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June 08, 2004 14:30

• Human rights organization to seek fulfillment of presidential decree

  A displace woman living in Stavropol Region has not been given the president's reply, but lawyers of the Pyatigorsk non-governmental organization Faith, Hope and Love, which is a member of the Solidarity association, will help her.

June 08, 2004 13:07

• New booklet helps IDPs

  The booklet explains IDPs' rights and benefits and the procedure for obtaining registration at the place of living or staying in Russia. It also holds advice how to act when migrants' rights are infringed upon.

June 08, 2004 13:05

• Kadyrov delivers ultimatum to rebels

  Ramzan Kadyrov, the son of the late president of Chechnya, Akhmat Kadyrov, has demanded that Chechen rebels lay down arms within three days.

June 08, 2004 12:04

• Avtury resident detained, declared missing

  Armed people in camouflage uniform arbitrarily detained a 19-year-old youth in the Chechen town of Shali on June 5.

June 08, 2004 12:01

• Tbilisi-Tskhinvali bus service resumed

  The Tbilisi-Tskhinvali bus will run daily.

June 08, 2004 11:37

• Krasnodar journalist arrested

  State Duma Deputy Oleg Shein and member of the Russian President's Human Rights Commission Svyatoslav Zabelin sent letters of inquiry about the Cherepanov case on May 26. On May 28, the "Freedom to Aleksey Cherepanov!" action took place at the building of the State Drug Control Agency in Moscow.

June 07, 2004 20:41

• 2 Russian soldiers killed in Chechnya

  "Extra military units have been transferred to the scene of the fight. They are cleaning the area and searching for the bandits," a source in the republican military commandant's office said to the Caucasian Knot correspondent.

June 07, 2004 17:27

• 3 detained in Grozny

  Residents of Grozny believe Misirov, Ginayev, and Giriyev may have been detained because they did not have a town residence permit.

June 07, 2004 17:12

• Court declares authorities' actions against rights activists illegal

  On February 23, human rights activists staged a picket at the Solovetsky Stone on Lubyanskaya Square in Moscow instead of a meeting, but it caused the authorities' aversion. The picket was dispersed, 15 people being detained by the OMON special police force.

June 07, 2004 16:07

• Last refugee camp in Ingushetia closed

  Tens of thousands of Chechen refugees are still in Ingushetia. Of them, more than 18,000 live in private houses and another 19,000 in small Chechen-dominated settlements.

June 07, 2004 15:49

• Convict loses claim against prison administration

  The case comes under Article 2 of Protocol 1 to the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, therefore it can be appealed in Strasbourg.

June 07, 2004 15:17

• South Osetian side hampers restoration of train service with Tskhinvali

  Residents of the village of Nikozi told journalists that "members of an Osetian armed unit demanded that railroad men stop their work."

June 07, 2004 13:02

• Dispersal of women's meeting in Grozny - details

  Women who took part in the action say that officers of security agencies beat them using butts of their automatic rifles and legs and continuously fired in the air.

June 07, 2004 11:36

• Abkhazia ready to render military aid to South Osetia, Abkhazian PM says

  Leaders of the Abkhazian government and the North Caucasus plan to meet in the near future in Sukhumi to consider the issue of common actions in the future, Raul Khadzhimba said.

June 07, 2004 11:34

• High-capacity explosive device detonated in Grozny

  It was already the second landmine explosion in the Chechen capital for 24 hours.

June 07, 2004 11:31

• Operation to liquidate tents conducted in refugee center

  Officers of the police and migration services were involved in the operation.

June 07, 2004 11:26

• 3 Chechen policemen killed in clash

  As reported by correspondents of the Society for Russian-Chechen Friendship, an armed clash between Chechen policemen and rebels occurred in the vicinity of the village of Dzhani-Vedeno, Chechnya's Vedeno district, on June 2.

June 07, 2004 11:24

• 2 women killed in skirmish in Grozny

  Witnesses say the women were killed as a result of the disorderly fire opened by officers of security agencies on separatists who were running away.

June 05, 2004 12:40

• Refugees in Satsita camp receive ultimatum

  Migration service officials demanded that camp inhabitants should sign papers certifying that they bind themselves to leave their tents by June 5.

June 05, 2004 12:13

• Human rights advocates disprove kamikaze children report

  We call your attention to a press release of the International Working Group for the Search of Missing People and Hostages and Release of Prisoners in the Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict Area.