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11:02, 25 March 2004

The National Movement "Board of Trustees of Georgia" has been created in Georgia. It unites about 130 non-government organizations (NGOs).

10:39, 25 March 2004

Moscow authorities ban antiwar picket again

The prefecture of Moscow's Central Administrative District refused for the third time to consider an application for the holding of a picket against war in Chechnya.

10:12, 25 March 2004

Azerbaijan president critical of OSCE Minsk Group

"The Minsk Group's current approach and its position on settling this conflict cannot play a positive role since the group has restricted itself to merely monitoring the situation in Nagorny Karabakh," Ilkham Aliyev said.

18:07, 24 March 2004

Azerbaijan kidnappers detained in Moscow

Four citizens of Azerbaijan who abducted a Palestinian have been detained in Moscow, reported the information and public relations division of the Moscow City Interior Department.

18:04, 24 March 2004

Extraordinary parliamentary elections to be held in Georgia on March 28

The elections will be held at 85 districts and 2,867 polling stations, including those in Russia, Ukraine, Turkey, the United States, and other countries.

17:29, 24 March 2004

Georgian Foreign Ministry annuls Aslan Abashidze's diplomatic passport

The Georgian Foreign Ministry does not rule out the possibility that diplomatic and service passports of members of the Revival political party, led by Aslan Abashidze, will also be annulled.

17:12, 24 March 2004

Stavropol rights defenders to consult draftees

"We implement the project in spite of the fact that the Department of Justice in Stavropol Territory refused to register us on March 1," noted chairman of the Caucasian Youth Human Rights League Maksim Abrakhimov.

15:32, 24 March 2004

Timur Aliyev's Institute for Social Development announces War Prize action

The organizers of the action say they want to understand the reasons for the ongoing tragedy and to reveal concrete people responsible for the war in Chechnya.

14:34, 24 March 2004

Amtsakhara movement accuses Abkhazian authorities of murdering its activist

The Abkhazian social and political movement Amtsakhara accuses Abkhazian authorities of political terror and the murder of its activists Aleksandr Psardia. The movement's political council issued a statement in connection with the death of Psardia on March 23, in which it accuses the authorities of persecuting the opposition and terrorizing political opponents.

13:47, 24 March 2004

Nizhny Novgorod rehabilitation school receives deaf children from Chechnya

The action was initiated by the Society for Russian-Chechen Friendship and sponsored by the Moscow-based Fund for the Support of Democracy and Social Progress.

12:54, 24 March 2004

3 thousand Russian soldiers to be withdrawn from Chechnya till end of April

The withdrawal of the 3-thousand-strong military contingent will not adversely affect the fighting efficiency of the Russian military group in Chechnya, a source at the republican military commandant's office said to the Caucasian Knot correspondent.

12:24, 24 March 2004

Both central and regional media exploit nationalist themes

The researches found out that almost all of the newspapers exploited nationalist themes. The most intolerant regional newspapers are Vechernyaya Ryazan, Kuban Segodnya, and Krasnodarsky Kuryer.

11:23, 24 March 2004

Aslan Maskhadov to decide on destiny of Russian captive soldiers

As reported by the website of Chechen separatists Ichkeria, the Chechen military command decided to be indulgent with respect to the Russian soldiers proceeding from the fact that they did not put up armed resistance and gave frank evidence.

09:36, 24 March 2004

Anti-war meeting trial details

On March 17, Moscow's Meshchansky District Court heard an administrative case against Nikolai Khramov, secretary of Russian Radicals and an organizer of a meeting for peace and democracy in Chechnya.

22:16, 23 March 2004

Compact disk "Victims of Political Terror in the USSR" created

A press conference devoted to the presentation of the compact disk "Victims of Political Terror in the USSR" is to be held at the concert hall of the Central House of Journalists on March 24.

21:58, 23 March 2004

Chechen refugees leave Sputnik camp

The reason for it is that the authorities officially announced the camp would be closed on April 1.

21:50, 23 March 2004

Gogi Topadze is indignant at pre-election situation in Adjaria

"It is true that the extremely tense atmosphere in Adjaria has been relieved. But gunmen in masks are standing at Choloki again, there are tanks hidden in the land again," said one of the leaders of the right opposition.

21:19, 23 March 2004

Both soldiers and civilians keep dying in Chechnya

Two Russian soldiers were killed and five others injured when a radio-controlled mine exploded in the village of Tsa-Vedeno in the Vedeno district. Meanwhile, a 16-year-old schoolboy was killed and three others injured in Urus-Martan by an artillery shell launched by the Russian military.

20:22, 23 March 2004

Purges in Chechnya's Achkhoy-Martan district

The purges were caused by the murder of Chersi Gatayev, deputy chief of the Achkhoy-Martan district police department, and his driver, Inderbiyev, which was committed by a group of unknown people on a road between the villages of Davidenko and Noviy Sharoy on March 19.

14:35, 23 March 2004

New victim of arbitrariness in Grozny streets

The funeral of Ilyas Khatatayev was held on March 19 in the village of Serzhen-Yurt, Chechnya's Shali district. The man was killed by a gunman in camouflage uniform in broad daylight in the center of Grozny the day before.

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