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August 12, 2003 20:06

• Regional conference of Public and Political Movement "Aytaira" took place in Gudaut on August 8

  Conference delegates reelected Roman Geriya, a Hero of Abkhazia, for the next term as a head of the regional department of "Aytaira".

August 12, 2003 20:04

• "Doctors Without Borders" stages demonstration on Lubyanskaya Square in Moscow

  The demonstration is timed to the anniversary of the abduction of the mission's head Arjan Erkel in Dagestan. "Doctors Without Borders" are dissatisfied with the progress of the investigation.

August 12, 2003 20:02

• Residents of Geydarabad (Azerbaijan) state they undergo firing from Armenian direction

  A group of Azerbaijan journalists visited the village at the instance of local residents. They saw there that house roofs are riddled with bullets, some bullets hit administrative buildings of the village.

August 12, 2003 20:00

• Refugees who had returned from Ingushetia were placed in former storage facilities

  Nine refugees from those who had been recently shifted from the camp "Bella" to the village of Ordzhonikidzevskaya were hospitalized because of poisoning by chemical substances by means of inhalation.

August 12, 2003 16:46

• Militia officer was murdered in Naursky region of Chechnya last night

  Unknown people rushed in the house of the militiaman, disarmed him and drove him away.

August 12, 2003 16:44

• Attack against secretary with Russian embassy to Georgia

  According to a source in the local police, several people attacked Valyukhin, who was inside his car, in an attempt to rob him.

August 12, 2003 16:42

• Former Duma deputy Nadirshakh Khachilayev was killed in Dagestani capital

  A group of unidentified criminals opened fire at Khachilayev's car outside his home on Monday evening; the criminals fled.

August 12, 2003 14:53

• 8-year old girl was injured in grenade explosion

  According to preliminary results of the investigation, Artayeva hit a booby trap while playing in one of the abandoned houses.

August 12, 2003 14:52

• Georgian State Security Ministry asserts no Chechen separatist remains in Pankissi George

  "As a result of the anticriminal and antiterrorist operation started by Georgian power structures in August 2002, there is no separatist infrastructure in the Pankissi George any more, as well as, one may say, there are no separatists there", the official representative of the Georgian State Security declared.

August 12, 2003 14:50

• Militia sergeant died in skirmish with separatists in Chechnya

  On August 10 about 10 soldiers of the Nozhay-Yurt Regional Internal Affairs Department entered into a fire with separatists while being on concealed patrol not far from the village of Sogunti.

August 12, 2003 14:48

• About 100 separatists were amnestied in Chechnya

  The Prosecutor of the Chechen Republic Vladimir Kravchenko noted that the highest activity of separatists' appearance to law-enforcement organs was registered in the Gudermes region.

August 12, 2003 14:40

• Group of ready-to-die terrorists aiming at nuclear reactor of institute named after Kurchatov was detained in Moscow

  Three Chechens, two women and a man, were in the passenger compartment; all of them wore shakhids' belts filled with explosives.

August 11, 2003 20:39

• Russian Ministry of Education announces creation of Federal Reference-Book "Public Resources of Education"

  The Ministry of Education invites Russian and international public unions and non-profit organizations to take part in the creation of an electronic database of educational projects to be included into the Federal Reference-book "Public Resources of Education".

August 11, 2003 20:37

• Soldiers' fire in suburbs of Grozny

  Russian soldiers blocked transport movement along this part of the road and opened a disorderly fire from all kinds of weapon in all directions.

August 11, 2003 20:35

• Armenians from Georgia are indignant at Georgian deputy's provocative statements

  In his interview to one of Georgian TV channels Bregadze spoke "about false programs of the US Armenian lobby directed to accomplish an upheaval so that local Armenians could come to power in the country".

August 11, 2003 20:33

• Mahomet Tekeyev insists on withdrawal of OMON platoons from Karachaevo-Cherkessia

  The presidential contender motivated his demand with the fact that many of the OMON (militia platoon for special purposes) officers had taken part in a counter-terrorist operation on the territory of Chechnya, that is why they were prejudiced against the Caucasian people.

August 11, 2003 16:08

• Information about "coalition against Kadirov" is not confirmed

  On August 7 the media reported presidential contenders in the republic made a "coalition against Kadirov" intending to put up a united front and to support in the second round of the election, if it is held, a contender alternative to today's head of Chechnya.

August 11, 2003 16:06

• Videotape picturing Arjan Erkel, holding hostage in Dagestan, appeared in the Netherlands

  Arjan Erkel looks healthy in the video; he speaks Russian and asks for ransom for his captors. The spokeswoman of "Doctors Without Borders" Marieke van Zalk confirmed the receipt of the videotape, but underlined all reports on its contents were "speculations".

August 11, 2003 16:03

• Son of local administration's head was killed in Chechenya

  Sayid-Akhmed Arsakhanov taught physics at a local secondary school.

August 11, 2003 15:57

• Czech journalist was murdered in Dagestan

  The body of a 30-year old Czech citizen Kraus Martin, who had permanently resided in Prague, was found on the river bank in the village Chirkata in the Gumbet district of the republic.