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August 19, 2004 19:37

• Azerbaijan ship, planes under arrest in Turkey

  The Azerbaijan Ministry of Transportation has asked the republican government to settle with the Turkish government a question concerning the detention of the "Fikret Amirov" ship and two aircrafts for the debts of the Ministry of Agriculture to Saka Korkmaz, a private Turkish company.

August 19, 2004 18:46

• ICRC to continue its work in Ingushetia

  President of Ingushetia Murat Zyazikov met with representatives of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Magas on August 18 to discuss problems of internally displaced persons (IDPs) from Chechnya and North Osetia and prospects concerning the ICRC's help to the republic.

August 18, 2004 19:56

• People flee from Grozny

  Chechen law enforcers believe panic rumors are being spread by rebels and their accomplices in order to destabilize the situation in the republic before and during the election of the Chechen president.

August 18, 2004 19:24

• South Osetian leaders meet with US congressmen

  Minister for Special Affairs of the Republic of South Osetia Boris Chochiyev asked the American guests to bring the following questions to the attention of the US Congress: against whom does the US arm Georgia and what do 5 thousand gunmen from Georgia do in South Osetia?

August 18, 2004 18:22

• Conflict death toll rises

  Reports, confirmed by the press center of the Combined Peacekeeping Forces, claim there was a moment when Georgian positions near Eredvi were shelled by Georgian army units. Three people were killed as a result.

August 17, 2004 19:42

• South Osetian units, Cossacks dislodged

  As reported by parliamentarian Guram Vakhtangishvili, the Osetian side violated the August 13 ceasefire agreement at 11 p.m. yesterday. The gun-fire came from the direction of the villages of Sarabuki and Kokhati.

August 17, 2004 18:44

• Developments in Georgia 'cannot become serious obstacle' for pipeline project

  $2,760 million were invested for the first six months of 2004 within the limits of three projects, including the Baku-Tbilisi-Jeikhan pipeline project, BP Azerbaijan President David Woodward told a press conference in Baku.

August 16, 2004 19:01

• Mobile communication 'inaccessible to people' in Chechnya

  Only high-ranking officials of the government and ministries and officers of security agencies can use mobile phones until now.

August 16, 2004 18:50

• Editors to inform Europe of pressure on opposition press

  Several editors of Azerbaijan newspapers are likely to go to Strasbourg to inform the Council of Europe of the campaign of pressure on the press.

August 16, 2004 18:34

• Casualty reports from conflict zone differ

  Both the sides sustained losses in a skirmish on the night of August 15-16: three injured people were taken to the republican hospital in Tskhinvali, two people are said to have been killed and several people are said to have been injured on the Georgian side.

August 13, 2004 23:27

• Japan company writes report about Azerbaijan's power system

  The task of TEPCO's mission is to show the real situation in the country's power system, to determine the reform rate in the field, and to reveal sectors that are in urgent need of investment. This will help the Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) to determine its position concerning directions of further joint work with Azerbaijan.

August 13, 2004 22:37

• Presidential candidates dissatisfied with activity of PR specialists

  The dissatisfaction of the 2 out of 7 contenders for the post of head of the republic was caused by results of the survey conducted on the territory of the republic from 4 to 8 August, which were published by the information and analytical department of the Chechen Ministry for Nationalities, Information and External Relations recently.

August 13, 2004 22:33

• Armenian side 'not inclined to resume hostilities'

  "I think it's not realistic to talk about the resumption of hostilities in Karabakh in the foreseeable future. But nothing can be excluded," Armenian Defense Minister Serzh Sargsian said to journalists after command and staff exercises of the Nagorno-Karabakh Defense Army.

August 12, 2004 19:27

• Oil rises in price, Azerbaijan budget's receipts increase

  It is planned to fix the oil price in the 2005 state budget within the bounds of $20-22 per barrel, the Ministry of Finance has announced.

August 12, 2004 19:22

• Gunmen in masks abduct local resident

  According to available information, four people arrived at the village of Paraboch in two Zhiguli cars without number plates, smashed the front door and rushed into the house on Terskaya Street which Dzhayruddin Nazhuyev lived in.

August 12, 2004 19:20

• Georgia masses troops on South Osetian border

  It may well be that the Georgian side will try to storm Tskhinvali and nearby settlements already today.

August 11, 2004 19:10

• Authorities prevent opposition newspaper from working

  The authorities found the owners of rented rooms, put pressure on them, and achieved the eviction of the editors.

August 11, 2004 19:07

• Share of small and middle business in Armenia's GDP comes to 40%

  Over 4,700 new subjects with almost 11 thousand workplaces were registered in the field of small and middle business in the first six months of 2004.

August 11, 2004 19:05

• Two thirds of applicants in Shatoy district wait for compensation

  Many people assert they had to give local functionaries from 30 to 50 percent of the compensation so that to receive the rest of the sum.

August 10, 2004 19:10

• People in Gali district wait for presidential election with hope

  Providing security of the population and central authorities' paying attention to the residents of the district will contribute to the greater integration of the Gali district into the economy of Abkhazia, Chairman of the Gali District Assembly Otar Latsuzbaya holds.