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15:04, 20 February 2004

Azerbaijan officer kills Armenian colleague at NATO courses in Hungary

Both the officers were taking part in English courses within the framework of NATO's Partnership for Peace program in Hungary.

13:55, 20 February 2004

Chechnya takes first place in number of antipersonnel mines

About 500 thousand antipersonnel mines are buried and wait for their time in Chechnya.

13:37, 20 February 2004

First Armenian ombudsperson is woman

Larisa Alaverdian, chairwoman of the Foundation Against Illegality, has been appointed the first ombudsperson of Armenia.

12:46, 20 February 2004

Moscow metro blast may have been arranged by Abu al-Walid

$4.5 dollars have come in on al-Walid's foreign account the other day, according to special services' information.

12:43, 20 February 2004

Armenia is not ready to start negotiations for Nagorny Karabakh from scratch

"We have been working for many years to form a certain field for the resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, and I am not going to throw all this work into the water," stressed the President of Armenia.

12:06, 20 February 2004

Ban on lessons of peace arranged by center of Chechen culture "Vaynakh" in Yekaterinburg schools

The police watched the Chechens and human rights activists being evicted from the school but preferred to remain aloof and not to interfere in the situation.

21:22, 19 February 2004

Amnesty International: anti-Chechen sentiment in Moscow post-metro blast

According to information received by Amnesty International, minority ethnic groups from the Caucasus region have once again become the target of discriminatory rhetoric, arbitrary document checks and searches, and racially-motivated revenge attacks.

19:43, 19 February 2004

Temporary accommodation center for refugees "Angusht" left without gas

The authorities explained their actions by saying that the NGO Danish Refugee Council had illegally built housing for displaced persons from liquidated tent camps on the territory of the accommodation center.

16:59, 19 February 2004

Yeni Musavat editor-in-chief Rauf Arifoglu stops hunger strike

As reported by a high-ranking official at Bailovsky Investigatory Isolation Ward 1, the state of Arifoglu's health worsened and isolation ward workers had to warn him of the possibility of using forced feeding.

16:26, 19 February 2004

Films of international Chechnya Film Festival to be shown in Kazan

The films to be shown are Murder with International Consent (Poland), Terror in Moscow (Great Britain), Chechen Lullaby (France), and Children's Stories - Not for Kids (Russia).

15:49, 19 February 2004

Moscow Mayor's Office bans rally timed to 60th anniversary of Stalin's deportation of Chechen people

The organizers of the rally were going to commemorate the victims of the Chechen genocide, to urge the political settlement of the Russian-Chechen conflict and establishment of a United Nations interim administration in Chechnya.

14:59, 19 February 2004

"Against Numbering of People" association founded in Armenia

More than twenty non-government organizations, foundations and parties founded the association "Against Numbering of People". Its main task is to stop the process of introducing the system of social cards in Armenia.

14:24, 19 February 2004

Member of presidential Commission on Human Rights asks Luzhkov to place barrier to Fascist ideology

Svetlana Gannushkina has appealed to Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov drawing his attention to leaflets extremist in content that appeared in Moscow metro trains. These leaflets call upon the citizens to come to the meeting "Clear Moscow of Chechen Bandits."

13:57, 19 February 2004

Georgia to declassify KGB archives

The State Security Ministry of Georgia will make KGB (State Security Committee of the USSR) archives accessible to the wide public in the near future.

13:35, 19 February 2004

Russia opens Chechnya for OSCE

The Russian authorities closed the OSCE mission in Chechnya twice: in 1998 and in 2002. They were displeased with the appeals to conduct negations with Chechen separatists and with the criticism of the human rights situation made by the organization.

13:32, 19 February 2004

Armenians living in Georgia want to create their autonomy

David Rstakian, who leads the Virk party acting in the region, noted with regret that "representatives of the new Georgian authorities, like their predecessors, do not want to consider this issue even on the level of a proposal."

23:59, 18 February 2004

Chairman of Armenian Liberal Progressive Party urges regional cooperation in South Caucasus

The geopolitical situation in the world and economic and political processes in the region have led the Party to the persuasion that the first thing Armenia needs is the development of liberalism and democracy, said Ovannes Ovannisian.

23:38, 18 February 2004

"For Human Rights in Chechnya" group formed in Estonian parliament

Deputy groups supporting Chechnya worked in the Estonian parliament of the seventh, eighth, and ninth convocations too.

23:24, 18 February 2004

Abkhazian Foreign Ministry blames Georgia for aspiration to impose economic blockade on breakaway republic

In the course of his first visit to Moscow on February 10-12, the new president of Georgia asserted that the territory of Abkhazia was used to convey drugs as transit goods and to expand terrorism.

17:02, 18 February 2004

Militants' base found in Chechnya

"The militants' base consisted of two dug-outs with the accommodation capacity of up to 10 people each, places for cooking food and for meals, and four combat security trenches situated along the perimeter of the base," a headquarters official said.

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