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July 29, 2004 18:41

• Azerbaijan Press Is in Danger forum to be held

  The editor of the Azadlyg newspaper, Ganimat Zaidov, announced that the organizational committee to hold the forum, consisting of 9 people, had already been set up. The goal of the action is to draw the attention of the international community and Azerbaijan's authorities to the threat to freedom of the media.

July 29, 2004 18:39

• Kabardino-Balkaria apprehends repetition of Ingush scenario

  All police units and the military unit quartered in Kabardino-Balkaria have gone on higher state of alert as operational information about an imminent rebel attack had been received.

July 28, 2004 19:35

• Azerbaijan human rights activists accuse each other

  The Chairman of the Committee to Protect Rights of Officers of the OPON Special Police Force, Famil Suleymanov, has accused human rights activists Gadjimurad and Rena Sadaddinovs of bribery.

July 28, 2004 19:33

• Dagestani police officers charged with kidnapping

  The Dagestani Prosecutor's Office has finished an investigation into the criminal case against Colonel Imamudin Temirbulatov and Major Ayvar Akhmedov. The investigators' version is that they are involved in abductions of people in Dagestan.

July 28, 2004 19:27

• Authorities seek closure of independent newspaper

  Timur Aliyev, editor of the independent newspaper Chechen Society, was summoned to the Organized Crime Unit of the Ingush Interior Ministry in the morning today.

July 27, 2004 20:57

• Georgian president cannot take criticism, NGO leader says

  "The Former Political Prisoners for Human Rights non-governmental organization (NGO) often lays strictures on authorities. That is why it is not included in the group of NGOs chosen by the president to form the council," Nana Kakabadze, the leader of this NGO, stated.

July 27, 2004 20:55

• Rebels attacked Ingushetia with Maskhadov's permission

  The editors of the Caucasian Knot have got information spread by the Information and Analytical Center of the President of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria.

July 27, 2004 17:00

• New attack against opposition journalists in Azerbaijan

  Two unknown people attacked Eynulla Fatullayev, a reporter for the Monitor weekly yesterday, July 26.

July 26, 2004 19:42

• Armenians from US help their nationals in Iraq

  There are 22 thousand Armenians in Iraq, 15 thousands of them living in Baghdad. There are 9 Armenian churches with large estates in Iraq. None of them has suffered.

July 26, 2004 19:40

• Rebels hunt for heads of district administrations

  A terrorist act in Chechnya left three people dead, the head of the Samashki village administration, Khizir Aldamov, being among them.

July 23, 2004 18:42

• Seven presidential candidates registered in Chechnya

  Chechnya's electoral commission has disqualified one candidate for president of Chechnya for what it has not disqualified the supposed protege of the Kremlin.

July 22, 2004 14:36

• Meskhetians start leaving

  A first group of Meskhetian Turks living in the Krasnodar territory, Russia, has left for the US.

July 21, 2004 14:19

• RSF demands releasing Arifoglu

  Reporters Without Borders call on Azerbaijan's authorities for releasing Rauf Arifoglu, editor-in-chief of Yeni Musavat newspaper.

July 20, 2004 20:11

• Journalists worldwide condemn editor's abduction

  Reporters Without Borders believe the abduction of the editor-in-chief of Azerbaijani-based Baki Habar newspaper an action against freedom of speech.

July 20, 2004 20:01

• S. Ossetia speaking about war

  S. Ossetia's Foreign Ministry says the possible denunciation of the Dagomys Agreement means a return to war.

July 19, 2004 19:41

• Soros Foundation head detention details

  Three Georgian NGO representatives were detained in S. Ossetia for coming there without prior adjustment with the pertinent agencies.

July 19, 2004 16:15

• Oppositional newspaper editor abducted, beaten

  Four strangers abducted and beat Aidyn Guliev, editor-in-chief of a newspaper, which other journalists believe "contracted for" by the government.

July 16, 2004 14:41

• OSCE Minsk Group's activity believed 'untalented'

  A Social Democratic Party leader accuses the OSCE Minsk Group of inability to facilitate the solution of the Nagorno-Karabakh problem.

July 16, 2004 14:32

• Demonstrators demand deporting OSCE Mission head

  The OSCE Mission to Tskhinvali is criticized for its "pro-Georgian position" and failure to provide objective information to the OSCE.

July 15, 2004 22:14

• Elections in Azerbaijan, Armenia massaged - IHF

  The International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights calls the OSCE for considering facts of manipulation of election results in Armenia, Azerbaijan and Chechnya.