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March 05, 2004 16:50

• Lord Judd denied Russian visa

  The Russian Foreign Ministry has denied a visa to Lord Judd, the former rapporteur on Chechnya to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. In Moscow he was to take part in a Peace Prize award ceremony on March 10.

March 05, 2004 16:16

• Another terrorist organization claims responsibility for explosion in Metro

  Kavkaz-Center agency received a message from a group called White Shadows claiming responsibility for the explosion in the Metro on February 6, 2004.

March 05, 2004 16:13

• RSF asks about reasons for detention of journalists' guide in Chechnya

  "This case once again demonstrates the Russian government do all they can to prevent the press from covering developments in Chechnya," RSF representatives say.

March 05, 2004 16:07

• Two cars with 300 kg of explosives found in Chechnya

  "One can say for sure presently these vehicles were meant for large-scale terrorist acts," the officer on duty of Chechnya's Internal Affairs Ministry told us.

March 05, 2004 16:03

• Georgian TV reporter beaten in Ajaria

  The Georgian television company Rustavi-2 says police officers beat its reporter Vakho Komakhidze in Batumi, Ajaria, on March 5.

March 05, 2004 16:00

• Sixteen major criminals detained in Georgia

  A special operation under the personal command of Georgia's Interior Minister led to detention of a group of major criminals in the Imereti region.

March 05, 2004 15:52

• Victims of terrorist act on Dubrovka sue to get indemnity for Vladimir Putin's interview

  The suit concerning Vladimir Putin's interview about "Nord-Ost" published by the Kommersant-Vlast weekly was filed with the Tverskoy Court of Moscow by the Nord-Ost organization. The plaintiffs ask for the indemnity at the rate of 1 million rubles to be paid by the magazine and 10 million rubles to be paid by Vladimir Putin to each plaintiff.

March 05, 2004 15:51

• Information Center of the Council of Chechen NGOs faces threat of closure

  The only professional and constantly working independent journalistic organization in Chechnya receives no subsidies and grants and publishes a daily news summary using its own funds.

March 05, 2004 15:14

• Azerbaijan oppositionists condemned for participation in riots on October 15-16, 2003

  The Court for Grave Crimes sentenced four defendants to imprisonment for the periods from 3 to 5 years and put five defendants on probation for the periods from 4 to 5 years.

March 05, 2004 15:11

• Fund to support Vitaly Kaloyev, charged with murdering Skyguide air traffic controller, to be established in North Osetia

  The head of the information and analytical section of the North Osetian parliament, Fatima Khabalova, announced it on March 4.

March 05, 2004 14:14

• Azerbaijan opposition calls upon Ilkham Aliyev to release political prisoners

  The Committee to Struggle Against Repressions and Election Fraud in Azerbaijan appealed to Azerbaijan President Ilkham Aliyev to release persons arrested in connection with the developments of October 15 and 16, 2003.

March 05, 2004 14:02

• About 500 women from Azerbaijan kept in sexual slavery in Pakistan

  "Women are lured into the net under the pretext of subsequent placement in a job and all kinds of promises. Girls are often bought from their own parents for a mere song. Then they are transported to Pakistan, where "bosses" buy them," said head of the Center for Legal Assistance to Migrants Aliovsat Aliyev.

March 05, 2004 11:00

• Final ceremony of Peace Prize competition to take place on March 10

  The ceremony will take place at the conference hall of the State Tretyakov Gallery, 10 Lavrushinsky Pereulok, at 3 p.m. on March 10, 2004.

March 05, 2004 10:57

• South Osetian NGOs will have ether to change style of work or to give up activity

  A post of the president's aide responsible for non-government organizations (NGOs) and foreign missions has been introduced into the government of South Osetia.

March 05, 2004 10:55

• Seminar on resolution of armed conflicts in North Caucasus to be held in Moscow

  A two-day seminar arranged by the Norwegian Center for Peacemaking and Conflict Studies with the assistance of the Russian-British Center for Peacemaking and Community Development will be conducted at the Andrey Sakharov Museum and Public Center on March 11-12.

March 05, 2004 10:52

• Representative of Meskhetian Turks reports to UN on discrimination of his people in Krasnodar Territory

  Akhmed Mazmanov of the International Society of Meskhetian Turks "Vatan" made a report within a framework of the thematic discussion on the state of non-citizens at the 64th session of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) in Geneva on March 1.

March 05, 2004 10:48

• Presentation of three numbers of Krasnodar rights catalogue-digest

  First three numbers of the rights catalogue-digest published by the regional branch of the Russian Memorial Society were presented to the public during a round table discussion held by the Krasnodar Club of Civil Education of the Krasnodar Regional NGO Creative Union "Southern Wave".

March 05, 2004 10:45

• Students of Chechen State University request classmate be released

  About 200 students from the Department of Medicine of the Chechen State University staged a demonstration in front of the building of the Chechen government in Grozny. Participants demanded that their classmate, Aslambek Khambiyev, be freed.

March 04, 2004 23:59

• Georgian rights defenders concerned with state of Chechen refugees

  Mulkoyev and Alkhanov, Chechens abducted in Georgia and transported to Russia, are being held in an investigatory isolation ward of the Federal Security Service in Yessentuki.

March 04, 2004 23:58

• Popular Front Party: report by US Department of State confirms mass human rights violations in Azerbaijan

  The Azerbaijan Popular Front Party also laid strictures on the attempt by Azerbaijan authorities to prejudice the objectivity of the report by the Department of State. The Party called upon the authorities to give up the actions aimed at "oppressing democratic values."