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13:53, 23 March 2004

Russian soldier shoots dead two residents in Chechen village

A Russian contract soldier opened fire without provocation in a Chechen village, killing two local men.

13:40, 23 March 2004

National cultural center of Kabardino-Balkarian Osetins arranges conference

The national cultural center of Osetins living in Kabardino-Balkaria held a conference in Nalchik on March 21.

13:34, 23 March 2004

Command-and-staff exercises begin in Armenia

In accordance with the plan of the exercises, mobilization reserves will be called up on the first day for the purpose of personnel replacement.

13:17, 23 March 2004

Complaint lodged by Movement for Human Rights, lost by Moscow City Court

A complaint lodged by the Movement for Human Rights with the Moscow City Court in connection with the case on the hostage taking on Dubrovka was expected to be considered on March 24, but court officials "confessed they had lost the complaint," head of the movement Lev Ponomarev said to the Ekho Moskvy Radio.

12:01, 23 March 2004

Iskra Morokhia found dead in Gali district

The dead body of Iskra Morokhia, an officer of the Security Service of the Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia in exile, was found on March 18 with multiple bullet wounds in the village of Chuburkhindzh, Abkhazia's Gali district.

11:57, 23 March 2004

South Osetia makes efforts to set free Marek Dudayev

On March 17, chief of the Georgian State Security Ministry's investigatory department Mr Gviniashvili announced they had no evidence of Dudayev's involvement in the terrorist act. Nevertheless Marek Dudayev is still in the hands of the Georgian law-enforcement agencies.

18:28, 22 March 2004

Renewal of blockade threatens Adjaria

As expected, the escalation of tensions between Batumi and Tbilisi has not eased.

18:06, 22 March 2004

Aslan Abashidze does not hurry to lift state of emergency in Adjaria

The Adjarian leader insists that the period for the preliminary voter registration before the parliamentary elections of March 28 be extended.

17:14, 22 March 2004

Ingush refugees return to North Osetia

The action for refugees' return to the "zone closed for the Ingushetians" is conducted under the aegis of the Office of the Special Representative of the President of the Russian Federation for the Resolution of the Osetian-Ingush Conflict.

16:26, 22 March 2004

Taliban fighters extradited from Guantanamo base to Russia, not allowed to meet relatives

Mothers of captive Taliban fighters extradited from the Guantanamo base, the US, to their native land turned for help to the sub-delegation of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in the Northern Caucasus on March 18, asking to visit their imprisoned sons in Pyatigorsk, where they are being held. They said their sons were subjected to beatings there.

15:38, 22 March 2004

Ethnic Osetins from Georgia's Akhmetsky district strive to resettle to South Osetia

A group of Osetins living in the Akhmetsky district of Georgia arrived in South Osetia on March 18 to meet with authorities there.

14:55, 22 March 2004

European Union provides up to 1 million euros in grants for Georgian NGOs

There are three priority areas to be financed under the European Initiative for Democracy and Human Rights (EIDHR) microprojects programme: support to the rule of law and the fight against corruption; the fight against torture; and combating discrimination against religious and ethnic minorities.

14:05, 22 March 2004

Police official killed in Chechnya's Achkhoy-Martan district

Unknown people shot down Chersi Gatayev, deputy chief of the Achkhoy-Martan district police department, and his driver on March 19.

13:36, 22 March 2004

Process of paying compensations for lost housing and property in Chechnya to be accelerated

"1,654 residents of the Chechen Republic have got compensations for lost housing and property for the last six months. Another 4 thousand people are expected to get compensations till the end of March," chairman of the Chechen governmental committee for compensation payments and displaced persons Abubakar Baybatirov said in his interview with the Caucasian Knot correspondent on March 20.

12:36, 22 March 2004

EU special representative for South Caucasus to arrive in Yerevan on March 23

During his visit, which will last till March 27, Heikki Talvitie will meet with the Armenian political leadership.

12:25, 22 March 2004

Yeni Musavat newspaper journalists stop hunger strike

On March 19, five contributors to the Yeni Musavat newspaper suspended the hunger strike they had started on March 15. "The editor-in-chief of the newspaper, Rauf Arifoglu, who is held in Bailovsky Investigatory Isolation Ward No 1, addressed an appeal to the hunger strikers, asking them to stop it," reported Yeni Musavat deputy editor-in-chief Gabil Abbasoglu.

11:32, 22 March 2004

New NGO to help displaced persons in Stavropol region

The founders see the main task of the organization in providing moral, legal and financial assistance to displaced persons and socially vulnerable residents of the Stavropol region.

17:46, 20 March 2004

Picket against war in Chechnya held in Moscow despite authorities' ban

An antiwar picket banned by the authorities was held on Pushkinskaya Square in Moscow on March 18, at 5:30 p.m.

16:13, 20 March 2004

Mass action of protest in Ingushetia

Representatives of unidentified security agencies have abducted and taken away in an unknown direction over 20 residents of Ingushetia since the beginning of the year. On March 19, relatives and friends of abducted and missing people, who have been driven to despair by the unsuccessful search, staged a spontaneous action of protest on the outskirts of Nazran.

14:58, 20 March 2004

Murderer of Armenian officer to receive scholarship

Nadyr Aliyev, an Azerbaijan businessman and leader of the Organization of National Unity, has decided to grant a scholarship to Ramil Safarov, the Azerbaijan officer who killed his Armenian colleague, Gurgen Margarian, in Budapest on February 19, 2004.

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