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August 04, 2004 19:19

• IFC to give $2 million credit to Armenian bank

  This deal shows that the Armenian banking system has improved and is trustworthy.

August 04, 2004 19:17

• Presidential candidate calls to be fair

  "I call on everybody to be fair. I call to be active. Only the fair election can stabilize the situation," Abdula Bugayev said.

August 04, 2004 18:50

• Security agencies practice abductions, Chechen Deputy PM asserts

  The battalions Zapad, Vostok and others are to be withdrawn from the town. They all are interested in appropriating as much money as possible, but we will not let them do it," Ramzan Kadyrov said.

August 03, 2004 19:40

• Military convoy blown up in Chechnya

  Rebels set off a bomb of high-capacity when a column of federal forces, numbering 3 armored vehicles, was moving in the vicinity of the village of Agishti, Chechnya's Shali district. The bomb had been mounted on the roadside.

August 03, 2004 19:38

• Pre-election atmosphere in Nagorny Karabakh becomes hot

  5 people are nominated for the post of Stepanakert Mayor. But experts believe three candidates will be the main rivals. They are Amik Avanesian, the present mayor, Eduard Agabekian, a deputy of the National Assembly of the Republic of Nagorny Karabakh, and Pavel Nadzharian, a board member of the pro-government Democratic Artsakh Union.

August 03, 2004 19:36

• OSCE demands investigation of attacks against journalists

  OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Miklos Haraszti addressed a letter to Azerbaijan Foreign Minister Elmar Mamedyarov last Thursday in connection with recent attacks against Aydin Guliyev, editor-in-chief of the Baki Khabar newspaper, and Eynulla Fatullayev, a reporter for the Monitor weekly, reported the OSCE Office in Baku.

August 02, 2004 19:43

• CPJ calls on Putin to end harassment of Chechen newspaper

  We call your attention to the press release issued by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) on July 29.

August 02, 2004 19:00

• Armenian diaspora urges to vote for John Kerry

  The statement of the Washington office of the Hay Dat Committee is caused by attacks of George Bush's administration against the amendment, proposed by Congressman Adam Schiff, which forbids Turkey to use American help for the purpose of spreading propaganda against the resolution on the Genocide.

August 02, 2004 18:43

• Armenian Foreign Ministry reacts to Aliyev's statement

  "If it had been a usual public statement, like those the president of Azerbaijan makes for interior use, it wouldn't possibly have worth reacting. But this time he poses the problem to his ambassadors in such a way, which really raises deep concern," Gamlet Gasparian emphasized.

August 02, 2004 18:41

• Peacekeepers, OSCE Mission to control situation near Tskhinvali-Tamarasheni border

  According to the decision made by the sides, this post will exist until there are guarantees of peace in the zone of the conflict.

July 30, 2004 21:57

• Night fire on Tskhinval - details

  Four police officers from the Osetian side, Gazayev, Dzhioyev, Pliyev and Khubulov, were slightly wounded as a result of the fire. There is no information about people suffered from the Georgian side.

July 30, 2004 21:15

• Publication of independent newspaper suspended

  "As I understood, materials about human rights abuse in Chechnya published in our newspaper do not suit security agencies," the editor-in-chief of the Chechen Society newspaper, Timur Aliev, said.

July 30, 2004 21:12

• Ibragimoglu withdraws his candidacy for post of UN Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion

  Ilgar Ibragimoglu is a member of the Majlis of the Islami Ittihad society, the activity of which has been outlawed in Azerbaijan recently.

July 29, 2004 18:41

• Azerbaijan Press Is in Danger forum to be held

  The editor of the Azadlyg newspaper, Ganimat Zaidov, announced that the organizational committee to hold the forum, consisting of 9 people, had already been set up. The goal of the action is to draw the attention of the international community and Azerbaijan's authorities to the threat to freedom of the media.

July 29, 2004 18:39

• Kabardino-Balkaria apprehends repetition of Ingush scenario

  All police units and the military unit quartered in Kabardino-Balkaria have gone on higher state of alert as operational information about an imminent rebel attack had been received.

July 28, 2004 19:35

• Azerbaijan human rights activists accuse each other

  The Chairman of the Committee to Protect Rights of Officers of the OPON Special Police Force, Famil Suleymanov, has accused human rights activists Gadjimurad and Rena Sadaddinovs of bribery.

July 28, 2004 19:33

• Dagestani police officers charged with kidnapping

  The Dagestani Prosecutor's Office has finished an investigation into the criminal case against Colonel Imamudin Temirbulatov and Major Ayvar Akhmedov. The investigators' version is that they are involved in abductions of people in Dagestan.

July 28, 2004 19:27

• Authorities seek closure of independent newspaper

  Timur Aliyev, editor of the independent newspaper Chechen Society, was summoned to the Organized Crime Unit of the Ingush Interior Ministry in the morning today.

July 27, 2004 20:57

• Georgian president cannot take criticism, NGO leader says

  "The Former Political Prisoners for Human Rights non-governmental organization (NGO) often lays strictures on authorities. That is why it is not included in the group of NGOs chosen by the president to form the council," Nana Kakabadze, the leader of this NGO, stated.

July 27, 2004 20:55

• Rebels attacked Ingushetia with Maskhadov's permission

  The editors of the Caucasian Knot have got information spread by the Information and Analytical Center of the President of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria.