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September 22, 2004 19:15

• Efforts to search for Maskhadov, Basayev redoubled

  Many people in Chechnya believe officers of Chechen security agencies aim at receiving a reward for Maskhadov and Basayev's heads.

September 22, 2004 18:38

• New plan for resolving conflict 'unacceptable' for Abkhazia

  "Abkhazia has gain independence and is inclined to build relations with Georgia only on terms of good-neighborliness. Any full of wide degree of autonomy is out of the question," Astamur Tania said.

September 21, 2004 23:10

• PACE to discuss report on Armenia

  The only paragraph in the report on Armenia's commitments which caused the PACE Monitoring Committee's dissatisfaction concerns violations in the course of the 2003 elections, Vice Speaker of the Armenian National Assembly Tigran Torosian said.

September 21, 2004 22:38

• Chechen public indignant at intention to pardon Budanov

  First Deputy Prime Minister of the Chechen Government Ramzan Kadyrov issued open threats towards Budanov. "If Budanov is amnestied, we will find an opportunity to reward him according to his deserts," he said.

September 21, 2004 22:07

• Chechen children cannot attend Azerbaijan schools, says rights defender

  In its turn, the press service of the Azerbaijan Ministry of Education denied this information.

September 20, 2004 20:18

• Separatist ideologist stands trial in Dagestan

  Abdulla Aliev, known under the literary name Adallo, is charged under three articles of the Criminal Code: organization of an armed revolt, membership in illegal armed units, and illegal carrying of arms.

September 20, 2004 19:44

• Azerbaijan has no information about arrival of saboteurs from Chechnya

  Mairbek Taramov has announced that a group of saboteurs of the Chechen President's security service arrived in Baku on September 8 to liquidate leaders of Chechen communities in Azerbaijan, members of the Azerbaijan parliament or their families, and to blow up the Baku-Tbilisi-Jeikhan pipeline.

September 20, 2004 19:20

• Chechen rebels 'do not undergo treatment in Azerbaijan'

  Ilya Shabalkin announced that an Arab mercenary detained by FSB (Federal Security Service) officers in the North Caucasus had been moving from Russia to Azerbaijan to undergo treatment for a wound.

September 17, 2004 20:55

• Russia presents its plan for resolving Karabakh conflict

  Vladimir Putin told journalists after the meeting that thought no result had been achieved yet, each meeting of such a kind was a "step forward".

September 17, 2004 20:49

• South Osetian authorities suspect Georgia of preparing military invasion

  According to the South Osetian Defense Ministry, elements of the Georgian Armed Forces numbering about 16 thousand people are amassed along the perimeter of South Osetian borders now. And the number of servicemen and fighters in the units stationed inside South Osetia in Georgian villages exceeds 3 thousand.

September 16, 2004 22:43

• Operational headquarters 'had no information about terrorists' demands'

  "I was enlisted in the headquarters to release hostages as a possible mediator in negotiations. But even on the second day of the capture nobody knew what the terrorists were seeking after," Ruslan Badalov head of the Chechen National Rescue Committee said.

September 16, 2004 22:32

• State officials met with Wahhabis

  There are 43 names in the list of Wahhabis. They all were kept under special observation after the developments in Beslan.

September 16, 2004 19:16

• PACE Monitoring Committee criticizes Azerbaijan, Armenia

  PACE co-rapporteurs on Azerbaijan Andreas Gross and Andres Herkel spoke at the session. They mentioned the recent presidential pardon decree among positive factors.

September 15, 2004 22:11

• New PACE rapporteur on Nagorno-Karabakh conflict appointed

  New rapporteur on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict was appointed at the session of the PACE Political Committee in Paris yesterday. He is David Atkinson, head of the Azerbaijan Delegation to the PACE Samed Seidov told the Caucasian Knot correspondent.

September 15, 2004 21:36

• Azerbaijan parliament discusses cancellation of NATO's maneuvers

  Summing up the debates, Speaker Murtuz Aleskerov said: "We protested against the arrival of servicemen who occupied our lands and shed our people's blood and secured our object."

September 15, 2004 21:06

• 'No terrorists' in Pankissi Gorge

  "In Georgia, the matter always concerned terrorists' living in the Pankissi Gorge, but I've got no information about their number and exact whereabouts," said US Ambassador to Georgia Richard Miles.

September 14, 2004 20:24

• Only one mosque functions in Nalchik

  The other six mosques are closed at Mayor Berdov's direction because of the difficult situation.

September 14, 2004 19:18

• Azerbaijan sustains 'diplomatic defeat'

  Political scientist Zardusht Alidaze holds NATO's decision to cancel military exercises in Baku can create complications in NATO's relations with Azerbaijan.

September 14, 2004 19:16

• Terror attack in Dagestan prevented

  "Rebels planned to carry out in a Dagestani town, admittedly Khasavyurt, something similar to what happened in Beslan," a source in the Chechen military commandant's office said.

September 13, 2004 21:15

• Putin's statements produce various reactions

  President Putin announced during today's enlarged session of the Cabinet that higher officials in Russia's regions must be elected by Legislative Assemblies at the president's suggestion.