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10:55, 5 March 2004

Seminar on resolution of armed conflicts in North Caucasus to be held in Moscow

A two-day seminar arranged by the Norwegian Center for Peacemaking and Conflict Studies with the assistance of the Russian-British Center for Peacemaking and Community Development will be conducted at the Andrey Sakharov Museum and Public Center on March 11-12.

10:52, 5 March 2004

Representative of Meskhetian Turks reports to UN on discrimination of his people in Krasnodar Territory

Akhmed Mazmanov of the International Society of Meskhetian Turks "Vatan" made a report within a framework of the thematic discussion on the state of non-citizens at the 64th session of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) in Geneva on March 1.

10:48, 5 March 2004

Presentation of three numbers of Krasnodar rights catalogue-digest

First three numbers of the rights catalogue-digest published by the regional branch of the Russian Memorial Society were presented to the public during a round table discussion held by the Krasnodar Club of Civil Education of the Krasnodar Regional NGO Creative Union "Southern Wave".

10:45, 5 March 2004

Students of Chechen State University request classmate be released

About 200 students from the Department of Medicine of the Chechen State University staged a demonstration in front of the building of the Chechen government in Grozny. Participants demanded that their classmate, Aslambek Khambiyev, be freed.

23:59, 4 March 2004

Georgian rights defenders concerned with state of Chechen refugees

Mulkoyev and Alkhanov, Chechens abducted in Georgia and transported to Russia, are being held in an investigatory isolation ward of the Federal Security Service in Yessentuki.

23:58, 4 March 2004

The Azerbaijan Popular Front Party also laid strictures on the attempt by Azerbaijan authorities to prejudice the objectivity of the report by the Department of State. The Party called upon the authorities to give up the actions aimed at "oppressing democratic values."

23:08, 4 March 2004

Inspection of documents of prayers in Historic and Memorial Mosques in Moscow

Law-enforcement agencies conducted "total inspections" of documents of prayers in the Historical and Memorial Mosques in Moscow on February 27, Nafigulla Ashirov, co-chairman of the Council of Muftis of Russia and chairman of the Spiritual Administration of Moslems of the Asiatic Part of Russia, reported to Ekho Moskvy Radio.

18:17, 4 March 2004

Basmanny Court delivers guilty verdict against participant in a meeting for peace in Chechnya

A hearing of the administrative case against Mikhail Kukobaka, an activist of the Transnational Radical Party and former Soviet political prisoner, was held at the Basmanny District Court on March 2. Mikhail Kukobaka was detained by the police on Lubyanskaya Square on February 23, during a meeting for peace and democracy in Chechnya banned by the Moscow authorities.

16:14, 4 March 2004

Chechen women in Ivanovo region undergo police checks

At the end of February - the begging of March, women from the Chechen Republic who temporarily live in the town of Ivanovo received summonses ordering them to appear in district police departments as witnesses in criminal cases.

14:50, 4 March 2004

FSB announces destruction of Akhmed Basnukayev from federal wanted list

Basnukayev was on the federal wanted list for the personal murder of 30 people and death of 200 more people as a result of other grave crimes.

13:34, 4 March 2004

Chechen intellectuals address open letter to Russian President

The intellectuals are deeply concerned about the attitude towards the natives of Chechnya on the territory of the Russian Federation. In their opinion, the mass media play a large part in forming the negative image of the Chechens.

13:30, 4 March 2004

Kabardino-Balkarian liquidators of Chernobyl disaster address letter to President Putin

The matter of the open letter prepared by the Chernobyl liquidators for publication in press concerns the payment of compensation for health damage provided for by the law.

12:36, 4 March 2004

Two passers-by suffered in exchange of fire between security agents and criminals in Nazran

Two residents of Ingushetia were wounded in the center of Nazran during a detention of a man suspected of membership of illegal armed units.

12:34, 4 March 2004

Azerbaijan Army occupies settlement controlled by Armenians without combat

Sub-units of the Azerbaijan Armed Forces have occupied the settlement of Gyrmyzykend in the Agderinsky district without any combat actions.

23:35, 3 March 2004

Chechen policemen pay part of their salary to Ramzan Kadyrov

Almost all members of Chechen law enforcement agencies give a hefty percentage of their pay to Ramzan Kadyrov, head of the security service of his father Akhmad Kadyrov, leader of the republic. Prague Watchdog's correspondent learnt about these kickbacks from Chechen policemen who preferred not to be named.

22:46, 3 March 2004

Discussion on new forms of civic and political activity and their application in Kuban region takes place in Krasnodar

Participants in the round table discussion were activists of non-government organizations (NGOs) and trade union organizations, members of regional branches of the Yabloko party, the Union of Right Forces (SPS) and the Russian Liberal Democratic Party (LDPR), Cossacks, and students.

22:43, 3 March 2004

Zamoskvoretsky Court of Moscow denies complaint by Movement for Human Rights

The complaint was lodged at the instance of former hostages and relatives of the people killed in the Theatre Center on Dubrovka in 2002

15:43, 3 March 2004

Two last tent refugee camps in Ingushetia to be dismantled by mid-March

Chechen government officials explain the necessity to liquidate the tent camps by poor living conditions there, "Tents have decayed, their operating period expired long ago, people often fall ill."

15:26, 3 March 2004

Chechen group "Gazoton Murdash" claims responsibility for blast in Moscow metro

Kavkaz Center's editors received an e-mail from an anonymous address from an unknown earlier group called "Gazoton Murdash." The group's leader, who identified himself as Lom-Ali of Chechnya, made a statement in which he pointed out that his militarized organization claimed responsibility for the blast in the Moscow metro that happened on February 6.

14:56, 3 March 2004

Russian, Transcaucasian religious leaders discuss peacekeeping activities in Caucasus

Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Alexis II, Chairman of the Supreme Religious Council of Caucasian Peoples Sheikh Allakhshukyur Pasha-zade, Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia Iliya II and Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians Garegin II took part in the meeting.

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