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August 25, 2003 13:02

• Officials of republican law-enforcement structures and Election Commission gave Karachaevo-Cherkessia's media representatives joint press-conference

  Prosecutor of the Republic Vladimir Gannochka, Interior Minister Alexey Lapin, Vice-Chairman of the Election Commission of the Republic of Karachaevo-Cherkessia Marat Tebuyev assured republican journalists there had not been any significant breaches of the electoral legislation during the past presidential election.

August 25, 2003 13:01

• Muslim Cultural Center of North Osetia participated in round table "World Through Religion"

  Women-representatives of the Muslim Cultural Center of North Osetia - Alania took part in the round-table meeting devoted to the topic "World Through Religion", where they discussed a role of a woman in the contemporary world.

August 25, 2003 12:59

• Hostilities in Chechnya

  A military motorcade was fired on Saturday morning in Grozny; one serviceman died and three more got wounded.

August 25, 2003 12:58

• Senior State Inspector Bogatirev Magomet Akhmetovich arrived in Azov to meet green activists

  The participants of the protest campaign consider this event a step toward the solution of the problem.

August 23, 2003 22:58

• Aslambek Aslakhanov: "One third of Chechen electoral rolls is formed by "dead souls"

  200 thousand names of 540 thousand included into the electoral rolls in Chechnya were dead souls, State Duma Deputy Aslambek Aslakhanov, one of the contenders for the president of Chechnya, declared in his interview to the Agence France-Presse.

August 23, 2003 22:56

• Mahomet Tekeyev: "There is menace of endo-ethnical conflict in Karachaevo-Cherkessia"

  The part of the Karachai people supporting the active president of the Republic of Karachaevo-Cherkessia Vladimir Semyonov arranges meetings of protest against the first round results of the presidential election in the republic and demands to put out Mustafa Batdyev from the election race.

August 23, 2003 15:15

• Azerbaijan intends to forbid country for those who visit Karabah without permission

  "I presume that we should not let any foreigner in Azerbaijan - whether it is a congressman, a mass media representative, a public figure or a politician - if he or she visits Nagorny Karabah without a permission of the official Baku", declared the Azerbaijan Foreign Minister.

August 23, 2003 15:13

• Chechen human rights activists as refugees' last hope

  The refugees of the tent camp "Bart" situated in the city of Karabulak in the Nazran region of Ingushetia appealed to the Ingush office of the Society for the Russian-Chechen Friendship.

August 23, 2003 15:09

• Nine servicemen died by landmine explosion in Chechnya

  Two unknown people in a camouflage uniform detonated a landmine near the Petropavlovsky settlement on Thursday; the landmine was put into a VAZ 2106 car left on the curb.

August 23, 2003 15:06

• Angelina Jolie personally studies Chechen refugees' condition

  On August 21 Angelina Jolie, an American actress, arrived in Russia with an informal visit as a Goodwill Ambassador to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.

August 22, 2003 20:42

• 1st Congress of Representatives of Kuban Public Self-government will be held in Novorossiysk

  The deputy of the Legislative Assembly of the Krasnodar region Mikhail Kovalyuk appeared with the initiative to organize the 1st Congress of Representatives of the Kuban Public Self-government.

August 22, 2003 20:38

• Members of 4th Congress of International Circassian Association appealed to Vladimir Putin and Leonid Kuchma with request to lift sanctions against Abkhazia

  "The post-war situation in Abkhazia has convinced us that the policy of force pressure and isolation of the multinational population of Abkhazia from the outer world has made the process of negotiations even more complicated," reads the appeal.

August 22, 2003 20:36

• Public organizations condemn liquidation of regional department of "Liberal Russia"

  The statement of public organizations of the Astrakhan region on the situation arisen with the Astrakhan regional department of the party "Liberal Russia"

August 22, 2003 20:33

• In September National Assembly of Armenia will ratify Protocol 6 of European Convention abolishing death penalty in republic

  Armenian National Assembly Speaker Artur Bagdasarian received PACE co-rapporteurs Jerzy Jaskiernia, Rene Andre, and Valery Klamer yesterday.

August 22, 2003 20:32

• PACE monitoring group members are dissatisfied with maltreatment of draftees in Armenian army

  During their four-day visit to Armenia, the members of the PACE monitoring group Jerzy Jaskiernia and Rene Andre are to visit one of the military units in the Armavir region of Armenia to get acquainted with the situation in military units.

August 22, 2003 20:30

• Chechen Republic, October 5, 2003: Is there choice?

  The appeal of non-government organizations of the Chechen Republic.

August 22, 2003 17:10

• Investigation of case on Mi-26 destruction in Chechnya is completed

  127 people were killed as a result of the firing at the helicopter from an anti-aircraft missile complex "Igla" near Khankala.

August 22, 2003 17:09

• 15 minutes per week: contenders will share 3 hours of TV and radio air

  Representatives of the candidates in opposition are complaining that the free air time is insufficient.

August 22, 2003 17:07

• Declaration of monitoring group of human rights organizations

  The human rights activists believe that numerous violations at the first stage of the election campaign in Azerbaijan make the possibility of free and fair elections doubtful.

August 22, 2003 17:05

• First enlarged meeting of Youth Club was held in Rostov-on-Don

  The members of city and regional public youth organizations, young farm leaders of the region, members of the club "Young Agrarian of the Don", experts of the regional administration committee on youth policy visited the first meeting.