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December 08, 2003 23:31

• 44 rebels laid down arms

  As the rebels who laid down arms can be supposedly hunted by those who are still in illegal armed units, they will spend some time on the territory of special elements.

December 08, 2003 15:22

• Foreign mercenaries during Karabakh war in Ayk Demonyan's book

  In the monograph "Karabakh Drama: Secret Acts" (Yerevan, Center for Iranian Studies, 2003), Armenian historian Ayk Demoyan succeeded in gathering and analyzing rich factual material about the military aid provided to Azerbaijan by Turkey during the Karabakh war and about the presence of recruited Chechen and Afghan mercenaries in the Azerbaijan army at that time.

December 08, 2003 15:19

• Low turnout reported by observers in Chechnya

  "Roughly 200 voters, about 10 percent, came to our booth, so I really don't know where the [official turnout of] 70 percent came from," said Ruslan Khadashev, who worked at Precinct 369 on behalf of Salambek Maigov, one of the candidates.

December 08, 2003 15:12

• Chechnya: United Russia - 77%, People's Party - 6.3%, SPS - 4.4%

  26.7% of the ballots in Chechnya's single-mandate constituency were counted by 8:00 Moscow time, December 8, reported Chairman of the Chechen Election Commission Abdul-Kerim Arsakhanov.

December 08, 2003 12:43

• OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media urges Azerbaijan authorities to set Rauf Arifoglu free

  On December 4, Freimut Duve addressed a special letter to Azerbaijan Foreign Minister Vilayat Guliyev in which he expressed concern about the case of editor-in-chief of the Yeni Musavat newspaper Rauf Arifoglu.

December 08, 2003 11:49

• Several events devoted to Caucasus to take place in Czech Republic

  There are several events planned in the Czech Republic for the period between December 8 and 13 that will be devoted to the Caucasus: its culture, history, tradition, as well as a current situation in the Caucasian republics. These events are also aimed at helping Chechen refugees.

December 06, 2003 23:49

• Large-scale "purges" in Grozny

  The republican population is extremely alarmed with what is happening and express indignation about the continuing high-handedness from the direction of security agents.

December 06, 2003 23:46

• Day of mourning for victims of terrorist act in Essentuki

  Yesterday, December 5, 42 people were killed and more than 100 passengers were wounded as a result of the explosion of a railway car in the vicinity of the Essentuki station.

December 06, 2003 23:22

• President of Azerbaijan: "There are terrorist camps and drug plantations in Nagorny Karabakh"

  "The Azerbaijan party has information there is drug trafficking through Nagorny Karabakh. It is possible that drug plantations as well as camps to provide training to international terrorists are situated there," noted Mr. Aliyev.

December 06, 2003 22:45

• Government building blocked by mothers of abducted Chechens

  Mothers whose sons were abducted or disappeared without a trace during the second Chechen war have blocked the building of the Government and let nobody in or out.

December 06, 2003 22:33

• Dismissal as instrument of putting pressure on electorate in Kabardino-Balkaria

  The administration of the Kabardino-Balkarian State University gathered all the university staff in the rector's office, gave them a task to vote for the United Russia party, and threatened to dismiss those who would not follow the instruction.

December 06, 2003 16:45

• Martin Ennals Award goes to coordinator of Memorial Office in Grozny Lida Yusupova

  The Grozny Office of the Human Rights Center "Memorial" is one of the few human rights organizations still operating in Chechnya and providing the world with crucial information on violations of human rights in this Russian republic.

December 06, 2003 15:49

• Explosion in electric train in Essentuki left 42 people dead

  35 people died at the site of the terrorist act, the other 7 died in a hospital.

December 06, 2003 15:48

• Russian Embassy to Georgia demanded that Georgian authorities inquire into attack on Russian diplomat

  The Russian Embassy to Georgia demanded that Georgian authorities immediately launch an investigation in the armed attack on charge de'affaires of the embassy Viktor Rynza, press secretary of the Russian Embassy in Tbilisi Denis Gonchar reported via phone.

December 06, 2003 14:45

• Train explosion committed by three Shakhid women and one kamikaze

  According to FSB director Nikolay Patrushev, two women were in the carriage and jumped out of it before the explosion. One woman led the action and observed. She has hardly survived, Mr. Patrushev noted.

December 06, 2003 14:29

• Murat Zyazikov met with representative of Islamic Relief

  On December 3, President of Ingushetia Murat Zyazikov received in his Magas residence Islamic Relief's Country Director for the Russian Federation Mohammed Allaa Ammar.

December 06, 2003 14:00

• Banker reportedly abducted in Tbilisi

  Tamaz Maghlakelidze, Supervisory Board Chairman of the United Georgian Bank, was kidnapped early in the morning yesterday, December 5.

December 05, 2003 17:31

• Abductions of people in Chechnya can be stopped

  A press conference of Oleg Orlov, Council Chairman of the Human Rights Center "Memorial", was held at the Independent Press Center on December 3. Its subject was "Chechnya After the Election: Abductions, Illegal Prisons, and Torture".

December 05, 2003 13:41

• Number of victims in explosion of Kislovodsk-Minvody train reached 32 people

  The total number of victims has reached 155 people, a spokesman for the South Regional Center of the Russian Ministry for Emergency Situations (MEC) told Interfax-South.

December 05, 2003 13:39

• No less that 300 thousand Russian soldiers involved in hostilities in Chechnya

  According to the data by the Independent Military Review, altogether the group of forces in Chechnya and around it (in the North Caucasian Military District) comes to no less than 300 thousand soldiers.