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13:13, 19 April 2004

Press conference devoted to air attack on Chechen village

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

12:49, 19 April 2004

Terrorist act averted in Naursky district of Chechnya

Field engineers neutralized a self-made bomb, which was mounted on a railway line.

12:36, 19 April 2004

Local killed in Urus-Martan district of Chechnya

As reported by locals, law enforcers in masks tried to illegally detain the man, but he put up armed resistance.

12:29, 19 April 2004

Picket against war in Chechnya staged in Moscow after long break

An officially authorized picket against war in Chechnya was staged on Pushkinskaya Square in Moscow on April 15, for the first time after a long break. To remind, the picket on Pushkinskaya Square has been existing for four years already. Its participants were detained on March 11, the picket was banned, and its organizers stood trial.

11:54, 19 April 2004

Leader of Arab mercenaries in Chechnya reportedly destroyed

The field commander's brother said to Al Arabiya TV channel in El Riyadh, "It is true. We got to know about it already a day ago, but we don't know any details of the happening."

11:38, 19 April 2004

Final parliamentary election returns announced in Georgia

The following political parties will be represented in the Georgian parliament: the ruling United National Movement - Democrats party, which won 66.2% of the vote, and the Right - Industrialists bloc, which got 7.5% of the vote.

11:36, 19 April 2004

Relatives of beaten soldier block highway in Georgia

The people said Beso Kokaya had been beaten four days earlier by about 10 servicemen who then tied him to a tree.

10:45, 19 April 2004

Restrictions on use of arms removed from Ingush policemen

Policemen are allowed to open aimed fire first if there is a real threat to their life in the course of special operations to detain criminals.

17:59, 17 April 2004

Head of precinct election commission detained in Adjaria

Djambul Shaminadze, head of the precinct election commission in the village of Danisparauli, which is in the Khulo election district, was detained by officers of law-enforcement agencies in the morning of April 16 in a hospital ward, to which he had been taken with signs of beating the day before.

17:20, 17 April 2004

New meeting of Armenian opposition in Yerevan

At about 19:00 local time April 16, the opposition staged a meeting on the square adjacent to Matenadaran in downtown Yerevan. About 10 thousand people gathered in spite of the cold weather and torrential rain.

16:37, 17 April 2004

3 policemen injured in terrorist act in Chechnya

When an UAZ car with members of the Russian interior ministry's mobile detachment for Chechnya was moving near the village of Ordzhonikidzevskaya, an improvised radio controlled bomb went off.

16:33, 17 April 2004

Explosion kills two school boys in Chechnya

An unidentified bomb went off near the village of Alleroy in Chechnya's Kurchaloy district.

15:39, 17 April 2004

Georgian-Abkhazian meetings to be held in Moscow and Geneva

The Prime Minister of Abkhazia and the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General in Georgia met on April 16 in Sukhum to discuss the Georgian-Abkhazian meetings set for April - in Moscow and Geneva.

15:12, 17 April 2004

International Helsinki Federation reports on numerous violations of human rights in Armenia

In its report, the International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights (IHF) has summarized the evidence of violations of freedom of assembly, of freedom of movement, of freedom of the media, and of the persecution of political dissenters that have occurred in Armenia.

14:58, 17 April 2004

Human Rights Watch: Georgia returns terrorist suspects to countries practicing torture, including Russia

The human rights organization recommends that the U.N. Special Rapporteur on Torture examine and establish clear standards and criteria for the use of diplomatic assurances by governments with the purpose of ensuring that governments adhere to their absolute obligation not to expose persons to a risk of torture.

14:30, 17 April 2004

Chechen NGO denies functionaries' statements on situation in Satsita refugee camp

According to data of the Chechen National Rescue Committee, 1,500 people in 300 tents are officially registered on the territory of the Satsita camp, though the real number of people living in this temporary accommodation center exceeds 2,000 people.

14:17, 17 April 2004

Great number of war crimes against civilian population registered in Chechnya

16 civilians were killed in the Chechen Republic for seven days, 7 of them were children.

20:19, 16 April 2004

Akhmed Zakayev: only Chechens themselves can stand up for their right to live

Akhmed Zakayev, special envoy of Aslan Maskhadov and prime minister of the unrecognized Ichkerian government, has made a statement on the April 15 vote at the United Nations Commission on Human Rights.

19:09, 16 April 2004

Colonel Aleksandr Litvinenko sings appeal for interim UN administration in Chechnya

On April 15, FSB (Federal Security Service) Colonel Aleksandr Litvinenko, the author of the books "FSB Blows Up Russia" and "LCG ? Lubyanka Criminal Group" who received political asylum in England, joined the appeal "For an Interim United Nations Administration in Chechnya" initiated by the Transnational Radical Party.

18:53, 16 April 2004

Former defense minister arrested in Armenia

Lieutenant-General Vagarshak Arutyunian is charged with making appeals to overthrow the power by force.

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