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March 10, 2007 22:24

• Dagestan: District head has beaten the chair of electoral commission

  Another accident happened in Dagestan in connection with the forthcoming on March 11 elections to local bodies of power.

March 10, 2007 22:22

• Kadyrov has changed the leadership of Chechnya

  President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov has made several cadre reshufflings in his Republic.

March 10, 2007 22:17

• Maskhadov's family asks religious leaders to help them to get his body out

  The family of the former president of Chechnya Aslan Maskhadov, who was killed on March 8, 2005, has addressed "the leaders of world confessions and good-will people" with a request to call the Russian authorities to give out Maskhadov's body to his relatives for burial.

March 09, 2007 23:01

• Antadze hopes for renewal of Georgian-Abkhazian negotiations

  Merab Antadze, state minister of Georgia for conflict-settling, has stated that at the meeting in Geneva all the countries, save for Germany, have marked progress in fulfilment by the Georgian party of the UN Security Council's resolution on the Kodor Gorge situation.

March 09, 2007 22:57

• Head of Azerbaijani MFA invited to Washington

  On March 20-23, an official visit of Elmar Mamedyarov, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan, to the USA will take place.

March 09, 2007 22:47

• Committee for Defence of Journalists demands from Azerbaijani authorities to protect Einullah Fatullaev

  The Committee for Defence of Journalists (CDJ) that is based in the USA is concerned of the threats made to Einullah Fatullaev, editor of the "Real Azerbaijan" newspaper.

March 09, 2007 22:40

• Armenian minister of foreign affairs is optimistic before his meeting with the MFA's head of Azerbaijan

  A meeting of the presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan is possible right after the parliamentary elections; and co-chairs of the Minsk OSCE Group are highly interested in it.

March 09, 2007 22:36

• Avian flu detected in Adygea is human-hazardous

  The avian flu virus detected about three weeks ago in the Krasnogvardeiskiy District of Adygea contains the N1 component, which is dangerous for humans.

March 08, 2007 23:00

• Experts find no links of conflict in Chechnya with international jihad

  On March 3, in Algeria, a bus was exploded of Russian Company "Strojtransgaz" with Russian specialists in it. Consequently, four persons died, three of them were Algerians. The North-African branch of "Al-Qaeda" took responsibility for the explosion, committed in protest against the actions of Russian authorities in Chechnya.

March 08, 2007 22:52

• Anti-Chechen war picket organizer detained in Moscow

  In the Novopushkinskiy Public Garden of Moscow, Andrei Nalyotov, one of the organizers of a picket in memory of Aslan Maskhadov, former president of Chechnya, and against the war there, which is being held right now, has been detained.

March 08, 2007 22:40

• Moscow court defeats a claim lodged by parents of soldier killed in North Caucasus

  The Lefortovo District Court of Moscow has rejected a claim lodged by the Human Rights Foundation "Mother's Rights" on behalf of the parents of Alexander Makmatov, a soldier killed on the border of North Ossetia and Ingushetia.

March 08, 2007 22:34

• Nikoleishvili: Georgia runs no negotiations on AMD deployment

  Levan Nikoleishvili, deputy minister of defence of Georgia, has stated that Georgia does not conduct any negotiations about deployment of the American anti-missile defence (AMD) system in its territory. According to him, Americans did not address with this sort of request to the Georgian party.

March 08, 2007 22:17

• Public debates on settlement of Karabakh conflict are held in Nagorny Karabakh

  On the initiative of the Stepanakert NGO Resource Centre, an educational program was launched in the city of Shushi (Nagorny Karabakh), within the framework of which the first lecture was given on the topic "Present State of Settling the Karabakh Conflict."

March 08, 2007 22:12

• Chechnya marks the second anniversary of Maskhadov's death

  Two years ago, on March 8, 2005, it became known about the death of Aslan Maskhadov, former Colonel of the Soviet Army, former Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ichkeria, who was elected in January 1997 the president of the self-proclaimed Chechen Republic of Ichkeria (ChRI).

March 07, 2007 23:51

• Moscow banker's brothers lost in Chechnya not found yet

  The search of Arsamakov brothers who disappeared a month ago in the mountainous Shatoi District of Chechnya together with their driver has brought no results so far.

March 07, 2007 23:47

• CEC of Abkhazia has summed up the elections

  The Central Electoral Commission (CEC) of Abkhazia has registered 18 Parliament deputies, and in 16 constituencies the second election round will be held in a fortnight.

March 07, 2007 23:42

• South Ossetia rejects new Georgian conflict-settling plan

  Today, Boris Chochiev, vice-premier of South Ossetian government, has called new proposals of the Georgian government "unacceptable" and assured that South Ossetia is drafting its own peaceful proposals.

March 07, 2007 23:36

• Kadyrov puts former nominee for Chechen president into the chair of mayor of Grozny

  Muslim Khuchiev, head of the regional branch of the party "Spravedlivaya Rossiya" (Rightful Russia), has been appointed the new mayor of Grozny.

March 06, 2007 22:35

• Public Chamber will consider a possibility to give out Maskhadov's body to his relatives

  Antiwar organizations have sent an appeal to the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation (RF) with a request to consider the issue of giving out the remains of Aslan Maskhadov, former president of Chechnya, to his family for burial.

March 06, 2007 22:33

• Georgia devises a new plan to settle South Ossetia conflict

  The government of Georgia has developed new proposals on a full-scale political settlement of the conflict in South Ossetia, and today the Ministry for Conflict-Settling has delivered the proposals to all the parties engaged in the process.