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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.

17:37, 10 June 2004

Kadyrov's ultimatum to rebels expires today

Many people in the republic hold Ramzan Kadyrov openly declared that families and relatives of the Chechens fighting in the mountains would be destroyed.

16:34, 10 June 2004

Democracy Award presented to Memorial Society

The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) has presented its Annual Democracy Award to the leaders of Russia's most outstanding non-governmental groups that are working to advance and preserve democracy in Russia.

15:57, 10 June 2004

Wounded activist of Amtsakhara movement dies in hospital

Garri Ayba underwent an operation in the Sukhum town hospital, but he died several hours later.

15:53, 10 June 2004

Number of Chechen presidential contenders grows

Lawyer Adam Edilov and doctor Sultan Aiskhanov filed their applications with the Chechen election commission on June 9 asking to register them as candidates for the Chechen presidency.

15:20, 10 June 2004

Chechen Diaspora in Samara to hold meeting

Organizers of the action explain that the people were forced to take such a step by mass arbitrary detentions of Chechens on the basis of nationality which security agencies of the town of Samara practice.

14:59, 10 June 2004

Azerbaijan opposition to sue Baku administration

The oppositionists are dissatisfied with the fact that the Baku city administration does not allow them to hold protest actions.

14:56, 10 June 2004

Detentions of disabled people continues in Chechnya

Abducted Said Seriyev is a disabled man of the first group. He lost both arms in a landmine explosion while stacking hay last year.

13:02, 10 June 2004

Chechen presidential contender faced charges of fraud, abuse of power

Marat Zaynalabidov was external manager at the Electroapparat defense company situated in Rostov Region.

13:00, 10 June 2004

Georgian special operations forces disperse people protesting against oil pipeline construction

Residents of the Krtsanisi village insist that the land on which the oil pipeline is being constructed has belonged to them long since and demand that the title to this lend be given to them.

12:59, 10 June 2004

3 Georgian power engineering specialists abducted, then 2 found

The state of released Avtandil Biblaya and Omekh Chitanava is satisfactory. However the destiny of the third abducted man, Abesalom Dzhabua, remains unknown.

09:46, 10 June 2004

Volunteers from North Caucasus ready to help Abkhazia against Georgia

Representatives of the Union of Abkhazian Volunteers of Kabardino-Balkaria and youth organizations of the Adyga Khase public movement from Adygeya and Karachaevo-Cherkessia have arrived in Abkhazia.

20:22, 9 June 2004

Georgian journalists not allowed to enter South Osetia

Osetian peacekeepers stopped the escort at a post and demanded that the journalists leave the territory of South Osetia.

20:19, 9 June 2004

Interior ministry denies reports about prevented terror attack in Grozny

"There are no grounds to announce that a large terrorist attack was prevented in the center of Grozny or that rebels tried to blow up the Gosstroy building," the Interior Ministry's duty officer said.

16:48, 9 June 2004

Amtsakhara movement activist wounded in Sukhum

A criminal waited for his victim in the deserted building of a hostel situated not far from Garri Ayba's house and took a shot from there, according to preliminary information.

16:12, 9 June 2004

Chechen family receives body of killed relative

The man most likely died from cruel torture. His body had many knife wounds, his fingers and toes were cut off, and his both arms were broken.

16:10, 9 June 2004

Official makes his apology to NGO leader

There was a media discussion in Adygeya and Krasnodar Region in which Tatyana Rudakova was called a woman who had been in prison twice.

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