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March 13, 2004 13:56

• International Working Group to Search for the Missing and Hostages to be dismissed

  The Caucasian Knot correspondent learnt about it from the Group's Karabakh coordinator.

March 13, 2004 13:48

• Press conference "Mikhail Trepashkin Is a Political Prisoner in Putin's Russia" held in Moscow

  Mikhail Trepashkin, a former officer of special services and known lawyer, was arrested in October 2003. He was charged with disclosing state secrets.

March 13, 2004 13:46

• Article 19 conducts training on media monitoring in Tskhinvali

  The training for journalists and NGO activists was devoted to the work of the mass media in a pre-election period.

March 13, 2004 13:45

• Participants in antiwar picket detained in Moscow

  The police detained Yevgeny Frumkin, Elena Batenkova, and Mikhail Kriger, who protested against the war in Chechnya. They were conveyed to the Tverskoye police department.

March 13, 2004 13:43

• Woman abducted during special operation in Gudermes

  On the night of March 11, Khavani Usmanova, a 51-year-old local, was detained by Russian security agents in the course of "address purges" in Gudermes.

March 13, 2004 13:24

• PACE delegation will not observe election of Russian president in Chechnya

  The situation in the republic is still "extremely difficult", said the head of the delegation, Rudolf Bindig.

March 12, 2004 17:58

• Institute of Peace and Democracy calls trials against Azerbaijan oppositionists politically motivated

  The Institute of Peace and Democracy, an Azerbaijan human rights organization, issued a statement devoted to the trials against oppositionists arrested in the autumn of 2003.

March 12, 2004 17:52

• Peace Prize award ceremony held at Tretyakov Gallery

  Twelve people who have been working in the field of peacemaking for a long time and have been advocating nonviolent approaches to the resolution of the Chechen conflict nominated for the prize.

March 12, 2004 17:49

• New signatures under appeal for UN interim administration in Chechnya collected

  The meeting "For Russia Without Putin" was held on Pushkinskaya Square in Moscow on March 10.

March 12, 2004 17:38

• Abduction of Adjarian opposition leader connected with his political activity

  One of the leaders of the opposition organization Democratic Adjaria, Tengiz Apkhazava, who had disappeared in Batumi several days ago, returned home at daybreak on March 11 savagely beaten.

March 12, 2004 16:46

• Refugees from Sputnik camp refuse to return to Chechnya

  Another deadline for dismantling the Sputnik refugee camp in Ingushetia expired on March 10; but unsurprisingly, only 20 families left the camp.

March 12, 2004 16:25

• Assassination attempts on 2 Chechen officials

  An assassination attempt on the Chechen Deputy Interior Minister Sultan Saduyev and Deputy Justice Minister Mussa Yevsultanov was made in Grozny.

March 12, 2004 15:57

• About 150 refugee families plan to return to Chechnya from Ingushetia

  Meanwhile, Moscow Helsinki Group chairwoman Lyudmila Alekseyeva said "refugees are being forced to return to Chechnya from Ingushetia."

March 12, 2004 15:46

• No evidence of authorities' involvement in abduction of Arian Erkel

  Ali Temirbekov, press secretary of the republican prosecutor's office, announced it.

March 12, 2004 15:32

• OSCE urges Georgia to cooperate with human rights agencies

  According to Christian Strohal, Director of the OSCE's Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) official Tbilisi should use the possibility it has due to the "Rose Revolution" to establish contacts between "the electors and the elected".

March 12, 2004 15:14

• Abkhazian side releases Georgian woodcutters after four months of detention

  By its decision, the Sukhumi Court set the detainees free from the courtroom because it saw no crime in their actions.

March 12, 2004 14:44

• Unknown assailants abduct Chechen refugee in Ingushetia

  In the afternoon of March 10, armed men in military camouflage abducted 19-year-old Bislan Dokuyev from the Satsita refugee camp, located near Ordzhonikidzevskaya, Ingushetia.

March 11, 2004 23:43

• Memorial: Magomed Khambiyev compelled to surrender by taking hostages

  Mass detentions of relatives of Umar and Magomed Khambiyevs, who had occupied high positions in Aslan Maskhadov's government earlier, started on February 29 in the villages of Meskety, Benoy, and Turty-Khutor.

March 11, 2004 21:46

• Competent observers to control presidential election in Stavropol

  The round table discussion "The Institution of Observation at the Elections: Purposes, Tasks, and Outlook" was held in Stavropol on March 5.

March 11, 2004 17:38

• Ryazan Human Rights Coalition carries out action against war in Chechnya

  The first stage of the "How Much?" campaign was a large-scale action to post leaflets; the next stage will be the distribution of application forms among Ryazan residents with argued requests to government bodies about losses among Russian servicemen and financial expenditure on military operations.