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August 28, 2004 18:36

• Two Chechen women may have been involved in plane explosions

  Chechen law enforcement agencies have no information on the implication of republican residents, killed in Tu-134 and Tu-154 plane explosions, in terrorist activity.

August 27, 2004 22:58

• Committee to Protect Rights of Rauf Arifoglu to send delegation to Strasbourg

  Musavat party leader Isa Gambar holds that the Azerbaijan authorities use the trial against opposition leaders, including Arifoglu, to keep society in awe.

August 27, 2004 22:52

• Last day of election campaign in Chechnya

  In spite of the assertions of Election Commission officials, violations took place in the course of the election campaign nevertheless.

August 27, 2004 22:49

• Chechen migrants refuse to participate in presidential election

  Chechens officially registered in Dagestan do not want to vote, and unregistered refugees do not have a vote at all.

August 26, 2004 19:30

• Meeting between Georgian PM and South Osetian president 'still possible'

  "The situation has become less tense after the withdrawal of Georgian troops from the conflict zone," EU Special Representative for the South Caucasus Heikki Talvitie said and added the opposite party should do the same thing.

August 26, 2004 18:55

• Turkish citizen deported from Russia for second time

  Having spent 43 hours under illegal arrest in an airport, Hajji Bayram Bolat was sent back to Istanbul. FSB officers explained it by "instructions from Moscow".

August 26, 2004 18:19

• USCIRF concerned about situation in Azerbaijan

  "The Azerbaijan authorities are moving in the wrong direction with respect of freedom of conscience and honoring its international obligations in this field," said Preeta B. Bansal, Chair of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF).

August 25, 2004 19:46

• Investigation into two plane crashes underway

  According to updated information from Moscow's Domodedovo airport, the two planes that crashed on Tuesday night near Tula and Rostov carried a total of 89 people.

August 25, 2004 18:31

• Maskhadov promises Georgia to help against Russia

  "Mr Saakashvili is right stating that the Russian military sides with the Osetians," the leader of Chechen separatists said and begged pardon for Chechen rebels' participation in the Georgian-Abkhazian war on the Abkhazian side.

August 25, 2004 18:30

• Candidates for Abkhazian presidency nominated

  Altogether there are seven candidates proposed by initiative groups and political organizations.

August 24, 2004 19:22

• International observers 'were not invited' to Karabakh municipal elections

  Chairman of the Nagorno-Karabakh Central Election Commission Sergey Davidian has noted in his interview with the Caucasian Knot correspondent that the second round of municipal elections in the Republic of Nagorny Karabakh was held on a high level.

August 24, 2004 18:52

• Kabardino-Balkarian border guards detain Turkish citizen

  Hajji Bayram Bolat, a Turkish citizen and ethnic Kabardinian deported in August 2003, arrived by air in Nalchik from Istanbul yesterday, August 23. His residential permit had been reinstated by a decision of a Nalchik court.

August 24, 2004 17:28

• Human rights activists speak in support of terrorist suspect

  Dzhavashir Sadigov's lawyer says there is no evidence against his client.

August 23, 2004 19:28

• Victims of clashes buried in South Osetia

  Residents of Tskhinval bid farewell to two old men and their 15-year-old grandson.

August 23, 2004 18:47

• Rebel attack leaves 44 dead

  Residents of Grozny evidence many civilians were killed by disorderly fire opened by officers of security agencies already after Mojaheds' retirement.

August 23, 2004 18:45

• Juma community worries about Moslem shrines in Iraq

  The religious community of the Juma Mosque rates developments in Iraq as the unexampled jeering at religious feelings of Moslems living all over the world.

August 20, 2004 20:36

• Ingushneftegazprom owner will not change

  The President of Ingushetia has announced he will not allow the privatization of Ingushneftegazprom, the largest industrial enterprise in the republic, indirectly refuting media reports about the delivery of the company's control stock to Soyuzobshchemashbank.

August 20, 2004 20:15

• Yesterday's attack staged by Georgian military, South Osetian sources say

  South Osetian Defense Minister Anatoly Barankevich does not rule out that only soldiers of Georgian official structures were withdrawn from South Osetia, groups consisting of militiamen and mercenaries remaining in Georgian villages.

August 20, 2004 19:42

• Consequences of gas pipeline explosion liquidated

  Now the supply of gas to Azerbaijan and districts of Dagestan is resumed.

August 19, 2004 20:13

• Evidence against oppositionists extracted under torture

  The last witness, Nofel Nagiev, refused to give evidence at first, lawyer Samed Panakhov told the Caucasian Knot correspondent. But at the urgent request of the court he told what happened with him on October 16, 2003.