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February 05, 2004 15:57

• Georgian Interior Minister accuses Russian peacekeepers of involvement in smuggling in Abkhazia

  Georgy Baramidze has characterized the role of the Russian peacekeeping force in the Georgian-Abkhazian conflict area as "extremely destructive".

February 05, 2004 15:55

• 263 Defense Ministry servicemen killed in Chechnya in 2003

  The Defense Ministry's group in Chechnya has been reduced from 53,000 to 31,000 servicemen, with 20,000 of them being stationed there permanently.

February 05, 2004 14:20

• Abkhazian Forum of People's Consent urges politicians to gather to work out solution to crisis situation in republic

  The Forum of People's Consent finds it necessary to demand that the President and the Parliament should pass amendments to the Law on Presidential Elections within a month.

February 05, 2004 13:49

• 58% of consumers in Armenia are not aware of law protecting their rights

  Journalists learnt it from Melita Akopian, chairwoman of the National Association of Consumers, when she summed up the program to raise public awareness of this law.

February 05, 2004 13:27

• Commissioner for Human Rights in Ingushetia: no violations of refugees' rights in republic

  Internally displaced persons (IDPs) who temporary live in Ingushetia filed no complaint with the Ingush ombudsman's office in 2003.

February 05, 2004 12:52

• "Purges" in Kurchaloy district of Chechnya

  Large-scale special operations have been conducted in the Kurchaloy district of the republic for several days without a break.

February 05, 2004 12:40

• Leader of Armenian Greens accuses British Petroleum and World Bank of bribing local population in areas of Baku-Tbilisi-Jeikhan oil pipeline construction

  Organizations concerned with the oil pipeline construction disregard interests of the region's people and conceal all information from them, said leader of the Armenian Green Union Akop Sanasarian.

February 05, 2004 12:09

• Conflict in Nechaevka village, Dagestan's Kizilyurt district

  The other day, Nechaevka people with transparencies and posters in their hands threatened to block the Kavkaz federal route.

February 04, 2004 21:29

• Russian servicemen detain resident of Kalinovskaya village

  An explosive device was allegedly found in the house of Movsar Dagalayev, which served as a ground for his detention. But the man's relatives insist the device was put stealthily by the servicemen themselves.

February 04, 2004 21:19

• Human rights activists object to monument to Geidar Aliyev in Kiev

  Activists of the Shield human rights organization hold that Aliyev persecuted Soviet dissidents and Azerbaijan democrats when being Azerbaijan KGB (State Security Committee) chief and a member of the Political Bureau of the Soviet Communist Party. To build a monument to him in Ukraine is a "shameful and foolish" undertaking.

February 04, 2004 19:15

• Three locals detained in Chechen village of Zumsoy

  Russian servicemen came in an UAZ car and armored troop carriers to the village and abducted three locals there.

February 04, 2004 18:56

• Local resident detained in Shelkovskaya district of Chechnya on suspicion of arranging terrorist act

  Ruzana Shibzakharova, a local resident, was detained by Russian servicemen in the district center of Shelkovskaya several days ago.

February 04, 2004 18:27

• Only 3 families left Bart camp of Chechen refugees in Ingushetia last week

  The process of the refugees' home-coming to Chechnya, which started last spring so actively, has almost come to naught after New Year.

February 04, 2004 17:19

• Georgia conducts special operation near Abkhazian border

  Early in the morning today, the Georgian Interior Ministry launched a special operation in Georgia's Zugdidi district to disarm gangs acting in the Georgian-Abkhazian conflict zone.

February 04, 2004 16:59

• Azerbaijan human rights defenders raise alarm at child prostitution

  The head of the NGO Clear World, Mekhribana Zeynalova, is convinced that the night bars where facts of child prostitution have been established are "in ward" of officials connected with law-enforcement agencies.

February 04, 2004 14:41

• Yalta Initiative denies information that winners of Peace Prize competition have already been chosen

  We call your attention to the statement by the Coalition of Chechen and Russian NGOs "Yalta Initiative for Peace in Chechnya."

February 04, 2004 13:51

• Conference on issues of counteraction to national and religious extremism takes place in Stavropol

  Various religious sects have been quite active in their missionary work in the region for the last ten years. Participants of the conference were offered to pay attention to two confessions: Wahhabism and Jehovism.

February 04, 2004 13:50

• South Caucasian Press Club of Refugee Journalists established

  Its creation was initiated by refugee journalists as a result of their meeting in Tbilisi in late January.

February 04, 2004 12:09

• Red Cross calls for release of employee abducted in Chechnya

  The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) calls for the immediate and unconditional release of Usman Saidaliev and wishes to stress that the abduction of civilians is prohibited under international humanitarian law.

February 04, 2004 11:47

• Elena Bonner: "I am ashamed of Europe"

  The statement reads, in particular, "Olivier Dupuis, a member of the European Parliament, has gone without food for thirteen days but has received no glance from his parliamentary colleagues, from the Council of Europe, from other European bodies or from the transatlantic UN or White House."