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12:07, 9 April 2004

Zarema Muzhakhoyeva sentenced to 20-years imprisonment

Muzhakhoyeva was found guilty of attempting to commit a terrorist act near the Imbir restaurant in 1st Tverskaya-Yamskaya Street in the heart of Moscow on July 10, 2003. Then, a FSB bomb disposal expert Sergey Trofimov was killed by the bomb.

20:55, 8 April 2004

Georgian human right defenders want Mikhail Gorbachev to be arrested

The All-Georgian Association for the Defense of Human Rights expressed a protest against the visit of former president of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev to Tbilisi designed for April 9. The organization demanded that the Georgian law-enforcement agencies arrested him.

18:06, 8 April 2004

Shamil Basayev's bodyguard destroyed in Chechnya

The military assert that the killed bodyguard of Basayev, Abubakar Visimbayev, was directly connected with the terrorist act in the Theatre Center "Nord-Ost" in Moscow.

18:04, 8 April 2004

Azerbaijan parliament discusses Armenian-Turkish border opening

Speaker Murtuz Alekserov said the border opening could deal a serious blow to the relations between Azerbaijan and Turkey.

16:54, 8 April 2004

Saakashvili urges Abashidze to release former mayor of Batumi

"Asanidze is not a politician or important figure, but he is still being held in prison in defiance of all judicial norms and procedures. We will not allow that a man be illegally held in custody in a Georgian region," the Georgian President said to journalists.

15:58, 8 April 2004

Youth NGO seeks registration

On April 7, the Promishlenny District Court of Stavropol was to consider a complaint by the chairman of the interregional youth public charitable organization Caucasian Youth Human Rights League, Maksim Abrakhimov, against an illegal decision by the Department of the Russian Ministry of Justice in Stavropol Territory.

15:28, 8 April 2004

Chechen president meets with former deputies of Ichkerian parliament

"I can assert with all due responsibility that no one in the federal center or the Chechen administration will negotiate with Maskhadov," Akhmat Kadyrov said.

13:19, 8 April 2004

Arrests of opposition activists in Armenia continue

Armenian law-enforcement agencies have been arresting opposition activists for several days already. Thus, the National Unity party reports on 127 arrested party members and activists.

12:28, 8 April 2004

Armenian NGOs accuse country's authorities of conniving at violence against journalists

"If the culprits, several of them being known, are not punished and the damage to the media is not compensated, we will have to state that Armenian authorities are not interested in consolidating the basic democratic values in the country," reads the statement by a number of Armenian non-governmental organizations (NGOs).

11:53, 8 April 2004

Armed group captures bus with civilians in Abkhazia's Gali district

The women and children who were in the bus were let go, and about 50 men were made get out and were conveyed to the town of Ochamchira.

11:38, 8 April 2004

International Helsinki Federation urges to protect Armenian rights defenders

"If investigations do not lead to criminal charges against those responsible for this crime, a negative signal will be sent to Europe that in Armenia attacks on dissident voices go unpunished," reads the letter by the international human rights organization.

17:28, 7 April 2004

Memorial Society denounces organizers of assassination attempt on Ingush president

"This terrorist act was prepared by the forces that want the bloody conflict in the North Caucasus to be continued and expanded," reads the statement by the Board of the International Society Memorial.

17:00, 7 April 2004

Operation to detain Maskhadov is underway

Special operations units of the federal forces and the Vostok battalion under the command of Sulim Yamadayev are conducting an operation to detain separatist leader Aslan Maskhadov in the southern part of Chechnya.

16:22, 7 April 2004

National Unity will do its best to prevent riots on April 9, party's leader says

The party's statement was issued at the April 6 press conference. It is addressed to ambassadors of the Council of Europe's Member States as well as to the US ambassador in order to inform them of the mass detentions of opposition activists.

15:17, 7 April 2004

32nd US state recognizes Armenian Genocide

The Governor of Montana, Judy Martz, said it was necessary to commemorate the 89th anniversary of the genocide since it will play a great role in the cause of ruling out a chance for such crimes to be repeated.

13:30, 7 April 2004

Regular picket held by Antiwar Committee in Saint Petersburg

The peculiarity of the action was the increase in the number of its participants due to members of the youth movement Yabloko and supporters of the Democratic Russia party, reorganized on the initiative of Yuli Ribakov.

12:59, 7 April 2004

Human rights organizations urge UN to pass resolution on Chechnya

Recent researches display that in spite of assurances by the Russian leadership about stabilization of the situation in Chechnya, mass human rights violations, such as torture, forcible disappearances and extrajudicial executions are going on there.

11:58, 7 April 2004

Militants' TV repeater seized in Chechnya

Law enforcement officers discovered a repeater that militants used to broadcast their speeches on television.

11:43, 7 April 2004

Senior Russian officer wounded in Tbilisi bomb blast

A bomb exploded on April 6 in Georgia's capital, Tbilisi, in a compound occupied by Russian military officers. General Alexander Studenikin, head of the Russian Central Command in the Transcaucasia, was injured in the blast.

11:36, 7 April 2004

Rebels' messenger surrenders in Chechnya

Militant leaders' messenger has surrendered to the law enforcement bodies in Chechnya, reported the joint press center of the Regional Headquarters on the Counter-terrorist Operation in the North Caucasus.

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