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August 02, 2004 18:43

• Armenian Foreign Ministry reacts to Aliyev's statement

  "If it had been a usual public statement, like those the president of Azerbaijan makes for interior use, it wouldn't possibly have worth reacting. But this time he poses the problem to his ambassadors in such a way, which really raises deep concern," Gamlet Gasparian emphasized.

August 02, 2004 18:41

• Peacekeepers, OSCE Mission to control situation near Tskhinvali-Tamarasheni border

  According to the decision made by the sides, this post will exist until there are guarantees of peace in the zone of the conflict.

July 30, 2004 21:57

• Night fire on Tskhinval - details

  Four police officers from the Osetian side, Gazayev, Dzhioyev, Pliyev and Khubulov, were slightly wounded as a result of the fire. There is no information about people suffered from the Georgian side.

July 30, 2004 21:15

• Publication of independent newspaper suspended

  "As I understood, materials about human rights abuse in Chechnya published in our newspaper do not suit security agencies," the editor-in-chief of the Chechen Society newspaper, Timur Aliev, said.

July 30, 2004 21:12

• Ibragimoglu withdraws his candidacy for post of UN Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion

  Ilgar Ibragimoglu is a member of the Majlis of the Islami Ittihad society, the activity of which has been outlawed in Azerbaijan recently.

July 29, 2004 18:41

• Azerbaijan Press Is in Danger forum to be held

  The editor of the Azadlyg newspaper, Ganimat Zaidov, announced that the organizational committee to hold the forum, consisting of 9 people, had already been set up. The goal of the action is to draw the attention of the international community and Azerbaijan's authorities to the threat to freedom of the media.

July 29, 2004 18:39

• Kabardino-Balkaria apprehends repetition of Ingush scenario

  All police units and the military unit quartered in Kabardino-Balkaria have gone on higher state of alert as operational information about an imminent rebel attack had been received.

July 28, 2004 19:35

• Azerbaijan human rights activists accuse each other

  The Chairman of the Committee to Protect Rights of Officers of the OPON Special Police Force, Famil Suleymanov, has accused human rights activists Gadjimurad and Rena Sadaddinovs of bribery.

July 28, 2004 19:33

• Dagestani police officers charged with kidnapping

  The Dagestani Prosecutor's Office has finished an investigation into the criminal case against Colonel Imamudin Temirbulatov and Major Ayvar Akhmedov. The investigators' version is that they are involved in abductions of people in Dagestan.

July 28, 2004 19:27

• Authorities seek closure of independent newspaper

  Timur Aliyev, editor of the independent newspaper Chechen Society, was summoned to the Organized Crime Unit of the Ingush Interior Ministry in the morning today.

July 27, 2004 20:57

• Georgian president cannot take criticism, NGO leader says

  "The Former Political Prisoners for Human Rights non-governmental organization (NGO) often lays strictures on authorities. That is why it is not included in the group of NGOs chosen by the president to form the council," Nana Kakabadze, the leader of this NGO, stated.

July 27, 2004 20:55

• Rebels attacked Ingushetia with Maskhadov's permission

  The editors of the Caucasian Knot have got information spread by the Information and Analytical Center of the President of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria.

July 27, 2004 17:00

• New attack against opposition journalists in Azerbaijan

  Two unknown people attacked Eynulla Fatullayev, a reporter for the Monitor weekly yesterday, July 26.

July 26, 2004 19:42

• Armenians from US help their nationals in Iraq

  There are 22 thousand Armenians in Iraq, 15 thousands of them living in Baghdad. There are 9 Armenian churches with large estates in Iraq. None of them has suffered.

July 26, 2004 19:40

• Rebels hunt for heads of district administrations

  A terrorist act in Chechnya left three people dead, the head of the Samashki village administration, Khizir Aldamov, being among them.

July 23, 2004 18:42

• Seven presidential candidates registered in Chechnya

  Chechnya's electoral commission has disqualified one candidate for president of Chechnya for what it has not disqualified the supposed protege of the Kremlin.

July 22, 2004 14:36

• Meskhetians start leaving

  A first group of Meskhetian Turks living in the Krasnodar territory, Russia, has left for the US.

July 21, 2004 14:19

• RSF demands releasing Arifoglu

  Reporters Without Borders call on Azerbaijan's authorities for releasing Rauf Arifoglu, editor-in-chief of Yeni Musavat newspaper.

July 20, 2004 20:11

• Journalists worldwide condemn editor's abduction

  Reporters Without Borders believe the abduction of the editor-in-chief of Azerbaijani-based Baki Habar newspaper an action against freedom of speech.

July 20, 2004 20:01

• S. Ossetia speaking about war

  S. Ossetia's Foreign Ministry says the possible denunciation of the Dagomys Agreement means a return to war.