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January 16, 2004 13:21

• Azerbaijan oppositionists to be held in custody for 3 more months

  The court decided to extend detention terms for Azerbaijan oppositionists arrested in connection with the October mass riots in Baku. They will be held in custody for three more months.

January 16, 2004 12:13

• Residents of Chechen village of Prigorodnoye detained

  Officers of Russian security agencies abducted two men during the January 10 "address purges" in the village of Prigorodnoye, the Grozny district.

January 16, 2004 11:59

• Resident of Pervomayskaya killed in bomb explosion

  A local was killed on January 12 in the village of Pervomayskaya, the Grozny (rural) district.

January 15, 2004 21:10

• Press conference "Competition for Peace Prize" to be held on January 16

  The prize will be presented to Russian peacemakers by Lord Judd, who is arriving from London especially for it.

January 15, 2004 21:07

• Local policeman beaten in Batumi for criticism against Adjarian authorities

  Unknown people forced Iokobadze out of the car when he was going home from work. They started beating him, saying "you are the one who dislikes Abashidze".

January 15, 2004 21:05

• Purge at central market of Grozny

  On January 14, the central market of Grozny was blocked by policemen. They let nobody enter of leave the territory of the market.

January 15, 2004 21:04

• Ruslan Gelayev not found among killed in Dagestan

  "Ruslan Gelayev, extremists' and foreign mercenaries' group leader, is not among the ten bodies of militants destroyed last December by the federal forces. We have recently found them in the places of hostilities," Shamkhal Aliyev, chief of the search-and-rescue unit of the Dagestani Rescue Team of the Russian Emergencies Ministry, said on January 15 upon return to Makhachkala from the Tsuntinsky district.

January 15, 2004 20:57

• Georgian Central Election Commission officially announces Mikhail Saakashvili's victory

  According to the final official data, Saakashvili won 96.27% of the vote.

January 15, 2004 19:47

• Known doctor and masseur Khamzat Osmayev abducted in Ingushetia

  On January 12, Russian security agents abducted Khamzat Kh. Osmayev, 1954, in the village of Pliyevo, which is a municipal district of the Ingush town of Nazran.

January 15, 2004 18:03

• Representatives of territorial authorities, business and public meet informally in Krasnodar

  They gathered at the restaurant "Krasnodar" to exchange opinions about possible ways of cooperation in an informal atmosphere.

January 15, 2004 17:46

• Aleksandr Podrabinek: seizure of book "FSB Blows Up Russia" is act of intimidation against society

  "We remember how they came in and conducted searches 20 years ago. Everybody knew it was dangerous to read books as it could be a ground for imprisonment. Now they make it clear to the society that it is dangerous to read such books," says Aleksandr Podrabinek.

January 15, 2004 16:16

• Meeting in Sukhum between members of Abkhazian People's Party and leaders of "Akhyatsa" social and political movement

  Members of the Abkhazian People's Party met with leaders of the "Akhyatsa" social and political movement in Sukhum on January 12. They discussed their positions and priorities in their activity.

January 15, 2004 15:01

• Irina Khakamada makes appeal to victims of State terrorism

  "I have been mistaken believing that President Putin will help find truth and will repent of his order to use homicidal gas," Ms. Khakamada confesses in her statement. Now she has decided to respond to the appeal by relatives of those who died as a result of the explosions of apartment houses in Moscow in 1999 and during the storm of "Nord-Ost".

January 15, 2004 13:43

• Ashot Gulyan: neither Armenia nor Nagorny Karabakh has ever prohibited from participation of Azerbaijan representatives in international meetings

  Foreign Minister of the Republic of Nagorny Karabakh Ashot Gulyan has given comments on the refusal of the Azerbaijan authorities to receive the Armenian representatives at NATO's conference in Baku.

January 15, 2004 13:07

• People to serve by contract in Chechnya being recruited in Karachaevo-Cherkessia for first time

  The recruits who will win the competition will get special training at the Mozdok Training Center and then will be sent to Khankala.

January 14, 2004 23:35

• Ingush Migration Service puts pressure on members of refugees' Public Council

  A group of Ingush Migration Service officials, led by acting head of this organization Akhmed Parchiyev, visited the Satsita camp on January 12.

January 14, 2004 23:25

• Special Representative of UN Secretary-General in Georgia and CIS Peacekeeping Forces Commander discuss situation in zone of Georgian-Abkhazian conflict

  "Heidi Tagliavini emphasized the important role of the Russian peacekeeping force in the cause of keeping peace in the zone of the conflict," CIS Peacekeeping Forces press secretary Sergey Isayev said to journalists.

January 14, 2004 18:29

• Case concerning book "Blowing Up Russia: Terror from Within" conducted by FSB

  The criminal case, which saw the book by Alexander Litvinenko and Yuri Felshtinsky "Blowing Up Russia: Terror from Within" (in Russian titled simply "FSB Blows Up Russia") withdrawn from circulation, is being conducted by the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB).

January 14, 2004 17:34

• Special Representative of UN Secretary-General in Georgia met with Abkhazian leadership

  Before her meeting with the Abkhazian leadership, Heidi Tagliavini met with new Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili. He expressed readiness to continue the dialogue with Abkhazia, she said.

January 14, 2004 16:31

• Case on deportation of Turks-Meskhetians from Krasnodar Territory - details

  The Krasnodar Territorial Court declared admissible an appeal against the decision by the Anapa City Court on the deportation of two Turks-Meskhetians from the Russian Federation.