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20:59, 14 June 2004

Chechen public figures want to see Saidullaev

Some Chechen public leaders would like to meet with Malik Saidullaev, a candidate for president of the republic who also ran in 2003, to discuss ways to make the upcoming election "clean and honest."

20:58, 14 June 2004

Gantamirov to run for president

Bislan Gantamirov, former deputy prime minister of Chechnya, is going to lodge papers to the local electoral commission to run for president of the Chechen Republic.

18:23, 14 June 2004

Samara's Chechens, Ingush demand equal rights

The Chechen-Ingush community of Samara held a protest meeting on June 10 demanding that abuses on an ethnic basis should be stopped and seeking protection from the Russian president.

18:20, 14 June 2004

Abkhaz Women Association addresses Georgian NGO leaders

Below is a full-text version of a statement addressed to leaders of a number of Georgian NGOs by the Abkhaz Women Association alarmed with some developments in South Ossetia and Abkhazia.

17:18, 12 June 2004

Another Armenian oppositionist released from custody

Vagarshak Arutyunian, the member of the political council of the opposition party Anrapetutiun (Republic) and former Armenian defense minister, was released from custody after giving a written undertaking not to leave a place.

16:45, 12 June 2004

740 died in landmine explosions in Chechnya for 9 years

3,293 incidents when people fell victims to mine and UXO explosions, including 2,553 cases of injuries, have been registered in Chechnya since 1995, according to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in the Russian Federation.

16:43, 12 June 2004

Slovak citizen disappears in North Caucasus

Miriam Yevikova, a Slovak citizen who worked for the Organization for Aid to Refugees (OPU), disappeared on the way from Pyatigorsk to Vladikavkaz on June 1, reported Dmitry Grushkin, a representative of the Memorial Human Rights Center.

15:45, 12 June 2004

Favorite in Chechen presidential race known

"The active PR-campaign to promote Alkhanov that has been launched both in the Chechen and Russian media indicates that the Kremlin has made its choice," said a 37-year-old teacher at the Chechen State University.

14:53, 12 June 2004

Rebel group neutralized in Ingushetia

The 31-year-old field commander killed yesterday, Nashkho Khamzatkhanov, was wanted for membership in illegal armed units for several years.

23:56, 11 June 2004

Trucks with soldiers enter Chechnya

44 Ural military trucks passed through the Kavkaz post on the Rostov-Baku federal route on June 10. They moved from the direction of the village of Ordzhonikidzevskaya, Ingushetia's Sunzha district, to Chechnya.

17:56, 11 June 2004

Last refugees leave Satsita camp

Chechen non-governmental organizations engaged in IDPs' problems report on approximately 1,000 people still living in canvas tents on the territory of different places of compact residence.

15:42, 11 June 2004

Meeting in support of Chechen interior minister as presidential candidate held in Chechnya

Residents from different districts of the republic started arriving at Tsentoroy, the ancestral village of the Kadyrov family, in the morning of June 10.

14:51, 11 June 2004

Swiss, Chechen human rights activists meet in Ingushetia

Over 20 representatives of Chechen human rights organizations and pubic movements attended the conference.

14:48, 11 June 2004

Former Armenian defense minister to stay in custody

Vagarshak Arutyunian was arrested on the night of April 12-13, when interior troops used force to disperse a demonstration on Bagramian Avenue in Yerevan.

12:44, 11 June 2004

Krasnodar human rights activist arrested

The leader of the Public Court human rights group, Valery Krasnobrizhev, was arrested in the prosecutor's office of Krasnodar's Central District on June 5.

12:25, 11 June 2004

Chechen-Ingush Diaspora in Samara protests against mass detentions

Approximately 100 protesters gathered on the square in front of the building of the regional administration.

11:50, 11 June 2004

New suspects in Kadyrov's assassination arrested

Chechen law enforcement agencies claim the detainees, a 28-year-old and a 22-year-old men, have already made a confession. But the interior ministry has flatly refused to impart names of the alleged murderers of Akhmat Kadyrov.

11:48, 11 June 2004

Authorities close another refugee center in Ingushetia

As reported by inhabitants of the temporary accommodation center Rassvet, migration service officials told them the camp would be closed beginning from June 10.

11:46, 11 June 2004

South Osetia wants to be part of Russia, addresses Russian president

President of the breakaway republic of South Osetia Eduard Kokoity has arrived in Moscow to deliver an official address about South Osetia's joining the Russian Federation to the Russian president and the Federal Assembly.

17:46, 10 June 2004

Chechen refugees in Georgia unwilling to return home

The overwhelming majority of Chechen refugees who have settled in Georgia's Pankisi Gorge are reluctant to return to Chechnya because they fear for their safety.

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