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20:57, 15 January 2004

Georgian Central Election Commission officially announces Mikhail Saakashvili's victory

According to the final official data, Saakashvili won 96.27% of the vote.

19:47, 15 January 2004

Known doctor and masseur Khamzat Osmayev abducted in Ingushetia

On January 12, Russian security agents abducted Khamzat Kh. Osmayev, 1954, in the village of Pliyevo, which is a municipal district of the Ingush town of Nazran.

18:03, 15 January 2004

Representatives of territorial authorities, business and public meet informally in Krasnodar

They gathered at the restaurant "Krasnodar" to exchange opinions about possible ways of cooperation in an informal atmosphere.

17:46, 15 January 2004

Aleksandr Podrabinek: seizure of book "FSB Blows Up Russia" is act of intimidation against society

"We remember how they came in and conducted searches 20 years ago. Everybody knew it was dangerous to read books as it could be a ground for imprisonment. Now they make it clear to the society that it is dangerous to read such books," says Aleksandr Podrabinek.

16:16, 15 January 2004

Meeting in Sukhum between members of Abkhazian People's Party and leaders of "Akhyatsa" social and political movement

Members of the Abkhazian People's Party met with leaders of the "Akhyatsa" social and political movement in Sukhum on January 12. They discussed their positions and priorities in their activity.

15:01, 15 January 2004

Irina Khakamada makes appeal to victims of State terrorism

"I have been mistaken believing that President Putin will help find truth and will repent of his order to use homicidal gas," Ms. Khakamada confesses in her statement. Now she has decided to respond to the appeal by relatives of those who died as a result of the explosions of apartment houses in Moscow in 1999 and during the storm of "Nord-Ost".

13:43, 15 January 2004

Ashot Gulyan: neither Armenia nor Nagorny Karabakh has ever prohibited from participation of Azerbaijan representatives in international meetings

Foreign Minister of the Republic of Nagorny Karabakh Ashot Gulyan has given comments on the refusal of the Azerbaijan authorities to receive the Armenian representatives at NATO's conference in Baku.

13:07, 15 January 2004

People to serve by contract in Chechnya being recruited in Karachaevo-Cherkessia for first time

The recruits who will win the competition will get special training at the Mozdok Training Center and then will be sent to Khankala.

23:35, 14 January 2004

Ingush Migration Service puts pressure on members of refugees' Public Council

A group of Ingush Migration Service officials, led by acting head of this organization Akhmed Parchiyev, visited the Satsita camp on January 12.

23:25, 14 January 2004

Special Representative of UN Secretary-General in Georgia and CIS Peacekeeping Forces Commander discuss situation in zone of Georgian-Abkhazian conflict

"Heidi Tagliavini emphasized the important role of the Russian peacekeeping force in the cause of keeping peace in the zone of the conflict," CIS Peacekeeping Forces press secretary Sergey Isayev said to journalists.

18:29, 14 January 2004

Case concerning book "Blowing Up Russia: Terror from Within" conducted by FSB

The criminal case, which saw the book by Alexander Litvinenko and Yuri Felshtinsky "Blowing Up Russia: Terror from Within" (in Russian titled simply "FSB Blows Up Russia") withdrawn from circulation, is being conducted by the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB).

17:34, 14 January 2004

Special Representative of UN Secretary-General in Georgia met with Abkhazian leadership

Before her meeting with the Abkhazian leadership, Heidi Tagliavini met with new Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili. He expressed readiness to continue the dialogue with Abkhazia, she said.

16:31, 14 January 2004

Case on deportation of Turks-Meskhetians from Krasnodar Territory - details

The Krasnodar Territorial Court declared admissible an appeal against the decision by the Anapa City Court on the deportation of two Turks-Meskhetians from the Russian Federation.

14:55, 14 January 2004

Soma Radio in Sukhum launches series of programs on social issues

For the first time, Soma Radio, Sukhum, has launched a series of programs devoted to social issues. The project is being implemented with the help of the British NGO Conciliation Resources.

14:26, 14 January 2004

French islamists enlisting volunteers for war in Chechnya were put under examination

They were arrested last week in the suburbs of Lyons, France.

14:03, 14 January 2004

Abkhazian refugees seize administration building in Tbilisi

Some 20 refugees from Abkhazia seized the building of Tbilisi's sanitary service on the nights of January 12-13. The refugees said they would stay inside the building until Georgia's authorities helped them return to Abkhazia.

13:57, 14 January 2004

Stavropol police frees kidnapped girl

The Stavropol police have freed a 14-year-old kidnapped girl, whom the bandits have been holding locked up for fourteen days. A source at the Information Office of the Stavropol Territorial Interior Department informed that the bandits had wanted to get a ransom of half a million rubles for her release.

13:38, 14 January 2004

General elections in Chechnya to be held in October or November

The new Chechen parliament will consist of two chambers: the Council of the Republic and the National Assembly; each will have 61 deputies.

23:45, 13 January 2004

Association of Russian Diplomats deputy chairman: parties of Karabakh conflict are in deadlock

Vladimir Kazimirov notes in his article that despite the fact that a long-standing standstill in the resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict have been explained by the inconvenience of the pre-election climate in Armenia and Azerbaijan for the last years, no ray of hope can be seen after the elections too.

23:10, 13 January 2004

Human rights defenders press for discharge of Secretary General of the Azerbaijan Chapter of the International Religious Liberty Association

On December 1, 2003, Ilgar Ibragimoglu was summoned to the Prosecutor General's Office to give evidence in connection with the October events, there he was arrested as a person suspected of organization of mass riots and offering resistance to the police.

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