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June 22, 2004 13:58

• Young man detained, found dead

  The mutilated body of Husein Duzhuyev, a resident of the village of Nagornoye, Chechnya's Grozny district, was found on June 20 in the vicinity of the village of Pervomayskaya situated in the same district.

June 22, 2004 13:56

• Rebels attack Ingushetia

  According to media reports, 30 policemen were killed only in the attack on the Nazran district police department.

June 22, 2004 12:40

• Abkhazian PM insists on official recognition of his republic

  "We've claimed our independence many times in a categorical form and claim it now. Abkhazia isn't going to return to the bosom of Georgia," the head of the Abkhazian government said.

June 22, 2004 12:38

• Application of Adjarian scenario in Abkhazia 'is impossible'

  "The Georgian leadership should show restraint," Gennady Gudkov, deputy chairman of the Russian parliamentary commission on security, believes "since thoughtless actions can lead to unexpected consequences, including those for Georgia itself."

June 22, 2004 12:29

• Helsinki Citizens' Assembly National Committee of Georgia addresses South Osetian NGOs

  The Committee raises its concern about rough attempts to unfreeze the Abkhazian and South Osetian conflicts, which can entail new victims.

June 22, 2004 12:26

• Oppositionists stage unauthorized picket in Baku

  Azerbaijan police dispersed the protesters and detained Kerim Mekhtiyev, a PNFA member.

June 22, 2004 12:24

• Human rights activists meet with mothers of the missing

  During the meeting, participants discussed what measures could be taken under the Russian legislation to protest against criminal actions of federal and Chechen security agencies, which practice abductions, torture and extrajudicial executions under the pretext of fighting against criminality.

June 21, 2004 17:08

• Alkhanov goes on leave

  Chechen Interior Minister Alu Alkhanov is expected to submit his application for registration as a candidate for the post of Chechen president to the republican election commission today.

June 21, 2004 17:07

• Saakashvili's party wins elections for Adjarian parliament

  Thus 16 mandates will be given to representatives of Mikhail Saakashvili's party elected by party lists, and 2 mandates will be given to Republicans. Almost all majority deputies will represent the ruling party.

June 21, 2004 17:05

• Notorious field commander to be buried behind barbed wire

  Ruslan Gelayev's relatives have made several requests to give them the body, but they were denied. Investigators explained the denial by saying that Gelayev was not an ordinary bandit but a terrorist, and "under the federal law on combating terrorism, the terrorists' bodies are not given to their relatives."

June 21, 2004 15:11

• Women's meeting in Chechnya suspended

  Having been given evidence that 25 out of 28 detained people were really free, the women decided to wait until the release of the other three people.

June 21, 2004 15:09

• Refugees undergo purges in Ingushetia

  In the course of a special operation, gunmen in masks detained a 30-year-old resident of the village of Tangi-Chu and took him away in an unknown direction.

June 21, 2004 13:32

• Karabakh journalists to take part in Armenian-Azerbaijan-Karabakh project

  A network of radio diaries, which Armenia, Azerbaijan and Nagorny Karabakh can exchange with, is planed to be created within the framework of the project.

June 21, 2004 13:09

• Chechen women block federal route

  The women demanded that the Chechen authorities should return abducted relatives to them or inform them of their whereabouts.

June 21, 2004 13:05

• 23,000 refugees from Chechnya, Iran, Afghanistan stay in Azerbaijan

  Director of the Center for Legal Assistance to Migrants Alovsat Aliyev subjected the work of the UNHCR office in Azerbaijan to criticism.

June 21, 2004 13:02

• Russian peacekeepers' observer post to be established in Upper Kodori

  Such an agreement was reached during a meeting between representatives of the Georgian military department and Lieutenant General Yevteev.

June 19, 2004 19:16

• Ethnic Georgians must recognize jurisdiction of Abkhazia to visit Sukhum

  "The villagers' wish to visit Sukhum is quite understandable, especially in the situation when residents of mountain villages are deprived of proper medical care and consumer goods," Chairman of the Abkhazian State Security Service Givi Agrba said.

June 19, 2004 15:57

• Public Examination project presented in Dagomys

  The Public Examination institute launched the Power-Society-Media project in April 2004.

June 19, 2004 11:25

• Women, children leave Georgian villages of South Osetia

  Residents of Osetian villages blocked roads leading to the Georgian villages and the population turned out to be in an economic blockade.

June 19, 2004 11:23

• Access to South Osetia temporarily denied for Georgian journalists

  The South Osetian information agency Res claims that Georgian TV channels incorrectly cover the course of parliamentary elections and other developments in the breakaway republic.