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April 27, 2004 13:34

• Followers of Zviad Gamsakhurdia surrender to Georgian authorities

  Zardania's group has delivered a large amount of weapons to the law-enforcement agencies in exchange for the exemption from criminal prosecution.

April 27, 2004 12:40

• Discussion 'Transparent Power - Active Citizens' to take place in Krasnodar

  Galina Ryzhkova, chairwoman of the regional committee on culture, sport, information policy and public associations, will be a speaker at the meeting.

April 26, 2004 19:49

• Security reinforced on administrative border between Georgia and Adjaria

  The Georgian side has shifted units of the country's interior troops and military equipment there on April 26.

April 26, 2004 19:44

• Chechen interior ministry: no order to destroy rebels and their relatives exists

  Residents of Chechnya think that the republican law-enforcement agencies have obviously received a private order "from the superiors" to dispose of members of the armed resistance, their relatives, and acquaintances by all means.

April 26, 2004 19:36

• Gelayev's relative denies information about Dokku Umarov's implication in field commander's death

  "By such a primitive means, they want to sow seeds of distrust and animosity among Chechen commanders," the man said to the Caucasian Knot correspondent.

April 26, 2004 16:07

• Shevardnadze's son-in-law released from custody for $15.5 million

  The case against Dzhokhtaberidze will be closed, announced Georgian Prosecutor General Irakly Okruashvili.

April 26, 2004 15:59

• Court satisfies claim by victim of 2002 hostage taking in Moscow

  The Tverskoy Court seconds the position of the Moscow government, which holds the city authorities do not have to indemnify for inflicted moral damage.

April 26, 2004 15:53

• Hearing in case of Russians to continue in Qatar

  Several witnesses will be listened to today, and then the date of the next sitting will be announced, reported Russian Ambassador to Qatar Viktor Kudryavtsev.

April 26, 2004 15:39

• Project aimed at social and economic integration of displaced persons in Stavropol Region

  The non-profit partnership Managerial Consulting has conducted researches to disclose the general situation with the rights of workers and has trained consultants in the field of social and economic rights.

April 26, 2004 15:32

• Conference 'Tolerance Is Policy of 21st Century' held in Makhachkala

  The second part of the conference was a round table discussion on various issues, which resulted in the idea to found a discussion club on the issues of modern society development in Dagestan.

April 26, 2004 14:26

• World community have legal grounds to recognize Armenian Genocide, says advisor to president of Nagorny Karabakh

  Armen Zalinian, advisor to the president of the Nagorno-Karabakh republic, presented an article in the local press in which he mentioned facts allowing the world community to recognize the genocide, which has been denied by the Turkish republic hitherto.

April 26, 2004 13:57

• Georgian president calls upon residents of Adjaria to disregard state of emergency

  The state of emergency in Adjaria is illegal, Mr Saakashvili told journalists on April 25. He promised to cancel it and the curfew by issuing a corresponding presidential act.

April 26, 2004 13:51

• Monument to victims of Armenian Genocide unveiled in Akhaltsikhe nevertheless

  Questions regarding the erection of the monument were solved by efforts of the Georgian president's envoy in the region of Samtskhe-Javakheti Nikoloz Nikolozoshvili and local authorities the day before the unveiling of Khachkar, reported the Armenian foreign ministry.

April 26, 2004 12:09

• Armenian rights defenders consider beating of Ashot Manucharian part of common scenario

  Three unknowns attacked head of the Armenian Union of Socialist Forces, ex-minister of foreign affairs, and former national security advisor to the president of Armenia Ashot Manucharian on April 22.

April 24, 2004 18:53

• Monument to genocide victims dismantled in Georgian town before unveiling

  Before the Khachkar monument was dismantled, policemen had detained Ludwig Petrosian, who was in charge of the work on its unveiling, and held him in a police department for 4 hours.

April 24, 2004 18:08

• Georgian parliament demands to neutralize illegal armed units in Adjaria

  The Georgian parliament passed a special resolution on the situation in Adjaria at the plenary session on April 23. 178 deputies voted for the document, and 2 abstained.

April 24, 2004 17:44

• Leader of Armenian Helsinki Association calls upon human rights organizations 'to raise alarm'

  Mikael Danielian called upon all human rights organizations "to raise the alarm and write to international organizations in order to inform them of what is happening in Armenia."

April 24, 2004 15:53

• Armenian NGOs indignant at skinheads' actions in Russia

  In the statement addressed to the Russian Embassy and the Armenian Foreign Ministry, the NGOs expressed their indignation at the skinheads' attack on an Armenian boy in Kostroma, whom they tried to burn.

April 24, 2004 15:00

• Kutaisi mayor resigns

  Nugzar Paliani, mayor of the largest city in Western Georgia, Kutaisi, resigned yesterday, April 23. He announced it himself at a session of the Kutaisi legislative assembly.

April 23, 2004 23:51

• Attempt to blow up opposition office in Kalmykia presented as anti-terrorist exercises

  On April 13, at about noon, officers of the FSB (Federal Security Service) department in the Republic of Kalmykia detained a certain Nakayev (b.1976) in a hotel situated in the heart of Elista by. A high-capacity explosive assembly was found on him.