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February 24, 2004 22:29

• Office of party in opposition to Abashidze burnt in Batumi, party's leader beaten

  Unknown people set fire to the regional office of the Christian Democratic Party in the capital of Adjaria, Batumi, on February 22.

February 24, 2004 20:47

• Valery Yevnevich: CIS peacekeeping contingent is force capable of providing peace in CIS countries

  The general was quoted as saying "only the presence of the CIS PKF (Peacekeeping Forces) in conflict areas can guarantee security for civilians and facilitate the process of peaceful adjustment between conflict parties."

February 24, 2004 20:28

• Survey: should Russian authorities apologize for 1944 deportation of Chechens and Ingushetians?

  Altogether 3,851 phone calls were received by Echo Moskvy Radio for 5 minutes of the survey.

February 24, 2004 14:49

• Shevarnadze received no guarantees on his family's immunity

  Paata Shevarnadze, a son of the Georgian ex-president, denied a number of mass media reports stating that Eduard Shevarnadze received guarantees on his family immunity upon his retirement. He also stated that the Shevarnadze family was a victim to political persecution on behalf of the current authorities.

February 24, 2004 14:21

• Organizers of picket timed to anniversary of deportation of Chechens face fine

  The leaders of the Russian national organizations For Human Rights and Russian Radicals, Lev Ponomaryov and Nikolai Khramov, have been released from the Kitay-Gorod police station.

February 24, 2004 13:18

• 8,000 Russian servicemen killed in Chechnya last year, Aslan Maskhadov declares

  He told it in the interview published by Chechen separatists' Internet agency Kavkaz-Center.

February 24, 2004 13:01

• Actions in memory of victims of 1944 deportation take place in Ingushetia

  Memorial evenings devoted to the 60th anniversary of the deportation of the Ingush people are being held in all towns and regions of the republic these days. On February 23, it was 60 years since the day of the deportation of the Ingush people to Kazakhstan.

February 24, 2004 11:57

• Karabakh parliament confirms adherence to idea of independence

  A special session of the Presidium of the National Assembly of Nagorny Karabakh was held on February 20. It was devoted to the Day of Artsakh's Revival.

February 21, 2004 23:45

• Civic Initiative for Freedom of Information lays strictures on drafted amendments and supplements to Law on Freedom of Information

  The authors of the statement call the "absurd list" of persons giving information as one of the main defects of the draft legislation.

February 21, 2004 23:42

• Chechen human rights activists and refugees join Olivier Dupuis' hunger strike

  Lechi Sardalov, Mate Tsekhisashvili, Madina, Magomadova, Ruslan Badalov, Zargan Makhadjiyev are among those human rights activists who went on hunger strike.

February 21, 2004 23:39

• Karabakh movement started with idea of jural state

  On February 20, it was 16 years since the Soviet of People's Deputies of Nagorny Karabakh passed the resolution on the reunification of the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Region with Armenia.

February 21, 2004 23:36

• Moscow denies forcing Chechen refugees to return home

  "We have repeatedly emphasized that voluntariness must be the fundamental principle of the return of displaced persons from Ingushetia to Chechnya," said Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Yuri Fedotov.

February 21, 2004 17:34

• Police disperse anti-Chechen meeting in Moscow

  OMON (special tasks police platoon) fighters, who had been given notice in advance, came to the place of the action in 10 buses, as well as police detachments and ambulance cars.

February 21, 2004 16:52

• Moscow: no meeting on day in memory of genocide of Chechen people, but placement of flowers

  The Moscow Mayor's Office banned the meeting to commemorate victims of the war, to protest against it, and to urge a political settlement of the Russian-Chechen conflict that was planned to be held at the memorial stone on Lubyanskaya Square in Moscow on February 23.

February 20, 2004 20:15

• Cooperative Best Effort military exercises will likely not be conducted in Baku

  The possible change of the place for the exercises is connected with the brutal murder committed in Budapest on February 19, when a lieutenant of the Armenian Armed Forces was killed by an Azerbaijan officer.

February 20, 2004 18:36

• Arrested Azerbaijan oppositionists stop hunger strike

  "The state of the hunger strike participants is normal; medical intervention is not needed. Just some changes have been made to their nourishment, with their state being taken into consideration," said the official of the Ministry of Justice.

February 20, 2004 18:15

• Georgia will fire on ships violating Abkhazia's sea border

  "We are not going to start a war, but we shall not allow Abkhazia to become an exporter of arms and drugs," said the Georgian President.

February 20, 2004 16:54

• Gas and water supply to accommodation centers for refugees cut off with view of safety, Ingush authorities say

  Refugees believe they are simply being forced to leave Ingushetia by the deliberate worsening of their living conditions.

February 20, 2004 16:51

• Statement by Olivier Dupuis in connection with ban on meeting timed to 60th anniversary of deportation of Chechens

  "Whatever sphere of the Russian social life we take (not to mention the developments in Chechnya), everywhere we witness the growth of overt violations of fundamental rights," reads the statement.

February 20, 2004 15:04

• Azerbaijan officer kills Armenian colleague at NATO courses in Hungary

  Both the officers were taking part in English courses within the framework of NATO's Partnership for Peace program in Hungary.