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December 24, 2003 16:15

• Workshop for teachers form South Federal District took place in Rostov

  The workshop "Modern Technologies of Teaching English" took place in Rostov-on-Don on December 15-20 within the framework of the All-Russian Festival "Ways of Hope". 50 young teachers from Adygeya, North Osetia - Alania, Karachaevo-Cherkessia, Dagestan, Kabardino-Balkaria, Ingushetia, the Volgograd and Astrakhan regions, and Krasnodar and Stavropol Territories were participants in the workshop.

December 24, 2003 15:59

• "Christmas Chimes" charity action in Rostov region

  The action is aimed not only at presenting New Year gifts to children from families of scanty means, orphan children, under age delinquents, and children with limited physical and social abilities, but at instilling a spirit of mutual aid, mercy and humanism in those children.

December 24, 2003 15:58

• Adjarian authorities intensify pressure on mass media

  The broadcasting of Rustavi 2 TV Company, which is the most popular one in Georgia, was ceased in Adjaria on November 23.

December 24, 2003 12:00

• Congress of Caucasian people to be held in Vladikavkaz next year

  President of North Osetia Aleksandr Dzasokhov signed the order to create the organizational committee that is to arrange a congress of Caucasian people in Vladikavkaz in 2004.

December 24, 2003 11:40

• Group of rebels in Dagestan led by Shamil Basayev's mate

  Locals report they saw Dagestani Isa Makasharipov among commanders of the Chechen unit acting on the territory of the Tsuntinsky district in Dagestan. Makasharipov was one of Shamil Basayev's closest mates.

December 23, 2003 23:29

• Raid on temporary accommodation center of forced migrants in Grozny - details

  In the evening of December 8, 2003 in the Leninsky district of Grozny, officers of one of the Chechen security agencies made an armed attack on a temporary accommodation center of forced migrants.

December 23, 2003 23:01

• Mediators do not have enough information on Karabakh conflict, stated confictologist Aleksandr Manasian

  An article of the well-known conflictologist Professor Aleksandr Manasian appeared in the Azat Artsakh newspaper, which is published in Karabakh. The author notes in his article that while the OSCE Minsk Group on the Karabakh settlement is trying to arrange a complicated series of meetings and visits to the region, the US-Russian organization "Dortmund Conference", which was established as early as the 1970s, has been arranging trilateral meetings of experts from Armenia, Azerbaijan and Nagorny Karabakh within the limits of people's diplomacy for three years already.

December 23, 2003 17:58

• Zerkalo newspaper: Armenian authorities ready to exchange Karabakh lands for Baku oil

  Baku agrees to lay on one of the Baku-Tbilisi-Jeikhan oil pipeline offshoots to Armenia, and Armenia quits the occupied lands in exchange.

December 23, 2003 17:12

• Rally against unification of Chechnya and Ingushetia thwarted in Nazran

  From early in the morning all access routes to Soglasiya Square in Nazran were blocked by police units that let no cars through. In 1993, thousands of people attended rallies there because of the Ingush-North Osetian disputes over the Prigorodny district and the republic's separation from Chechnya.

December 23, 2003 16:43

• Citizen of Sukhum abducted, then set free

  The 25-year-old citizen of Sukhum, Tamaz Gogokhia, who was taken hostage by a Georgian gang on December 12, has been released.

December 23, 2003 16:17

• Congress of Women of Karachaevo-Cherkessia

  The key result of the meeting is that all women's NGOs in Karachaevo-Cherkessia united into the Association of Women of Karachaevo-Cherkessia. Congress participants approved a statute of the new organization and elected its board.

December 23, 2003 16:15

• Head of village administration fell victim to terrorists in Gali district

  The body of Gagida village administration head Abel Gogua, who disappeared on December 20, was found with traces of violent death on the border between the villages of Nanargali, the Gali district and Ganmukhuri, the Zugdidi district on December 21.

December 23, 2003 14:00

• Chechen intelligentsia discussed republic's prospects for peace

  The round table "Peace Process: Myth or Reality" was held by the Chechen intelligentsia in Grozny on December 19. The aim of the event organized by the Lam cultural center was to discuss changes in the political situation in the aftermath of the presidential and State Duma elections in Chechnya.

December 22, 2003 20:51

• Basayev stands behind all terrorist acts with kamikazes

  Director of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) Nikolay Patrushev stated it.

December 22, 2003 20:48

• Political processes in Georgia contribute to worsening of situation in Georgian-Abkhazian conflict zone

  Participants in the quadripartite Georgian-Abkhazian meeting held at the Ingur check-point on December 18 described a situation in the border districts as "the one tending to worsen".

December 22, 2003 18:39

• Chechen children need psychological assistance

  Although the war action made everyone suffer, the most vulnerable section of the population - children - appear to be the hardest hit.

December 22, 2003 18:17

• Unknown individuals shot down policemen in Grozny

  According to the Interior Ministry, unknown individuals fired automatic weapons at the policemen in the Zavodskoy district of the city at 7:05 p.m. Moscow time last Sunday. An Interior Ministry operations major and his partner, a sergeant of the police force, were killed on duty.

December 22, 2003 18:10

• 26-year-old woman hostage released in Chechnya

  The hostage, Oksana Bolshakova, was released in the course of the militia operation in the village of Shaami-Yurt. The woman was kidnapped in February 2003 in Budyonnovsk , Stavropol Territory and then taken to Kizlyar, Dagestan.

December 22, 2003 17:33

• OLK leader: unpleasant surprises expect Armenian servicemen who intend to come to Baku

  "But the responsibility will rest with the Azerbaijan authorities that agreed on the arrival of the hostile country's servicemen," stated Akif Nagi.

December 22, 2003 16:12

• Refugees in Pankisi Gorge area fear of provocations from Russian special services

  According to chairman of the Chechen International Human Rights Committee Aslanbek Abdurzakov, in difficult periods of the Georgian-Russian relations, the theme of the Pankisi Gorge always emerges as one of the means to either destabilize a situation in Georgia or put pressure upon it.