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January 06, 2004 12:16

• Action of protest of Chechen refugees in Austria

  In the capital of the Austrian state of Styria, Graz, Chechen refugees organized protest actions against oppressions from the direction of the city authorities.

January 06, 2004 11:37

• Human rights violations and kidnappings are main obstacle to stability in Chechnya

  "Residents of Chechnya say: we don not need any compensations and help, we will build and restore everything ourselves. We just want to be left alone, we want purges and kidnappings to be stopped," said Lyudmila Alekseyeva.

January 05, 2004 23:49

• Dozens of Chechen refugees blocked by Ukrainian military men at frontier with Russia

  Military men made several families, altogether 21 people with small children, get out of the Baku-Kiev train near the Ukrainian frontier station "Red Grave" late in the evening on January 1.

January 05, 2004 23:18

• Resident of Katyr-Yurt village detained

  During the arrest, the servicemen beat all women and took valuables they found in the houses of Aslanbek and his brother.

January 05, 2004 23:16

• 16-year-old citizen of Grozny spent a week under arrest of "Kadyrov's people"

  His parents are seriously worried about their son's fate now. They are hiding him at their friends, as they are afraid he can be abducted for the second time.

January 05, 2004 22:53

• Mikhail Saakashvili: Georgia ready to take bold steps to resolve Abkhazian problem

  "Recent statements by Russian leader Vladimir Putin give us certain hope, though the main thing is that the Georgians and Abkhazians themselves should come to an agreement," stated Saakashvili.

January 05, 2004 20:50

• Alleged information about Ruslan Gelayev's death is not confirmed yet

  The death of the rebels' leader can be asserted for sure only when the body is identified, the source added.

January 05, 2004 20:25

• Mikhail Saakashvili won 95% of votes in presidential election, according to latest data

  The Central Election Commission is still receiving information from some Tbilisi electoral districts, from polling stations abroad and from regional election commissions.

January 05, 2004 19:05

• Adjarian leader Aslan Abashidze canceled state of emergency in autonomous republic

  The document reads that the cancellation of the state of emergency is caused by the holding of the Georgian snap presidential election in the autonomous republic on January 4.

January 05, 2004 18:33

• Mikhail Saakashvili: "2004 is the last year when Tskhinvali does not take part in Georgian presidential elections"

  Mikhail Saakashvili's trip to the capital of South Osetia was short and had no excesses.

January 05, 2004 18:22

• Special operation in Achkhoy-Martan district

  Kadyrov's people came to the village in 32 UAZ cars. They told themselves who they were and said their actions had been approved by the Chechen Interior Minister and President Kadyrov.

January 05, 2004 18:04

• The HALO Trust finds it possible to clear Nagorny Karabakh from mines in 7 years

  The two-year prospecting made by the organization on the territory of Nagorny Karabakh showed that the area of 1,500 hectares must be immediately cleared from 15,000 mines of different types.

January 05, 2004 17:00

• President of Nagorny Karabakh: fight for independence to be main task in 2004

  Arkady Gukasian pointed out that the role of non-government and human rights organisations in the creation of civil society in Karabakh has become more important during the last year.

January 05, 2004 16:34

• Arrested sniper confessed to murder of Ingush deputy interior minister

  The arrested soldier explained that he was hunting birds. According to him, he hit the car where the deputy interior minister was by accident.

January 05, 2004 10:33

• Mikhail Saakashvili celebrates victory in Georgian presidential election

  Immediately after the polling stations in Georgia were closed, the Georgian media publicized the results of the exit polls, which showed that Saakashvili garnered about 85% of the vote.

January 03, 2004 18:43

• FSB officers seize edition of book "FSB Blows Up Russia"

  According to the driver of the car, FSB officers talked to him, in particular the FSB investigator who said the books were withdrawn as an "antistate propaganda".

January 03, 2004 14:27

• Rescuers in Dagestan find body of soldier, lost last week

  Six rescuers, headed by Colonel Gadzhimurad Abdulatipov, were looking for three soldiers, lost during an army operation to destroy the armed gang which had broken into the Tsuntinsky district of the Dagestani Republic.

January 03, 2004 14:13

• Mikhail Saakashvili stands highest chances of winning Georgian presidential election

  Originally, 15 candidates intended to run for the presidency but eight of them failed to gather the necessary number of signatures.

January 03, 2004 14:09

• Georgia is getting ready for presidential election

  Approximately 3 million voting ballots were to be sent on Friday to all election polls, including the Adjarian Autonomy, the press-service of the Central Election Commission disclosed.

January 02, 2004 12:28

• Motherland-Ayrenik Front takes on responsibility for working out proposals on resolution of Karabakh conflict

  According to the authors of the statement, recently the Karabakh problem has appeared to be in the center of the country's political life again.