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June 19, 2004 11:22

• Head of Abkhazian presidential administration dismissed

  "My dismissal is connected with a certain scenario of preparation for the presidential election to be held in autumn and with my attitude to it. I don't blend with this scenario," Gennady Gaguliya said.

June 18, 2004 22:52

• US holds interest in resolution of Karabakh conflict

  US Ambassador John Ordway denied circulating rumors that great pressure was put on Armenia in the issue of handing over three districts of Azerbaijan controlled by Armenia.

June 18, 2004 22:46

• Peacekeepers cope with their mission

  Estimating the 10 years' activity of the CIS Peacekeeping Forces on the maintenance of peace in the zone of the Georgian-Abkhazian conflict, Commander Lieutenant-General Aleksandr Yevteev told the Caucasian Knot correspondent that conditions were being created so that refugees could safely return to the Gali district.

June 18, 2004 18:02

• Human rights center seeks registration

  The Kabardino-Balkarian Human Rights Center gained a court victory, but the Department of the Russian Ministry of Justice in Kabardino-Balkaria appealed against the court decision in the Supreme Court of the Republic of Kabardino-Balkaria. The Supreme Court annulled the decision and sent the case for retrial.

June 18, 2004 16:26

• Georgian minister touches on Abkhazian issue, appeals to economic indicators

  "Though the return of South Osetia will require certain resources, much more resources will be spent to regain control over Abkhazia," said the Georgian Economy Minister.

June 18, 2004 16:25

• Chechen rebels attack district police department, prosecutor's office

  The fight with the use of firearms and grenade launchers lasted for about forty minutes.

June 18, 2004 15:20

• Human rights groups file proposals for Chechnya to Administration

  Some Russian NGOs have submitted proposals for a political settlement in Chechnya to the Administration of the Russian president and some COE officials.

June 18, 2004 15:16

• European Court to hear six complaints from Chechnya

  Six residents of Chechnya accuse the Russian government of extrajudicial executions, torture and cruel and degrading treatment of their relatives, as well as property damage.

June 18, 2004 15:13

• Lawmaker appeals to Putin, accuses Ziazikov

  Four people were detained by police in Malgobek, Ingushetia, while sticking bills in which an Ingush lawmaker addressed the Russian president and criticized the Ingush one.

June 18, 2004 15:02

• Russian peacekeepers to celebrate jubilee

  On June 21, ten years will pass since Russian peacekeeping forces were brought in the zone of the Georgian-Osetian conflict.

June 18, 2004 15:00

• New political union created in Abkhazia

  It is noted in a joint statement of the Coordinating Board that "the executive power is unable to make an impartial assessment of the situation that has arisen and to establish reasons for the contradictions between society and power that periodically appear."

June 18, 2004 14:59

• South Osetian women hold rally

  Elena Kochiyeva and Bella Pliyeva, who participated in the action, said they had information that the Georgian side planned to use the road that is being constructed to transfer weapons, ammunition and heavy military equipment to Georgian villages situated north of Tskhinval.

June 18, 2004 14:03

• Chechen refugees fight for survival

  The problem of IDPs is well hidden from the observers and press after the closure of tent camps in Ingushetia.

June 18, 2004 12:14

• $10 thousand reward offered for information about market explosion

  Said Tsentoroyev, the leader of the Chechen diaspora in Samara and an official of the Chechen Ministry for Nationalities, Press and External Relations, told journalists about it on June 17. Mr Tsentoroyev's cousin and two nephews are among five people detained in connection with the terror attack.

June 18, 2004 12:12

• Yamadayev survives another attempt on his life

  Sulim Yamadayev has announced the man who planted and set off the landmine has been destroyed.

June 17, 2004 17:37

• Georgian frontier guards detain Russian dry cargo ship

  Spokesmen for the Georgian Frontier Department stated that the ship had violated the international navigation rules. It was detained it the area of water of Georgia's Adjarian Autonomous Republic.

June 17, 2004 17:35

• Antiwar picket to be held in Moscow

  During the picket, one can obtain recent information about developments in Chechnya, sign appeals to the Supreme Commander-in-Chief and to the prosecutor's office concerning the Ulman Case, and sign a letter in support of people suffered from the actions of the Russian Defense Ministry's special operations unit.

June 17, 2004 17:04

• Safety officers accused of abducting two Chechen villagers

  One of the abducted men said Kadyrov's people had accused him of giving help to rebels and tortured him trying to force a confession.

June 17, 2004 17:01

• Georgia promises to resume supply of gas to South Osetia

  Boris Chochiyev reminded Georgy Khaindrava that the population of Georgian villages that are not under the jurisdiction of the Republic of South Osetia owed the South Osetian budget 12 million rubles for electric power.

June 17, 2004 15:45

• Policy of Armenian opposition remains unchanged

  Opposition leaders announced during a meeting on June 16 they would not publish the date of the next meeting beforehand in order not to give authorities the opportunity to get ready to this action "in their own way".