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May 25, 2004 15:03

• Rights activists advocate withdrawal of Georgian military from Iraq

  30 thousand signatures must be collected for the parliament to consider the issue of the withdrawal of the Georgian servicemen.

May 25, 2004 12:58

• Purge conducted in Alkhan-Kala village

  People who managed to leave this settlement reported on mass purges conducted in the houses of local residents.

May 25, 2004 12:53

• Chechen village shelled by federal forces

  Shell fragments damaged roofs of several houses.

May 25, 2004 11:52

• Extra military elements enter Chechnya

  To all appearances, the Russian military started conducting an operation to move extra military elements to Chechnya pursuant to the decree recently singed by the Russian president on the necessity to move extra police forces of 1,125 people to the republic.

May 25, 2004 11:50

• First suspect in May 9 blast in Grozny declared wanted

  "Investigators have every reason to suppose he is the man who was a committer of the May 9 terrorist act at the Dinamo stadium in Grozny, which left 7 people, including Chechen president Akhmat Hajji Kadyrov, dead," a source at the Chechen prosecutor's office said.

May 25, 2004 10:39

• Skirmish between Russian, Chechen policemen leaves 3 dead

  Three police officers were killed and another four wounded in a skirmish in the Achkhoy-Martan district of Chechnya on May 23.

May 24, 2004 17:23

• Chechen child injured in grenade blast

  An 11-year-old boy suffered in a grenade blast in the village of Chervlyonnaya, Chechnya's Shelkovskaya district.

May 24, 2004 16:59

• Georgian media report on Cossacks terrorizing locals in Georgian-Abkhazian conflict zone

  Gali residents assert that under the pretext of searching for weapons, the Cossacks "raid houses of local people, terrorize them, extort money from them, and beat young men."

May 24, 2004 16:23

• Cache with weapons found in Grozny

  Two Kalashnikov automatic rifles and a Smith and Wesson revolver belonged to rebel Aslan Dzhabayev, who was destroyed by federal soldiers in May 2004.

May 24, 2004 16:00

• Commandos kill 2 rebels linked to May 9 terrorist blast

  One of the killed militants was identified as Said-Emin Elikhanov, 24, who led a militant group, another as Taus Udayev, 26, emir of the Wahhabi jamaat (society) of Chechnya's Urus-Martan district.

May 24, 2004 15:42

• Abkhazia denies national currency claims

  "That's a complete falsification. I have never given such interviews or said that Abkhazia wants to have its own national currency," foreign minister of the non-recognized republic Sergey Shamba said.

May 24, 2004 15:19

• Reading Koran in Russian prohibited in Dagestan

  A ban has also been imposed on the works of all the nine Islamic theologians both medieval and modern and on the production of the five largest publishing houses that print Moslem literature.

May 24, 2004 12:44

• Chechnya begins early presidential campaign

  The victory in the first round is possible on condition that a candidate wins 50 percent plus one vote given that the turnout is no less than 50 percent.

May 24, 2004 12:31

• Georgian PM to arrive in Moscow

  "Issues of the resolution of conflicts in Georgia will be considered as well, including the one concerning the possible introduction of the train service through Abkhazia," said Zurab Zhvania.

May 24, 2004 12:16

• State housing stock in Chechnya seriously destroyed

  35 dwelling houses were reconstructed in the republic under the federal program from 2001 to 2003.

May 24, 2004 11:48

• Abkhazia to have its own monetary unit

  New banknotes are being printed by one of the largest French companies.

May 24, 2004 11:31

• Parliamentary elections held in South Osetia

  Chairperson of the South Osetian Central Election Commission Bella Pliyeva announced that "according to preliminary data, the Unity party will have two thirds of the seats."

May 24, 2004 10:09

• South Osetian president resolved to ensure republic's accession to Russia

  As meeting with Tskhinvali residents, Eduard Kokoity said international funds and governments would not make South Osetia give up its desire to reunite with Russia irrespective of an amount of money they offered for that.

May 24, 2004 10:07

• Armenian opposition threatens with resolute actions

  Beginning from June 4, they start holding permanent meetings and other actions of civil protest and disobedience, the opposition leaders said.

May 24, 2004 10:05

• Abductions go on in Chechen villages

  Danilbek Magomadov, a 26-year-old local, was captured by officers of security agencies in the Chechen village of Achkhoy-Martan. The officers arrived at the settlement in several cars without number plates and took the man away in an unknown direction.