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October 03, 2005 18:08

• People evicted from their own house

  Officers of Chechnya's Counter-terrorist Centre evict two families from their house.

October 03, 2005 18:03

• Two abducted in S Ossetia

  Several people in masks, speaking Ossetian, abduct two Georgians, 65 and 14.

October 03, 2005 00:43

• Minibus driver beaten cruelly

  People in camouflage uniforms beat a minibus driver after a quarrel on the Chechen-Ingush border.

October 03, 2005 00:41

• Justice in service

  Under public pressure, a criminal case over beating of a Muslim woman by a police officer is opened, finally.

October 03, 2005 00:38

• New attacks on military men in Chechnya

  Three people are killed and six are wounded as a result of combats in the republic.

September 30, 2005 00:36

• Prosecution disproves victims' assumptions

  Several moot questions are answered as part of the Beslan case investigation.

September 30, 2005 00:34

• Four killed in Chechnya

  Shooting results in four people, including two children, dying in the republic.

September 30, 2005 00:29

• Two die in shooting in Chechnya

  Two police officers die in an attack in the republic's Grozny district.

September 29, 2005 19:39

• Borozdinovskaia residents still missing

  The eleven men abducted during the Borozdinovskaia raid have not been found yet.

September 29, 2005 19:37

• Mine kills three in Chechnya

  Five local residents trigger a mine in the republic.

September 29, 2005 19:34

• Weapons confirmed to have been in school

  Another former hostage confirms having seen weapons hidden in school in advance.

September 28, 2005 17:52

• Dead body found in Chechnya

  The body of a police inspector from Starye Atagi, abducted in early 2004, is found near Novye Atagi.

September 28, 2005 17:50

• City centre closed for opposition

  The Baku government again declines to authorise a public meeting of the opposition.

September 28, 2005 17:48

• Turkey stumbles over Genocide

  The EU calls on Turkey to admit the Armenian Genocide.

September 27, 2005 13:16

• Party candidate beaten in Azerbaijan

  A group of attackers beat Sahib Guseinov after accusing him of being a member of an opposition party.

September 27, 2005 13:12

• Beslan: official version disproved

  A ten-year-old Beslan hostage says that weapons had been hidden in the school before the attack.

September 27, 2005 12:06

• Gas used against children, possibly

  Doctors believe that a mass poisoning of pupils in Staroshchedrinskaia, Shelkovskaia district, on 24 September was caused by a poison gas.

September 26, 2005 15:49

• Public meeting in support of newspaper

  A public meeting is held in Makhachkala in support of Chernovik ("Rough Copy") newspaper actually banned by the republican government.

September 26, 2005 15:44

• Events in Chechnya

  Rebels and law enforcers are killed in the republic.

September 26, 2005 15:12

• Police prevent public meeting

  Several thousand oppositionists are prohibited from holding a public meeting in Baku.