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December 16, 2003 14:24

• Chechen film director Murad Mazayev presented his new films in Lvov

  Films about Chechnya were demonstrated in Lvov on December 10 as a part of the program timed to Human Rights Day. Film director Murad Mazayev, who was invited by the organizers as a special guest, presented two projects: the documentary one "Things I Remember" shot by Chechen journalists and cut by Poles in Krakow and the feature film "Marsho", which is already world-famed.

December 16, 2003 12:52

• Two Chechen journalists became finalists in All-Russian competition "For Journalism as a Deed"

  The award ceremony took place on December 10, International Human Rights Day, in the Andrey Sakharov Public Center.

December 16, 2003 12:13

• Seven separatists killed in Dagestan

  Seven separatists were killed in the Tsuntinsky district of Dagestan in the morning on Tuesday, announced head of the North Caucasian frontier department of the Russian Federal Security Service Lieutenant-General Nikolay Lesinsky.

December 16, 2003 12:05

• Round table discussion in Krasnodar on violations during State Duma elections

  MP candidates, election commission members of different levels, observers, and activists of public organizations were participants in the discussion.

December 15, 2003 20:50

• Separatists who captured Shauri village divided into groups

  Chechen separatists who captured a hospital in the village of Shauri in the Tsuntinsky district of Dagestan have divided into three or four groups, which are moving away in the direction of Chechnya and Georgia.

December 15, 2003 19:59

• Abkhazian and Georgian commissions to search for the missing met on initiative of Georgian party

  In conformity with the agreement reached in Ochamchira on November 17, the Georgian party had to produce information on Abkhazians who remain missing after the 1992-1993 Patriotic War.

December 15, 2003 19:14

• Workshop for teachers of journalism took place in Stepanakert

  The action was held within the framework of the "Strengthening Democracy in the South Caucasus through Freedom of Expression" Project implemented by the Article 19 international organization.

December 15, 2003 18:21

• Azerbaijan opposition condemns meeting of Azerbaijan and Armenian presidents

  The Yeni Musavat newspaper expresses regret that the opposition in Azerbaijan is splintered today and will not be able to stand against the signing of the defeatist peace treaty.

December 15, 2003 17:30

• Russian troops reportedly wiped out village of Dzumsoy

  Locals report that the village of Dzumsoy, which numbered 40 houses, was razed to the ground by Russian soldiers several days ago.

December 15, 2003 16:46

• Hundreds of thousands gathered in Baku to bid farewell to Geidar Aliyev

  The ex-president of Azerbaijan died at the age of 80 on Friday December 12 in the clinic in Cleveland, the U.S., where he had been receiving treatment for heart and kidney problems since August 6.

December 15, 2003 15:00

• 50 rebels burst through into Tsuntinsky district of Dagestan

  According to some versions, the rebels occupied one of the Dagestani villages. According to other data, the group of rebels was detected when they were trying to flee to Georgia.

December 15, 2003 14:31

• Georgian Interior Minister: situation in Pankisi Gorge may worsen

  Several days ago, the police found a depot with 84 unguided antitank missiles apparently left by Chechen guerillas in a forest near the village of Khalatsani.

December 15, 2003 14:00

• Prague hosts cultural events aimed at helping people from Caucasus

  Last week two cultural events took place in the center of Prague dedicated to Caucasians who either still live in their homeland under disturbing conditions, or left to seek shelter in the Czech Republic.

December 15, 2003 13:16

• South Osetian Prime Minister's aide denies information that Georgian special operations unit entered the republic

  On December 11, Russian mass media published information that the Georgian Security Ministry's special unit had entered the village of Megvrikisi in South Osetia.

December 15, 2003 12:40

• Murder of Yunus Yakubov - details

  On December 7, the day of the Russian State Duma elections, Yunus V. Yakubov, 1948, was killed in Gudermes. He was an observer for the Chechen regional branch of the United Russia Party.

December 15, 2003 11:58

• South Osetian State Security Committee head: special unit of Georgian Security Ministry troops did be in conflict zone

  As head of the State Security Committee of the Republic of South Osetia Colonel Oleg Alborov declared, the fact that a special unit of Georgian Security Ministry troops entered the Georgian-Abkhazian conflict zone on December 11 is true.

December 15, 2003 11:09

• Human rights activists in Yekaterinburg protested against war in Chechnya

  At the monument to the founders of the city, they mounted a stand informing of human rights abuses in Russia.

December 13, 2003 17:15

• Commission on women's affairs created in Chechnya

  The commission on women's, family and youth affairs has been created under the State Council of the Chechen Republic. The well-known teacher Napsat Yusupova is at the head of it.

December 13, 2003 16:44

• Human rights defenders receive legal training in Nazran

  According to one of the organizers, Vladimir Weissman of the International Helsinki Federation (IHF), the goal was to teach the proper way of writing applications to be filed with the European Court of Human Rights, the UN Human Rights Committee and other international bodies.

December 13, 2003 16:30

• Rally to protest arbitrary enforced actions against Chechen refugees took place in Brno

  Members of the Nesehnuti public organization and the regional branch of Amnesty International organized a rally in front of the Russian Consulate in Czechia's second largest town of Brno on Thursday, December 11, to protest the arbitrary enforced actions taken against Chechen refugees in Ingushetia.