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23:04, 9 April 2004

Chechen president: draft resolution on Chechnya lends moral support to rebels

"The authors of such statements really impede the process of political settlement in Chechnya," Akhmad Kadyrov said on Friday, April 9.

18:08, 9 April 2004

Chechen villagers to be paid for info on separatist commander

Two residents of Shelkovskaya in Chechnya will be paid 300,000 rubles each within a few days for having alerted special services to the presence of a notorious separatist field commander and mastermind of terror attacks, Abubakar Visimbayev, in their village.

17:46, 9 April 2004

Georgia commemorates anniversary of 9 April 1989 tragedy

Fifteen years ago, elements of the Soviet Army dispersed thousands of activists of the national movement who had gathered for a peaceful meeting on Rustaveli Avenue in the heart of Tbilisi.

17:39, 9 April 2004

Shamil Basayev's subordinate killed in Chechnya

According to the military, the operation to destroy Saidov, who was Shamil Basayev's subordinate, was conducted by the special operations battalion Vostok under the command of Sulim Yamadayev.

16:51, 9 April 2004

FSB officer killed in Shelkovskaya village in Chechnya

Two other officers received wounds of different severity.

16:49, 9 April 2004

Anna Neistat expects no UN sanctions against Russia for policy in Chechnya

"There is no force which can make a sovereign state change its internal policy, except for international tribunal," said the Moscow director for Human Rights Watch.

14:52, 9 April 2004

Mikhail Gorbachev is not going to Georgia, his press secretary says

"We have no information that Mikhail Sergeevich is going to visit Georgia," Vladimir Polyakov said on April 8.

14:08, 9 April 2004

Dagestan Moslems refuse to receive singer Boris Moiseyev

The Moslem community of Dagestan has succeeded in canceling Boris Moiseyev's concerts on the territory of the republic.

13:54, 9 April 2004

Abkhazian authorities release 33 Georgian hostages

The captured people were released after the regular quadripartite meeting in the village of Chuburkhindzhi in the Gali district on April 8.

13:36, 9 April 2004

Adjarian leader ready to release Tengiz Asanidze

The international court in Strasbourg announced its decision on April 8 that Tengiz Asanidze, former mayor of Batumi and a former deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the autonomous republic, should be released.

12:19, 9 April 2004

Joint statement by leading rights monitors: UN Human Rights Commission should adopt resolution on Chechnya

Human rights groups have recently documented a number of "disappearances," summary executions, and attacks against civilians in both Chechnya and Ingushetia.

12:07, 9 April 2004

Zarema Muzhakhoyeva sentenced to 20-years imprisonment

Muzhakhoyeva was found guilty of attempting to commit a terrorist act near the Imbir restaurant in 1st Tverskaya-Yamskaya Street in the heart of Moscow on July 10, 2003. Then, a FSB bomb disposal expert Sergey Trofimov was killed by the bomb.

20:55, 8 April 2004

Georgian human right defenders want Mikhail Gorbachev to be arrested

The All-Georgian Association for the Defense of Human Rights expressed a protest against the visit of former president of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev to Tbilisi designed for April 9. The organization demanded that the Georgian law-enforcement agencies arrested him.

18:06, 8 April 2004

Shamil Basayev's bodyguard destroyed in Chechnya

The military assert that the killed bodyguard of Basayev, Abubakar Visimbayev, was directly connected with the terrorist act in the Theatre Center "Nord-Ost" in Moscow.

18:04, 8 April 2004

Azerbaijan parliament discusses Armenian-Turkish border opening

Speaker Murtuz Alekserov said the border opening could deal a serious blow to the relations between Azerbaijan and Turkey.

16:54, 8 April 2004

Saakashvili urges Abashidze to release former mayor of Batumi

"Asanidze is not a politician or important figure, but he is still being held in prison in defiance of all judicial norms and procedures. We will not allow that a man be illegally held in custody in a Georgian region," the Georgian President said to journalists.

15:58, 8 April 2004

Youth NGO seeks registration

On April 7, the Promishlenny District Court of Stavropol was to consider a complaint by the chairman of the interregional youth public charitable organization Caucasian Youth Human Rights League, Maksim Abrakhimov, against an illegal decision by the Department of the Russian Ministry of Justice in Stavropol Territory.

15:28, 8 April 2004

Chechen president meets with former deputies of Ichkerian parliament

"I can assert with all due responsibility that no one in the federal center or the Chechen administration will negotiate with Maskhadov," Akhmat Kadyrov said.

13:19, 8 April 2004

Arrests of opposition activists in Armenia continue

Armenian law-enforcement agencies have been arresting opposition activists for several days already. Thus, the National Unity party reports on 127 arrested party members and activists.

12:28, 8 April 2004

Armenian NGOs accuse country's authorities of conniving at violence against journalists

"If the culprits, several of them being known, are not punished and the damage to the media is not compensated, we will have to state that Armenian authorities are not interested in consolidating the basic democratic values in the country," reads the statement by a number of Armenian non-governmental organizations (NGOs).

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