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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.

09:41, 23 April 2003

S. Stepashin has proposed making an offshore zone in Chechnya

The Chairman of the Accounts Chamber of the RF Sergey Stepashin claimed on April 18 in Grozny that Chechnya needs particular, ?breaking? decisions, for example, making a special economic zone.

23:33, 22 April 2003

Antimonopoly committee has fined Government of Karachaevo-Cherkessia

A local antimonopoly committee fined the government of the republic half a million rubles for the attempt to redistribute a property of ?Vodokanal? in favour of people close to the authorities.

23:30, 22 April 2003

NATO?s military exercises will be conducted in Armenia

According to the words of the Armenian Minister of Defense Serzh Sarkisyan, this action will be extremely useful for the Armenian soldiers, since they have got things to learn from their NATO colleagues.

23:24, 22 April 2003

Public organization ?Nord-Ost? functions

The Society ?Nord-Ost? unites people suffered in Moscow in October 2002 and invites victims of other acts of terrorism and ?antiterrorist operations? of the recent years in Russian towns to enter the organization for joint advocacy of interests.

23:18, 22 April 2003

Moscow Helsinki Group is against persecution of public organizations in Krasnodar Territory

The Moscow Helsinki Group makes a request to the mass media for paying rapt attention to this situation, as the broadest publicity is able to stop despotism of Krasnodar authorities.

23:15, 22 April 2003

Chechnya needs United Nations Administration Mission

The Transnational Radical Party has called for the Secretary-General of the United Nations as well the heads of the Member States of the United Nations to undertake all initiatives needed ?for study and subsequent realization of an Akhmadov?s plan to establish peace and democracy in Chechnya?.

15:44, 22 April 2003

Security tightened in Baku

Speaking at the military college?s anniversary ceremony in Baku on April 21, president Geidar Aliyev felt unwell twice.

17:01, 21 April 2003

Armenian Church has been accused of Karabah conflict unleashing

?The Armenian Church has played an important role in Karabah conflict unleashing and now as before does not revise its stand?, the Head of the Spiritual Administration of Moslems of the Caucasus Sheyhulislam Allakhshukyur Pasha-zade declared.

16:14, 21 April 2003

Human kidnappings continue in Chechnya

In the early hours of April 18 Russian soldiers in three armored personnel carriers rounded up the houses of Mansur Dzhaubatyrov, 20, and his acquaintance Aslan, in Grozny. According to parents of the detained, the military forced the young men into an armored personnel carrier and took them away. The servicemen did not bother to introduce themselves or give reasons for the detention.

16:08, 21 April 2003

Chechnya needs a UN provisional administration

The Transnational Radical Party has called upon United Nations secretary-general Kofi Annan and leaders of the UN member states to take all necessary initiatives for promoting the ?study and further implementation of Akhmadov?s plan to ensure peace and democracy in Chechnya?.

00:36, 21 April 2003

Financial breaches to amount of more than 365 million rubles have been revealed in Chechnya

The inspection displayed that institutions obliged to provide addressed distribution of pensions, social and other payments to the people of Chechnya, not fully executed their functions.

14:02, 20 April 2003

Death penalty has been revoked in Armenia

In the new Criminal Code, which will come in force beginning from the August 1 of the current year, death penalty is substituted for life sentence.

13:59, 20 April 2003

Statement of representatives of Chechen public organizations on murder of Deputy S. Yushenkov

?The outrage committed by unknown criminals in Moscow on April 17, without any doubts, has political nature, and it is pointed first of all against human ideas that Sergey Yushenkov hold", it is reported in the statement.

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