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March 02, 2004 15:03

• New NGO Our City founded in Kutaisi

  The organization's main objectives are to show concern for municipal improvements, to promote a healthy business atmosphere, to attract investments, to improve the ecological environment, and to restore sports traditions.

March 02, 2004 14:56

• Georgian Association for Human Rights Defense demands to arrest Eduard Shevardnadze

  "Shevardnadze is to blame that Georgia has bogged down in corruption, that its territorial has been broken. Shevardnadze is to blame that the young men who took part in a hijacking and did not want to live under the Soviet system were shot dead in 1985," president of the Association Giorgy Kervalishvili said to journalists.

March 02, 2004 13:41

• US transfers 7 to Russia from Guantanamo base

  Rasul Kudayev and Ruslan Odigov from Kabardino-Balkaria are among the extradited Russian citizens. They were recruited by radical Islamic organizations and sent to Afghanistan to fight for the Taliban.

March 02, 2004 13:25

• FSB confirms Gelayev's death

  Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) has officially confirmed that Chechen rebel commander Ruslan Gelayev was killed in the mountains of Dagestan.

March 01, 2004 18:05

• Krasnodar Club of Civil Education and NGO Civic Voice arrange round table discussion

  On February 26, the Krasnodar regional rights NGO Civic Voice jointly with the Krasnodar Club of Civil Education of the Krasnodar Regional NGO Creative Union "Southern Wave" held a round table discussion titled "Problems of Protecting Voters' Rights at the Elections on March 14, 2004."

March 01, 2004 16:22

• Chechen policemen detaining officers of Kadyrov's security service face pressure

  Police officers of Chechnya's Shali district interior department face unprecedented pressure on the part of the administration of Chechen President Akhmat Kadyrov, reported officers of this department on terms of anonymity.

March 01, 2004 16:00

• Meeting in memory of victims of Sumgait tragedy takes place in Stepanakert

  A meeting in memory of victims of the tragedy in the Azerbaijan town of Sumgait, where mass killings of Armenians took place on February 26-28, 1988, was held at the Memorial Complex in Stepanakert on February 28.

March 01, 2004 15:49

• Karabakh military report on combat with Azerbaijan commandos

  The press service of the Defense Ministry of the Republic of Nagorny Karabakh issued a statement, claiming that a group of Azerbaijan commandos was neutralized in the outskirts of the Bash Karvend settlement on February 26.

March 01, 2004 15:31

• Helicopters rocket outskirts of Borzoy village in Chechnya

  On the night of February 26-27, several Russian combat helicopters rocketed the outskirts of the Borzoy village, Chechnya's Shatoy district.

March 01, 2004 15:23

• Death toll from truck explosion in Assinovskaya village reaches 10

  A GAZ-53 truck with civilians going to pick damsons hit a landmine near the village of Assinovskaya on February 25.

March 01, 2004 14:10

• NGO activists detained during a meeting on February 23 to stand trial on March 16 and 17

  As a press release by the Transnational Radical Party reads, Khramov is to appear in court as there will be a hearing of the administrative case in connection with his detention during a meeting on Lubyanskaya Square in commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the Chechen genocide ordered by Stalin. To remind, the meeting was banned by the Moscow authorities.

March 01, 2004 13:42

• Azerbaijan Defense Minister: "If the Karabakh conflict is not resolved soon, Azerbaijan will restore its territorial integrity"

  Azerbaijan Defense Minister Safar Abiyev discussed the situation around the resolution of the Karabakh conflict with PACE rapporteur on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict Terry Davis on February 27.

March 01, 2004 12:38

• Krasnodar Territory mentioned 11 times in report by US Department of State on human rights

  On February 25, the US Department of State presented its annual Country Reports on Human Rights Practices.

March 01, 2004 12:21

• Flood victims rally in Grozny

  About 50 people from the Oktyabrsky district of the Chechen capital Grozny, displaced by the Sunzha River overflowing in June 2002, held an unauthorized meeting on February 26 to demand compensation for their homes destroyed by the flood.

March 01, 2004 12:12

• Three numbers of rights catalogue-digest to be presented in Krasnodar

  The presentation of and discussion about three numbers of the Krasnodar rights catalogue-digest published by the regional branch of the Russian Society Memorial will take place in Krasnodar on March 3.

March 01, 2004 11:55

• European Parliament recognizes deportation of Chechens and Ingushetians ordered by Stalin as genocide

  The text adopted on February 26 contains a call to the EU Member States to promote peace in Chechnya.

February 28, 2004 20:15

• Lev Ponomaryov: Russia needs propaganda television campaign to counteract spread of xenophobia

  The main reason why some Russian politicians apply the rhetoric of nationalism and xenophobia is the ongoing war in Chechnya, stated Lev Ponomaryov, executive director of the all-Russian public Movement for Human Rights, on 26 February 2004, at the 1st All-Russian Assembly of Public Forces to Counteract Xenophobia and Extremism.

February 28, 2004 18:45

• Search at headquarters of Executive Committee of Extraordinary Congress of the People of Kalmykia

  Police officers seized all posters that contained at least some criticism against President of Kalmykia Kirsan Ilyumzhinov.

February 28, 2004 15:05

• Last refugees left Bart camp in Ingushetia

  Only several dozens of tents are left in Bart, a camp for Chechen refugees situated in the Ingush town of Karabulak. Inhabitants of this temporary accommodation center leave the camp under pressure of the authorities.

February 28, 2004 14:43

• International Helsinki Federation urges immediate investigation into abduction of Ruslan Soltakhanov

  We call your attention the open letter addressed by Executive Director of the International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights Aaron Rhodes to Prosecutor of the Republic of North Osetia Aleksandr Bigulov in connection with the abduction of Ruslan Soltakhanov, a driver for journalist Rebecca Santana.