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January 24, 2005 23:54

• Bust of Stalin to be erected in Dagestani capital

  Members of the local branch of the Russian Communist Party along with their supporters unveiled a memorial board with a bas-relief of Stalin on the square in front of the Makhachkala station on January 20.

January 24, 2005 23:47

• Political refugee arrested in Azerbaijan

  Being already an aged man, Saday Nazarov returned to Azerbaijan on January 11 after he had lived as an emigrant for 10 years in Czechia, where he had refugee status. The professor took on trust the authorities' statements about national reconciliation and resolution of the problem of political prisoners.

January 24, 2005 23:16

• Combined Control Commission seeks release of hostages

  An extraordinary meeting of the Combined Control Commission for the Resolution of the Georgian-Osetian Conflict is being held in Tskhinvali, the capital of South Osetia. The meeting was arranged because the problem with hostages taken from both sides was to be settled immediately.

January 21, 2005 23:49

• IHF expert abducted in Chechnya

  In the time of Aslan Maskhadov, Magomed Magomadov headed a group of investigators in the Chechen prosecutor's office engaged in investigations of cases connected with kidnappings.

January 21, 2005 23:45

• Beslan residents continue their picket

  Beslan residents who suffered in the terror attack have been picketing the Kavkaz federal rout for the second day. "Our children lie in graves, and we'll lie here until Dzasokhov (president of North Osetia - editor's note) goes away," picketers said to a Caucasian Knot correspondent.

January 20, 2005 23:57

• Chechen villages become deserted

  Russian soldiers purposefully extrude people from mountainous districts of Chechnya.

January 20, 2005 23:35

• People in Beslan urge Dzasokhov to resign

  People who suffered in the terror attack in Beslan school 1 started a picket at about 10 a.m. on the Rostov-Baku road entering Beslan, North Osetia.

January 20, 2005 23:06

• Situation worsens in South Osetia

  This morning, South Osetian law enforcers blocked the road Tskhinval-Dzhava going along Georgian villages.

January 19, 2005 23:59

• Policemen do not hide implication in assault against journalist

  Sarmat Parastayev, a brother of director of the Center for Humanitarian Studies Alan Parastayev taken to the Gudushuari medical center in Tbilisi, Georgia, has reported that Alan was beaten by officers of the South Osetian Interior Ministry.

January 19, 2005 23:55

• Azerbaijan can suffer from US attack against Iran

  Some time ago, the Arabian media reported that the United States was going to attack Iran from three directions: from Iraq, Georgia, and Azerbaijan. The Caucasian Knot correspondent has turned to Azerbaijan political scientists for comments on the issue.

January 19, 2005 23:15

• IHF, FIDH indignant at kidnappings of Maskhadov's relatives

  Today, the International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights (IHF) and the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) have addressed an open letter to President Putin on the kidnappings of Aslan Maskhadov's relatives by Chechen enforcement agencies.

January 18, 2005 23:59

• Chechen student's sentence to be appealed

  Vladimir Suvorov and Zezag Usmanova, the defense of Zara Murtazaliyeva - a resident of Chechnya convicted by the Moscow City Court on January 17, are extremely dissatisfied with the court decision. The court sentenced the 22-year-old student from Chechnya to 9 years' imprisonment.

January 18, 2005 23:57

• Journalist sees political motives behind his beating

  Director of the Center for Humanitarian Studies Alan Parastayev supposes that political motives are behind his beating by officers of the South Osetian Interior Ministry on December 30, 2004.

January 17, 2005 23:56

• Azerbaijan authorities consider HRW report biased

  In the latest report, Human Rights Watch (HRW) lays strictures on actions of the Azerbaijan authorities and mentions numerous violations of human rights.

January 17, 2005 23:54

• NGO raided, no comments given

  The special operation in the office of the Information Center of the Council of NGOs, which is situated in Nazran, Ingushetia, was conducted on January 12. A group of military men in masks armed with automatic rifles and light machine-guns rushed into the flat in the center of Nazran the organization rented as an office.

January 17, 2005 23:21

• Two special operations in Dagestan

  Private houses, which rebels from the Dzhennet group were supposed to be in, were stormed in two Dagestani towns, Makhachkala and Kaspiysk.

January 14, 2005 23:45

• Azerbaijan pilgrims to turn to European Court

  A group of believers is staging a rally in front of the Saudi Arabia Embassy to Azerbaijan demanding that visas should be granted to them to participate in the Hajj. The diplomatic mission of Saudi Arabia has delivered an official note of protest to the Azerbaijan Foreign Ministry.

January 14, 2005 23:40

• Shariat organization succeeds to Dzhennet rebel group

  Rebels under the command of Rasul Makasharipov have been killing policemen, judges and prosecutors in Dagestan since 2002. The number of their victims has already reached 30 people.

January 14, 2005 23:12

• ICRC employee disappears in Chechnya

  Chechen law enforcers are checking information about the happening and searching for the people who went away in a car together with Said Husein Deniyev, said an officer of the Chechen Interior Ministry.

January 13, 2005 23:55

• Purge in NGO office

  Head of the Information Center of the Council of NGOs Taisa Isayeva thinks that yesterday's incident showed the lack of professionalism of Ingush special services.