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10:14, 9 March 2004

Abdullah Khamzaev awarded Peace Prize

A Chechen lawyer becomes laureate of the prize set up by The Yalta Initiative for Peace in Chechnya coalition.

10:12, 9 March 2004

New terrorist attacks in Moscow possible

An American diplomat says Moscow police reported about possible new acts of terrorism to the U.S. embassy.

10:10, 9 March 2004

Explosive device neutralized at Chechnya polling station

A 1.5-m long metal tube filled with 6 kg of TNT and a plastic explosive was found at a polling station in a school.

10:09, 9 March 2004

Most Turks think it time to discuss genocide

A Turkish scholar first uses the word "genocide" speaking about the mass obliteration of Armenians in Ottoman Turkey in 1915.

10:07, 9 March 2004

Flood emergency in Krasnodar territory, Russia

A Belorechensk, Krasnodar territory, official said 12 settlements and thousands of hectares of land were flooded.

10:04, 9 March 2004

Georgian leader suggests common Caucasus market, favorable investment climate for Russia

"Stereotypes in relations with Russia should be changed," Saakashvili said, "and a favorable investment climate should be created in Georgia for Russia."

10:02, 8 March 2004

Refugees have no hope in delegations

Ella Pamfilova, head of the Human Rights Commission for the Russian president, visited Chechen refugee camps in Ingushetia on March 6.

10:00, 8 March 2004

Giorgadze disqualified from parliamentary elections

Igor Giorgadze, leader of the Justice Party, Georgia, was struck off the party's list of candidates for the parliamentary elections on March 28.

09:58, 8 March 2004

Georgian security officers' riot leads to imprisonment

Three senior Georgian security officers have been convicted to three months' detention for insubordination.

09:53, 8 March 2004

Saakashvili threatens Ajaria with repressions

"Unless Ajaria's leadership abolishes the republican State Security Ministry, there will be tough repressions," said the Georgian President.

15:41, 6 March 2004

Kaloev denies involvement in Skyguide controller's murder

This is what Zurich Prosecutor Pascal Gossner said yesterday.

15:39, 6 March 2004

Chechen leadership uninformed about Murids of Jihad supposed to have claimed responsibility for explosions in Moscow's Metro

There is no such group in the republic, Chechnya's Security Council Secretary Rudnik Dudaev told Interfax.

15:31, 6 March 2004

Ingush leader promises homes to refugees reluctant to return to Chechnya

Displaced persons unwilling to return to Chechnya can stay in Ingushetia, and they will be provided with accommodation, Ingush President Murat Ziazikov said.

15:25, 6 March 2004

Duma member sees no politics in denial of visa to Lord Judd

Duma international committee head Kosachiov says Lord Judd was not given a visa because he mentioned the wrong host information in his papers.

15:20, 6 March 2004

Saakashvili: 'I want to establish control over Ajaria, and I will'

"Self-will is coming to a close. I am not Shevardnadze, and I am not going to dismember and destroy Georgia," Saakashvili said.

14:22, 6 March 2004

Law-enforcement/security operation in refugee camp Satsita, Ingushetia

Officers of some yet unidentified law-enforcement/security agencies blocked the refugee camp Satsita in Orjonikidzevskaia, Ingushetia, on March 6.

17:00, 5 March 2004

Chechen residents having done paperwork to get compensations evicted from refugee accommodations

Eleven people have received written notifications of compensations provided to them. Without having compensation cash on hand yet, the recipients must leave their rooms.

16:50, 5 March 2004

Lord Judd denied Russian visa

The Russian Foreign Ministry has denied a visa to Lord Judd, the former rapporteur on Chechnya to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. In Moscow he was to take part in a Peace Prize award ceremony on March 10.

16:16, 5 March 2004

Another terrorist organization claims responsibility for explosion in Metro

Kavkaz-Center agency received a message from a group called White Shadows claiming responsibility for the explosion in the Metro on February 6, 2004.

16:13, 5 March 2004

RSF asks about reasons for detention of journalists' guide in Chechnya

"This case once again demonstrates the Russian government do all they can to prevent the press from covering developments in Chechnya," RSF representatives say.

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