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March 09, 2004 10:21

• Georgia suffers natural disaster

  The NTV television company reports record fall-out in the Northwest of the republic.

March 09, 2004 10:18

• Chechen separatist leader surrenders

  A relative says he was forced to do that after security officers had threatened to shoot several close relatives of his.

March 09, 2004 10:14

• Abdullah Khamzaev awarded Peace Prize

  A Chechen lawyer becomes laureate of the prize set up by The Yalta Initiative for Peace in Chechnya coalition.

March 09, 2004 10:12

• New terrorist attacks in Moscow possible

  An American diplomat says Moscow police reported about possible new acts of terrorism to the U.S. embassy.

March 09, 2004 10:10

• Explosive device neutralized at Chechnya polling station

  A 1.5-m long metal tube filled with 6 kg of TNT and a plastic explosive was found at a polling station in a school.

March 09, 2004 10:09

• Most Turks think it time to discuss genocide

  A Turkish scholar first uses the word "genocide" speaking about the mass obliteration of Armenians in Ottoman Turkey in 1915.

March 09, 2004 10:07

• Flood emergency in Krasnodar territory, Russia

  A Belorechensk, Krasnodar territory, official said 12 settlements and thousands of hectares of land were flooded.

March 09, 2004 10:04

• Georgian leader suggests common Caucasus market, favorable investment climate for Russia

  "Stereotypes in relations with Russia should be changed," Saakashvili said, "and a favorable investment climate should be created in Georgia for Russia."

March 08, 2004 10:02

• Refugees have no hope in delegations

  Ella Pamfilova, head of the Human Rights Commission for the Russian president, visited Chechen refugee camps in Ingushetia on March 6.

March 08, 2004 10:00

• Giorgadze disqualified from parliamentary elections

  Igor Giorgadze, leader of the Justice Party, Georgia, was struck off the party's list of candidates for the parliamentary elections on March 28.

March 08, 2004 09:58

• Georgian security officers' riot leads to imprisonment

  Three senior Georgian security officers have been convicted to three months' detention for insubordination.

March 08, 2004 09:53

• Saakashvili threatens Ajaria with repressions

  "Unless Ajaria's leadership abolishes the republican State Security Ministry, there will be tough repressions," said the Georgian President.

March 06, 2004 15:41

• Kaloev denies involvement in Skyguide controller's murder

  This is what Zurich Prosecutor Pascal Gossner said yesterday.

March 06, 2004 15:39

• Chechen leadership uninformed about Murids of Jihad supposed to have claimed responsibility for explosions in Moscow's Metro

  There is no such group in the republic, Chechnya's Security Council Secretary Rudnik Dudaev told Interfax.

March 06, 2004 15:31

• Ingush leader promises homes to refugees reluctant to return to Chechnya

  Displaced persons unwilling to return to Chechnya can stay in Ingushetia, and they will be provided with accommodation, Ingush President Murat Ziazikov said.

March 06, 2004 15:25

• Duma member sees no politics in denial of visa to Lord Judd

  Duma international committee head Kosachiov says Lord Judd was not given a visa because he mentioned the wrong host information in his papers.

March 06, 2004 15:20

• Saakashvili: 'I want to establish control over Ajaria, and I will'

  "Self-will is coming to a close. I am not Shevardnadze, and I am not going to dismember and destroy Georgia," Saakashvili said.

March 06, 2004 14:22

• Law-enforcement/security operation in refugee camp Satsita, Ingushetia

  Officers of some yet unidentified law-enforcement/security agencies blocked the refugee camp Satsita in Orjonikidzevskaia, Ingushetia, on March 6.

March 05, 2004 17:00

• Chechen residents having done paperwork to get compensations evicted from refugee accommodations

  Eleven people have received written notifications of compensations provided to them. Without having compensation cash on hand yet, the recipients must leave their rooms.

March 05, 2004 16:50

• Lord Judd denied Russian visa

  The Russian Foreign Ministry has denied a visa to Lord Judd, the former rapporteur on Chechnya to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. In Moscow he was to take part in a Peace Prize award ceremony on March 10.