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September 02, 2004 19:04

• Rebels release several hostages

  So far the rebels have rejected suggestions to provide the hostages with water, food and medicines and exchange a group of hostages.

September 01, 2004 19:03

• 15 children released from captured school

  About 400 students, parents, and teachers are reported to be among the hostages in the school captured by rebels in North Osetia.

September 01, 2004 18:04

• 9 die in Moscow blast

  The capacity of the explosive device that went off near the Rizhskaya station is preliminary estimated at about 2 kilograms of trotyl equivalent with damaging elements, the public relations center of the Federal Security Service has reported.

September 01, 2004 17:43

• Alkhanov's rivals will not appeal against election results

  A representative of one of the candidates who lost believes "it is a useless occupation in any case."

August 31, 2004 20:46

• Several tenders announced in Nagorny Karabakh

  The tender is announced within the framework of the Humanitarian Aid to Nagorny Karabakh program financed by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).

August 31, 2004 20:21

• Teachers of Russian indignant at instructions of Education Ministry

  "The next year is declared the year of Russian in the republic, but Azerbaijan is carrying out a discrimination reform of the education system," members of the Association of Teachers of Russian in Azerbaijan Schools said.

August 31, 2004 18:51

• Servicemen attacked in Chechnya

  An explosion took place when a Russian military convoy was moving in the Achkhoy-Martan district of Chechnya on August 30.

August 31, 2004 18:30

• Human rights groups to present observations on Chechen presidential election

  The International Helsinki Federation, the Moscow Helsinki Group, and the "Caucasian Knot" Media will hold the "Presidential Election in Chechnya 2004 — New and Improved" press-conference in the Independent Press Center, Moscow, on September 1, 2004.

August 31, 2004 11:45

• Renewed violence, human rights abuses undermine credibility of presidential elections

  We call your attention to the statement issued by the International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights (IHF) and the Moscow Helsinki Group (MHG) on August 30, 2004.

August 30, 2004 23:22

• 'To be born a Chechen is a sentence in itself'

  "I've brought up my children here and I don't want to go back to Chechnya and jeopardize their life," one of the refugees living in the Pankissi Gorge said.

August 30, 2004 23:03

• Violations recorded everywhere in Chechnya on election day

  The main problem of precinct election commissions (PECs) was a low turnout in the August 29 presidential election. But PEC officials made up the lack of voters by the most simple and accessible means. They threw in ballots.

August 30, 2004 20:29

• Real turnout low

  "The winner had been known in advance. People just knew nothing depended on the participation or nonparticipation in this farce," Aydamir Suleymanov, a 47-year-old resident of Grozny, said.

August 29, 2004 19:20

• Election in Chechnya to be declared valid

  A source in the republican election commission has told the Caucasian Knot correspondent about it. According to commission's information, over 30% of voters have already voted in the presidential election.

August 29, 2004 18:45

• Violations registered during presidential election in Chechnya

  Election staff of Movsur Khamidov, who is running for the republican presidency, have told the Caucasian Knot correspondent they registered tampering with voters in the village of Sernovodskaya, Chechnya's Sunzha district.

August 28, 2004 19:02

• Majority of Chechen refugees unable to participate in presidential election

  The Chechen side has allotted about 10 vehicles to deliver voters to the place of destination. The busses will drive from both places of refugees' compact residence and places of their living in private houses.

August 28, 2004 18:36

• Two Chechen women may have been involved in plane explosions

  Chechen law enforcement agencies have no information on the implication of republican residents, killed in Tu-134 and Tu-154 plane explosions, in terrorist activity.

August 27, 2004 22:58

• Committee to Protect Rights of Rauf Arifoglu to send delegation to Strasbourg

  Musavat party leader Isa Gambar holds that the Azerbaijan authorities use the trial against opposition leaders, including Arifoglu, to keep society in awe.

August 27, 2004 22:52

• Last day of election campaign in Chechnya

  In spite of the assertions of Election Commission officials, violations took place in the course of the election campaign nevertheless.

August 27, 2004 22:49

• Chechen migrants refuse to participate in presidential election

  Chechens officially registered in Dagestan do not want to vote, and unregistered refugees do not have a vote at all.

August 26, 2004 19:30

• Meeting between Georgian PM and South Osetian president 'still possible'

  "The situation has become less tense after the withdrawal of Georgian troops from the conflict zone," EU Special Representative for the South Caucasus Heikki Talvitie said and added the opposite party should do the same thing.