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August 24, 2004 19:22

• International observers 'were not invited' to Karabakh municipal elections

  Chairman of the Nagorno-Karabakh Central Election Commission Sergey Davidian has noted in his interview with the Caucasian Knot correspondent that the second round of municipal elections in the Republic of Nagorny Karabakh was held on a high level.

August 24, 2004 18:52

• Kabardino-Balkarian border guards detain Turkish citizen

  Hajji Bayram Bolat, a Turkish citizen and ethnic Kabardinian deported in August 2003, arrived by air in Nalchik from Istanbul yesterday, August 23. His residential permit had been reinstated by a decision of a Nalchik court.

August 24, 2004 17:28

• Human rights activists speak in support of terrorist suspect

  Dzhavashir Sadigov's lawyer says there is no evidence against his client.

August 23, 2004 19:28

• Victims of clashes buried in South Osetia

  Residents of Tskhinval bid farewell to two old men and their 15-year-old grandson.

August 23, 2004 18:47

• Rebel attack leaves 44 dead

  Residents of Grozny evidence many civilians were killed by disorderly fire opened by officers of security agencies already after Mojaheds' retirement.

August 23, 2004 18:45

• Juma community worries about Moslem shrines in Iraq

  The religious community of the Juma Mosque rates developments in Iraq as the unexampled jeering at religious feelings of Moslems living all over the world.

August 20, 2004 20:36

• Ingushneftegazprom owner will not change

  The President of Ingushetia has announced he will not allow the privatization of Ingushneftegazprom, the largest industrial enterprise in the republic, indirectly refuting media reports about the delivery of the company's control stock to Soyuzobshchemashbank.

August 20, 2004 20:15

• Yesterday's attack staged by Georgian military, South Osetian sources say

  South Osetian Defense Minister Anatoly Barankevich does not rule out that only soldiers of Georgian official structures were withdrawn from South Osetia, groups consisting of militiamen and mercenaries remaining in Georgian villages.

August 20, 2004 19:42

• Consequences of gas pipeline explosion liquidated

  Now the supply of gas to Azerbaijan and districts of Dagestan is resumed.

August 19, 2004 20:13

• Evidence against oppositionists extracted under torture

  The last witness, Nofel Nagiev, refused to give evidence at first, lawyer Samed Panakhov told the Caucasian Knot correspondent. But at the urgent request of the court he told what happened with him on October 16, 2003.

August 19, 2004 19:37

• Azerbaijan ship, planes under arrest in Turkey

  The Azerbaijan Ministry of Transportation has asked the republican government to settle with the Turkish government a question concerning the detention of the "Fikret Amirov" ship and two aircrafts for the debts of the Ministry of Agriculture to Saka Korkmaz, a private Turkish company.

August 19, 2004 18:46

• ICRC to continue its work in Ingushetia

  President of Ingushetia Murat Zyazikov met with representatives of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Magas on August 18 to discuss problems of internally displaced persons (IDPs) from Chechnya and North Osetia and prospects concerning the ICRC's help to the republic.

August 18, 2004 19:56

• People flee from Grozny

  Chechen law enforcers believe panic rumors are being spread by rebels and their accomplices in order to destabilize the situation in the republic before and during the election of the Chechen president.

August 18, 2004 19:24

• South Osetian leaders meet with US congressmen

  Minister for Special Affairs of the Republic of South Osetia Boris Chochiyev asked the American guests to bring the following questions to the attention of the US Congress: against whom does the US arm Georgia and what do 5 thousand gunmen from Georgia do in South Osetia?

August 18, 2004 18:22

• Conflict death toll rises

  Reports, confirmed by the press center of the Combined Peacekeeping Forces, claim there was a moment when Georgian positions near Eredvi were shelled by Georgian army units. Three people were killed as a result.

August 17, 2004 19:42

• South Osetian units, Cossacks dislodged

  As reported by parliamentarian Guram Vakhtangishvili, the Osetian side violated the August 13 ceasefire agreement at 11 p.m. yesterday. The gun-fire came from the direction of the villages of Sarabuki and Kokhati.

August 17, 2004 18:44

• Developments in Georgia 'cannot become serious obstacle' for pipeline project

  $2,760 million were invested for the first six months of 2004 within the limits of three projects, including the Baku-Tbilisi-Jeikhan pipeline project, BP Azerbaijan President David Woodward told a press conference in Baku.

August 16, 2004 19:01

• Mobile communication 'inaccessible to people' in Chechnya

  Only high-ranking officials of the government and ministries and officers of security agencies can use mobile phones until now.

August 16, 2004 18:50

• Editors to inform Europe of pressure on opposition press

  Several editors of Azerbaijan newspapers are likely to go to Strasbourg to inform the Council of Europe of the campaign of pressure on the press.

August 16, 2004 18:34

• Casualty reports from conflict zone differ

  Both the sides sustained losses in a skirmish on the night of August 15-16: three injured people were taken to the republican hospital in Tskhinvali, two people are said to have been killed and several people are said to have been injured on the Georgian side.