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16:14, 22 April 2004

First session of new Georgian parliament

Mikhail Saakashvili said that the priority tasks of the parliament were to assist with the restoration of Georgia's territorial integrity, to carry out reforms in all fields of the country's life, to improve the people's standard of living, and to liberalize the tax code.

15:53, 22 April 2004

Saakashvili orders to withdraw rebellious brigade from Adjaria

Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili has signed the order to relocate the 25th motorized rifle brigade from Batumi to Tbilisi.

15:22, 22 April 2004

Yabloko party in Krasnodar to stage demonstration against arbitrariness

The action will be conducted within the framework of the all-Russian public campaign Civil Society Against Police State. In the course of it, activists will call upon citizens to take part in the actions against arbitrariness.

14:35, 22 April 2004

Classic textbook for journalists published in Georgian

The book holds fundamentals of the American journalism, it is important to know them in the period of development of democracy and free press, said WPFC' executive official.

14:07, 22 April 2004

Youth action against neonazism in Krasnodar

Several tens of students, NGO activists, and journalists made their way to places in Krasnodar where neonazis were known to gather and leave their typical marks and inscriptions.

12:53, 22 April 2004

Doctors Without Borders alarmed at attacks on its employees in North Caucasus

"It is an infrequent occurrence in the world when aid workers are attacked in hot spots. We haven't had such problems even in the Congo and Sudan," the organization's Dutch department director Kenny Gluck noted.

12:20, 22 April 2004

12 rebels destroyed in special operation in Chechnya

"For five days, units of the defense ministry and army special operations force have been conducting a special operation to search for and eliminate field commander Doku Umarov's bandit groups hiding in thinly populated mountainous districts of the republic, which are difficult of access," a spokesman for the regional operations headquarters said.

12:04, 22 April 2004

Meeting between opposition and pro-government Armenian politicians fails

Representatives of coalition parties motivated their non-attendance by saying they would not sit down to the bargaining table until the opposition renounced its prior conditions.

12:02, 22 April 2004

Antiwar picket to be staged on Pushkinskaya Square on April 22

The prefecture of Moscow's Central administrative district granted permission for the action after a month ban. The picket will be devoted to the Aril 8 air bombing in the Chechen village of Rigakhoy.

22:09, 21 April 2004

Family receive compensation, then die

3 members of the Israilov family and an officer of the Chechen interior ministry were shot dead by armed men in masks and camouflage uniform in the Zavodskoy district of Grozny on the night of April 18-19.

22:02, 21 April 2004

8 years passed since Djokhar Dudayev's death

According to official data, Dudayev was killed on the outskirts of the village of Gekhi-Chu, Chechnya's Urus-Martan district, on 21 April 1996 by a missile launched from a Russian fighting airplane.

17:12, 21 April 2004

UN: situation in Chechnya 'is not armed conflict'

The United Nations met Russia's request to change the wording in the report on the involvement of children in hostilities in Chechnya. There is another description of the situation in Chechnya in the corrected text, only "illegal armed units" are mentioned in it now.

16:28, 21 April 2004

Gazeta daily: Abu al-Walid eliminated similarly to Dudayev

The assault aircraft attacked the Arab mercenary's base in the mountains, according to a source at the Federal Security Service (FSB).

15:31, 21 April 2004

New candidates nominated for War Prize

Several human rights and antiwar organizations and movements have supported the War Prize action, the Andrey Sakharov Museum and Public Center, websites of public and human rights organizations, and the Caucasian Knot information agency being among them.

13:43, 21 April 2004

Aslan Abashidze: 'The tragedy of Abkhazia and South Osetia can repeat itself in Georgia'

"The measures that the center is taking against Adjaria are similar to those it took in its time against Abkhazia and South Osetia. Everybody knows what it ended with," said the head of Adjaria.

12:44, 21 April 2004

New detentions of opposition activists in Adjarian autonomy

Seven activists of the political movement Our Adjaria were detained by local law enforcers in the village of Gonio on the territory of Georgia's Adjarian autonomy on April 20.

12:28, 21 April 2004

Georgian president: rebellious general to be declared wanted

The President thanked the officers, who "have kept the oath and have not followed Brigadier General Dumbadze, who betrayed the motherland."

12:09, 21 April 2004

Workshop on covering problems of minorities to be conducted in Stepanakert

Meetings with heads of Karabakh non-governmental organizations representing minorities will be arranged for the workshop participants in addition to the educational program and exercises.

11:11, 21 April 2004

Chechen rebels shell Russian military base

4 Russian soldiers were injured as a result of bombardment in Chechnya on April 19.

10:41, 21 April 2004

Authorities keep on 'extruding' refugees out of Ingushetia to Chechnya

The press conference titled "Chechnya, Ingushetia: the Safety of the Population and State of IDPs [internally displaced persons]" was held at the Independent Press Center in Moscow on April 20.

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