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June 15, 2004 22:43

• Bomb found near Nazran office of Danish Refugee Council

  The bomb was taken away and neutralized at about 2:30 p.m. today.

June 15, 2004 22:36

• Well-known lawyer buried in Chechnya

  Abdulla Khamzayev's relatives, his close friends, residents of Urus-Martan, and his human rights colleagues gathered to bid farewell to the known defender of victims of war crimes and human right violations.

June 15, 2004 18:10

• Project to protect prisoners' rights presented in Azerbaijan

  The project will end with seminars for police officers and prosecutors. Among the subject matters are "The Role of Interior Agencies in the Protection of Human Rights", "About the Police", and "Cooperation between the Ombudsperson and Police Agencies".

June 15, 2004 17:34

• Rodina faction to promote international recognition of Abkhazia

  Members of the Rodina faction of the Russian State Duma accompanied by representatives of Krasnodar Region visited Abkhazia, Dmitry Rogozin being head of the delegation.

June 15, 2004 16:13

• 3 policemen injured in car explosion near Grozny

  A self-made explosive device went off not far from the village of Nagornoye, Chechnya's Grozny district, on June 14, according to the interior ministry. All the suffered men were taken to hospital.

June 15, 2004 16:11

• NGO doubts of authorities' will to protect freedom of speech

  The appearance of skinheads in the courtroom, abuse and threats during a trial against people who used violence against journalists are evidence that the criminals are non-punishable and the authorities do not show will to protect freedom of speech, reads a statement by the Association of Investigative Journalists.

June 15, 2004 14:48

• South Osetia denies arrest of republican customs officers by Georgian police

  On June 14, the media reported with reference to chief of the Georgian financial police David Kvezerashvili that "the Georgian financial police have detained three customs officers of the breakaway republic of South Osetia near the village of Megvrekisi.

June 15, 2004 14:41

• Villagers complain about arbitrariness of local government officials

  Gumar Tkhamokov, a 47-year-old resident of the Psychokh village, who is a disabled man of the second group, came to the office of the village administration head in the evening of June 1 to ask why water supply had been cut off such a long time. In two hours, he was taken from there with a skull injury and a rib fracture.

June 15, 2004 12:51

• New NGO unites refugees in Nagorny Karabakh

  Approximately 25 thousand refugees, most of whom were deported from Azerbaijan, live in Nagorny Karabakh now, according to Nagorno Karabakh's Department for Refugees and IDPs.

June 15, 2004 12:12

• Georgians from Azerbaijan hold protest action in Tbilisi

  Participants asserted in particular that local Azerbaijan authorities closed Georgian schools in the region stage-by-stage, forced Georgians living in the region to change their family names and give children Azerbaijan names, and subjected them to other forms of national discrimination.

June 15, 2004 12:09

• Skirmish in Abkhazia's Gali district

  Sources in the conflict zone reported that a skirmish between members of an Abkhazian armed unit and Russian peacekeepers left a member of the Abkhazian group, a certain Dzidzaria, badly wounded and the Russian peacekeeper whose family name is Stupnik wounded.

June 15, 2004 12:03

• Georgian-Osetian talks suspended

  A spokesman for the South Osetian government announced that "the holding of the talks with Tbilisi is unreal after the situation in the zone of the Georgian-Osetia conflict had become extremely tense."

June 14, 2004 21:02

• Murder attempt on Chechen policemen might be revenge

  Three were killed in a "clean-up" in Orjonikidzevskaia. Sunzha district, Ingushetia, on June 12, so investigators say a following blast near that place might be rebels' revenge for their associates.

June 14, 2004 21:01

• Chechnya marks Russia's 'Independence Day'

  Explosions on roads marked Russia's Day in Grozny on June 12.

June 14, 2004 20:59

• Chechen public figures want to see Saidullaev

  Some Chechen public leaders would like to meet with Malik Saidullaev, a candidate for president of the republic who also ran in 2003, to discuss ways to make the upcoming election "clean and honest."

June 14, 2004 20:58

• Gantamirov to run for president

  Bislan Gantamirov, former deputy prime minister of Chechnya, is going to lodge papers to the local electoral commission to run for president of the Chechen Republic.

June 14, 2004 18:23

• Samara's Chechens, Ingush demand equal rights

  The Chechen-Ingush community of Samara held a protest meeting on June 10 demanding that abuses on an ethnic basis should be stopped and seeking protection from the Russian president.

June 14, 2004 18:20

• Abkhaz Women Association addresses Georgian NGO leaders

  Below is a full-text version of a statement addressed to leaders of a number of Georgian NGOs by the Abkhaz Women Association alarmed with some developments in South Ossetia and Abkhazia.

June 12, 2004 17:18

• Another Armenian oppositionist released from custody

  Vagarshak Arutyunian, the member of the political council of the opposition party Anrapetutiun (Republic) and former Armenian defense minister, was released from custody after giving a written undertaking not to leave a place.

June 12, 2004 16:45

• 740 died in landmine explosions in Chechnya for 9 years

  3,293 incidents when people fell victims to mine and UXO explosions, including 2,553 cases of injuries, have been registered in Chechnya since 1995, according to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in the Russian Federation.