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10:07, 24 May 2004

Armenian opposition threatens with resolute actions

Beginning from June 4, they start holding permanent meetings and other actions of civil protest and disobedience, the opposition leaders said.

10:05, 24 May 2004

Abductions go on in Chechen villages

Danilbek Magomadov, a 26-year-old local, was captured by officers of security agencies in the Chechen village of Achkhoy-Martan. The officers arrived at the settlement in several cars without number plates and took the man away in an unknown direction.

15:21, 22 May 2004

Another field commander gives himself up to authorities in Chechnya

Sulim Eldarov was one of the commanders subordinated directly to separatist leader Aslan Maskhadov.

15:18, 22 May 2004

Moscow professor becomes Chechen minister

Movsar Ibragimov, a professor at the Moscow State Pedagogical University, was appointed Chechen Minister for Nationalities, Information, and External Relations.

15:16, 22 May 2004

Arrested opposition leaders refuse to take part in court sitting

The defendants explained their actions by the refusal of the court to satisfy their numerous petitions concerning the holding of the preliminary hearing.

14:19, 22 May 2004

Two rebels detained in Grozny

Both the detainees are suspected of committing attacks on federal soldiers and republican law enforcers and murdering civilians.

14:16, 22 May 2004

Chechen refugees seek help

Two former refugees living in the Achkhoy-Martan district of the Chechen Republic turned to the Ingush office of the Information Center of the Society for Russian-Chechen Friendship in Karabulak. They complained about difficult conditions their families were in.

14:15, 22 May 2004

Chechen residents resist illegal actions of security service officers

Locals categorically demanded that Kadyrov's people should abandon the practice of committing arbitrary night attacks on private houses.

19:17, 21 May 2004

Chechen presidential election set for August 29

The election commission intends to strictly abide by the Constitution and the law on elections of the president of the Chechen Republic while making preparations for and holding the election, the chairman of the election commission, Abdul-Kerim Arsakhanov, emphasized.

18:43, 21 May 2004

Railway service between Grozny and Moscow to be resumed

On May 30, for the first time over the last several years, the Grozny-Moscow train will make its run.

17:53, 21 May 2004

Rights defenders, lawyers get legal training in Ingushetia

Vladimir Weissman of the International Helsinki Federation and Karina Moskalenko of the Moscow-based International Protection Center arrived in Nazran as experts in international law.

17:28, 21 May 2004

Press conference, devoted to Mikhail Trepashkin's sentence, to be held in Moscow

The press conference titled "Mikhail Trepashkin: Sentence with Particular Cynicism" will be held at the Independent Press Center in Moscow on May 24.

17:14, 21 May 2004

Burdjanadze: Abkhazia 'not ready to make concessions'

"We expect an unbiased, not pro-Georgian position from Russia. We wish the Abkhazian population well and are not going to evict them from their houses," the speaker of the Georgian parliament said.

16:51, 21 May 2004

10 minutes are enough to pass sentence on Armenian oppositionist

The united Armenian opposition informs of the beginning of a new wave of detentions of its activists.

16:21, 21 May 2004

Migration service denies chemical contamination of refugee center

Ingush migration service officials have denied information that the premises of the temporary accommodation center for refugees Oskanovskiye Garages in the village of Ordzhonikidzevskaya are contaminated with chemicals.

15:50, 21 May 2004

Collected articles, devoted to elections in Chechnya, presented in Moscow

Results of the monitoring of presidential and parliamentary elections in Chechnya conducted by the Moscow Helsinki Group with the support of the Caucasian Knot agency and the Memorial center form the basis of the book "Chechnya 2003: Political Process in Zazerkalye".

15:29, 21 May 2004

Workshop on ethnic journalism to be conducted in Krasnodar

The workshop will be conducted within the framework of the Counteraction to Language of Hostility: the Civil Position of Russian NGOs and Media project.

12:47, 21 May 2004

No suspects in Kadyrov's assassination

A source at the Chechen interior ministry rated the reports that Shamil Basayev had taken responsibility for Akhmad Kadyrov's assassination as the rebels' propaganda move.

12:12, 21 May 2004

Participants in Georgian-Abkhazian meeting comment on its results

"We have reached an understanding that we deny the use of force in the future and will make common efforts not to allow any inciting actions and statements both in the security zone and against us," the Abkhazian foreign minister said.

12:08, 21 May 2004

Terrorist act committed in Grozny

A high-capacity landmine mounted on the roadside was set off when a car with GIBDD (State Inspection for Traffic Security) officers was passing by.

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