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April 23, 2004 23:51

• Attempt to blow up opposition office in Kalmykia presented as anti-terrorist exercises

  On April 13, at about noon, officers of the FSB (Federal Security Service) department in the Republic of Kalmykia detained a certain Nakayev (b.1976) in a hotel situated in the heart of Elista by. A high-capacity explosive assembly was found on him.

April 23, 2004 22:18

• Opposition activists persecuted in Armenia

  "The terror against participants in opposition rallies is being executed in Armenia today by Robert Kocharian's order," Viktor Dallakian, a leader of the Armenian opposition and secretary of the opposition parliamentary faction Justice, said.

April 23, 2004 17:44

• Process of refugees' return to Chechnya slowed down

  Only 86 people have left the tent camp Satsita for the last 10 days.

April 23, 2004 16:45

• Chechen field commander died natural death in prison

  The Russian Justice Ministry has denied media reports that Lecha Islamov, a Chechen field commander, died a violent death in a prison hospital.

April 23, 2004 16:34

• Georgian president: Georgian authorities do not attempt Abashidze's life

  Mikhail Saakashvili has denied information spread by the head of Georgia's Adjarian autonomy, Aslan Abashidze, on April 22 that the Georgian leadership have plans of physical destruction of Abashidze.

April 23, 2004 16:06

• Republican Supreme Court refuses to register Kabardino-Balkarian Human Rights Center

  The center was created and operates in fact, but it is not a juridical person because the Kabardino-Balkarian department of justice hampers the registration by all means.

April 23, 2004 15:39

• Outstanding politician savagely beaten in Yerevan

  Ashot Manucharian, the outstanding Armenian politician and member of the political council of the Armenian Union of Socialist Forces and Intellectuals, was savagely beaten by three unknown people near the office of the Forum of Intellectuals Council of Elders on April 22.

April 23, 2004 14:13

• Moscow hopes Chechen issue in UN Commission on Human Rights closed once and for all

  "We hope that the Chechen issue in the UN Commission on Human Rights has been closed once and for all", Russian deputy foreign minister Yuri Fedotov said to a press-conference in RIA Novosti.

April 23, 2004 13:59

• European experts: Armenian draft law on meetings conflicts with fundamental human rights

  Natalia Vutova, representative of the Council of Europe Secretary General in Armenia, said that the draft law conflicted with the European Convention on Human Rights and a number of other international documents.

April 23, 2004 13:26

• Irina Sarishvili warns Adjarian leader of possible terrorist act

  "I warned Aslan Abashidze about the terrorist act two days ago and advised him to reinforce his bodyguard," the chairwoman of the League of People's Defense said.

April 23, 2004 13:06

• Chechen Society newspaper receives warning

  The Chechen regional department of the Russian Ministry for Press, TV, Radio Broadcasting, and Mass Media issued an official warning to the editorial staff of the independent social and political newspaper Chechen Society on April 19.

April 23, 2004 12:05

• Nino Burdjanadze elected head of Georgian parliament

  Nino Burdjanadze is a deputy for the city of Kutaisi.

April 23, 2004 12:02

• Two Russian soldiers shot dead in Ingushetia

  Two unknown men shot and killed two Russian soldiers and wounded a third on April 20 in the outskirts of Nazran, Ingushetia's largest town.

April 23, 2004 11:51

• Chechen warlord says all his subordinates have surrendered

  Magomed Khambiyev, a Chechen separatist leader and former "interior minister of Ichkeria," who surrendered in early March, said all his subordinates have surrendered their arms and have turned themselves in to the law enforcement agencies.

April 23, 2004 11:39

• Armenian party denies alleged destruction of monuments in Shushi

  Head of the Department for Protection and Study of Monuments, the Ministry for Education, Culture and Sports of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR), Slava Sargsyan categorically disagreed with the statement of Azerbaijani Milli Majlis Speaker Murtuz Aleskerov that the cultural monuments in the town of Shushi, in particular, the fortification of the town, are allegedly destroyed by the NKR authorities.

April 22, 2004 18:58

• Chechen law-enforcement agencies look for evidence of Abu al-Walid's death

  Information about the death of Abu al-Walid in Chechen mountains appeared in the Arab press on April 16.

April 22, 2004 17:58

• Armenian opposition to hold decisive meeting on April 27

  Aram Sargsian announced that the opposition invited people to the decisive meeting, which will be held on April 27. "All Armenians must gather here that day," he said.

April 22, 2004 17:16

• Kheda Saratova: Chechnya's administration, refugees should hold talks

  A unique press conference devoted to the problem of Chechen refugees occurred in Moscow, Russia, on April 20. Organized by the Independent Press Center, it was titled "Bound westward: what makes refugees seek emigration? What prevents them from going back to Chechnya?"

April 22, 2004 16:41

• Svetlana Gannushkina: Kadyrov wants dissension among Chechens, Ingushetians

  Svetlana Gannushkina, a member of the Board of the Human Rights Center Memorial and the Commission on Human Rights for the Russian President, comments on the situation with regard to Chechen refugees in Ingushetia.

April 22, 2004 16:14

• 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.