselves what the current situation in the camps was."

September 08, 2003 19:12

• People of Khambi-Irze village demand to put end to night raids of military forces

  People from the village of Khambi-Irze (Lermontovo) in the Achkhoy-Martan district rallied on the Rostov-Baku road on September 5 demanding to put an end to the night raids of various military and police forces, which result in civilian "disappearances".

September 08, 2003 15:26

• Residents of Azerbaijan village may be expelled from republic for their support of opposition

  Representatives of the ruling Yeni Azerbaijan Party threatened to deport residents of the Cherkibogan village of the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic's Sharur region (Azerbaijan) in case they supported opposition candidates at the presidential elections.

September 08, 2003 13:00

• Armenia is ready to provide movement on Armenian-Turkish railroad

  "It is up to the Turkish authorities to make a political decision and the railroad will start working", noted Armenian Minister of Transport and Communications Andranik Manukian.

September 08, 2003 12:55

• Stanislav Ilyasov is going to report to English court that all pensions have been paid out in Chechnya

  "Rybkin, Yakunin and Kovalyov present everything in the way as if nothing is being done in the republic. I am going to disprove it. Of course, there are several facts of human rights violations, but we do not say that everything is smooth", remarked Ilyasov.

September 08, 2003 12:53

• Leader of Jewish community of Stavropol was rebuked by regional Department of Justice for book "Kitsur Shulkhan Arukh"

  Stavropol's residents Vlasov, Demchinsky and Zhizhin appealed to the Stavropol region's Department of the Ministry of Justice with a request to call Jewish organizations to account for extremist activity.

September 06, 2003 12:09

• Situation with human rights in places of compact residence of refugees is being studied in Ingushetia

  The head of the Commission on Human Rights under the President of Russia Ella Pamfilova and the members of the Commission - Moscow Helsinki Group Chairwoman Lyudmila Alekseyeva and the head of the public reception chain "Migration and Law" Svetlana Gannushkina - arrived in the Republic of Ingushetia on September 4, 2003.

September 06, 2003 12:05

• Journalist Union of Chechnya protests against Beslan Gantamirov's resignation

  "To shatter the situation on the eve of the coming Chechen presidential elections is, at least, politically illiterate, and it can affect the elections themselves", reads the declaration.

September 06, 2003 11:59

• Refugees in Ingushetia are removed from lists if they are not in camp at moment of inspection

  People not registered in the database of the migration service lose their right to get humane aid and registration in the place of temporary residence.

September 06, 2003 11:55

• September 5 was day of mourning for victims of terrorist act in Stavropol region

  As a result of the undermining of the electric train near Kislovodsk on Wednesday, 4 people died, 79 got wounded.

September 05, 2003 15:39

• Tent camp "Bella" is under threat of closure

  On September 1, 2003, the administration of the Chechen refugees' camp "Bella" situated on the outskirts of the Ordzhonikidzevskaya village in the Sunzhensky region of Ingushetia made an announcement. The announcement read, "According to the edict of the Federal Migration Service of the Russian Interior Ministry, the place of temporal residence "Bella" is closed since September 1".

September 05, 2003 15:31

• Meeting of protest against ammoniac terminal construction was held in Taman

  The meeting lasted for more than an hour. All the speakers said a resolute 'No!' to the ammoniac terminal. They also stressed that the construction of the petrochemical port "Zhelezny Rog" on the Taman land was inadmissible.

September 05, 2003 14:06

• Mordovian human rights activists took on group of observers for election in Chechnya

  5 people are in the group, all being citizens of Saransk. The recruitment was conducted at the instance of the Moscow Helsinki Group.

September 05, 2003 14:04

• Mustafa Batdyev assumed office of President of Karachaevo-Cherkessia

  "The complex situation in the republic urges me to take up the duties of the republic's president", declared Mustafa Batdyev after his adjuration.

September 05, 2003 14:03

• Member of election commission was beaten in Chechnya

  According to local authorities' information, Amayev got numerous injuries and a brain concussion.

September 05, 2003 14:02

• Attack against health ministry's officials

  A group of people wearing camouflage beat the Ministry's officials and their security guard and escaped by taking away 500 thousand rubles destined for salary payments.

September 05, 2003 14:01

• All tent camps for forced migrants from Chechnya will cease to exist in a month

  According to the words of Russian Minister for Chechnya's Affairs Stanislav Ilyasov, the migrants must start living in normal conditions already before a winter colder weather begins.

September 05, 2003 14:00

• Kurds in Armenia are holding hunger strike

  On September 3, Kurds went into the street adjoining the office of the committee "Kurdistan" and performed a symbolical dance. They did it within the framework of the protest action.

September 05, 2003 13:59

• Picket in front of US Embassy in Baku

  The action was the expression of protest against the visit of the US Congressmen's representatives to Nagorny Karabah without Azerbaijan authorities' knowledge.