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December 17, 2004 22:34

• Military deny bombing Chechen village

  In the evening of December 3, a Russian combat helicopter launched several missiles at the village of Tevzen-Kale, Chechnya's Vedeno district. One of the missiles hit the house of the Suleymanov family.

December 16, 2004 23:53

• PACE will not discuss Azerbaijan political prisoners in winter

  The PACE will consider the question of political prisoners in Azerbaijan and the country's obligations to the Council of Europe during the spring session.

December 16, 2004 23:22

• Candidates refuse to participate in municipal elections

  Today, one day before municipal elections in Azerbaijan, 400 members of the ruling Yeni Azerbaijan party have withdrawn their candidacies registered earlier for the participation in the municipal elections.

December 16, 2004 22:35

• UN special rapporteur to visit Chechnya

  Special Rapporteur on violence against women of the UN Commission on Human Rights Yakin Erturk is expected to arrive in Chechnya within the next few days.

December 15, 2004 23:47

• Investigation of attack on anti-drug department continues

  Some sources say that the arms seized during the attack in Kabardino-Balkaria have most likely been taken out to Chechnya.

December 15, 2004 23:29

• Municipal elections to be held in Azerbaijan

  The election campaign in the country was conducted normally for the most part, with the exception of one application about a violation, Azer Saryev, spokesman for the Azerbaijan Central Election Commission told the Caucasian Knot correspondent.

December 15, 2004 22:03

• Debates about publication of Hitler's Mein Kampf

  Avaz Zeinally, the publisher of the book and editor-in-chief of the Khural newspaper, gives evidence at the Azerbaijan State Security Ministry in the criminal case opened under the article "inciting national and religious hatred".

December 14, 2004 23:56

• Terrorists' relatives will not be taken hostages

  Earlier, at a session of the State Duma, Russian Prosecutor General Vladimir Kolesnikov suggested taking terrorists' relatives hostages.

December 14, 2004 23:50

• Azerbaijan authorities deny participation in aggression against Iran

  US troops will enter the territory of Iran through Azerbaijan, Iraq and Georgia and complete the occupation of the country in two weeks, reported the Arabian newspaper Ash-Shark al-Avsat.

December 14, 2004 23:46

• Anti-drug department assaulted by Islamic extremists

  Criminals killed four officers who were on duty that night and set the building on fire after it. They seized 79 automatic rifles, 182 pistols, and ammunition.

December 11, 2004 23:16

• War in Chechnya began 10 years ago

  "When they ask me who is responsible for the beginning of the war in 1994, I always give two names - Boris Yeltsin and Dzhokhar Dudayev. Both of them planned to gain victory," Edilbek Khasmagomadov, a Chechen historian and political scientist, said.

December 11, 2004 23:00

• Human rights conference held in North Osetia

  On December 10, the Vladikavkaz Institute of Management jointly with the North Osetian President's Human Rights Commission held a conference devoted to International Human Rights Day.

December 10, 2004 17:49

• Press conference on rights of Moslems in Russia

  Deputy chairman of Russian muftis, human rights activist Ismail Khazrat Shengereev said that Moslems are often denied employment, their rights are often infringed upon in educational institutions.

December 09, 2004 22:52

• Press conference on Ingush refugees in North Osetia

  Ingush families live in the Prigorodny district of the Republic of North Osetia - Alania now as before. The majority of them are settled in the camp for displaced persons Maisky, which is situated on the border with Ingushetia. It was created in 1994 under the instruction of Ruslan Aushev, who hold the post of president of Ingushetia at that time.

December 08, 2004 23:47

• Powers of Abkahzian vice president to be enlarged

  Presidential candidate Sergey Bagapsh announced the intention to enlarge powers of the Abkhazian vice president, the post of which will be held by Raul Khadzhimba in case of Bagapsh's victory.

December 08, 2004 23:22

• Georgian parliamentarians prepare document on civic integration

  The Committee on Human Rights and Civic Integration of the Georgian parliament is preparing a concept of civic integration, chairwoman of the committee Elena Tevdoradze told the Caucasian Knot correspondent commenting on the discontent of Azerbaijanians living in Georgia.

December 08, 2004 22:54

• Azerbaijan authorities spy upon opposition leaders

  According to vice speaker of the Azerbaijan parliament Ziyafet Askerov, the Azerbaijan opposition receives financial resources from abroad and prepares to repeat the Georgian and Ukraine scenarios in the country.

December 07, 2004 23:57

• US welcomes negotiations between Azerbaijan and Armenia

  "I don't see another way of resolving this problem," US Ambassador to Azerbaijan Reno Harnish said.

December 07, 2004 23:40

• Abkhazian economy damaged by political crisis

  Following the developments in Abkhazia, Russia imposed serious restrictions on the admission regime on the border with Abkhazia along the Psou River.

December 07, 2004 23:14

• Police do not confirm abduction of Maskhadov's relatives

  Chechen law enforcement agencies have not confirmed reports that close relatives of Aslan Maskadov, president of the unrecognized Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, were taken hostages.