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September 05, 2003 15:39

• Tent camp "Bella" is under threat of closure

  On September 1, 2003, the administration of the Chechen refugees' camp "Bella" situated on the outskirts of the Ordzhonikidzevskaya village in the Sunzhensky region of Ingushetia made an announcement. The announcement read, "According to the edict of the Federal Migration Service of the Russian Interior Ministry, the place of temporal residence "Bella" is closed since September 1".

September 05, 2003 15:31

• Meeting of protest against ammoniac terminal construction was held in Taman

  The meeting lasted for more than an hour. All the speakers said a resolute 'No!' to the ammoniac terminal. They also stressed that the construction of the petrochemical port "Zhelezny Rog" on the Taman land was inadmissible.

September 05, 2003 14:06

• Mordovian human rights activists took on group of observers for election in Chechnya

  5 people are in the group, all being citizens of Saransk. The recruitment was conducted at the instance of the Moscow Helsinki Group.

September 05, 2003 14:04

• Mustafa Batdyev assumed office of President of Karachaevo-Cherkessia

  "The complex situation in the republic urges me to take up the duties of the republic's president", declared Mustafa Batdyev after his adjuration.

September 05, 2003 14:03

• Member of election commission was beaten in Chechnya

  According to local authorities' information, Amayev got numerous injuries and a brain concussion.

September 05, 2003 14:02

• Attack against health ministry's officials

  A group of people wearing camouflage beat the Ministry's officials and their security guard and escaped by taking away 500 thousand rubles destined for salary payments.

September 05, 2003 14:01

• All tent camps for forced migrants from Chechnya will cease to exist in a month

  According to the words of Russian Minister for Chechnya's Affairs Stanislav Ilyasov, the migrants must start living in normal conditions already before a winter colder weather begins.

September 05, 2003 14:00

• Kurds in Armenia are holding hunger strike

  On September 3, Kurds went into the street adjoining the office of the committee "Kurdistan" and performed a symbolical dance. They did it within the framework of the protest action.

September 05, 2003 13:59

• Picket in front of US Embassy in Baku

  The action was the expression of protest against the visit of the US Congressmen's representatives to Nagorny Karabah without Azerbaijan authorities' knowledge.

September 05, 2003 13:58

• Azerbaijan police beats oppositionists

  First Vice Chairman of the Musavat Party Vurgun Eyub was savagely beaten by police officers in the Akhmedly village of Baku.

September 05, 2003 13:57

• Court answered to claim of several media and non-government organizations

  The Tbilisi City Court answered to the claim of several media and non-government organizations to abolish the resolution passed by the Central Election Commission (CEC) on August 25, which appreciably limited the role of the mass media in the parliamentary elections coming on November 2.

September 05, 2003 13:56

• Georgian prisoner was killed in Abkhazia

  On September 3 security forces in Abkhazia killed Georgian fugitive Gervasi Dzhologua in the village of Kindgi.

September 05, 2003 13:55

• Chechen refugee situation in Vysni Lhoty camp is not critical at all

  This was reported in an interview by people who are familiar with the current situation in the camp, as well as by refugees themselves.

September 05, 2003 12:44

• Names of those who were killed near Kislovodsk have been identified

  Ambulance cars rushed 34 victims right from the site of explosion to hospitals of the population centers located in the Caucasian Mineral Spas health resort area.

September 04, 2003 18:46

• Baku accused Yerevan of attempt to relieve itself of responsibility for monitoring failure on contact line

  The Azerbaijan Ministry of Defense refuted the report of the general staff commander of the Armenian Armed Forces Mikael Arutyunian that Azerbaijan servicemen had fired several shots from light artillery during the monitoring.

September 04, 2003 16:53

• Armenia completed investigation of incident on Azerbaijan border

  The investigation revealed that during the monitoring a hunter's shot had rung out on the Armenian territory three kilometers west from the Azerbaijan-Armenian border.

September 04, 2003 16:51

• Prosecutor General's Office announces disclosing of two terrorist acts in Mozdok, which claimed lives of about 70 people

  The Prosecutor General's Office of Russia has successfully investigated two acts of terrorism in Mozdok committed this year - the explosions of a military hospital and a bus with servicemen.

September 04, 2003 15:10

• Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice will set to opposition

  On September 2, the Central Election Commission of Azerbaijan ordered that the Ministry of Justice analyzed the appearance of the leaders of opposition parties on the state television. An insult of President Geydar Aliyev is imputed to them.

September 04, 2003 15:09

• Round-table discussion on role of mass media in pre-election campaign was held in Hyatt Regency Hotel

  The round-table meeting was aimed at the exchange of experience and opinions between Azerbaijan and German journalists on the questions of the coverage of pre-election campaigns and the role of mass media in politics and elections.

September 04, 2003 15:08

• Refugees from Russia are aimed at Austria and Czechia

  The number of people expecting to get political asylum in Europe has reached its lowest mark since 1999. Such data are contained in the UNHCR report for the second quarter of 2003 published on Tuesday in Geneva.