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August 13, 2003 15:39

• 11 international observers has got accreditation cards at Election Commission of Karachaevo-Cherkessia

  Observers are supposed to visit all 245 polling places of Karachaevo-Cherkessia on a day of the election (August 17) and to monitor the observance of a citizens' right for a free will.

August 13, 2003 12:33

• Joint letter to President Putin on abduction of Arjan Erkel

  "We welcome the concern you have expressed for Mr Erkel and we would like to respectfully urge you, and the Russian authorities on the ground, to spare no efforts in securing Mr Erkel's swift and safe release," reads the letter.

August 13, 2003 12:28

• Mozdok terrorist act: offenders have been identified

  "We have identified both the terrorists and all individuals involved in purchasing the tool of the crime, the KAMAZ truck," Savenkov said.

August 13, 2003 12:26

• Red Cross appealed to Arjan Erkel's kidnappers

  "The international humanitarian law does not allow taking civilians hostage. Security is still a major problem for all humanitarian organizations working in the Northern Caucasus," recalled the Red Cross.

August 13, 2003 12:23

• Amnesty International raises its concern about future of Novorossiysk Fund "School of Peace"

  As local human rights affirm, the authorities of Krasnodar territory began threatening the Fund with closure after it had taken over a work of defending the rights of Turks-Meskhetians.

August 12, 2003 23:18

• Date of legal proceedings at suit of Main Department of Ministry of Justice for Krasnodar territory against Fund "School of Peace" has been set

  There are good causes to believe the true reason for bringing a suit was an active work of fund's staff on the observance of human rights in the Krasnodar region.

August 12, 2003 23:16

• Leader of public organization of Chechen refugees was detained in Ingushetia

  On August 10, 2003 the Chairman of the International United Committee of Refugees from Chechnya Shirvani Gunayev was detained by the officers of the Sunzhensky regional interior department in his tent in the tent camp "Sputnik".

August 12, 2003 20:06

• Regional conference of Public and Political Movement "Aytaira" took place in Gudaut on August 8

  Conference delegates reelected Roman Geriya, a Hero of Abkhazia, for the next term as a head of the regional department of "Aytaira".

August 12, 2003 20:04

• "Doctors Without Borders" stages demonstration on Lubyanskaya Square in Moscow

  The demonstration is timed to the anniversary of the abduction of the mission's head Arjan Erkel in Dagestan. "Doctors Without Borders" are dissatisfied with the progress of the investigation.

August 12, 2003 20:02

• Residents of Geydarabad (Azerbaijan) state they undergo firing from Armenian direction

  A group of Azerbaijan journalists visited the village at the instance of local residents. They saw there that house roofs are riddled with bullets, some bullets hit administrative buildings of the village.

August 12, 2003 20:00

• Refugees who had returned from Ingushetia were placed in former storage facilities

  Nine refugees from those who had been recently shifted from the camp "Bella" to the village of Ordzhonikidzevskaya were hospitalized because of poisoning by chemical substances by means of inhalation.

August 12, 2003 16:46

• Militia officer was murdered in Naursky region of Chechnya last night

  Unknown people rushed in the house of the militiaman, disarmed him and drove him away.

August 12, 2003 16:44

• Attack against secretary with Russian embassy to Georgia

  According to a source in the local police, several people attacked Valyukhin, who was inside his car, in an attempt to rob him.

August 12, 2003 16:42

• Former Duma deputy Nadirshakh Khachilayev was killed in Dagestani capital

  A group of unidentified criminals opened fire at Khachilayev's car outside his home on Monday evening; the criminals fled.

August 12, 2003 14:53

• 8-year old girl was injured in grenade explosion

  According to preliminary results of the investigation, Artayeva hit a booby trap while playing in one of the abandoned houses.

August 12, 2003 14:52

• Georgian State Security Ministry asserts no Chechen separatist remains in Pankissi George

  "As a result of the anticriminal and antiterrorist operation started by Georgian power structures in August 2002, there is no separatist infrastructure in the Pankissi George any more, as well as, one may say, there are no separatists there", the official representative of the Georgian State Security declared.

August 12, 2003 14:50

• Militia sergeant died in skirmish with separatists in Chechnya

  On August 10 about 10 soldiers of the Nozhay-Yurt Regional Internal Affairs Department entered into a fire with separatists while being on concealed patrol not far from the village of Sogunti.

August 12, 2003 14:48

• About 100 separatists were amnestied in Chechnya

  The Prosecutor of the Chechen Republic Vladimir Kravchenko noted that the highest activity of separatists' appearance to law-enforcement organs was registered in the Gudermes region.

August 12, 2003 14:40

• Group of ready-to-die terrorists aiming at nuclear reactor of institute named after Kurchatov was detained in Moscow

  Three Chechens, two women and a man, were in the passenger compartment; all of them wore shakhids' belts filled with explosives.

August 11, 2003 20:39

• Russian Ministry of Education announces creation of Federal Reference-Book "Public Resources of Education"

  The Ministry of Education invites Russian and international public unions and non-profit organizations to take part in the creation of an electronic database of educational projects to be included into the Federal Reference-book "Public Resources of Education".