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17:07, 21 June 2004

Saakashvili's party wins elections for Adjarian parliament

Thus 16 mandates will be given to representatives of Mikhail Saakashvili's party elected by party lists, and 2 mandates will be given to Republicans. Almost all majority deputies will represent the ruling party.

17:05, 21 June 2004

Notorious field commander to be buried behind barbed wire

Ruslan Gelayev's relatives have made several requests to give them the body, but they were denied. Investigators explained the denial by saying that Gelayev was not an ordinary bandit but a terrorist, and "under the federal law on combating terrorism, the terrorists' bodies are not given to their relatives."

15:11, 21 June 2004

Women's meeting in Chechnya suspended

Having been given evidence that 25 out of 28 detained people were really free, the women decided to wait until the release of the other three people.

15:09, 21 June 2004

Refugees undergo purges in Ingushetia

In the course of a special operation, gunmen in masks detained a 30-year-old resident of the village of Tangi-Chu and took him away in an unknown direction.

13:32, 21 June 2004

Karabakh journalists to take part in Armenian-Azerbaijan-Karabakh project

A network of radio diaries, which Armenia, Azerbaijan and Nagorny Karabakh can exchange with, is planed to be created within the framework of the project.

13:09, 21 June 2004

Chechen women block federal route

The women demanded that the Chechen authorities should return abducted relatives to them or inform them of their whereabouts.

13:05, 21 June 2004

23,000 refugees from Chechnya, Iran, Afghanistan stay in Azerbaijan

Director of the Center for Legal Assistance to Migrants Alovsat Aliyev subjected the work of the UNHCR office in Azerbaijan to criticism.

13:02, 21 June 2004

Russian peacekeepers' observer post to be established in Upper Kodori

Such an agreement was reached during a meeting between representatives of the Georgian military department and Lieutenant General Yevteev.

19:16, 19 June 2004

Ethnic Georgians must recognize jurisdiction of Abkhazia to visit Sukhum

"The villagers' wish to visit Sukhum is quite understandable, especially in the situation when residents of mountain villages are deprived of proper medical care and consumer goods," Chairman of the Abkhazian State Security Service Givi Agrba said.

15:57, 19 June 2004

Public Examination project presented in Dagomys

The Public Examination institute launched the Power-Society-Media project in April 2004.

11:25, 19 June 2004

Women, children leave Georgian villages of South Osetia

Residents of Osetian villages blocked roads leading to the Georgian villages and the population turned out to be in an economic blockade.

11:23, 19 June 2004

Access to South Osetia temporarily denied for Georgian journalists

The South Osetian information agency Res claims that Georgian TV channels incorrectly cover the course of parliamentary elections and other developments in the breakaway republic.

11:22, 19 June 2004

Head of Abkhazian presidential administration dismissed

"My dismissal is connected with a certain scenario of preparation for the presidential election to be held in autumn and with my attitude to it. I don't blend with this scenario," Gennady Gaguliya said.

22:52, 18 June 2004

US holds interest in resolution of Karabakh conflict

US Ambassador John Ordway denied circulating rumors that great pressure was put on Armenia in the issue of handing over three districts of Azerbaijan controlled by Armenia.

22:46, 18 June 2004

Peacekeepers cope with their mission

Estimating the 10 years' activity of the CIS Peacekeeping Forces on the maintenance of peace in the zone of the Georgian-Abkhazian conflict, Commander Lieutenant-General Aleksandr Yevteev told the Caucasian Knot correspondent that conditions were being created so that refugees could safely return to the Gali district.

18:02, 18 June 2004

Human rights center seeks registration

The Kabardino-Balkarian Human Rights Center gained a court victory, but the Department of the Russian Ministry of Justice in Kabardino-Balkaria appealed against the court decision in the Supreme Court of the Republic of Kabardino-Balkaria. The Supreme Court annulled the decision and sent the case for retrial.

16:26, 18 June 2004

Georgian minister touches on Abkhazian issue, appeals to economic indicators

"Though the return of South Osetia will require certain resources, much more resources will be spent to regain control over Abkhazia," said the Georgian Economy Minister.

16:25, 18 June 2004

Chechen rebels attack district police department, prosecutor's office

The fight with the use of firearms and grenade launchers lasted for about forty minutes.

15:20, 18 June 2004

Human rights groups file proposals for Chechnya to Administration

Some Russian NGOs have submitted proposals for a political settlement in Chechnya to the Administration of the Russian president and some COE officials.

15:16, 18 June 2004

European Court to hear six complaints from Chechnya

Six residents of Chechnya accuse the Russian government of extrajudicial executions, torture and cruel and degrading treatment of their relatives, as well as property damage.

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