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September 03, 2003 20:10

• Citizen of Grozny was abducted

  Unknown armed people broke into a house on Industrialnaya Street in the Zavodskoy district of Grozny and forcibly took away Ismail Isayev, 1981 year born.

September 03, 2003 18:56

• Oppositionists were dispersed by police

  Azerbaijan police broke up an election meeting held by supporters of Isa Gambar in the township of Darnagyul near Baku on September 1. Gambar is the leader of the Musavat opposition party. Four activists from Gambar's campaigning staff were arrested.

September 03, 2003 18:40

• Round-table meeting titled "Mechanisms of Interaction Between Public Organizations and Law Enforcement Agencies in Krasnodar Region" took place in Krasnodar

  Representatives of the Public Prosecutor's Office, the Security Service Department, the State Interior Department of the Krasnodar region, regional interior departments, the Administration of the Krasnodar Region, leaders of public organizations, and TV and mass media representatives took part in the work of the meeting.

September 03, 2003 18:36

• Vice Prime Minister Galina Karelova was asked to remove stains of racism

  September 1 marked the new school year beginning for all children, but children of Turks-Meskhetians will study, as they did 10 years ago, in segregated classes.

September 03, 2003 13:53

• Russian officials urge refugees to return to Chechnya

  The return of Chechen refugees from Georgia to their home country will start at the end of this September, Russian minister Stanislav Ilyasov told journalists in Tbilisi.

September 03, 2003 13:49

• Chechen-Aul village chief was killed in Chechnya

  A group of gunmen wearing masks and camouflage burst into the house of Saipudi Tsitsyaev, shot him dead and fled.

September 03, 2003 13:48

• Regional targeted program for rehabilitation of disabled people for 2004-2006 is being completed in ministry of labor and social protection of population

  As the head of the ministry department Gaidukov said, the program gives more consideration to the improvement of disabled people's environment, availability of social structures, physical training and sports institutions.

September 03, 2003 13:43

• Military departments of Armenia and Germany discuss possible ways of cooperation

  A delegation of the German military headed by the deputy chief of the German Defense Ministry's Department for Armament and Military-Political Problems, Brigadier General Jurgen Bornemann visited Armenia these days.

September 03, 2003 13:42

• Residents of Vedeno region kidnapped by servicemen were found murdered

  Vakha Khagayev, Khasan Elbuzdukayev and Sultan Abubarakov kidnapped by Russian servicemen at night on August 13 were found murdered.

September 03, 2003 13:39

• Some Federation Council members declare for prolongation of amnesty in Chechnya

  "People voluntarily laying down arms will rather trust the security blankets given to them by a legitimately elected president. The results will be more effective", noted Akhmar Zavgayev.

September 03, 2003 13:38

• New strokes in mountain regions of Chechnya

  For the last few days the air forces and artillery of the Russian army have massively struck again the outskirts of settlements in some mountain and foot-hill regions of Chechnya.

September 03, 2003 13:35

• Abductions of Chechen Republic's residents are going on

  Residents of the village of Selmentauzen in the Vedeno region reported that on August 19, 2003 Russian servicemen had kidnapped four residents of the village.

September 03, 2003 13:30

• Azerbaijan Diaspora hold meeting of protest in Moscow against violations of law during election campaign

  According to the meeting organizers' opinion, it was aimed to express the protest and attract international public attention to "rude violations of law by the Azerbaijan authorities in the process of election campaign and mass violations of political liberties and rights of the Azerbaijan citizens."

September 02, 2003 18:25

• Chechen asylum seeker is to be deported from the Netherlands

  Khalide Taipov, a Chechen refugee who applied for asylum in the Netherlands, is likely to be deported from the country. He was detained in the street as an "illegal" and put in a special camp in Terpol, from which refugees are usually deported to their native countries.

September 02, 2003 18:05

• Names of separatists who killed mufti of Vedeno district are known

  The bandits led the family of Madagov to the courtyard and shot him before the very eyes of his wife and children. They set the house on fire and rode away in cars.

September 02, 2003 17:49

• Temryuk region's administration head prohibited ecologists from protesting against ammoniac terminal

  A meeting of protest against the construction of the ammonia reloading terminal on the Taman peninsula was to take place on Central Square of the village of Taman at 10 a.m. on August 31. The meeting was organized by the Social and Ecological Union of the West Caucasus and public organizations of Taman.

September 02, 2003 15:20

• Vedeno district mufti has been killed in Chechnya

  Several rebels wearing masks broke into the mufti's house in Elistanzhi on Saturday evening. They took the mufti to the yard and shot him.

September 02, 2003 14:57

• New Commander of Northern Caucasian United Forces has been appointed

  According to the words of Vyacheslav Tikhomirov, the Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Interior Troops, Baranov's appointment is a "constructive element of a new management vertical for structures that take part in the anti-terrorist operation in Chechnya".

September 02, 2003 14:48

• Ecologists state that Togliattiazot does not carry out promised public consultations

  Activists of the Social and Ecological Union of the West Caucasus and the Atshi Movement have carried out an independent investigation to check whether these public consultations on the ammoniac terminal project are really being held.

September 02, 2003 14:41

• Attempt of opposition Democratic Party to hold unsanctioned meeting was prevented in Baku

  The police of the capital arrested about 30 activists of the DPA, several people got injuries.