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September 12, 2003 17:43

• Appeal of Chechen refugees in Azerbaijan to UN High Commissioner for Refugees

  "We want you to answer the question of vital importance: what bad things did Chechen refugees do to the United Nations so that we are not given proper aid and international status is not granted in order that those who wish, many ill people are among them, can leave for the third country?" reads the appeal.

September 12, 2003 15:24

• Statement of Chechen Human Rights Center Director to international human rights organizations

  The statement reads, "We ask you once again to interfere in the disastrous condition of Chechen refugees in Azerbaijan, which is obviously of discriminating nature."

September 12, 2003 13:48

• Reporters Without Borders published first worldwide press freedom index

  According to analysts, the first worldwide index of press freedom published by the Reporters Without Borders has some surprises for Western democracies.

September 12, 2003 13:02

• Group Ago insists on allocation of frequencies to A1+ and Noyan Tapan TV companies

  On September 8 the Progress Report of the Monitoring Group (Group Ago) on Armenia's and Azerbaijan's honoring of commitments to the Council of Europe was published. The Report was submitted to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.

September 12, 2003 12:21

• Inhabitants of tent camps in Ingushetia will participate in Chechen presidential election

  It was announced by Presidential Commission on Human Rights Chairwoman Ella Pamfilova.

September 12, 2003 11:29

• Not having obtained land, villagers appealed to European Court

  The European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg will consider a complaint of 450 residents of the Baksan district's Dugulubey village.

September 12, 2003 10:58

• Vagap Tutakov has been blocked in hotel room in Moscow

  Vagap Tutakov arrived in Russia with his personal security guaranteed by the PACE leaders and his visit agreed with high-ranked Kremlin officials.

September 12, 2003 10:34

• Oleg Mironov calls on country's mass media to broadly cover jubilee dates concerned with idea of human rights defense

  "I suggest opening special columns and programs to cover the issues of human rights and freedoms observance and defense," Oleg Mironov says in his appeal to the mass media.

September 12, 2003 09:56

• Round table "Popular Diplomacy and Development of Peacemaking Process in the Caucasus" is to take place in Krasnodar

  David Petrosian, the executive secretary of the network of NGOs and other representatives of civil society institutions of the Caucasus "Caucasian Forum", will be a reporter at the action.

September 12, 2003 08:58

• Son of Malik Syidulayev's election headquarters coordinator was killed in Grozny

  Armed people in masks and camouflage uniform, who had driven up in cars without number plates, checked documents of Bislan Khayauri and then gunned him down.

September 11, 2003 23:20

• Aslambek Aslakhanov has accepted Russian president's offer to become his aide and will not remain in Chechen presidential race

  "After giving it serious thought and having numerous conferences with my headquarters, I have made a decision, which was very hard for me, not to remain in the presidential race," said Aslakhanov.

September 11, 2003 22:10

• Green actions against realization of D-6 project in Kaliningrad Region

  In the opinion of Kaliningrad ecologists, the unique object of natural heritage is under threat due to LUKOIL Company's plans on starting oil production in the Baltic Sea at the D-6 oilfield situated in immediate proximity to the park.

September 11, 2003 21:24

• Don Cossack is battling for his native house

  The local court demanded that the authorities restored a house with dependencies, cattle and inventory to Nikolay Zadorozhy, a Cossack from the repressed.

September 11, 2003 21:20

• Process of voluntarily laying down arms starts in Georgian Svanetiya

  According to the Georgian Interior Ministry, Interior Minister Koba Narchemashvili during his confidential meeting with locals on Tuesday called on them to voluntarily lay down firearms to the Georgian Interior Ministry's special-purpose detachment.

September 11, 2003 16:44

• Claims of victims of terrorist act on Dubrovka will be considered by European Court of Human Rights

  As the victims'lawyer Igor Trunov announced, the European Court can ask the plaintiffs to attend court sittings personally.

September 11, 2003 15:12

• Inauguration of new president of Karachaevo-Cherkessia took place in Cherkessk

  During the solemn ceremony Mustafa Batdyev was presented with the symbols of presidential power - the rod and the emblem.

September 11, 2003 15:07

• UNOMIG confirms fact of beating of local residents in Tagiloni village, Gali district, Abkhazia

  A UN Observer Mission in Georgia (UNOMIG) patrol was launched on September 7 to carry out a preliminary investigation of an incident regarding alleged maltreatment of locals and rape of women by four uniformed Abkhazian customs officers in the Tagiloni village, Abkhazia's Gali district, on September 5-6.

September 11, 2003 15:00

• Caucasian Forum Coordinator David Petrosian visited South Osetia

  The visit was aimed at discussing prospects of cooperation with NGOs of South Osetia and familiarizing with social and political situation.

September 11, 2003 10:41

• Ingush authorities suppressed before elections songs of popular Chechen singer

  Owners of multiple stalls selling audio and video production are forbidden not only to sell but also to reproduce songs of the Chechen singer under the threat of a 300-ruble fine and equipment confiscation in favor of the state.

September 11, 2003 10:40

• Administration head was killed in Goyskoye village

  A dead body of Adam Gatsayev, the administration head of the Goyskoye village situated in the Urus-Martan district, was found by local residents on the outskirt of this settlement on September 5.