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September 19, 2003 15:25

• Presentation of project "Organization of Public Campaign for Struggle Against Racism, Xenophobia, Anti-Semitism, and Ethnic Discrimination in the Multinational Russian Federation"

  Moscow Helsinki Group Chairwoman Lyudmila Alekseyeva, Director of the Moscow Bureau on Human Rights Alexander Brod, UCSJ International Director Leonid Stonov, as well as Russian human rights activists, writers, journalists, and political scientists took part in the press conference.

September 19, 2003 15:23

• Lawyer was removed from court room

  The court decided "to suspend Lawyer Ovik Arsenian" till the conditions of his getting an advocatory license were clarified.

September 19, 2003 15:20

• Number of people waiting to receive displaced person status in Russia has reduced from 225 to 18 thousand people

  For the last year and a half citizens who forcedly left places of their residence in Chechnya have been gradually resettling there. Now their total number is 256 thousand people, including 190 thousand peculiarly in Chechnya, told Federal Migration Service Head Aleksandr Chekalin.

September 18, 2003 23:54

• Valery Yevnevich is on working trip to sub-units of peacekeepers in Georgian-Abkhazian conflict zone

  The commission which he is a head of checks the organization of everyday activity, readiness of the CIS GPF units in the Georgian-Abkhazian conflict zone to the fulfillment of the peacekeeping mission they are entrusted with.

September 18, 2003 18:29

• Tent camp for refugees is being closed in Ingushetia

  A passport-checking operation began on the early morning of September 17 in the Bella tent camp for displaced Chechens. It was conducted by officers of the Ingush Interior Ministry's Migration Service. The Ingush Migration Service intends to close this camp and to relocate its inhabitants to Chechnya or some other place in Ingushetia.

September 18, 2003 18:03

• Armenian population of Samtskhe Javakhksky and Kvemo Kartliysky regions will be united front during parliamentary elections in Georgia

  The council of representatives of Armenian organizations in Samtskhe Javakhksky and Kvemo Kartliysky regions of Georgia called upon the Armenians of the regions to be a united front during the parliamentary elections coming on November 2 in Georgia.

September 18, 2003 18:01

• Children of migrants in Stavropol will be "treated" by floristic art

  The aim of the project is to created conditions for the spiritual rehabilitation of children and teenagers from families of refugees and displaced persons that had been in extreme situations.

September 18, 2003 17:59

• Turkish journalists speak against opening of borders between Turkey and Armenia

  11 out of the 15 Turkish journalists questioned spoke against the opening of the borders between Turkey and Armenia. It is reported in a news release of the Turkish-Azerbaijan Center of Media Researches.

September 18, 2003 15:47

• Guard head of hydroelectric power station was abducted in Abkhazia

  The state security service of the unrecognized republic does not exclude that the abduction was organized by one of the Georgian groups of sabotage that are sent from Georgia to Abkhazia's Gali district.

September 18, 2003 14:27

• Abkhazian prime minister called on republican NGOs' representatives to cooperation

  "NGOs have sizeable intellectual potential. You have work experience, and we should cooperate for the sake of our republic's prosperity", stressed the prime minister.

September 18, 2003 14:25

• Azerbaijan authorities have released participant of Nardaran events

  After Atakishev's release, two men sentenced by the Nardaran events stay imprisoned. They are Alikram Aliyev, Islamic Party Chairman sentenced to 6 years, and Jebrail Alizade, the head of the Union of Baku and Baku villages sentenced to 8 years.

September 18, 2003 12:35

• Chechen refugees in Ingushetia will sue migration service authorities

  This action has started in the Bella camp, located near the village of Ordzhonikidzevskaya, where refugees have written two complaints: one of them is addressed to the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation and the other to a court in Moscow.

September 18, 2003 12:33

• Independent Information Center's services are available not only to journalists

  The Independent Information Center has been created within the limits of the project "The Media in the Election Process" brought about by Internews Azerbaijan and the Press Club of Baku with the support of the Open Society Institute (Soros Foundation).

September 18, 2003 10:59

• Ilyasov will "invite Chechen refugees to return home"

  The first batch of Chechen refugees, who are now living in Georgia's Pankisi Gorge, will be able to return home in late September-early October, according to Stanislav Ilyasov, Russian Minister for Chechnya's Affairs.

September 18, 2003 10:57

• Maskhadov threatens candidates in Chechen presidential campaign

  The Ichkerian State Defense Committee headed by Aslan Maskhadov warned about "coming vengeance" on all the Chechen presidential candidates, according to the Committee's resolution published in the underground newspaper "Ichkeria".

September 17, 2003 17:43

• Scientists from 25 countries are taking part in International Congress on Studying of Armenia

  More than 200 scientists studying Armenia from 25 countries arrived in Yerevan to the International Congress on Studying of Armenia, which is taking place on September 15-20.

September 17, 2003 16:40

• British Government is not confident of Baku-Tbilisi-Jeikhan pipeline's ecological safety

  The UK Government called on the World Bank and other international credit organizations not to hurry to allot funds for the pipeline construction.

September 17, 2003 15:51

• Explosion in Magas can do harm to refugees

  As the activist of the Human Rights Center "Memorial" in Nazran Shakhman Akbulatov noted, the explosion in Magas will undoubtedly complicate a situation in Ingushetia, and Chechen refugees settled in Ingushetia can indirectly suffer from this action.

September 17, 2003 12:43

• Parliamentarians of Southern Caucasian countries are to discuss ways of regional conflicts settlement

  A meeting of Armenian, Georgian and Azerbaijan parliamentarians under the aegis of the London information network on conflicts and state-building (LINKS), a British non-government organization, is to take place in Scotland before the middle of October.

September 17, 2003 12:40

• Chechens in Kirgizia complain of dissocial treatment

  Representatives of the Chechen Diaspora in Kirgizia - activists of the Chechen cultural center "Bart" - complained of xenophobia at a recent meeting with Russian ambassador Yevgeny Shmagin.