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13:26, 8 June 2005

Teacher wins trial

An Azerbaijani court allows her to wear a burqa.

13:35, 7 June 2005

Ingush officials targeted

A bomb explodes near the house of an ex-Finance Minister of Ingushetia.

13:33, 7 June 2005

Military violates rights in crackdown

Five young men are illegally detained in Chechnya.

13:31, 7 June 2005

War hits children

More than 5,000 children in Chechnya need artificial limbs.

03:03, 6 June 2005

Western company violates worker rights

Five hundred strikers are fired in Armenia.

03:01, 6 June 2005

Ingushetia victimised

Increasingly more civilians are abducted in Ingushetia.

02:54, 6 June 2005

Three days' victims

Chechnya's killed and wounded on 4-6 June.

00:39, 3 June 2005

Religious freedom suppressed in Azerbaijan

A teacher is dismissed because of her religious views.

00:33, 3 June 2005

Terrorists miss target, hit hard

A car with police officers detonates in Dagestan.

18:50, 2 June 2005

Detainees released from five months' custody

The killed Chechen separatist leader <a href="http://eng.kavkaz.memo.ru/persontext/engperson/id/560900.html" target="_blank">Aslan Maskhadov</a>'s abducted relatives are released.

14:28, 2 June 2005

One more victim in dreadful series

A police officer is killed in Dagestan, adding to a number of recently attacked law enforcement agents in the republic.

16:18, 1 June 2005

Chechnya victims

One Russian serviceman is killed and two wounded and one local resident is abducted in Chechnya.

16:16, 1 June 2005

Drug abuse becomes serious problem in Chechnya

There are 1,645 officially registered drug users in Chechnya, but their actual number is 10-12 times higher.

16:15, 1 June 2005

Major attack in Dagestan

A bus with police officers is blown up in Makhachkala.

13:14, 31 May 2005

Civilian wounded in action

A civilian is wounded in a skirmish on the line of contact between the armed forces of Azerbaijan and Armenia.

13:10, 31 May 2005

Western contractors disregard rights in Azerbaijan

Azerbaijani NGOs say pipeline construction violated rights.

13:06, 31 May 2005

One day in Chechnya

Six people, including two children, are killed and two are wounded in one day in Chechnya.

14:51, 30 May 2005

Abuse unlimited

Six are abducted in Chechnya last week.

14:49, 30 May 2005

IDPs pressurised

Forced migrants in Grozny report mounting pressure on the part of law enforcement and security agents.

13:19, 30 May 2005

Unsettled conflict yields more victims

Five die in a skirmish in the Georgian-Ossetian conflict area.

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