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21:52, 10 January 2005

Destiny of Maskhadov's relatives remains unknown

The Chechen Interior Ministry asserts that there was no abduction of Aslan Maskhadov's relatives. The republican law enforcement agencies know nothing about it anyhow.

21:49, 10 January 2005

Beaten journalist checked up in Georgia

The state of Alan Parastayev, director of the Center for Humanitarian Initiatives and Studies beaten by officers of the South Osetian Interior Ministry, has improved.

23:37, 6 January 2005

396 abducted in Chechnya in 2004

For the same period of time, 293 locals were found dead on the territory of Chechnya.

22:03, 5 January 2005

Local functionaries 'take journalists as servants', says journalist

The Kabardino-Balkarian Interior Ministry refused accreditation to Fatima Tlisova saying bluntly that the reason for it lay in her position as a journalist. In Karachaevo-Cherkessia, an attempt was made to accuse her of illegal receiving a pension and institute criminal proceedings against her.

23:26, 4 January 2005

Policemen beat journalist

Journalist Alan Parastayev, director of the Center for Humanitarian Studies and Initiatives, was savagely beaten on the Transkam road near the Osetia tourist center at about 11 p.m. on December 30, when he made an attempt to obtain from South Osetian law enforcers information about a column of cars they had detained earlier.

23:36, 3 January 2005

Quality of oil pipeline under question

In his interview with the Caucasian Knot correspondent, head of the Monitoring Group to Examine Pipeline Systems in Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey Mais Gyulaliyev claimed that low quality pipes are used to construct the Baku-Tbilisi-Jeikhan oil pipeline.

23:52, 30 December 2004

No meeting between Zhvania and Kokoity

The informal meeting between Georgian Prime Minister Zurab Zhvania and leader of the breakaway republic of South Osetia Eduard Kokoity that was much expected has not taken place. Mr Zhvania told journalists that "Mr Kokoity has a habit of changing plans at the last moment".

23:49, 30 December 2004

10 years since New Year's storm of Grozny

The New Year's storm of Grozny in the winter of 1994 became one of the most tragic pages of the first military campaign in Chechnya.

23:45, 30 December 2004

Azerbaijan president signs pardon decree

This decree grants a pardon to 54 convicts, including Sardar Gamidov, the former head of Azerbaijan's Tertersky district executive power and brother of ex-minister of foreign affairs Iskander Gamidov.

23:56, 29 December 2004

People go missing in Chechnya

"Sessions of the Government, the Security Council, and the Interior Ministry are broadcast every day. Everybody claims we should fight hard against the abductors of people, but nothing happens in reality," an abducted man's close relative said.

23:31, 29 December 2004

Bagapsh wants integration with Russia, equality with Georgia

Asked about Abkhazia's future, Sergey Bagapsh said that the Abkhazian people had already chosen the way of independence and were not going to turn off it.

23:29, 29 December 2004

Municipal officials expelled from opposition parties

Those members of the Azerbaijan Democratic Party (ADP)who took part in the municipal elections regardless of the party's decision to boycott the elections will be punished, ADP secretary for ideology Aydin Guliyev told the Caucasian Knot correspondent.

23:55, 28 December 2004

500 to pilgrimage to Mecca from Ingushetia

All arrangements for the action have almost been completed, officials of the Ingush Spiritual Administration of Moslems said.

23:31, 28 December 2004

Human rights situation worsens in Azerbaijan

Torture is a widely spread means of obtaining evidence in the system of the Azerbaijan Interior Ministry, and no police officer has been punished for it, human rights activist Leyla Yunus said.

23:47, 27 December 2004

Investigation of attack on anti-drag department produces no result

"The rumors that the attack on the Anti-Drug Department is an anti-Kabardian action organized by Balkarians are very alarming," head of the Kabardino-Balkarian Human Rights Center Valery Khatazhukov said.

23:16, 27 December 2004

Azerbaijan ombudsperson reveals no torture

For the period of its activity, the "fast response group" in the staff of the Azerbaijan ombudsperson has inspected over 150 temporary detention isolators and revealed no fact of torture.

23:55, 24 December 2004

Armenian parliament to discuss sending soldiers to Iraq

On December 23, at a closed session of the standing parliamentary commission on foreign relations, Armenian Defense Minister Serzh Sarkisian submitted to the deputies the memorandum on mutual understanding "On the Commanders of the Multinational Division Forming a Part of the Stabilization Forces in Iraq and Resolution of Other Problems."

23:13, 24 December 2004

Purge in refugee camp

Today, officers of local and federal security agencies detained approximately 20 people during a joint "special operation" on the territory of the Rassvet refugee camp in the village of Ordzhonikidzevskaya, Ingushetia.

23:15, 23 December 2004

Opposition 'must show its strength' in 2005 parliamentary elections

The Azerbaijan Popular Front Party (APFP) offers the opposition to participate in the 2005 parliamentary elections as a united bloc.

23:03, 23 December 2004

Lakoba to be Bagapsh's rival in presidential election

The Abkhazian Central Election Commission (CEC) has registered the initiative group to nominate Yakub Lakoba as a presidential candidate, Abkhazian CEC Chairman Batal Tabagua told the Caucasian Knot correspondent.

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