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15:58, 13 July 2004

Protest meeting dispersed in Sunzha district

Law enforcement and security agencies disperse a protest meeting conducted after the abduction of high school students.

15:54, 13 July 2004

Arrested oppositionists go on hunger-strike

Seven opposition leaders have yesterday gone on hunger strike demanding improved conditions for legal defense.

15:09, 12 July 2004

Dagestani separatist ideologist sentenced

Magomed Tagaev, an ideologist of Dagestani separatists, has been sentenced to ten years in hard labor camp.

14:57, 12 July 2004

Chechnya's State Council reluctant to see OSCE Mission back

Oddly enough, Chechnya's leadership is against the return of the OSCE Mission to the region, even when Russia's leaders are not.

14:48, 12 July 2004

Bomb blasts claim 11 lives in 2004

People continue to die because of bomb blasts in Azerbaijan, even in spite of mine-clearance efforts.

20:56, 9 July 2004

Human rights advocates indicate mass refugee departure from Ingushetia

Human rights advocates are concerned about an outbreak of anti-refugee and anti-Chechen sentiments in Ingushetia.

20:54, 9 July 2004

Georgian prisoners released in S. Ossetia

Georgian leaders make menacing statements as South Ossetia releases Georgian servicemen imprisoned on July 7.

20:52, 9 July 2004

Police officers die through lack of care

An explosion of a noise grenade resulted in two officers of Altai's Internal Affairs Ministry dying.

15:37, 9 July 2004

'Clean-up' in refugee camp

Federal forces conduct a "clean-up" in a camp where many of the staff live of the Society for Russian-Chechen Friendship.

22:37, 8 July 2004

Abkhazia asks S. Ossetia to extradite war criminals, terrorists

Abkhazia's leadership intends to pass over to South Ossetia lists of people having committed grave crimes against the people of Abkhazia during the 1992-93 conflict and 10 years after the end of it.

22:35, 8 July 2004

New war expected in Chechnya

People are beginning to leave for safer areas as rumors persist in Chechnya about possible resumption of large-scale military action soon.

22:34, 8 July 2004

Georgian detainees made to kneel in public

Panic spreads among S. Ossetia's Georgian population as detained Georgian military men are being humiliated, while authorities make warlike statements.

21:17, 7 July 2004

Abkhazian authorities deny Georgian bus transit arrangements

Some Georgian bus drivers were recently reported to claim to have reached a transit agreement with Abkhazia, which the latter denies.

21:11, 7 July 2004

Religious community reports police abuse

Members of Juma, a religious community, lodge complaints about police abuse as police detain other believers.

21:06, 7 July 2004

S. Ossetia views Georgian military's actions as invasion

S. Ossetian President Eduard Kokoity says the seizure of a peacekeeping column by the Georgian military on July 7 is viewed as a declaration of war.

23:30, 6 July 2004

Dagestan: details of Wahhabi ideologist Adallo's surrender

Abdula Aliev, a Wahhabi ideologist from Dagestan who has lived in Turkey since 1999, has arrived home to "apologize."

23:29, 6 July 2004

Chechen girl comes for treatment to Ireland

An eight-year-old girl from Chechnya who had lost her hands and an eye because of a booby-trap explosion will be fitted with prosthetics in Dublin, Ireland.

23:27, 6 July 2004

Abkhazian minister denies liberation of Turkish 'slaves'

Abkhazian Internal Affairs Minister Beslan Beiia says there are no Turkish nationals illegally working in the republic.

21:25, 5 July 2004

Turkish national deported from Kabardino-Balkaria allowed to come back

Human rights advocates have won a case over an illegal deportation by law enforcement agencies.

21:23, 5 July 2004

Five people detained in special operations in Sunzha district, Chechnya

Residents of the Sunzha district are getting alarmed as military forces are sent in and local law enforcement and security agencies are taking tough action.

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