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December 03, 2003 17:22

• Statement by Institute of Peace and Democracy

  More than a month has passed since the falsified presidential election of October 15 in Azerbaijan were held, but the republic still lives in the atmosphere of repressions, arrests goes on.

December 03, 2003 15:11

• Azerbaijan: dozens of imprisoned oppositionists went on hunger strike

  Some dozens of Azerbaijan opposition activists who are serving terms for participation in the mass riots after the October 15 presidential election demand that they should be discharged.

December 03, 2003 14:42

• Rostov city national and cultural autonomy of Azerbaijanians celebrated its fifth anniversary

  The folklore skiffle group "Arzu" and the dance group "Djamilya" appeared at the holiday meeting.

December 03, 2003 14:23

• Scientific conference on problems of North Caucasus held in Dagestan

  The work of the conference was organized in two subject sections: "Ethnopolitical and Ethnoconfessional Studies in North Caucasus: Methodology, Problems, and Main Results" and "Factors in Social and Political Stabilization in North Caucasus".

December 02, 2003 23:43

• Press conference "Chechnya After the Election: Abductions, Illegal Prisons, and Torture"

  Council Chairman of the Human Rights Center "Memorial" Oleg Orlov, who has been on assignment in Chechnya recently, will be a participant in the press conference.

December 02, 2003 23:40

• Four militants killed near Serzhen-Yurt identified as foreign citizens

  According to the spokesman for the regional headquarters, one of the militants killed during a special task operation by Russian troops in the Shali district was a citizen of Germany and other three were citizens of Turkey.

December 02, 2003 23:19

• 12-year-old boy killed by sniper

  Representatives of the Russian military commandant's office who arrived to the site of occurrence on the same day admitted that the child had died through the federals' fault.

December 02, 2003 17:51

• High-handedness of servicemen at Kavkaz checkpoint

  The Kavkaz checkpoint, which is situated on the Rostov-Baku federal rout at the administrative border between Chechnya and Ingushetia, is talked about among the republican population as the most unexpected and dangerous one.

December 02, 2003 17:19

• Chechen human rights activist pursued

  Chairman of the Regional Public Organization "Union of Forced Migrants" Baudi Dudayev, who is well-known in the Republic of Ingushetia and in the Chechen Republic, is forced to hide from the possible pursuit by Russian special services.

December 02, 2003 16:37

• Human rights activists informed OSCE representatives about discrimination during elections in Krasnodar Territory

  The human rights activists handed over to the observers documents on the discrimination of ethnic groups during the elections, which would be material for the Mission's final report after the elections are over.

December 02, 2003 15:40

• Workers of Red Metalworker plant in Stavropol Territory went on strike

  About 300 strikers demand that their six-month wages are paid off.

December 02, 2003 14:03

• Law Is Superior to Power public organization summing up action of protest in Vladikavkaz

  We call your attention to some extracts from the leaflet "Is Power Superior to Law? Or Distressing Results of the Human Rights Action (from September 30 to November 30)" by participants of the protest action on Svoboda Square in Vladikavkaz.

December 02, 2003 12:08

• Statement of independent Chechen NGOs concerning elections for Russian State Duma

  "Despite the genocide in the Chechen Republic, which has been perpetrated for more that four years, the Russian authorities mislead the international community by pursuing the policy aimed at the legitimation of violence and terror in the zone of this bloody conflict," reads the statement.

December 01, 2003 21:05

• Abkhazian refugees occupied building of topography institute in Tbilisi

  The refugees' representatives hold that "the topography institute has not been functioning for several years already but the building of the institute is quit suitable for living in it."

December 01, 2003 20:29

• $5 million reward offered for Shamil Basayev's capture

  Earlier President of Chechnya Akhmad Kadyrov, former commander-in-chief of the federal forces in the North Caucasus Gennady Troshev, as well as leaders of the Rodina election bloc promised to pay out a reward for Shamil Basayev's capture.

December 01, 2003 20:16

• Action "Caucasus Against Terrorism"

  The action "Caucasus Against Terrorism" took place in Vladikavkaz on November 27. Trade unions, woman, youth, sport and veteran organizations of North Osetia, Kabardino-Balkaria, Stavropol Territory and Ingushetia took part in it.

December 01, 2003 17:37

• 12 aspirants for presidency in Georgia

  Observers say that Mikhail Saakashvili, the candidate of the National Movement and Burdjanadze-Democrats blocs, and former presidential representative in Imereti (West Georgia) Teimuraz Shashiashvili have the highest chances to win the election.

December 01, 2003 15:29

• Azerbaijan Organization for Karabakh Liberation threatening to commit terrorist acts in Armenia

  OKL Deputy Chairman Barat Imani addressed such a statement to the picketers gathered in front of the British embassy in Baku on November 28.

December 01, 2003 15:24

• Andreas Gross: "Presidential elections became one of the biggest problems for Azerbaijan"

  The elections in Azerbaijan did more than not contribute to strengthening stability, they became one of the biggest problems for Azerbaijan, Andreas Gross, a member of the PACE Monitoring Committee, stated in his interview with Deutsche Welle Radio.

December 01, 2003 13:26

• High-handedness in Itum-Kali district

  On November 26, a reconnaissance party went uphill from the settlement of Chinnakh, Chechnya's Itum-Kali district, to the Zumsoy village. Locals inform that the Russian servicemen rushed into the houses and behaved aggressively provoking a stampede.