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June 23, 2004 16:56

• Human rights activists await repressions in Chechnya

  The International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights and the Moscow Helsinki Group have raised their concern in connection with the developments in Ingushetia.

June 23, 2004 14:01

• NATO conference held in Baku under anti-Armenian slogans

  Early in the morning of June 22, activists of the Organization for Karabakh Liberation with anti-Armenian transparencies surrounded the hotel in which the conference is being held. Several people were injured in the clash with law enforcers, and one activist was detained.

June 23, 2004 13:52

• Death toll from guerilla attacks in Ingushetia reaches 60

  These figures are tentative, the source said.

June 23, 2004 12:52

• Large rebel group detected in Chechnya

  A rebel group numbering up to 20 people assaulted a check-point with police officers from Khakasiya.

June 23, 2004 12:50

• Features of Russian democracy to be under discussion in Krasnodar

  The roundtable discussion titled "How Must Democracy Work in Russia?" will be held in Krasnodar on June 24.

June 23, 2004 12:07

• Alkhanov submits application to election commission

  It is a widespread opinion that Chechen Interior Minister Alu Alkhanov is the one who will become a new president of Chechnya "elected by the people" on August 29.

June 23, 2004 12:04

• Woman wounded during military exercises

  A woman, living the Georgian village of Argvitsi, Tamar Gambashidze, was wounded by a shell fragment during scheduled military exercises conducted by the South Osetian Ministry of Defense in the vicinity of the village of Pris.

June 23, 2004 12:03

• Russian military men detain schoolboy

  17-year-old Emilkhan Naurdinov has a large mole on his right shoulder, and it was a reason for the detention, according to the youth's sister.

June 23, 2004 12:01

• Security reinforced in Chechnya

  Right after the report on rebel attacks in Ingushetia, the decision was made to reinforce posts on the administrative border with Ingushetia.

June 22, 2004 21:25

• People in Ingushetia wait for nightfall with fear

  They are afraid that clashes in the streets of the republic can start again after dark.

June 22, 2004 17:15

• First group of Meskhetian Turks to depart for US

  The question of selling the goers' property has not been solved so far, reported the Novorossiysk City Committee on Human Rights.

June 22, 2004 17:12

• Reports on number of victims in Ingushetia differ

  According to the Ingush Emergencies Ministry, there are victims both among officers of republican security agencies and among civilians.

June 22, 2004 14:23

• Fights in Ingushetia

  On June 21 at 10:45 the Ingush towns Nazran, Karabulak and Sleptsovsk were attacked by groups of armed fighters. The beginning of the raid coincided with the time for night namaz and continued till 3 a.m., the time of pre-dawn prayer.

June 22, 2004 13:58

• Young man detained, found dead

  The mutilated body of Husein Duzhuyev, a resident of the village of Nagornoye, Chechnya's Grozny district, was found on June 20 in the vicinity of the village of Pervomayskaya situated in the same district.

June 22, 2004 13:56

• Rebels attack Ingushetia

  According to media reports, 30 policemen were killed only in the attack on the Nazran district police department.

June 22, 2004 12:40

• Abkhazian PM insists on official recognition of his republic

  "We've claimed our independence many times in a categorical form and claim it now. Abkhazia isn't going to return to the bosom of Georgia," the head of the Abkhazian government said.

June 22, 2004 12:38

• Application of Adjarian scenario in Abkhazia 'is impossible'

  "The Georgian leadership should show restraint," Gennady Gudkov, deputy chairman of the Russian parliamentary commission on security, believes "since thoughtless actions can lead to unexpected consequences, including those for Georgia itself."

June 22, 2004 12:29

• Helsinki Citizens' Assembly National Committee of Georgia addresses South Osetian NGOs

  The Committee raises its concern about rough attempts to unfreeze the Abkhazian and South Osetian conflicts, which can entail new victims.

June 22, 2004 12:26

• Oppositionists stage unauthorized picket in Baku

  Azerbaijan police dispersed the protesters and detained Kerim Mekhtiyev, a PNFA member.

June 22, 2004 12:24

• Human rights activists meet with mothers of the missing

  During the meeting, participants discussed what measures could be taken under the Russian legislation to protest against criminal actions of federal and Chechen security agencies, which practice abductions, torture and extrajudicial executions under the pretext of fighting against criminality.