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19:23, 3 September 2004

Approximately 340 wounded people have been taken to hospitals in Beslan and Vladikavkaz after the storm of the school captured by rebels in Beslan, reported the North Osetian Health Minister.

18:42, 3 September 2004

NGO activist abducted in Chechnya

A group of gunmen in masks and camouflage uniforms broke into the house on Kochubeya Street and took Fatima Gaziyeva and her husband away in an unknown direction without any explanations.

19:45, 2 September 2004

Institute of Peace and Democracy monitors trial against opposition leaders

The Human Rights Protection Department of the Institute of Peace and Democracy is deeply concerned with the situation around the witnesses who refused from their testimonies and declared about the tortures.

19:40, 2 September 2004

'No justification for targeting civilians'

We call your attention to the statement issued by the International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights (IHF) and the Moscow Helsinki Group (MHG) on September 2, 2004.

19:04, 2 September 2004

Rebels release several hostages

So far the rebels have rejected suggestions to provide the hostages with water, food and medicines and exchange a group of hostages.

19:03, 1 September 2004

15 children released from captured school

About 400 students, parents, and teachers are reported to be among the hostages in the school captured by rebels in North Osetia.

18:04, 1 September 2004

9 die in Moscow blast

The capacity of the explosive device that went off near the Rizhskaya station is preliminary estimated at about 2 kilograms of trotyl equivalent with damaging elements, the public relations center of the Federal Security Service has reported.

17:43, 1 September 2004

Alkhanov's rivals will not appeal against election results

A representative of one of the candidates who lost believes "it is a useless occupation in any case."

20:46, 31 August 2004

Several tenders announced in Nagorny Karabakh

The tender is announced within the framework of the Humanitarian Aid to Nagorny Karabakh program financed by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).

20:21, 31 August 2004

Teachers of Russian indignant at instructions of Education Ministry

"The next year is declared the year of Russian in the republic, but Azerbaijan is carrying out a discrimination reform of the education system," members of the Association of Teachers of Russian in Azerbaijan Schools said.

18:51, 31 August 2004

Servicemen attacked in Chechnya

An explosion took place when a Russian military convoy was moving in the Achkhoy-Martan district of Chechnya on August 30.

18:30, 31 August 2004

Human rights groups to present observations on Chechen presidential election

The International Helsinki Federation, the Moscow Helsinki Group, and the "Caucasian Knot" Media will hold the "Presidential Election in Chechnya 2004 — New and Improved" press-conference in the Independent Press Center, Moscow, on September 1, 2004.

11:45, 31 August 2004

Renewed violence, human rights abuses undermine credibility of presidential elections

We call your attention to the statement issued by the International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights (IHF) and the Moscow Helsinki Group (MHG) on August 30, 2004.

23:22, 30 August 2004

'To be born a Chechen is a sentence in itself'

"I've brought up my children here and I don't want to go back to Chechnya and jeopardize their life," one of the refugees living in the Pankissi Gorge said.

23:03, 30 August 2004

Violations recorded everywhere in Chechnya on election day

The main problem of precinct election commissions (PECs) was a low turnout in the August 29 presidential election. But PEC officials made up the lack of voters by the most simple and accessible means. They threw in ballots.

20:29, 30 August 2004

Real turnout low

"The winner had been known in advance. People just knew nothing depended on the participation or nonparticipation in this farce," Aydamir Suleymanov, a 47-year-old resident of Grozny, said.

19:20, 29 August 2004

Election in Chechnya to be declared valid

A source in the republican election commission has told the Caucasian Knot correspondent about it. According to commission's information, over 30% of voters have already voted in the presidential election.

18:45, 29 August 2004

Violations registered during presidential election in Chechnya

Election staff of Movsur Khamidov, who is running for the republican presidency, have told the Caucasian Knot correspondent they registered tampering with voters in the village of Sernovodskaya, Chechnya's Sunzha district.

19:02, 28 August 2004

Majority of Chechen refugees unable to participate in presidential election

The Chechen side has allotted about 10 vehicles to deliver voters to the place of destination. The busses will drive from both places of refugees' compact residence and places of their living in private houses.

18:36, 28 August 2004

Two Chechen women may have been involved in plane explosions

Chechen law enforcement agencies have no information on the implication of republican residents, killed in Tu-134 and Tu-154 plane explosions, in terrorist activity.

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