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May 14, 2004 22:42

• Chemical storage facilities serve as refugee center

  Several dozens of refugee families from the liquidated Bella tent camp were lodged there last year. But the health of many children deteriorated almost the very first evening, they felt giddy, and their bodies covered with a rash.

May 14, 2004 21:42

• Trial in case on murders of policemen started in Makhachkala

  It should be noted that rumors about the high-handedness prevailing in the department for struggle against extremism and organized crime have been circulating in the republic for a long time, and the murders of the officers are believed to be the revenge for torture and persecution of Wahhabis.

May 14, 2004 19:31

• Armenian opposition refuses to negotiate with coalition forces

  Representatives of the opposition stated they considered the dialogue possible only after the authorities took immediate measure to meet the requirements of the PACE resolution.

May 14, 2004 17:54

• 3 youths abducted in Chechnya

  Three cars drove to the house of local residents, witnesses report.

May 14, 2004 17:28

• Suspect in Dinamo stadium bomb attack detained in Chechnya

  Lom-Ali Chupayev was detained in the village of Alkhazurovo in the Urus-Martan district on May 13.

May 14, 2004 16:53

• Memorial, Caucasian Knot conduct PR-campaign in Ryazan devoted to problems of Chechen war

  If the functionaries apply so many energies to build up a whole system of tangled and lying calculations, it means they have what to be afraid of and true figures can shock society.

May 14, 2004 12:55

• Our Adjaria to be reformed

  Leaders of the opposition movement say the movement has lost motivation to exist in its previous form.

May 13, 2004 22:01

• Chechen Diaspora involved in humanitarian activity in Adygeya

  Over one hundred presents were given to inmates of the Maikop special school for deaf children on May 12.

May 13, 2004 21:40

• Prizes for protection of human rights, freedom of speech awarded in Azerbaijan

  Human Rights Watch, an international human rights organization, and its employee Peter Burkhard won the prize among organizations.

May 13, 2004 19:14

• Residents of Chechen village hold protest rally

  On May 10 and 11, residents of the Chiri-Yurt village blocked the road leading from Grozny to the Shatoy district. They demanded that the authorities should immediately release Ramzan Shoipov and stop the acts of terror against civilians committed by the military men.

May 13, 2004 17:56

• Victims of terrorist act in Grozny to get compensations

  Families of people killed in the terrorist act will get 114 thousand rubles, seriously injured people will get 50 thousand rubles, and slightly injured people will get 15 thousand rubles.

May 13, 2004 17:26

• No suspects detained yet in connection with terrorist act in Grozny

  "The Chechen president's security service spread this information, we have nothing to do with it. No exact people suspected of organizing and executing this terrorist act have been detained by law-enforcement agencies so far," a source at the Chechen interior ministry said.

May 13, 2004 17:07

• NGO activists stage protest actions in front of Armenian Prosecutor General's Office

  Representatives of Armenian non-governmental organizations (NGOs) gathered with handcuffs on their hands and transparencies demanding that all political prisoners be released.

May 13, 2004 16:31

• Human rights activists accused of protecting criminal structure's interests

  When a group of activists of the Krasnodar regional NGO Mothers in Defense of Rights of Arrested Persons, Persons Under Investigation, and Convicts came to a high security penal institution in Adygeya to make an initial medical examination of convicts who had complained about cruel treatment, it turned out that those convicts were being conveyed to other institutions.

May 13, 2004 15:11

• Azerbaijan journalists get access to trial against opposition leaders

  Representatives of approximately 25 media organizations can attend the preliminary hearing in the case of opposition leaders in the Court for Grave Crimes set for May 12.

May 13, 2004 14:11

• New 'address purges' in Grozny

  As reported by locals, servicemen in masks conducted unwarranted searches in several houses and detained three Yashikhanov brothers at the ages between 18 and 25.

May 13, 2004 13:54

• Large-scale purge conducted in Chechen village

  No one was allowed to enter and to leave Ulus-Kert.

May 13, 2004 13:37

• Presidential election in Chechnya to be held on September 5

  "No alleged alterations and supplements to the Constitution of Chechnya and the Law on Elections of the President of the Republic will be made," said an official of the Chechen election commission.

May 13, 2004 13:15

• IHF: conditions must be created for free and fair elections of Chechen president

  Akhmad Kadyrov was elected president of Chechnya in October 2003 in elections that were neither free nor fair. All of the main contenders for the post either withdrew their candidacy or were disqualified prior to election day.

May 13, 2004 12:35

• Press conference on 'Ulman's case' to be held in Moscow

  The press conference titled "Crime Without Punishment? New Details, an Assessment of the Case on the Murder of Civilians by Special Operations Soldiers in Chechnya's Shatoy District in January 2002" will be held at the Independent Press Center on May 14.