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December 01, 2003 10:28

• Wives of arrested Azerbaijan oppositionists going on hunger strike

  Wives of Azerbaijan opposition leaders arrested in connection with the October 15-16 events in Baku are going on hunger strike on December 1.

November 29, 2003 21:11

• Woman tried to commit self-immolation in front of presidential palace

  On November 28, Khatin Salimkhanova, 45, poured kerosene over herself and made an attempt to commit self-immolation in front of the presidential palace.

November 29, 2003 21:01

• Polling station attacked in Chechnya, policeman killed

  Unidentified attackers have fired at a school building where a polling station is located in the Chechen settlement of Mesker-Yurt, the Shali district. The attack was committed last Thursday, the Russian Interior Ministry's press centre in the North Caucasus informed on Saturday.

November 29, 2003 20:45

• Pre-term voting in elections for State Duma being held in Chechnya today

  No one international observer has declared intention to visit the republic during the elections, reported an informed source in Moscow.

November 29, 2003 20:45

• Forced migrants to meet with territory's migration department head

  This meeting is designed by the Coordinating Board, the Public Expert Migration Council under the Main Interior Department of Stavropol Territory as a part of the informational and explanatory work among forced migrants living on the territory of the Caucasian Mineralnye Vody.

November 29, 2003 15:28

• 400 million square meters of Azerbaijan territory mined

  Today the Azerbaijan National Agency for Mine Action does not have enough resources to clear such areas, noted executive director of the organization.

November 29, 2003 13:36

• Azerbaijan party did not lead OSCE monitoring group to its advanced positions again

  On November 28, OSCE officers held a regular monitoring of the Mardakertsky sector of the contact line between Azerbaijan and Nagorno-Karabakh armed forces.

November 29, 2003 12:35

• Rauf Arifoglu's lawyer not allowed to see his client

  On November 27, the direction of Bailovsky Investigatory Isolation Ward 1 did not allow Lawyer Samed Panakhov to see his client - Yeni Musavat Newspaper Editor-in-Chief Rauf Arifoglu, who has been kept under arrest there for over a month being charged with organization of mass riots.

November 28, 2003 23:20

• PACE expert to familiarize himself with human rights situation in Azerbaijan

  Malcolm Bruce, Chairperson of the PACE Sub-Committee on Penal Law and Criminology, will meet representatives of Azerbaijan governing bodies and non-government human rights organizations.

November 28, 2003 22:18

• Most of Chechen terrorists hiding in residential localities of Chechnya

  Commander of the Joint Group of Forces in the North Caucasus Valery Baranov disclosed it.

November 28, 2003 21:42

• Interchurch Peace Council of Netherlands continues to search for MIAs in Nagorny Karabakh

  The Interchurch Peace Council is going to appoint a permanent representative to the "Helsinki Initiative - 92" committee of Nagorny Karabakh.

November 28, 2003 20:05

• Russian Foreign Minister to hold separate meetings with Adjarian leader and Abkhazian Premier

  Earlier the Russian Foreign Minister stated Russia has recognized the independence and territorial integrity of Georgia and does recognize it now. "It is Russia's position of principle, and there have been no changes in it," stressed Mr. Ivanov.

November 28, 2003 18:39

• Member of Aslan Zavgayev's election staff killed

  Idris Kadyrov, 50, was brutally killed in the Vedeno district of Chechnya. He was an agent of Aslan Zavgayev, a candidate for the State Duma in Chechnya's single-mandate constituency.

November 28, 2003 18:38

• Vladimir Putin proposed extending the time of presence of Russian peacekeepers in Georgian-Abkhazian conflict zone

  The President of Russia put forward a proposal to the Federation Council to extend the time of presence of the Russian contingent that is a part of the CIS Peacekeeping Forces in the Georgian-Abkhazian conflict zone.

November 28, 2003 17:45

• Fair Elections expresses indignation about fire on flat of Iberiya TV Company journalist

  The Fair Elections non-government organization expresses indignation about the fire on the flat of Lyuba Eliashvili, an Iberiya TV Company journalist and television presenter, and demands that appropriate bodies immediately react to this fact.

November 28, 2003 15:46

• Five policemen wounded in landmine explosion near Shali

  The explosion damaged the Ural truck of the Shali police carrying officers from Altai Territory, who were on detachment in the North Caucasus.

November 28, 2003 15:03

• Abkhazian delegation arrived in Moscow

  The Abkhazian delegation is led by Foreign Minister Sergey Shamba.

November 28, 2003 14:25

• International conference on Russian-Chechen war took place in Copenhagen

  The conference was arranged by Scandinavian support committees for Chechnya. Delegates of the conference were activists of analogous committees from 15 European countries, as well as journalist Anna Politkovskaya and First Deputy Foreign Minister of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria Usman Ferzauli.

November 28, 2003 13:31

• Rehabilitation institutions for disabled children function in Stepanakert

  6.1% of the population in the Republic of Nagorny Karabakh are disabled people, according to the data for the first six months of 2003. Most of them became disabled as a result of hostilities on the territory of Nagorny Karabakh. But people who have been disabled since childhood also make a considerable part of them.

November 28, 2003 11:39

• Public forum "Development of Social Partnership in Russian Regions"

  The public forum "Development of Social Partnership in Russian Regions" started in Rostov on November 25.