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14:28, 9 December 2003

Office of ombudsman introduced in Karachaevo-Cherkessia

The office of the commissioner for human rights in Karachaevo-Cherkessia has the A category and is equal in its rank to the office of the vice prime minister of the republic.

12:38, 9 December 2003

Memorial activist wins Martin Ennals Award

The Board of the Human Rights Center "Memorial" is pleased to inform that the Martin Ennals Foundation has conferred the 2004 Martin Ennals Award for Human Rights Defenders (MEA) on Lida Yusupova.

23:47, 8 December 2003

Statement by Yerevan Press Club about draft law "On Mass Communication"

"We rely on the fact that the wide coalition of forces, interested in the freedom and independence of media, will continue its efforts on improvement of legislation and at the same time will concentrate its attention on the development and introduction of mechanisms of the self-regulation of information sphere," reads the statement.

23:40, 8 December 2003

Chechen refugees are being moved from Alina camp

The people are offered to resettle to the neighboring Satsita camp. With all this going on, even minimal conditions have not been created for them to live there. Only graveling has been started at the site marked out for new tents.

23:31, 8 December 2003

44 rebels laid down arms

As the rebels who laid down arms can be supposedly hunted by those who are still in illegal armed units, they will spend some time on the territory of special elements.

15:22, 8 December 2003

Foreign mercenaries during Karabakh war in Ayk Demonyan's book

In the monograph "Karabakh Drama: Secret Acts" (Yerevan, Center for Iranian Studies, 2003), Armenian historian Ayk Demoyan succeeded in gathering and analyzing rich factual material about the military aid provided to Azerbaijan by Turkey during the Karabakh war and about the presence of recruited Chechen and Afghan mercenaries in the Azerbaijan army at that time.

15:19, 8 December 2003

Low turnout reported by observers in Chechnya

"Roughly 200 voters, about 10 percent, came to our booth, so I really don't know where the [official turnout of] 70 percent came from," said Ruslan Khadashev, who worked at Precinct 369 on behalf of Salambek Maigov, one of the candidates.

15:12, 8 December 2003

Chechnya: United Russia - 77%, People's Party - 6.3%, SPS - 4.4%

26.7% of the ballots in Chechnya's single-mandate constituency were counted by 8:00 Moscow time, December 8, reported Chairman of the Chechen Election Commission Abdul-Kerim Arsakhanov.

12:43, 8 December 2003

OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media urges Azerbaijan authorities to set Rauf Arifoglu free

On December 4, Freimut Duve addressed a special letter to Azerbaijan Foreign Minister Vilayat Guliyev in which he expressed concern about the case of editor-in-chief of the Yeni Musavat newspaper Rauf Arifoglu.

11:49, 8 December 2003

Several events devoted to Caucasus to take place in Czech Republic

There are several events planned in the Czech Republic for the period between December 8 and 13 that will be devoted to the Caucasus: its culture, history, tradition, as well as a current situation in the Caucasian republics. These events are also aimed at helping Chechen refugees.

23:49, 6 December 2003

Large-scale "purges" in Grozny

The republican population is extremely alarmed with what is happening and express indignation about the continuing high-handedness from the direction of security agents.

23:46, 6 December 2003

Day of mourning for victims of terrorist act in Essentuki

Yesterday, December 5, 42 people were killed and more than 100 passengers were wounded as a result of the explosion of a railway car in the vicinity of the Essentuki station.

23:22, 6 December 2003

President of Azerbaijan: "There are terrorist camps and drug plantations in Nagorny Karabakh"

"The Azerbaijan party has information there is drug trafficking through Nagorny Karabakh. It is possible that drug plantations as well as camps to provide training to international terrorists are situated there," noted Mr. Aliyev.

22:45, 6 December 2003

Government building blocked by mothers of abducted Chechens

Mothers whose sons were abducted or disappeared without a trace during the second Chechen war have blocked the building of the Government and let nobody in or out.

22:33, 6 December 2003

Dismissal as instrument of putting pressure on electorate in Kabardino-Balkaria

The administration of the Kabardino-Balkarian State University gathered all the university staff in the rector's office, gave them a task to vote for the United Russia party, and threatened to dismiss those who would not follow the instruction.

16:45, 6 December 2003

Martin Ennals Award goes to coordinator of Memorial Office in Grozny Lida Yusupova

The Grozny Office of the Human Rights Center "Memorial" is one of the few human rights organizations still operating in Chechnya and providing the world with crucial information on violations of human rights in this Russian republic.

15:49, 6 December 2003

Explosion in electric train in Essentuki left 42 people dead

35 people died at the site of the terrorist act, the other 7 died in a hospital.

15:48, 6 December 2003

Russian Embassy to Georgia demanded that Georgian authorities inquire into attack on Russian diplomat

The Russian Embassy to Georgia demanded that Georgian authorities immediately launch an investigation in the armed attack on charge de'affaires of the embassy Viktor Rynza, press secretary of the Russian Embassy in Tbilisi Denis Gonchar reported via phone.

14:45, 6 December 2003

Train explosion committed by three Shakhid women and one kamikaze

According to FSB director Nikolay Patrushev, two women were in the carriage and jumped out of it before the explosion. One woman led the action and observed. She has hardly survived, Mr. Patrushev noted.

14:29, 6 December 2003

Murat Zyazikov met with representative of Islamic Relief

On December 3, President of Ingushetia Murat Zyazikov received in his Magas residence Islamic Relief's Country Director for the Russian Federation Mohammed Allaa Ammar.

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