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May 07, 2004 16:02

• Article 19 urges Armenian authorities to provide safety for journalists

  In its statement, the organization raises concern about the violence used against journalists during opposition meetings.

May 07, 2004 15:31

• 12 rebel bases eliminated in Chechnya

  The regional headquarters on the counter-terrorist operation in the North Caucasus reported it today.

May 07, 2004 15:25

• Russian foreign minister offers Tbilisi 'not to raise question' about Abkhazia

  Sergey Lavrov said that "the approaches to these republics [Abkhazia, South Osetia] were coordinated long ago, there are interaction mechanisms concerning all questions both in Tskhinvali and Sukhumi."

May 07, 2004 14:43

• Opposition leaders stand trial in Baku

  Prosecutor General of Azerbaijan Zakir Garalov has promised that the trial will be fair and open.

May 07, 2004 13:42

• Historical essay competition award ceremony takes place in Moscow

  The editors of the Caucasian Knot agency presented five students from Chechnya and Ingushetia with special prizes. Altogether 150 essays from Chechnya were submitted to the competition this year.

May 07, 2004 12:13

• Amnesty International: family of Chechen health minister Omar Khambiev threatened, tortured

  Amnesty International (AI), one of the world's largest human rights organizations, expressed its concern for the safety, and fear of further detention and torture of more than 80 relatives of Dr Omar Khambiev in Chechnya. We call your attention to AI's press release on this case.

May 07, 2004 11:54

• Post of head of Adjaria abolished

  The decision made by members of the Supreme Council was the last since the decree of the president of Georgia concerning the establishment of provisional direct presidential rule in the autonomous republic comes into force already today, May 7.

May 06, 2004 19:10

• Revival party activists consider reports on self-liquidation premature

  Only the leaders of the organization are empowered to issue a statement on its self-liquidation, representatives of the Revival party said.

May 06, 2004 18:41

• Explosion in Grozny leaves 3 policemen dead

  A self-made explosive device went off when a police was going along Krasnoflotskaya Street.

May 06, 2004 18:21

• New Adjarian government may be elected in middle June

  "Until the elections are held, the Provisional Council will govern Adjaria. Its work will by under the control of the president of Georgia," Mikhail Saakashvili said to journalist today.

May 06, 2004 18:07

• Russian interior force in Chechnya to be reduced by 500 soldiers

  As a result of the liquidation of posts, the numerical strength of the Russian interior ministry's force will be reduced by more than 500 people, who will be sent to their permanent posts.

May 06, 2004 17:49

• Maskhadov must be arrested or destroyed before inauguration of Putin

  "They don't say it aloud, but there is an order to destroy or capture Maskhadov before May 7, that is to say, before the inauguration of President of Russia Vladimir Putin," the officer of the Chechen interior ministry said.

May 06, 2004 16:56

• Abashidze will not seek political asylum in Russia

  It is still a question how long the former head of the Adjarian autonomy will stay in the capital of Russia.

May 06, 2004 16:21

• Round table devoted to World Press Freedom Day takes place in Baku

  Azerbaijan's media is rated as "Not Free" in a new report by Freedom House, an international human rights organization.

May 06, 2004 15:35

• First Meskhetian Turks get refugee status in US

  Only Meskhetian Turks subjected to discrimination on the part of the Krasnodar regional authorities will move.

May 06, 2004 14:27

• Chechen intellectuals express stern protest against court decision in 'case of Ulman'

  "The entire world should have been terrified by the deeds done, but it has remained deaf; the Russian society did more than show indifference, it, in the person of the jury, acquitted the criminals," reads the statement.

May 06, 2004 12:35

• NGOs accuse prison administration of cruel treatment of convicts

  Approximately 20 people picketed a penal institution in the village of Tlyustenkhabl in the Republic of Adygeya on May 5. The aim of the action was to draw attention of the public to the inmates' maintenance conditions in this institution.

May 06, 2004 11:26

• Abashidze resigns, leaves Adjaria

  "Adjaria is free, the unification of all Georgia has begun," President of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili said during a short briefing commenting on the fact that Adjarian leader Aslan Abashidze had left the country.

May 05, 2004 23:01

• Armenian opposition demands release of its activists

  Opposition leaders introduced the people holding a meeting to main directions of the resolution passed on April 28 by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) regarding the internal political situation in Armenia.

May 05, 2004 20:23

• Head of Adjaria to make statement tonight

  As reported by Reuters with reference to Tamara Gudava, press secretary of the Adjarian leader, Abashidze will speak "about the worsening situation in the region, as well as about the talks that have been conducted during the day."