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12:51, 15 June 2004

New NGO unites refugees in Nagorny Karabakh

Approximately 25 thousand refugees, most of whom were deported from Azerbaijan, live in Nagorny Karabakh now, according to Nagorno Karabakh's Department for Refugees and IDPs.

12:12, 15 June 2004

Georgians from Azerbaijan hold protest action in Tbilisi

Participants asserted in particular that local Azerbaijan authorities closed Georgian schools in the region stage-by-stage, forced Georgians living in the region to change their family names and give children Azerbaijan names, and subjected them to other forms of national discrimination.

12:09, 15 June 2004

Skirmish in Abkhazia's Gali district

Sources in the conflict zone reported that a skirmish between members of an Abkhazian armed unit and Russian peacekeepers left a member of the Abkhazian group, a certain Dzidzaria, badly wounded and the Russian peacekeeper whose family name is Stupnik wounded.

12:03, 15 June 2004

Georgian-Osetian talks suspended

A spokesman for the South Osetian government announced that "the holding of the talks with Tbilisi is unreal after the situation in the zone of the Georgian-Osetia conflict had become extremely tense."

21:02, 14 June 2004

Murder attempt on Chechen policemen might be revenge

Three were killed in a "clean-up" in Orjonikidzevskaia. Sunzha district, Ingushetia, on June 12, so investigators say a following blast near that place might be rebels' revenge for their associates.

21:01, 14 June 2004

Chechnya marks Russia's 'Independence Day'

Explosions on roads marked Russia's Day in Grozny on June 12.

20:59, 14 June 2004

Chechen public figures want to see Saidullaev

Some Chechen public leaders would like to meet with Malik Saidullaev, a candidate for president of the republic who also ran in 2003, to discuss ways to make the upcoming election "clean and honest."

20:58, 14 June 2004

Gantamirov to run for president

Bislan Gantamirov, former deputy prime minister of Chechnya, is going to lodge papers to the local electoral commission to run for president of the Chechen Republic.

18:23, 14 June 2004

Samara's Chechens, Ingush demand equal rights

The Chechen-Ingush community of Samara held a protest meeting on June 10 demanding that abuses on an ethnic basis should be stopped and seeking protection from the Russian president.

18:20, 14 June 2004

Abkhaz Women Association addresses Georgian NGO leaders

Below is a full-text version of a statement addressed to leaders of a number of Georgian NGOs by the Abkhaz Women Association alarmed with some developments in South Ossetia and Abkhazia.

17:18, 12 June 2004

Another Armenian oppositionist released from custody

Vagarshak Arutyunian, the member of the political council of the opposition party Anrapetutiun (Republic) and former Armenian defense minister, was released from custody after giving a written undertaking not to leave a place.

16:45, 12 June 2004

740 died in landmine explosions in Chechnya for 9 years

3,293 incidents when people fell victims to mine and UXO explosions, including 2,553 cases of injuries, have been registered in Chechnya since 1995, according to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in the Russian Federation.

16:43, 12 June 2004

Slovak citizen disappears in North Caucasus

Miriam Yevikova, a Slovak citizen who worked for the Organization for Aid to Refugees (OPU), disappeared on the way from Pyatigorsk to Vladikavkaz on June 1, reported Dmitry Grushkin, a representative of the Memorial Human Rights Center.

15:45, 12 June 2004

Favorite in Chechen presidential race known

"The active PR-campaign to promote Alkhanov that has been launched both in the Chechen and Russian media indicates that the Kremlin has made its choice," said a 37-year-old teacher at the Chechen State University.

14:53, 12 June 2004

Rebel group neutralized in Ingushetia

The 31-year-old field commander killed yesterday, Nashkho Khamzatkhanov, was wanted for membership in illegal armed units for several years.

23:56, 11 June 2004

Trucks with soldiers enter Chechnya

44 Ural military trucks passed through the Kavkaz post on the Rostov-Baku federal route on June 10. They moved from the direction of the village of Ordzhonikidzevskaya, Ingushetia's Sunzha district, to Chechnya.

17:56, 11 June 2004

Last refugees leave Satsita camp

Chechen non-governmental organizations engaged in IDPs' problems report on approximately 1,000 people still living in canvas tents on the territory of different places of compact residence.

15:42, 11 June 2004

Meeting in support of Chechen interior minister as presidential candidate held in Chechnya

Residents from different districts of the republic started arriving at Tsentoroy, the ancestral village of the Kadyrov family, in the morning of June 10.

14:51, 11 June 2004

Swiss, Chechen human rights activists meet in Ingushetia

Over 20 representatives of Chechen human rights organizations and pubic movements attended the conference.

14:48, 11 June 2004

Former Armenian defense minister to stay in custody

Vagarshak Arutyunian was arrested on the night of April 12-13, when interior troops used force to disperse a demonstration on Bagramian Avenue in Yerevan.

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