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18:45, 6 August 2004

Moscow Government promotes economic cooperation with Abkhazia

Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov mentioned one more time that his visit to Abkhazia had only business purposes. He said he would have to solve some economic questions during it.

22:53, 5 August 2004

Basayev hided in Kabardino-Balkaria for two months

According to information obtained by investigative agencies, officers of the road and sentry service helped the rebel leader make his way to the Republic of Kabardino-Balkaria. Criminal proceedings have been instituted against these officers.

19:57, 5 August 2004

Karabakh minister does not deny printing national currency

Minister of Finance and Economy of the Republic of Nagorny Karabakh Spartak Tevosian neither denied these reports nor gave any information about the purposes and place of the printing.

18:57, 5 August 2004

Human rights activists tell PACE rapporteurs about corruption

Members of the Federation of Human Rights Organizations of Azerbaijan raised problems of corruption, political prisoners, municipal elections, dependence of courts, human rights activists' access to prisons, and persecution of human rights activists and journalists.

19:19, 4 August 2004

IFC to give $2 million credit to Armenian bank

This deal shows that the Armenian banking system has improved and is trustworthy.

19:17, 4 August 2004

Presidential candidate calls to be fair

"I call on everybody to be fair. I call to be active. Only the fair election can stabilize the situation," Abdula Bugayev said.

18:50, 4 August 2004

Security agencies practice abductions, Chechen Deputy PM asserts

The battalions Zapad, Vostok and others are to be withdrawn from the town. They all are interested in appropriating as much money as possible, but we will not let them do it," Ramzan Kadyrov said.

19:40, 3 August 2004

Military convoy blown up in Chechnya

Rebels set off a bomb of high-capacity when a column of federal forces, numbering 3 armored vehicles, was moving in the vicinity of the village of Agishti, Chechnya's Shali district. The bomb had been mounted on the roadside.

19:38, 3 August 2004

Pre-election atmosphere in Nagorny Karabakh becomes hot

5 people are nominated for the post of Stepanakert Mayor. But experts believe three candidates will be the main rivals. They are Amik Avanesian, the present mayor, Eduard Agabekian, a deputy of the National Assembly of the Republic of Nagorny Karabakh, and Pavel Nadzharian, a board member of the pro-government Democratic Artsakh Union.

19:36, 3 August 2004

OSCE demands investigation of attacks against journalists

OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Miklos Haraszti addressed a letter to Azerbaijan Foreign Minister Elmar Mamedyarov last Thursday in connection with recent attacks against Aydin Guliyev, editor-in-chief of the Baki Khabar newspaper, and Eynulla Fatullayev, a reporter for the Monitor weekly, reported the OSCE Office in Baku.

19:43, 2 August 2004

CPJ calls on Putin to end harassment of Chechen newspaper

We call your attention to the press release issued by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) on July 29.

19:00, 2 August 2004

Armenian diaspora urges to vote for John Kerry

The statement of the Washington office of the Hay Dat Committee is caused by attacks of George Bush's administration against the amendment, proposed by Congressman Adam Schiff, which forbids Turkey to use American help for the purpose of spreading propaganda against the resolution on the Genocide.

18:43, 2 August 2004

Armenian Foreign Ministry reacts to Aliyev's statement

"If it had been a usual public statement, like those the president of Azerbaijan makes for interior use, it wouldn't possibly have worth reacting. But this time he poses the problem to his ambassadors in such a way, which really raises deep concern," Gamlet Gasparian emphasized.

18:41, 2 August 2004

Peacekeepers, OSCE Mission to control situation near Tskhinvali-Tamarasheni border

According to the decision made by the sides, this post will exist until there are guarantees of peace in the zone of the conflict.

21:57, 30 July 2004

Night fire on Tskhinval - details

Four police officers from the Osetian side, Gazayev, Dzhioyev, Pliyev and Khubulov, were slightly wounded as a result of the fire. There is no information about people suffered from the Georgian side.

21:15, 30 July 2004

Publication of independent newspaper suspended

"As I understood, materials about human rights abuse in Chechnya published in our newspaper do not suit security agencies," the editor-in-chief of the Chechen Society newspaper, Timur Aliev, said.

21:12, 30 July 2004

Ibragimoglu withdraws his candidacy for post of UN Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion

Ilgar Ibragimoglu is a member of the Majlis of the Islami Ittihad society, the activity of which has been outlawed in Azerbaijan recently.

18:41, 29 July 2004

Azerbaijan Press Is in Danger forum to be held

The editor of the Azadlyg newspaper, Ganimat Zaidov, announced that the organizational committee to hold the forum, consisting of 9 people, had already been set up. The goal of the action is to draw the attention of the international community and Azerbaijan's authorities to the threat to freedom of the media.

18:39, 29 July 2004

Kabardino-Balkaria apprehends repetition of Ingush scenario

All police units and the military unit quartered in Kabardino-Balkaria have gone on higher state of alert as operational information about an imminent rebel attack had been received.

19:35, 28 July 2004

Azerbaijan human rights activists accuse each other

The Chairman of the Committee to Protect Rights of Officers of the OPON Special Police Force, Famil Suleymanov, has accused human rights activists Gadjimurad and Rena Sadaddinovs of bribery.

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