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13:43, 29 December 2003

Police officer murdered in Gekhi village

On December 23, police officer Aslan Magamayev was fired point-blank from the automatic by unknown people in camouflage uniform in the village of Gekhi, Chechnya's Urus-Martan district.

13:02, 29 December 2003

Mourning meeting in memory of victims of December 2002 terrorist act in Grozny

Last year 72 people died last year when two KamAZ trucks detonated near the administrative building. Over 200 people got injuries.

12:27, 29 December 2003

Three servicemen abducted in Gali district of Abkhazia

The destiny of the abducted is unknown yet. The Abkhazian security service is inquiring into circumstances of the incident, Sergey Shamba said.

12:05, 29 December 2003

Adjarian leader gave official consent to hold election of Georgian president in autonomy

Adjaria's refusal to take part in the election would be a catastrophe for Georgia and a "serious historic blemish" for the autonomous republic, in the opinion of Aslan Abashidze.

11:33, 29 December 2003

Interior Troops official wounded in Grozny

The commandant's office in a street corner in Grozny was bombed and shot by unidentified attackers at 10:53 p.m. on Sunday.

23:09, 27 December 2003

Adyg law-enforcement officials discuss migration problems

While opening the conference, Prosecutor of the Republic of Adygeya Mikhail Prikhlenko told that the main problem was the mass presence of Kurdish migrants in Adygeya.

22:51, 27 December 2003

South Osetian authorities to seek international recognition of republic

Residents of South Osetia became very interested in the answer of Vladimir Putin on the question which he was asked by a spectator from Kabardino-Balkaria during a live translation.

22:13, 27 December 2003

Radical criticism directed at Abkhazian leadership from U.S.

In his article leader of the Abkhazian Diaspora in the U.S. Inal Kazanba points out that "the Diaspora has provided considerable financial and economic support to its motherland" but "in spite of this during the last decade the present regime in Sukhumi has never treated them as its equals, it means true Abkhazians."

21:49, 27 December 2003

Paruyr Ayrikian: to change power in Armenia means to gain time in Karabakh problem

According to the chairman of the National Self-Determination association, had the authorities just a little respect and love for Artsakh they would understand their main mission is to renounce the power. "In this case we will not only gain time but also will have a serious support," he thinks.

20:51, 27 December 2003

Media Rights Institute about draft legislation on Public Television

"Internews' Media Rights Institute urges all foreign diplomatic missions, in particular the Council of Europe, to which Azerbaijan was made a member in 2001, to voice their concerns that such legislation is not worthy of a government attempting to move toward democratic ideals," reads the statement by the organization.

19:57, 27 December 2003

Most part of rebels who penetrated in Dagestan was destroyed, according to the military

Russian special operations forces captured two rebels. It follows from their evidence that the large part of the rebels has been destroyed before as a result of air strikes, another part is buried under a snow avalanche.

12:13, 27 December 2003

Stands of Armenian and Azerbaijan parties on key issues of Karabakh problem remain diametrically opposed

A meeting between parliamentary delegations of Armenia and Azerbaijan was held in Scotland on December 20 under the aegis of the South Caucasian Inter-Parliamentary Initiative and with the financial support of the London Information Network on Conflicts and State-Building (LINKS).

10:28, 27 December 2003

Interregional seminar "Facilitating Social Partnership in North Caucasus"

The seminar was organized by the Saint Petersburg Center "Strategy" and the Moscow Helsinki Group with the participation of the Ingush President's staff.

22:51, 26 December 2003

Dagestani, not Chechen militants fight in Tsuntinsky district

"The fact that large forces engaged in the operation in Dagestan have not succeeded in uncovering and destroying the militants for almost two weeks points that they are dealing with the people who are perfectly at home in the area and are supported by locals," Abubakar Makhmudov, an officer of Chechen law-enforcement agencies, holds.

22:45, 26 December 2003

Armenia ratifies European Social Charter

The Charter is one of the fundamental documents of the Council of Europe, it supplements the European Convention on Human Rights.

22:44, 26 December 2003

Two police officers killed in Chechnya

A police department was fired at in the Chechen village of Petropavlovskaya. Two police officers were killed as a result.

22:41, 26 December 2003

Resident of Serzhen-Yurt village detained, then released

The Serzhen-Yurt village administration rendered much help to set Ayub Bedigov free.

19:36, 26 December 2003

Visit by Nino Burdjanadze to Moscow - details

Vladimir Putin met Acting President of Georgia Nino Burdjanadze in the Kremlin on Thursday December 25. It was a face to face meeting.

18:59, 26 December 2003

Red Cross to continue joint projects with Abkhazian Ministry of Education in 2004

2,500 pupils of the 9th form study various aspects of international humanitarian law (IHL) within the limits of such disciplines as history and social science.

18:08, 26 December 2003

Seminar on Georgian-Abkhazian conflict in Austria

The 12th meeting in the Georgian-Abkhazian Dialogue, a series of seminars on the conflict between Georgia and Abkhazia and its peaceful resolution, was held in Stadtschlaining, Austria, on December 15-20, 2003. Participants discussed a political situation in Georgia and Abkhazia and opportunities that appear due to the change of power in Tbilisi.

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