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March 16, 2004 13:17

• No debate about project of peaceful resolution of Abkhazian conflict in Georgian parliament

  Members of the Abkhazian deputation and most representatives of the Abkhazian Supreme Soviet did not appear at the parliament session.

March 16, 2004 13:03

• Videotapes showing Islamic rebels in Dagestan found by Spanish police

  It happened in the house of a Moroccan arrested in connection with the [March 11] terrorist acts in Madrid.

March 16, 2004 12:59

• Seminar on resolution of international conflicts held in Moscow

  Activists of such NGOs as the Chechen Mothers for Peace association, the Society for Russian-Chechen Friendship, the Victor Popkov Center, and the Committee for Antiwar Actions took part in the seminar.

March 16, 2004 12:01

• Moscow mayor meets with Abashidze in Adjaria

  Yuri Luzhkov came to Batumi together with Garry Luchanski, a well-known businessman

March 16, 2004 11:58

• Situation at Adjarian administrative border remains tense

  "Both the parties have taken no active steps after the Georgian president's ultimatum expired. However raised units have not been withdrawn form their stands," Adjarian Interior Minister Djemal Gogitidze said.

March 16, 2004 11:53

• Abashidze does not intent to meet Saakashvili's ultimatum

  "The president cannot deliver ultimatums to his own people in his own country, and even more so to the leader who is not appointed and dismissed by the president," Abashidze said in his interview with Russian journalists in Batumi on March 15.

March 15, 2004 22:27

• High voter turnout in Chechnya achieved by added ballots

  The high turnout at the polling stations in the Chechen Republic, despite the almost complete absence of voters, was due to election commission employees casting ballots they had filled in beforehand. This was privately confirmed by workers at the voting sites.

March 15, 2004 20:54

• Batumi citizens start leaving

  "We are going where it is peaceful and calm. There is no peace here," some refugees told journalists at Adjaria's administrative border.

March 15, 2004 20:42

• State of emergency introduced in Adjaria

  "A state of emergency and a curfew have been introduced," the leader of the Adjarian autonomy, Aslan Abashidze, said to Russian journalists in Batumi on March 15.

March 15, 2004 19:14

• Georgian president rules out use of force to assume control over Adjaria

  "I am not going to order troops in Adjaria and think that the use of military force is inadmissible," Mikhail Saakashvili said.

March 15, 2004 19:09

• Georgian president presents ultimatum to Adjarian leader

  Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili made a statement late in the evening on March 14 in which he gave Aslan Abashidze 24 hours for unconditional fulfillment of the requirement that the Adjarian leader should secure freedom of movement for the head of the Georgian state on the territory of the autonomy.

March 15, 2004 17:37

• Medical College students protest against classmate's abduction in Grozny

  The students demanded the release of the Medical College dental student who, according to them, had been taken just from the school by unknown armed men on March 11.

March 15, 2004 17:21

• Abu al-Walid threatens Russia with new terrorist acts

  Abu al-Walid, a notorious Chechen field commander of Arab origin, announced that Russia was threatened with a new series of terrorist acts if that one who would be elected new president advocated the war in Chechnya.

March 15, 2004 17:07

• Georgian president not allowed into Adjaria

  The motorcade carrying the president, the interior minister and other officials was stopped at a checkpoint on the Adjarian border.

March 13, 2004 14:00

• Former deputy head of Kabardino-Balkarian State Trade Inspection turns to UN Commission on Human Rights

  Asya Gogunkova told she had been contesting her dismissal as the deputy head of the State Trade Inspection of the Republic of Kabardino-Balkaria for three years already.

March 13, 2004 13:58

• Local television no longer broadcasts programs in Kabardian and Balkarian languages

  A press conference was held at the Center for the Protection of Human Rights on March 11. It focused on the situation that has arisen at the republican Kabalkteleradio company, which has broadcasted no programs in the Kabardian and Balkarian languages since January.

March 13, 2004 13:56

• International Working Group to Search for the Missing and Hostages to be dismissed

  The Caucasian Knot correspondent learnt about it from the Group's Karabakh coordinator.

March 13, 2004 13:48

• Press conference "Mikhail Trepashkin Is a Political Prisoner in Putin's Russia" held in Moscow

  Mikhail Trepashkin, a former officer of special services and known lawyer, was arrested in October 2003. He was charged with disclosing state secrets.

March 13, 2004 13:46

• Article 19 conducts training on media monitoring in Tskhinvali

  The training for journalists and NGO activists was devoted to the work of the mass media in a pre-election period.

March 13, 2004 13:45

• Participants in antiwar picket detained in Moscow

  The police detained Yevgeny Frumkin, Elena Batenkova, and Mikhail Kriger, who protested against the war in Chechnya. They were conveyed to the Tverskoye police department.