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July 19, 2004 19:41

• Soros Foundation head detention details

  Three Georgian NGO representatives were detained in S. Ossetia for coming there without prior adjustment with the pertinent agencies.

July 19, 2004 16:15

• Oppositional newspaper editor abducted, beaten

  Four strangers abducted and beat Aidyn Guliev, editor-in-chief of a newspaper, which other journalists believe "contracted for" by the government.

July 16, 2004 14:41

• OSCE Minsk Group's activity believed 'untalented'

  A Social Democratic Party leader accuses the OSCE Minsk Group of inability to facilitate the solution of the Nagorno-Karabakh problem.

July 16, 2004 14:32

• Demonstrators demand deporting OSCE Mission head

  The OSCE Mission to Tskhinvali is criticized for its "pro-Georgian position" and failure to provide objective information to the OSCE.

July 15, 2004 22:14

• Elections in Azerbaijan, Armenia massaged - IHF

  The International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights calls the OSCE for considering facts of manipulation of election results in Armenia, Azerbaijan and Chechnya.

July 15, 2004 22:09

• Registration launched of presidential candidates

  The republican electoral commission has started registration of candidates for the office of president of Chechnya this afternoon.

July 14, 2004 16:06

• Presidential election scheduled in Abkhazia

  The parliament of Abkhazia has scheduled the presidential election in the republic for October 3, 2004.

July 14, 2004 16:00

• Over 100 political prisoners still in jail - Zeinalov

  Eldar Zeinalov, director of Azerbaijan's human rights center AIHMM, speaks about new lists of political prisoners, overlooked previously.

July 13, 2004 15:58

• Protest meeting dispersed in Sunzha district

  Law enforcement and security agencies disperse a protest meeting conducted after the abduction of high school students.

July 13, 2004 15:54

• Arrested oppositionists go on hunger-strike

  Seven opposition leaders have yesterday gone on hunger strike demanding improved conditions for legal defense.

July 12, 2004 15:09

• Dagestani separatist ideologist sentenced

  Magomed Tagaev, an ideologist of Dagestani separatists, has been sentenced to ten years in hard labor camp.

July 12, 2004 14:57

• Chechnya's State Council reluctant to see OSCE Mission back

  Oddly enough, Chechnya's leadership is against the return of the OSCE Mission to the region, even when Russia's leaders are not.

July 12, 2004 14:48

• Bomb blasts claim 11 lives in 2004

  People continue to die because of bomb blasts in Azerbaijan, even in spite of mine-clearance efforts.

July 09, 2004 20:56

• Human rights advocates indicate mass refugee departure from Ingushetia

  Human rights advocates are concerned about an outbreak of anti-refugee and anti-Chechen sentiments in Ingushetia.

July 09, 2004 20:54

• Georgian prisoners released in S. Ossetia

  Georgian leaders make menacing statements as South Ossetia releases Georgian servicemen imprisoned on July 7.

July 09, 2004 20:52

• Police officers die through lack of care

  An explosion of a noise grenade resulted in two officers of Altai's Internal Affairs Ministry dying.

July 09, 2004 15:37

• 'Clean-up' in refugee camp

  Federal forces conduct a "clean-up" in a camp where many of the staff live of the Society for Russian-Chechen Friendship.

July 08, 2004 22:37

• Abkhazia asks S. Ossetia to extradite war criminals, terrorists

  Abkhazia's leadership intends to pass over to South Ossetia lists of people having committed grave crimes against the people of Abkhazia during the 1992-93 conflict and 10 years after the end of it.

July 08, 2004 22:35

• New war expected in Chechnya

  People are beginning to leave for safer areas as rumors persist in Chechnya about possible resumption of large-scale military action soon.

July 08, 2004 22:34

• Georgian detainees made to kneel in public

  Panic spreads among S. Ossetia's Georgian population as detained Georgian military men are being humiliated, while authorities make warlike statements.