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February 18, 2004 17:02

• Militants' base found in Chechnya

  "The militants' base consisted of two dug-outs with the accommodation capacity of up to 10 people each, places for cooking food and for meals, and four combat security trenches situated along the perimeter of the base," a headquarters official said.

February 18, 2004 16:42

• International Helsinki Federation conducts workshops on international law in Ingushetia

  The goal of such seminars is to train human rights defenders, including lawyers, in methods and mechanisms of human rights protection in international instances.

February 18, 2004 16:03

• Sabailsky District Court answers to claim of ANS against Azadlyg newspaper

  The trial was caused by the article published in the newspaper on 22 October 2003 under the title "Reports from the Gestapo".

February 18, 2004 15:11

• Water supply to Satsita camp of Chechen refugees cut off because of technical reasons

  The UNHCR field office in Ingushetia has arranged the delivery of drinking water to the refugee camp in special tanks, but Satsita inhabitants still have to limit its use.

February 18, 2004 13:43

• Human Rights Center "Memorial" demands to stop fanning anti-Chechen sentiments in Moscow

  We call your attention to the text of the letters addressed by the Human Rights Center "Memorial" to the Moscow Mayor and Prosecutor in view of the forthcoming meeting titled "Clear Moscow of Chechen Bandits".

February 18, 2004 12:26

• Georgian Parliament confirms new Cabinet

  Zurab Zhvania became Prime Minister of Georgia; 4 state ministers and 15 ministers were appointed.

February 17, 2004 23:48

• Moscow Prosecutor's Office will have to ground legality of actions during storm of "Nord-Ost"

  The All-Russian Public Movement "For Human Rights" holds that workers of the prosecutor's office continue to violate constitutional rights of the public movement's members, who advocate rights of the people suffered during the storm of the Theatre Center. The violation is that they limit their access to justice.

February 17, 2004 22:52

• 10,000 Meskhetian Turks from Kuban region to get refugee status in US

  The first information meeting with Meskhetian Turks on the program of their resettlement to the United States was held in the village of Kholmskaya, Krasnodar Territory, on 16 February 2004.

February 17, 2004 21:32

• Azg newspaper: Georgia secretly sold weapons to Azerbaijan

  "Georgia sold 6 SU-25 fighters to Azerbaijan in 2002, without notifying corresponding UN agencies," reports the Azg newspaper, Armenia.

February 17, 2004 21:00

• Nine victims of terrorist act on Dubrovka to get compensation

  The Moscow authorities will pay out over 265 thousand rubles in a lump sum and will pay over 17 thousand rubles monthly.

February 17, 2004 20:34

• Militia lieutenant condemned for use of torture in Yessentuki

  The public prosecutor proved that in June 2003, the lieutenant tied a local man to a chair with belts and beat him with the purpose of getting a confession from him.

February 17, 2004 15:16

• Night bombardment in Achkhoy-Martan district

  Locals believe the bombardment was a reaction to the terrorist act committed in the Moscow metro on 6 February 2004.

February 17, 2004 15:14

• Al Qaeda calls upon Chechen rebels to take part in "holy war" in Iraq

  Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who leads Al Qaeda's operations on the territory of Iraq, calls upon "all the Jihad fighters" to go to Iraq to wage "holy war" under his command their. He intends to transfer from 1.5 to 2 thousand fighters who stay on the territory of Chechnya now to Iraq.

February 17, 2004 13:42

• Cache with great number of ammunition found in Chechnya

  The cache contained 132 mines of the 120 caliber.

February 17, 2004 13:34

• Abkhazian, South Osetian leaders to have talks in Moscow

  Abkhazian Prime Minister Raul Khajimba came to Moscow on February 15.

February 17, 2004 12:47

• Political scientist Paata Zakareishvili: Georgian society takes aggressive attitude to South Osetia and Abkhazia

  "The new authorities enjoy great confidence and have total carte blanche regardless of how much we criticize them. I hope everything they will do will be under strict control of the West, which will not allow them to move towards aggression," says the expert in the issues of resolution of the Georgian-Abkhazian conflict.

February 16, 2004 23:36

• Institute of Peace and Democracy: Azerbaijan authorities persecute political opponents under pretext of struggle against terrorism

  "We cannot prevent torture against detainees at the police departments. The Interior Ministry and the Prosecutor General's Office keep on disregarding all the appeals by international and republican human rights organizations," reads the statement.

February 16, 2004 22:37

• Leader of Dashnaktsutyun: Karabakh needs to establish dialogue with neighbors

  Vagram Balayan thinks that in the context of the Baku-Jeikhan oil pipeline construction, the interested countries may force the Armenian side to accept certain variants of the resolution.

February 16, 2004 18:15

• Abkhazian Defense Ministry denounces detention of Russian fishing boat by Georgian military

  General Vladimir Arshba warned that if such a situation recurred, Abkhazia would find a way to defend its interests at sea, as well as a way to defend peace fishermen.

February 16, 2004 17:39

• Position of Russian Society "Memorial" regarding Russian presidential election

  The Society "Memorial" does not back up the candidacy of the present President, and it is undoubted. At the same time, Memorial, as a united organization, does not support election campaigns of the other candidates either.