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June 21, 2004 17:08

• Alkhanov goes on leave

  Chechen Interior Minister Alu Alkhanov is expected to submit his application for registration as a candidate for the post of Chechen president to the republican election commission today.

June 21, 2004 17:07

• 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.

June 21, 2004 17:05

• 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."

June 21, 2004 15:11

• 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.

June 21, 2004 15:09

• 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.

June 21, 2004 13:32

• 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.

June 21, 2004 13:09

• Chechen women block federal route

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

June 21, 2004 13:05

• 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.

June 21, 2004 13:02

• 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.

June 19, 2004 19:16

• 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.

June 19, 2004 15:57

• Public Examination project presented in Dagomys

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

June 19, 2004 11:25

• 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.

June 19, 2004 11:23

• 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.

June 19, 2004 11:22

• 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.

June 18, 2004 22:52

• 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.

June 18, 2004 22:46

• 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.

June 18, 2004 18:02

• 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.

June 18, 2004 16:26

• 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.

June 18, 2004 16:25

• Chechen rebels attack district police department, prosecutor's office

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

June 18, 2004 15:20

• 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.