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18:06, 29 May 2004

NGOs to keep Georgian police departments under supervision

The project to create the Georgian Interior Ministry's Public Council has been worked out by the ministry.

17:36, 29 May 2004

The Russian authorities claimed earlier that the release of the head of the Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) mission had become possible due to a special operation conducted by the Interior Ministry jointly with the Federal Security Service.

17:05, 29 May 2004

Georgia's development level does not meet any standards, Russian businessman says

Viktor Vekselburg thinks Russian businessmen may be interested in the Georgian tourism, hotel system, roads, transportation and communications.

12:48, 29 May 2004

Moscow-Vladikavkaz train blown up

The Russian Emergencies Ministry's Southern regional center reported that the first explosion took place under the last car, and the second one took place under the fourth car.

11:13, 29 May 2004

Round table on extremism to take place in Dagestan

Organizers of the discussion are Dagestani regional branches of political parties and the Union of Dagestani Journalists.

11:12, 29 May 2004

Local detained, then released in Urus-Martan

"It had become known to us that federals wanted to abduct him. And if we hadn't taken him, your son would have disappeared without a trace. We arrested him in order not to let it happen," a man working in a temporary detention isolator said to the mother of Said-Ibragim Rasayev.

11:09, 29 May 2004

Rebels to serve 15 years for taking part in attack on Budyonnovsk

The 14 June 1995 attack of Shamil Basayev's group on Budyonnovsk left 129 people dead and over 400 wounded.

19:01, 28 May 2004

Azerbaijan warns foreign companies against cooperation with Karabakh Telecom

The Azerbaijan side considers the existence of this mobile company on the territory of Nagorny Karabakh illegal.

18:28, 28 May 2004

Businessman to run for Chechen presidency

Malik Saidullayev, chairman of the board of directors of the Milan concern, has announced his intention to run for the Chechen presidency.

18:26, 28 May 2004

President of North Osetia proposes placing new item on agenda of Russian-Georgian talks

"We forecast developments, and we have no reason to think that a campaign with spiny roses comes into the picture," President of North Osetia Aleksandr Dzasokhov said at a press conference in Moscow.

17:18, 28 May 2004

Amnesty International - 43 years of work

On May 28, 1961, lawyer Peter Benenson launched the first campaign to protect political prisoners, which gave birth to one of the largest international organizations.

17:14, 28 May 2004

Council of Europe wants commissioner for human rights in Chechnya

"People still disappear in the republic, and unacceptable deaths are registered their. I think it is normal for the Council of Europe to monitor the situation in Chechnya, this question is fully in its line," stated Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights Alvaro Gil-Robles.

15:49, 28 May 2004

Authorities in Karachaevo-Cherkessia dislike Krishna devotees

The Krishna devotees raise their concern that the recent actions by the authorities are aimed at extruding their community from the republic.

15:47, 28 May 2004

Russian singer voices readiness to assist Amnesty International

Amnesty International has launched its annual report about the human rights situation in 156 countries of the world.

13:47, 28 May 2004

Azerbaijan authorities ready to preserve stability in country

The opposition party Popular Front of Azerbaijan is going to hold a meeting in Baku on May 29 to demand that human rights be observed and arrested opposition leaders be released.

13:25, 28 May 2004

2,500 Chechen residents declared abducted, missing

Twice a month, officers of the Chechen military prosecutor's office receive residents of the Chechen republic having complaints about violations of their rights by federal soldiers. The reception is conducted in the office of the Committee to Secure Constitutional Rights of the Residents of Chechnya.

12:40, 28 May 2004

War Prize competition to end in June

The date when final results of the War Prize competition are to be summed up has been postponed till June 15 in view of the recent tragic developments in Grozny.

12:36, 28 May 2004

Performance action in Ryazan

The theme of the action is the variance between official data and data of the committees of soldier's mothers concerning the number of servicemen killed in Chechnya.

12:34, 28 May 2004

Refugees detained in Satsita camp

Right after the detention of Daudov and Dzhabrailov, police officers cut ropes of the tents in which the activists' families live. Both the detainees are held in the Sunzha district police department now.

18:24, 27 May 2004

Rights activists respond to president's statement

"The fact that the getting of official grants by human rights and ecological organizations is equated to the maintenance of "dubious interests" gives away the way of thinking typical for the State Security Committee (KGB) when any connection with the West is taken as something illegal," reads the statement by the Russian Movement for Human Rights.

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