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December 10, 2003 12:06

• Picket devoted to Human Rights Day to be held in Krasnodar

  On December 10, Human Rights Day declared by a resolution of the General Assembly in 1950, entrepreneurs of Krasnodar Territory are going to hold a picket in front of the building of the regional administration.

December 09, 2003 23:53

• Terrorist act near National Hotel left 6 people dead

  According to Deputy Prosecutor of Moscow Sergey Borisov, 11 people suffered. They all have been identified. One of the women who suffered in the terrorist act turned out to be a citizen of China.

December 09, 2003 23:37

• Regional visit of OSCE Minsk Group co-chairmen is over

  The question of Nagorny Karabakh's participation in negotiations is one of the main questions that are of concern for the public of Nagorny Karabakh in the context of the process of seeking political resolution to the Karabakh problem.

December 09, 2003 23:31

• Negative attitude to Armenia molded in Turkey

  The Turkish-Armenian Business Development Council, along with a group of academicians, conducted a public opinion poll in 12 towns of Turkey on December 3. 2,183 were questioned during it.

December 09, 2003 23:29

• State grants bodyguards to retired president of Armenia for life

  It is stated in the draft law "On Providing Security to Persons To Be Under Special Protection of the State" adopted by the National Assembly in the first reading.

December 09, 2003 23:26

• Stavropol lawyers will learn to protect rights of refugees and displace persons

  The international conference "Problems of Refugees and Displaced Persons in North Caucasus" was held in Stavropol on December 5.

December 09, 2003 18:05

• Kidnapper of Spanish businessmen arrested

  Tengiz Khangoshvili, a member of Shota Chichiashvili's criminal gang, was arrested by officers of the State Security Ministry in the village of Kvemo Khalani in the Pankisi region on December 8. Khangoshvili was wanted in connection with the kidnapping of two Spanish businessmen in Tbilisi on November 20, 2000. The two men were held hostage for a year. The prisoner has declared himself guilty.

December 09, 2003 17:53

• Russian Government failed to avoid criticism by UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

  The UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights takes the stand of the Russian NGOs that presented at the 31st session of the commission in Geneva their report on the implementation of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in the Russian Federation, parallel with the Russian Government's report.

December 09, 2003 17:03

• Act of terrorism in Moscow

  Today, at 10:43 Moscow time, an explosion occurred near the National Hotel in Moscow. The terrorist act left several people dead and injured.

December 09, 2003 16:39

• Coordinator of the UN Secretary-General's Group of Friends, German Ambassador in Georgia Uwe Schramm visited Abkhazia

  In Sukhum, Mr. Schramm was received by Vice-President Valery Arshba, Speaker of the Parliament Nugzar Ashuba, Prime Minister Raul Khajimba, and Foreign Minister Sergey Shamba.

December 09, 2003 15:58

• Explosion in Essentuki leaves 44 people dead

  Larisa Yakushko, a citizen of Kislovodsk, died on Sunday, December 7, in the Essentuki City Hospital; another citizen of Kislovodsk, Aleksey Amelekhin, died in the same hospital on the night of December 7-8.

December 09, 2003 14:28

• Office of ombudsman introduced in Karachaevo-Cherkessia

  The office of the commissioner for human rights in Karachaevo-Cherkessia has the A category and is equal in its rank to the office of the vice prime minister of the republic.

December 09, 2003 12:38

• Memorial activist wins Martin Ennals Award

  The Board of the Human Rights Center "Memorial" is pleased to inform that the Martin Ennals Foundation has conferred the 2004 Martin Ennals Award for Human Rights Defenders (MEA) on Lida Yusupova.

December 08, 2003 23:47

• Statement by Yerevan Press Club about draft law "On Mass Communication"

  "We rely on the fact that the wide coalition of forces, interested in the freedom and independence of media, will continue its efforts on improvement of legislation and at the same time will concentrate its attention on the development and introduction of mechanisms of the self-regulation of information sphere," reads the statement.

December 08, 2003 23:40

• Chechen refugees are being moved from Alina camp

  The people are offered to resettle to the neighboring Satsita camp. With all this going on, even minimal conditions have not been created for them to live there. Only graveling has been started at the site marked out for new tents.

December 08, 2003 23:31

• 44 rebels laid down arms

  As the rebels who laid down arms can be supposedly hunted by those who are still in illegal armed units, they will spend some time on the territory of special elements.

December 08, 2003 15:22

• Foreign mercenaries during Karabakh war in Ayk Demonyan's book

  In the monograph "Karabakh Drama: Secret Acts" (Yerevan, Center for Iranian Studies, 2003), Armenian historian Ayk Demoyan succeeded in gathering and analyzing rich factual material about the military aid provided to Azerbaijan by Turkey during the Karabakh war and about the presence of recruited Chechen and Afghan mercenaries in the Azerbaijan army at that time.

December 08, 2003 15:19

• Low turnout reported by observers in Chechnya

  "Roughly 200 voters, about 10 percent, came to our booth, so I really don't know where the [official turnout of] 70 percent came from," said Ruslan Khadashev, who worked at Precinct 369 on behalf of Salambek Maigov, one of the candidates.

December 08, 2003 15:12

• Chechnya: United Russia - 77%, People's Party - 6.3%, SPS - 4.4%

  26.7% of the ballots in Chechnya's single-mandate constituency were counted by 8:00 Moscow time, December 8, reported Chairman of the Chechen Election Commission Abdul-Kerim Arsakhanov.

December 08, 2003 12:43

• OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media urges Azerbaijan authorities to set Rauf Arifoglu free

  On December 4, Freimut Duve addressed a special letter to Azerbaijan Foreign Minister Vilayat Guliyev in which he expressed concern about the case of editor-in-chief of the Yeni Musavat newspaper Rauf Arifoglu.