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18:06, 26 March 2004

NGO activist released in Georgian-Abkhazian conflict zone

David Badjagua, a 25-year-old activist of the Georgian NGO Association of Young Lawyers and Political Scientists, has been released in the zone of the Georgian-Abkhazian conflict. Abductors have been holding him on the territory of Abkhazia for two months.

17:27, 26 March 2004

Military helicopters attack teenagers in Ingushetia

On March 25, a 15-year-old teenager was killed and two teenagers were badly wounded in a missile attack from a military helicopter on the outskirts of the village of Ordzhonikidzevskaya, Ingushetia's Sunzha district.

16:30, 26 March 2004

Adjarian police search house of opposition activists

Approximately 20 police officers armed with automatic weapons took part in the search, according to information of the movement.

15:39, 26 March 2004

Ilkham Aliyev accuses Yerevan of telling lie

Azerbaijan President Ilkham Aliyev has denied the existence of the agreement between Azerbaijan and Armenia concerning the resolution of the Karabakh conflict that was reached in Paris and Key West in the spring of 2001.

15:37, 26 March 2004

Two Russian soldiers injured by land mine in Gordali

Early in the morning of March 25, a Russian bomb squad was in the village of Gordali, Chechnya's Gudermes district, trying to neutralize a land mine when it suddenly exploded.

14:22, 26 March 2004

Leader of Azerbaijan Diaspora shot dead in Krasnoyarsk

One of the leaders of the Azerbaijan Diaspora, retired militia officer Makhir Ilyasov, was killed by a shot to the neck in Krasnoyarsk on the night of March 23-24.

13:50, 26 March 2004

Russia categorically opposed to Chechnya debate at UN

"Russia will strongly object to such attempts, and we count on the support of the majority of Commission Members," Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Yuri Fedotov said.

13:35, 26 March 2004

Victims of repressions in Karabakh granted right to free medical care

The government of Nagorny Karabakh has passed a resolution on providing free medical care for certain sections of the population.

12:43, 26 March 2004

Meeting of Armenian and Azerbaijan foreign ministers in Prague canceled

The Prague meeting of the foreign ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan on the resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict scheduled for March 29 will not be held.

12:22, 26 March 2004

Seven policemen, servicemen wounded in Chechnya

As a convoy was leaving the village of Samashki, unidentified attackers opened grenade and small arms fire at an UAZ-452 van at the end of the convoy.

12:18, 26 March 2004

Policeman kidnapped in Chechnya

A Chechen policeman from Grozny was kidnapped in the village of Urus-Martan on March 24.

12:02, 26 March 2004

Lukin declares for post of ombudsman in Chechnya

"The human rights monitoring in Chechnya must be carried out by an ombudsman in Chechnya. That is why the post of human rights envoy should be introduced there as soon as possible," Commissioner for Human Rights in the Russian Federation Vladimir Lukin said at a press conference on March 25.

17:34, 25 March 2004

Chechen military commandant's office denies capture of nine Russian soldiers by rebels

"Had rebels really managed to take our soldiers prisoners, we would have known there names and other details by now," a source at the military commandant's office said.

16:26, 25 March 2004

Abkhazia and South Osetia will not take part in Georgian parliamentary elections

On March 24, the parliament of the unrecognized republic of South Osetia passed a resolution on the illegitimacy of the holding of the 28 March elections for the Georgian parliament on the territory of South Osetia.

15:31, 25 March 2004

Council of Europe calls upon Ilkham Aliyev to settle problem of political prisoners once and for all

We call your attention to the declaration made by the Council of Europe's Committee of Ministers on the latest pardoning decree of Azerbaijan President Ilkham Aliyev.

14:58, 25 March 2004

Azerbaijan political prisoners set up political movement

Leaders of some opposition parties held in the Bailovskaya prison, Baku, Azerbaijan, set up 16 October Movement on March 24.

13:22, 25 March 2004

Aprasidze's gang liquidated in Georgia

On March 24, special operations units of the Georgian Interior Ministry conducted a special operation in the village of Etseri, in a mountain part of Georgia's Svanetia. Three dangerous gangsters - Gocha, Omekhi and Yevgeny Aprasidze - were liquidated during the operation.

12:58, 25 March 2004

Adjarian leader refuses to disarm militia

"The militia in the autonomous republic will be disarmed when democracy is built in Georgia," Aslan Abashidze said to the local television early on March 25.

12:56, 25 March 2004

Protest action of air traffic controllers in southern Russia

The people are not satisfied with the last indexation of their pay, which has been increased by 13 rubles.

12:04, 25 March 2004

Businessmen in Rostov Region dissatisfied at police officers' illegal actions

The Minister of Economy of Rostov Region, Viktor Deryabkin, announced it at a joint conference of the regional Small Business Council and the Interdepartmental Committee on Overcoming Bureaucratic Barriers to Entrepreneurship.

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