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February 15, 2005 23:26

• FBI experts consider Zhvania's death accident

  According to preliminary data, the death of Zurab Zhvania was a tragic accident.

February 15, 2005 23:08

• Azerbaijan parliamentary elections may be delayed

  The authorities may take such a step to avoid revolutionary scenarios.

February 14, 2005 23:59

• Kadyrov to sue human rights activists

  Chechen First Deputy Prime Minister Ramzan Kadyrov has announced he is going to sue human rights activists slandering him.

February 14, 2005 23:41

• New Abkhazian president inaugurated

  The inauguration of Sergey Bagapsh, new Abkhazian president elect, was held in Sukhum on February 12.

February 09, 2005 23:53

• OSCE missions to visit occupied Azerbaijan territory

  According to Foreign Minister of Nagorny Karabakh Armen Melikian, foreign experts registered 5 thousand Armenians settled in the regions of Azerbaijan adjacent to Nagorny Karabakh.

February 09, 2005 23:45

• Martial law extended in Nagorny Karabakh

  An attempt to set legal and democratic values above security issues was made for the first time in the modern history of Nagorny Karabakh.

February 08, 2005 23:16

• Kadyrov's people commit 75% of crimes in Chechnya

  On February 7, the International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights (IHF) and the Human Rights Center Memorial presented statistic and correspondents' information on the violations in Chechnya committed in 2004 and told about a new aspect of the crisis – Chechenization of the conflict.

February 07, 2005 23:59

• Assault victims stage rally

  People living at 6th Magistralnaya Street in Makhachkala whose houses were damaged in the 15 January assault against rebels have staged a rally in the Dagestani capital today.

February 07, 2005 23:49

• Chechen police do not confirm Basayev's death

  The information about Shamil Basayev's alleged death is being checked now, a Chechen police source told the Caucasian Knot correspondent.

February 07, 2005 23:40

• Former president, speaker wanted by Azerbaijan police

  Azerbaijan law enforcement agencies search for over 2 thousand people now.

February 04, 2005 23:59

• No Greek houses burnt in Georgia recently

  Chairwoman of the Georgian parliamentary Committee on Human Rights and Civil Integration Elena Tevdoradze has denied reports that houses owned by local Greeks have been burnt in Georgia's Tsalksky district for the last two weeks.

February 04, 2005 23:37

• Human rights activists protest against early marriages

  In her interview with the Caucasian Knot correspondent, human rights activist Leyla Yunus stated that the country's authorities must draw attention to the fact that early marriages have become more frequent in Azerbaijan recently.

February 03, 2005 23:48

• Dagestani deputy interior minister murdered

  At about 9 p.m. on February 2, unknown people opened fire on the Niva car that Dagestani Deputy Interior Minister Magomed Omarov was in. The incident occurred in the center of Makhachkala.

February 03, 2005 23:17

• Opposition urges unbiased investigation of Zhvania's death

  Preliminary results of Georgian prime minister Zurab Zhvania's blood test confirm the version that he died from carbon monoxide poisoning, expert Irina Tandilashvili told journalists.

February 02, 2005 23:59

• Ashuba prejudices Saakashvili's peace initiatives

  "It wasn't seen from Saakashvili's speech in Strasbourg that Georgia has new thinking now," said the Abkhazian speaker.

February 02, 2005 23:55

• OSCE monitoring group works in Nagorny Karabakh

  The OSCE monitoring group examining Azerbaijan's territory controlled by Nagorny Karabakh for the purpose of checking the implementation of the state settlement program continues its work.

February 02, 2005 23:40

• Abduction of Maskhadov's relatives investigated

  Chechen law enforcement agencies are investigating an abduction of Aslan Maskhadov's closest relatives. Abductors have not been found, the whereabouts of the abducted people and their further destiny are not known.

February 01, 2005 23:59

• Don federal road blocked up

  Experts of the Rostov regional ministry of transportation and communication hold that the critical situation on the road is caused mainly by its technical condition.

February 01, 2005 23:48

• Taramov denies reports about Basayev's death

  On January 31, Russian mass media spread information about the death of Shamil Basayev referring to representatives of the Chechen diaspora in Azerbaijan.

February 01, 2005 23:19

• Azerbaijan can be excluded from PACE

  "If the problem of political prisoners hasn't been solved in Azerbaijan by the April session of the Council of Europe's Parliamentary Assembly (PACE), the country can lose its mandate in this organization," stated PACE rapporteur on political prisoners in Azerbaijan Malcolm Bruce.