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23:42, 28 January 2005

European Court declares IDP's application admissible

The European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg has declared admissible an application lodged by an internally displaced person (IDP) from Chechnya living on the territory of Stavropol Region.

23:35, 28 January 2005

Arrested opposition leader nominated for election

Chair of the Umid (Hope) party Igbal Agazade, who is imprisoned now, may be at the head of the party list of this opposition party in the forthcoming parliamentary elections in Azerbaijan.

23:33, 28 January 2005

Atkinson's report 'has some drawbacks'

"Efforts of the Council of Europe aimed at developing the South Caucasus, in particular establishing stability and long peace, are positive. Nevertheless, we think that the report by Mr Atkinson has some drawbacks on the whole, along with positive aspects," the spokesman for the Armenian Foreign Ministry said to journalists.

22:30, 28 January 2005

Rally against Saakashvili nomination

A rally was held in the capital of South Osetia, Tskhinval, in connection with Mikhail Saakashvili's recent speech in Strasbourg, in which he made a suggestion that South Osetia be granted a high degree of autonomy within Georgia.

23:41, 27 January 2005

Operation to destroy rebels is over

The Caucasian Knot correspondent in Kabardino-Balkaria, who spent a whole day at the scene of a special operation to destroy a rebel group in Nalchik, is reporting details of the storm.

23:59, 26 January 2005

Policeman accused of kidnapping, arrested in courtroom

The trial against Sergey Lapin (better known under the nickname of Kadet), who is suspected of kidnapping Zelimkhan Murdalov in 2004, is underway.

23:58, 26 January 2005

Probability of hostilities between Azerbaijan and Armenia under discussion

The existence of regional interests and projects in the South Caucasus will not allow the resumption of hostilities, believes military expert Uzeir Dzhafarov.

23:53, 26 January 2005

Police encircle dwelling house occupied by rebels

At about 9 p.m. on January 25, Kabardino-Balkarian police officers encircled a five-story communal house in the suburbs of the republican capital, Nalchik. Members of the extremist jamaat (society) Yarmuk are reported to be hiding in it.

23:15, 25 January 2005

Destiny of abducted Maskhadov's relatives still unknown

Chechen authorities and law enforcers deny their involvement in the happening, and Maskhadov's relatives (as well as many people in Chechnya) are convinced that the abduction was organized by officers of the Chechen presidential security service.

22:55, 25 January 2005

Georgian, South Osetian hostages released

On January 24, the Georgian and South Osetian co-chairmen of the Combined Control Commission for the Resolution of the Georgian-Osetian Conflict came to an agreement concerning the exchange of hostages.

22:53, 25 January 2005

US urges Azerbaijan to increase transparency of parliamentary elections

Ambassador Stephan Minikes pointed to some positive moments. In particular, he mentioned the fact that the Azerbaijan Central Election Commission dismissed several people for violations committed during the municipal election.

12:27, 25 January 2005

IHF expresses deep concern for safety of abducted human rights lawyer

The International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights (IHF) expresses its deep concern for the fate and whereabouts of Makhmut Magomadov who was detained by a group of camouflaged gunmen in Grozny on 20 January.

23:54, 24 January 2005

Bust of Stalin to be erected in Dagestani capital

Members of the local branch of the Russian Communist Party along with their supporters unveiled a memorial board with a bas-relief of Stalin on the square in front of the Makhachkala station on January 20.

23:47, 24 January 2005

Political refugee arrested in Azerbaijan

Being already an aged man, Saday Nazarov returned to Azerbaijan on January 11 after he had lived as an emigrant for 10 years in Czechia, where he had refugee status. The professor took on trust the authorities' statements about national reconciliation and resolution of the problem of political prisoners.

23:16, 24 January 2005

Combined Control Commission seeks release of hostages

An extraordinary meeting of the Combined Control Commission for the Resolution of the Georgian-Osetian Conflict is being held in Tskhinvali, the capital of South Osetia. The meeting was arranged because the problem with hostages taken from both sides was to be settled immediately.

23:49, 21 January 2005

IHF expert abducted in Chechnya

In the time of Aslan Maskhadov, Magomed Magomadov headed a group of investigators in the Chechen prosecutor's office engaged in investigations of cases connected with kidnappings.

23:45, 21 January 2005

Beslan residents continue their picket

Beslan residents who suffered in the terror attack have been picketing the Kavkaz federal rout for the second day. "Our children lie in graves, and we'll lie here until Dzasokhov (president of North Osetia - editor's note) goes away," picketers said to a Caucasian Knot correspondent.

23:57, 20 January 2005

Chechen villages become deserted

Russian soldiers purposefully extrude people from mountainous districts of Chechnya.

23:35, 20 January 2005

People in Beslan urge Dzasokhov to resign

People who suffered in the terror attack in Beslan school 1 started a picket at about 10 a.m. on the Rostov-Baku road entering Beslan, North Osetia.

23:06, 20 January 2005

Situation worsens in South Osetia

This morning, South Osetian law enforcers blocked the road Tskhinval-Dzhava going along Georgian villages.

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