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June 25, 2004 20:10

• Court sanctions arrest of two suspects in attack on Ingushetia

  Chief of the Department of the Federal Security Service in Ingushetia Sergey Koryakov refused to concretize what the arrestees were suspected of specifically - either of assisting rebels or taking part in clashes and other acts.

June 25, 2004 20:08

• OKL activists charged with hooliganism, imprisoned

  Chairman of the Organization for Karabakh Liberation (OKL) Akif Nagi and four OKL activists, Mursal Gasanov, Ilkin Gurbanov, Rovshan Fatiyev and Manef Kerimov, were arrested during an action of protest against Armenian servicemen's participation in a NATO conference to plan the 2004 Cooperative Best Effort military exercises.

June 25, 2004 19:18

• Conference on resolution of Georgian-Abkhazian conflict held in Moscow

  Its participants were representatives of non-governmental organizations and political scientists from Abkhazia, Georgia and Russia.

June 25, 2004 19:17

• Supply of electricity, gas to refugee centers cut off

  Ingush authorities do not give any comments on the situation. A spokesman for the deputy head of the Ingush government responsible for refugees and internally displaced persons has said they have no information on such facts at all.

June 25, 2004 19:15

• Abkhazia denies reports on anthrax in republic

  The Georgian media spread information today that several anthrax cases had been registered in the Zugdidi district of Georgia and that the infected beef had been delivered from the neighboring Gali district.

June 25, 2004 18:14

• Anti-Chechen sentiments grow in Ingushetia

  If the republican authorities do not try to prevent any attempts to fan ethnic strife, the situation can lead to the most unexpected consequences, local human rights activists think.

June 25, 2004 17:21

• Lawyer lodges complaint against Kabardino-Balkarian Interior Ministry

  The ministry has not fulfilled a decision of the Nalchik City Court concerning the deportation of Hajji Bayram Bolat, a Turkish citizen, from Kabardino-Balkaria in August 2003.

June 25, 2004 17:20

• Taliban fighter from Kabardino-Balkaria returns home

  After the captives' had returned to Russia from the Guantanamo base, they sent several more months in an investigatory isolator in Pyatigorsk.

June 25, 2004 13:06

• Journalist goes on hunger strike in Nakhchivan

  In his appeal to the media, organizations protecting journalists' rights and offices of the OSCE and the Council of Europe in Azerbaijan, Mohammed Rzayev stated the reasons for his action.

June 25, 2004 13:04

• Purges in refugee camps

  All inhabitants of the refugee camp in the village of Altiyevo, including women and under age people, underwent an examination, which was accompanied by beatings and abuses.

June 25, 2004 13:01

• Tbilisi suspends ultimatum against Tskhinvali

  Georgian Deputy Interior Minister Georgy Getsadze has announced it.

June 24, 2004 18:35

• Exact number of attackers in Ingushetia unknown

  Aleksandr Cherkasov of the Human Rights Center Memorial also called reports about Ingush rebels into question. According to information he had, only one group acting in the area of the Nazran market was made up of Ingushetians, the composition of the other groups was mixed.

June 24, 2004 18:03

• Death toll from rebel attack in Ingushetia rises to 98

  Among the dead, there are 23 civilians, 29 police officers, 10 Federal Security Service officials, 5 prosecutors, 19 servicemen, 2 Chechen Interior Ministry officials and 7 border guards.

June 24, 2004 17:49

• OSCE Mission in Georgia brings up question of freedom of media and movement in South Osetia

  Head of the OSCE Mission in Georgia Ambassador Roy Reeve emphasized that "Georgian journalists have turned to the OSCE Mission many times after the South Osetian authorities started hampering the coverage of the situation in the conflict zone."

June 24, 2004 17:45

• 12 suspects in attack on Ingushetia detained

  Three of the arrestees had forged certificates of officers of the Chechen president's security service on them.

June 24, 2004 17:43

• Zyazikov denies conducting purges in Ingushetia

  The Ingush president also claimed that the group of security forces in Ingushetia would not be considerably enlarged. "I don't think it is necessary to increase the strength of security agencies radically," he said.

June 24, 2004 14:28

• Locals threaten Chechen refugees with pogroms in Ingushetia

  Appeals to organize pogroms were heard in the village on Yandare, Ingushetia's Nazran district, during funerals of people who fell victims to the developments of the night of June 21-22.

June 24, 2004 14:16

• Did Magomed Yevloyev lead rebel attacks in Ingushetia?

  As reported by the Ingushetia.ru website, Shamil Basayev or a man bearing resemblance to him was noted among the attackers.

June 24, 2004 14:13

• Victims of rebel attack on Ingushetia to get compensation

  The decision by the Ingush leadership to compensate for moral and material damage applies to both republican law enforcers and civilians.

June 24, 2004 14:10

• Georgian media make doubt about authenticity of firing incident

  The wound on the head of Tamar Tadtayeva looks much more like an injury with a deep abrasion. No proof that the woman was wounded by a shell fragment exists.