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13:43, 18 February 2004

Human Rights Center "Memorial" demands to stop fanning anti-Chechen sentiments in Moscow

We call your attention to the text of the letters addressed by the Human Rights Center "Memorial" to the Moscow Mayor and Prosecutor in view of the forthcoming meeting titled "Clear Moscow of Chechen Bandits".

12:26, 18 February 2004

Georgian Parliament confirms new Cabinet

Zurab Zhvania became Prime Minister of Georgia; 4 state ministers and 15 ministers were appointed.

23:48, 17 February 2004

Moscow Prosecutor's Office will have to ground legality of actions during storm of "Nord-Ost"

The All-Russian Public Movement "For Human Rights" holds that workers of the prosecutor's office continue to violate constitutional rights of the public movement's members, who advocate rights of the people suffered during the storm of the Theatre Center. The violation is that they limit their access to justice.

22:52, 17 February 2004

10,000 Meskhetian Turks from Kuban region to get refugee status in US

The first information meeting with Meskhetian Turks on the program of their resettlement to the United States was held in the village of Kholmskaya, Krasnodar Territory, on 16 February 2004.

21:32, 17 February 2004

Azg newspaper: Georgia secretly sold weapons to Azerbaijan

"Georgia sold 6 SU-25 fighters to Azerbaijan in 2002, without notifying corresponding UN agencies," reports the Azg newspaper, Armenia.

21:00, 17 February 2004

Nine victims of terrorist act on Dubrovka to get compensation

The Moscow authorities will pay out over 265 thousand rubles in a lump sum and will pay over 17 thousand rubles monthly.

20:34, 17 February 2004

Militia lieutenant condemned for use of torture in Yessentuki

The public prosecutor proved that in June 2003, the lieutenant tied a local man to a chair with belts and beat him with the purpose of getting a confession from him.

15:16, 17 February 2004

Night bombardment in Achkhoy-Martan district

Locals believe the bombardment was a reaction to the terrorist act committed in the Moscow metro on 6 February 2004.

15:14, 17 February 2004

Al Qaeda calls upon Chechen rebels to take part in "holy war" in Iraq

Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who leads Al Qaeda's operations on the territory of Iraq, calls upon "all the Jihad fighters" to go to Iraq to wage "holy war" under his command their. He intends to transfer from 1.5 to 2 thousand fighters who stay on the territory of Chechnya now to Iraq.

13:42, 17 February 2004

Cache with great number of ammunition found in Chechnya

The cache contained 132 mines of the 120 caliber.

13:34, 17 February 2004

Abkhazian, South Osetian leaders to have talks in Moscow

Abkhazian Prime Minister Raul Khajimba came to Moscow on February 15.

12:47, 17 February 2004

Political scientist Paata Zakareishvili: Georgian society takes aggressive attitude to South Osetia and Abkhazia

"The new authorities enjoy great confidence and have total carte blanche regardless of how much we criticize them. I hope everything they will do will be under strict control of the West, which will not allow them to move towards aggression," says the expert in the issues of resolution of the Georgian-Abkhazian conflict.

23:36, 16 February 2004

Institute of Peace and Democracy: Azerbaijan authorities persecute political opponents under pretext of struggle against terrorism

"We cannot prevent torture against detainees at the police departments. The Interior Ministry and the Prosecutor General's Office keep on disregarding all the appeals by international and republican human rights organizations," reads the statement.

22:37, 16 February 2004

Leader of Dashnaktsutyun: Karabakh needs to establish dialogue with neighbors

Vagram Balayan thinks that in the context of the Baku-Jeikhan oil pipeline construction, the interested countries may force the Armenian side to accept certain variants of the resolution.

18:15, 16 February 2004

Abkhazian Defense Ministry denounces detention of Russian fishing boat by Georgian military

General Vladimir Arshba warned that if such a situation recurred, Abkhazia would find a way to defend its interests at sea, as well as a way to defend peace fishermen.

17:39, 16 February 2004

Position of Russian Society "Memorial" regarding Russian presidential election

The Society "Memorial" does not back up the candidacy of the present President, and it is undoubted. At the same time, Memorial, as a united organization, does not support election campaigns of the other candidates either.

17:37, 16 February 2004

Problem of oil spills is under discussion in Baku

"Countries of the Caspian region do not have enough resources to prevent oil spills and liquidate their consequences. Therefore our goal is to draw the public's attention to this problem," said a representative of the NGO Crude Accountability, Michelle Kinman.

16:32, 16 February 2004

Trade unions gain court victory over Stavropol administration

A judicial contest between regional budget trade unions and the Stavropol administration has ended with the victory of the former.

15:59, 16 February 2004

Chechen teenager detained by servicemen dies from wounds

Rustam Djakalayev, 1989, a resident of the village of Assinovskaya, was shot down by Russian servicemen in the village of Ordzhonikidzevskaya, Ingushetia, on February 3.

14:50, 16 February 2004

1.3 million Armenians live in Russia, according to 2003 population census

The number of Azerbaijanians living in Russia increased from 340 thousand in 1989 to 620 thousand in 2002.

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