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May 11, 2004 17:36

• Maskhadov suspects Russian special services of organizing terrorist act in Grozny

  "We have every reason to suspect that the terrorist act was organized by special services of the invaders to get rid of the puppet government that has exhausted all resources of the pseudo-political process," stated the Chechen separatist leader.

May 11, 2004 16:58

• Armenia authorities, opposition agree on start of dialogue

  Parliament Speaker Artur Bagdasarian announced it at the close of a regular meeting between officials of the ruling pro-president coalition and the opposition.

May 11, 2004 16:43

• Georgian president: military exercises in Poti were conducted 'with bead drawn on Adjaria'

  The exercises were conducted not with the purpose of launching an invasion of Adjaria but in order to show Aslan Abashidze the power of federal troops, Mikhail Saakashvili said.

May 11, 2004 16:11

• Armenian NGOs: human rights and freedoms cannot be subject of political bargaining

  Violence and infringements of human rights and freedoms cannot be a subject of political bargaining, regardless of the results of negotiations between the Armenian authorities and the opposition, reads a statement by the forum of Armenian non-governmental organizations (NGOs) Civil Will For and Against.

May 11, 2004 15:55

• Landmine at stadium in Grozny may have been mounted several months ago

  "The bomb had been set into ferroconcrete elements. That is why it was not found during examination of the territory. Terrorists just waited for an opportune moment," a source at the interior ministry said.

May 11, 2004 15:48

• Chechens stage protest action in Pankissi Gorge

  Rights of the Chechens-Kistins are violated as there have been ungrounded arrests and searches, Nana Kakabadze, chairwoman of The Former Political Prisoners for Human Rights NGO, said.

May 11, 2004 15:30

• Federal Migration Service seeks pretext to close Satsita camp

  A representative of the Russian Federal Migration Service, Mr Panasyuk, has demanded that the warden of the Chechen refugee tent camp Satsita should reduce the number of refugees living in the camp to 940 people by all means.

May 11, 2004 15:15

• Akhmad Kadyrov's son becomes deputy PM of Chechen government

  The decree on the appointment of Kadyrov junior was signed by Acting President of Chechnya Sergey Abramov on May 10, the Caucasian Knot correspondent was told at the presidential administration in Grozny.

May 10, 2004 17:12

• Investigation of terrorist act in Chechnya continues

  Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Interior Troops General Vyacheslav Tikhomirov heads the commission.

May 10, 2004 16:52

• Counteraction to Language of Hostility project presented in Krasnodar

  The task of this project is to attract society's attention to the problem of "language of hostility" and to create moral bars which can stop mutual intolerance, the organizers said.

May 10, 2004 16:16

• Russian tycoon: Murder of Kadyrov is 'utter defeat' of Putin's policy in Chechnya

  "The tragedy is that Russians and Chechens keep on dying, and this doesn't at all advance the resolution of Russia's main problem - the preservation of its territorial integrity," Boris Berezovsky said.

May 10, 2004 15:33

• Aslan Abashidze's companions hunted in Adjaria

  Tariel Khalvashi, the former head of the Kobuleti district, was arrested in his house right after Brigadier General Roman Dumbadze.

May 10, 2004 14:38

• Terrorist act in Grozny leaves 6 dead

  President of Chechnya Akhmad Kadyrov, Chairman of the State Council of the Chechen Republic Hussein Isayev, journalist Adlan Khasanov, two of Kadyrov's guards, and an 8-year-old girl were killed.

May 10, 2004 14:27

• Akhmad Kadyrov killed in explosion in Grozny

  Many people fell victims to the terrorist act. President of Chechnya Akhmad Kadyrov and Chairman of the State Council of Chechnya Husein Isayev died in the explosion; Commander of the Joint Group of Forces in the North Caucasus Colonel-General Valery Baranov received severe injuries.

May 07, 2004 23:30

• Participants in opposition meetings disciplined for disrupting public order, Armenian prosecutor general says

  Agvan Ovsepian denied the reference in the PACE resolution concerning the arrest of journalists and stated there were no journalists among the arrested people.

May 07, 2004 23:28

• Ancient capital of Karabakh to be restored

  The ancient capital of Karabakh, Shushi, served as an important weapon emplacement for Azerbaijan forces in the years of the Karabakh conflict of 1991-1994.

May 07, 2004 23:12

• Chechen refugees on hunger strike in Pankissi Gorge

  The only demand they made is that the United Nations should give them the opportunity to leave for the third countries.

May 07, 2004 18:11

• Armenian opposition: authorities do not fulfill requirements of PACE

  Approximately 40 supporters of the Justice bloc and the National Unity party were subjected to administrative arrest and fined from 2 to 6 May.

May 07, 2004 17:33

• Opposition and ruling coalition in Armenia hold political consultations

  The third round of political consultations "power-opposition", arranged on the initiative of chairman of the Armenian National Assembly Artur Bagdasarian, was held in the Armenian parliament on May 6.

May 07, 2004 16:54

• Catholic Relief Services carries out new project in Azerbaijan

  The humanitarian organization Catholic Relief Services (CRS) presented its Raising Public Awareness of the Equality of Sexes project at the International Press Center on May 5.