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17:42, 29 June 2004

Over 40 guerillas killed in recent armed clashes in Ingushetia

A military spokesman has put the overall number of guerilla casualties in armed clashes that followed rebel attacks in Ingushetia late on June 21 at more than 40, which significantly exceeds the figure announced by the media.

11:44, 29 June 2004

Kazan public figure to run for president in Chechnya

Dmitrii Berdnikov, a Russian, has been registered as a candidate for the office of president of Chechnya.

21:35, 28 June 2004

Terrorist act prevented in Ingushetia

A cache discovered near Ali-Yurt, Nazran district, contained four antitank missiles directed towards Magas.

21:00, 28 June 2004

One of leaders of Ingushetia attacks killed

A leader of one of bands that mounted attacks on law enforcement offices in Ingushetia on June 22 has been killed in a special operation. A spokesman for the regional prosecutor?s office told Itar-Tass on Monday that Magomed Yevloyev resisted arrest with arms.

19:03, 28 June 2004

Russian serviceman killed in fight with rebels in Grozny

One Russian serviceman was killed and six wounded in a fight between a federal unit and rebels.

15:00, 28 June 2004

June 22 attack in Ingushetia claims 88 lives

Ingush Deputy Prime Minister said they compared casualty lists of local administrations and the police and found that some names were on both lists.

18:24, 26 June 2004

Two detained refugees set free

The refugees were offered during interrogations to confess the assistance to the rebels who attacked Ingushetia on the night of June 21-22.

18:03, 26 June 2004

All candidates for municipal elections in Nagorny Karabakh nominated

The municipal elections in Nagorny Karabakh, the third in turn, are set for August 8.

14:14, 26 June 2004

IDPs flee to Chechnya

"It's beyond my capacity to help you. If you are threatened and are given two days, you should flee. I am also afraid of these people," Akhmed Tomov, a Migration Department official, said to the commandant of an IDP camp in the village of Altiyevo.

13:34, 26 June 2004

70% of the unemployed in Armenia are women

This figure shows there is no equality of rights between the men and the women proclaimed in the Constitution of Armenia, said Chairwoman of the Republican Women's Council Nora Akopian.

13:32, 26 June 2004

Former energy minister in grave condition in prison

David Mirtskhulava reportedly survived an apparent death on June 24, but the prison administration did not even have analgesics.

13:29, 26 June 2004

IDPs, locals guard refugee camp in Ingush village

The head of the Moslem clergy of the village of Yandare, Imam Minkail, said: "If the authorities keep themselves aloof from the fight against ethnic strife, we, ordinary citizens, ordinary Moslems, will have to take it up ourselves."

20:10, 25 June 2004

Court sanctions arrest of two suspects in attack on Ingushetia

Chief of the Department of the Federal Security Service in Ingushetia Sergey Koryakov refused to concretize what the arrestees were suspected of specifically - either of assisting rebels or taking part in clashes and other acts.

20:08, 25 June 2004

OKL activists charged with hooliganism, imprisoned

Chairman of the Organization for Karabakh Liberation (OKL) Akif Nagi and four OKL activists, Mursal Gasanov, Ilkin Gurbanov, Rovshan Fatiyev and Manef Kerimov, were arrested during an action of protest against Armenian servicemen's participation in a NATO conference to plan the 2004 Cooperative Best Effort military exercises.

19:18, 25 June 2004

Conference on resolution of Georgian-Abkhazian conflict held in Moscow

Its participants were representatives of non-governmental organizations and political scientists from Abkhazia, Georgia and Russia.

19:17, 25 June 2004

Supply of electricity, gas to refugee centers cut off

Ingush authorities do not give any comments on the situation. A spokesman for the deputy head of the Ingush government responsible for refugees and internally displaced persons has said they have no information on such facts at all.

19:15, 25 June 2004

Abkhazia denies reports on anthrax in republic

The Georgian media spread information today that several anthrax cases had been registered in the Zugdidi district of Georgia and that the infected beef had been delivered from the neighboring Gali district.

18:14, 25 June 2004

Anti-Chechen sentiments grow in Ingushetia

If the republican authorities do not try to prevent any attempts to fan ethnic strife, the situation can lead to the most unexpected consequences, local human rights activists think.

17:21, 25 June 2004

Lawyer lodges complaint against Kabardino-Balkarian Interior Ministry

The ministry has not fulfilled a decision of the Nalchik City Court concerning the deportation of Hajji Bayram Bolat, a Turkish citizen, from Kabardino-Balkaria in August 2003.

17:20, 25 June 2004

Taliban fighter from Kabardino-Balkaria returns home

After the captives' had returned to Russia from the Guantanamo base, they sent several more months in an investigatory isolator in Pyatigorsk.

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