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November 05, 2003 12:29

• Nino Burdjanadze met with short-term OSCE observation mission head

  "I expressed my position regarding the elections. The authorities are playing with us. They want us to be silent regarding the mass ballot fraud in order to let us clear the 7% barrier. But we are not going to do so," Nino Burdjanadze said after the meeting with the OSCE observer.

November 05, 2003 11:57

• Valery Khatazhukov: "The Kremlin is in many respects responsible that there is no civil society in Kabardino-Balkaria"

  "While Moscow imposes the political regime on the republic, the public organizations of Kabardino-Balkaria that does not accept this regime turn out outsiders for the Russian legal system," stated executive director of the republican human rights public center in Kabardino-Balkaria Valery Khatazhukov.

November 05, 2003 11:26

• Tbilisi center was paralyzed by Georgian opposition protest

  A protest action by the Georgian opposition practically paralyzed Tbilisi's central artery, Rustaveli Avenue, on Tuesday night. Nearly 10,000 opposition supporters moved to the Central Elections Commission building.

November 04, 2003 23:08

• Poet Rasul Gamzatov died in Moscow

  The poet wrote dozens of books in poetry and prose and articles in the Avar and Russian languages.

November 04, 2003 22:37

• World community forgot about Karabakh conflict

  This is an opinion of the British journalist, Caucasian office coordinator of the Institute for War & Peace Reporting Thomas de Waal, who is the author of the book about Karabakh "The Black Garden". Thomas de Waal presented his book - the first English language edition on the Karabakh conflict - at the International Press Center in Baku on October 30.

November 04, 2003 21:38

• Cold weather seriously complicated life in tent camps of Chechen refugees

  As the pressure in gas lines leading to the camps is low, the temperature in many tents does not rise higher than several degrees above zero.

November 04, 2003 20:54

• Memorial: Chechen deputy prosecutor's assertions are contrary to fact

  The information and analytical Internet agency "Caucasian Knot" publishes a text of the declaration of the Human Rights Center "Memorial" concerning the recent statements of the Chechen Public Prosecutor's Office on the number of people disappeared without a trace on the territory of Chechnya.

November 03, 2003 17:01

• Dispute between Turkish citizen deported from Kabardino-Balkaria and republican law-enforcement bodies was finished by court

  The Nalchik City Court disaffirmed the decisions made before to impose an administrative penalty on Khadzhy Bayram Bolat and annul his Kabardino-Balkarian residential permit, the Turkish citizen's lawyer announced.

November 03, 2003 16:05

• Russian soldiers and police are attacked in public in Chechnya

  Attacks on Russian soldiers and policemen are quite common in public places in Chechnya and most often occur in marketplaces and public telephone centers.

November 03, 2003 16:02

• Local observers: "Parliamentary election in Georgia was chaotic and uncoordinated"

  The Georgian Young Lawyers Association, which observed the course of the voting, declared that it was about to register claims, as well as to lodge complaints to election commissions concerning the violations during the election.

November 03, 2003 13:49

• Human Rights Watch: EU leaders at summit must highlight human rights abuses in Russia

  European Union leaders should use their summit with Russia next week to voice concerns about recent developments in Chechnya and neighboring Ingushetia, Human Rights Watch said October 31.

November 03, 2003 13:34

• Government-backed bloc "For New Georgia" is in the lead in parliamentary election

  On the night of November 3, Georgian Central Election Commission (CEC) Chairwoman Nana Devdariani told a press conference the first results of the election in several dozens of 2,811 election stations of the republic.

November 01, 2003 22:26

• Commissioner for Human Rights in Krasnodar Territory seconded initiative of public associations in Territory's Legislatives Assembly

  He addressed an appropriate letter to chairman of the committee for culture, sport, information policy and relations with public associations of Krasnodar Territory's Legislative Assembly Kharchenko I. N., who took the initiative in the adoption of the aforementioned law.

November 01, 2003 22:18

• Children in North Osetia will be taught tolerance

  A two-day seminar devoted to tolerance and rights of the child finished in Vladikavkaz on October 30.

November 01, 2003 22:16

• UN Civilian Police in Abkhazia will not provide security and maintain public order

  The elements of 12 people on the Abkhazian side and 8 - on the Georgian one will be mandated to carry out the observation, to advise local law-enforcement agencies and to assist with their consolidation.

November 01, 2003 20:31

• Polish OSCE observers keep on working in Azerbaijan

  Director of the Institute of Peace and Democracy (Azerbaijan) Leyla Yunus expressed her admiration and gratitude to the Polish OSCE observers of the Institute for Democracy in Eastern Europe mission.

November 01, 2003 20:30

• Unauthorized picket of Organization for Karabakh Liberation activists was dispersed in Baku

  The OKL held the picket in front of the "Evropa" hotel building, protesting against the arrival of the Armenian Foreign Ministry's delegation in Baku to the 9th meeting of the Council of Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the Organization for the Black Sea Economic Cooperation Member States.

November 01, 2003 20:28

• MP candidate is chased by assassinators

  On the night of October 30, two unknown men fired at Zviad Chokheli, a candidate MP for "New Rules", when he was going out of a porch of his house. A flak jacket saved him.

November 01, 2003 18:53

• Guerrilla fighting continues in Chechen mountains

  The mountains of Chechnya are still the most difficult terrain for the Russian military in carrying out so called "counter-terrorist operation".

November 01, 2003 17:55

• Georgian parliamentary election is to be held from 1 to 3 November

  Residents of some mountain villages of Georgia are to vote in the parliamentary election not in one day, 2 November, but from 1 to 3 November.