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June 28, 2004 19:03

• Russian serviceman killed in fight with rebels in Grozny

  One Russian serviceman was killed and six wounded in a fight between a federal unit and rebels.

June 28, 2004 15:00

• June 22 attack in Ingushetia claims 88 lives

  Ingush Deputy Prime Minister said they compared casualty lists of local administrations and the police and found that some names were on both lists.

June 26, 2004 18:24

• Two detained refugees set free

  The refugees were offered during interrogations to confess the assistance to the rebels who attacked Ingushetia on the night of June 21-22.

June 26, 2004 18:03

• All candidates for municipal elections in Nagorny Karabakh nominated

  The municipal elections in Nagorny Karabakh, the third in turn, are set for August 8.

June 26, 2004 14:14

• IDPs flee to Chechnya

  "It's beyond my capacity to help you. If you are threatened and are given two days, you should flee. I am also afraid of these people," Akhmed Tomov, a Migration Department official, said to the commandant of an IDP camp in the village of Altiyevo.

June 26, 2004 13:34

• 70% of the unemployed in Armenia are women

  This figure shows there is no equality of rights between the men and the women proclaimed in the Constitution of Armenia, said Chairwoman of the Republican Women's Council Nora Akopian.

June 26, 2004 13:32

• Former energy minister in grave condition in prison

  David Mirtskhulava reportedly survived an apparent death on June 24, but the prison administration did not even have analgesics.

June 26, 2004 13:29

• IDPs, locals guard refugee camp in Ingush village

  The head of the Moslem clergy of the village of Yandare, Imam Minkail, said: "If the authorities keep themselves aloof from the fight against ethnic strife, we, ordinary citizens, ordinary Moslems, will have to take it up ourselves."

June 25, 2004 20:10

• Court sanctions arrest of two suspects in attack on Ingushetia

  Chief of the Department of the Federal Security Service in Ingushetia Sergey Koryakov refused to concretize what the arrestees were suspected of specifically - either of assisting rebels or taking part in clashes and other acts.

June 25, 2004 20:08

• OKL activists charged with hooliganism, imprisoned

  Chairman of the Organization for Karabakh Liberation (OKL) Akif Nagi and four OKL activists, Mursal Gasanov, Ilkin Gurbanov, Rovshan Fatiyev and Manef Kerimov, were arrested during an action of protest against Armenian servicemen's participation in a NATO conference to plan the 2004 Cooperative Best Effort military exercises.

June 25, 2004 19:18

• Conference on resolution of Georgian-Abkhazian conflict held in Moscow

  Its participants were representatives of non-governmental organizations and political scientists from Abkhazia, Georgia and Russia.

June 25, 2004 19:17

• Supply of electricity, gas to refugee centers cut off

  Ingush authorities do not give any comments on the situation. A spokesman for the deputy head of the Ingush government responsible for refugees and internally displaced persons has said they have no information on such facts at all.

June 25, 2004 19:15

• Abkhazia denies reports on anthrax in republic

  The Georgian media spread information today that several anthrax cases had been registered in the Zugdidi district of Georgia and that the infected beef had been delivered from the neighboring Gali district.

June 25, 2004 18:14

• Anti-Chechen sentiments grow in Ingushetia

  If the republican authorities do not try to prevent any attempts to fan ethnic strife, the situation can lead to the most unexpected consequences, local human rights activists think.

June 25, 2004 17:21

• Lawyer lodges complaint against Kabardino-Balkarian Interior Ministry

  The ministry has not fulfilled a decision of the Nalchik City Court concerning the deportation of Hajji Bayram Bolat, a Turkish citizen, from Kabardino-Balkaria in August 2003.

June 25, 2004 17:20

• Taliban fighter from Kabardino-Balkaria returns home

  After the captives' had returned to Russia from the Guantanamo base, they sent several more months in an investigatory isolator in Pyatigorsk.

June 25, 2004 13:06

• Journalist goes on hunger strike in Nakhchivan

  In his appeal to the media, organizations protecting journalists' rights and offices of the OSCE and the Council of Europe in Azerbaijan, Mohammed Rzayev stated the reasons for his action.

June 25, 2004 13:04

• Purges in refugee camps

  All inhabitants of the refugee camp in the village of Altiyevo, including women and under age people, underwent an examination, which was accompanied by beatings and abuses.

June 25, 2004 13:01

• Tbilisi suspends ultimatum against Tskhinvali

  Georgian Deputy Interior Minister Georgy Getsadze has announced it.

June 24, 2004 18:35

• Exact number of attackers in Ingushetia unknown

  Aleksandr Cherkasov of the Human Rights Center Memorial also called reports about Ingush rebels into question. According to information he had, only one group acting in the area of the Nazran market was made up of Ingushetians, the composition of the other groups was mixed.