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18:47, 16 April 2004

Operation to search for rebels continues in southern districts of Chechnya

The Russian military and officers of local security agencies have been conducting large-scale operations in several southern districts of Chechnya for the last few days.

16:31, 16 April 2004

Second round of parliamentary elections in Adjaria frustrated

"All responsibility for the frustration of the elections lies with the Adjarian leadership and those people who create illegal armed units there," said Chairman of the Georgian Central Election Commission Zurab Chiaberashvili.

12:45, 16 April 2004

Armenian politicians discuss situation in country

"A corridor is left even during military operations so that people can leave, but on April 13 the people were encircled on all sides," said Erdzhanik Abgarian, board member of the Armenian National Movement.

11:54, 16 April 2004

Journalists beaten during dispersal of opposition meeting in Armenia, OSCE to seek punishment for the guilty

The OSCE is deeply concerned over the use of force during the dispersal of the opposition meeting, said Head of the OSCE Office in Yerevan Ambassador Vladimir Pryakhin.

11:31, 16 April 2004

Karabakh foreign minister sees no objective preconditions for renewal of military operations

"The level of fighting efficiency of the Karabakh army gives hope that the balance of forces in the region, due to which the truce is preserved, will be maintained in the future too," the minister said.

11:22, 16 April 2004

Village administration chief, security man killed in Chechnya

Unidentified gunmen opened automatic fire at the Lada car in which head of the village administration Alvi Valiyev was driving at 9:45 p.m. on April 15.

10:52, 16 April 2004

Meeting participants block off Kavkaz federal route in Dagestan

Residents of Dagestan's Tsumadinsky and Botlikhsky districts held an unauthorized meeting, demanding that immediate measures be taken in connection with a disappearance of their friends.

10:29, 16 April 2004

Rights defenders, students protest against state terror in Armenia

Human rights organizations, NGOs, and students held a meeting in the center of Yerevan on April 15.

10:11, 16 April 2004

UN Commission rejects resolution on human rights violations in Chechnya

The draft resolution was submitted by representatives of the European Union, who believe Moscow must be more active in stopping what they consider to be violence against civilian Chechens on the part of the federal forces.

23:04, 15 April 2004

Armenian oppositionists enter their headquarters sealed up by police

Albert Bazeian, a leader of the party Anrapetutiun (Republic), said they were going to turn to the European Court of Human Rights in view of the illegal closure of the party's office and the damage done to it.

18:26, 15 April 2004

Hotline for victims of ethnic discrimination

By means of it, qualified lawyers will give primary advice to the suffered.

17:46, 15 April 2004

Adjarian Interior Minister: no velvet revolution in autonomy

"I want Tbilisi to know that the November [2003] developments will not repeat themselves in the Adjarian autonomy. The local population will defend the elected power to the end," said Djemal Gogitidze.

16:21, 15 April 2004

Armenian opposition promise safety to President Kocharian

The opposition is ready to guarantee safety for Armenian President Robert Kocharian, said leader of the opposition National Unity party Artashes Gegamian.

15:47, 15 April 2004

South Osetian defense minister dies

Defense Minister of the Republic of South Osetia Zelim Muldarov was found dead in his flat in Tskhinvali in the morning of April 15. The cause of his death has not been established so far.

15:24, 15 April 2004

Press secretary of Armenian People's Party released

Ruzanna Khachatrian gave a written undertaking not to leave a place.

15:22, 15 April 2004

Chechen rebels deny reports by Russian military command about combats in Gudermes district

The military assert they know who leads the bandits in spite of the fact that no member of the gang that attacked Ishkhoy-Yurt has been captured.

15:19, 15 April 2004

Details of bombing in Rigakhoy village

"We hope that the tragedy in the village of Rigakhoy will be thoroughly investigated nevertheless, and the guilty will be punished," reads the statement by the Memorial Center.

12:31, 15 April 2004

Chechen president offers reward for capture of Maskhadov

Akhmad Kadyrov says he has had no contacts at all, telephone talks included, with Aslan Maskhadov ever since the second Chechen campaign broke out late in summer 1999.

12:23, 15 April 2004

Terrorist suspect detained in Chechnya

Zagra Muchuyeva, 51, who was on a wanted list, was detained in the Gudermes district in the east of Chechnya. She is suspected of preparing a number of crimes, RIA Novosti was told on April 14 by the official spokesman for the regional headquarters on the counter-terrorist operation in the North Caucasus.

12:19, 15 April 2004

Russia opposes UN Commission's passing resolution on Chechnya

Representatives of the Russian delegation said in Geneva that, despite its rather quiet nature, some clauses of the resolution are utterly not true to fact.

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