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17:30, 15 December 2003

Russian troops reportedly wiped out village of Dzumsoy

Locals report that the village of Dzumsoy, which numbered 40 houses, was razed to the ground by Russian soldiers several days ago.

16:46, 15 December 2003

Hundreds of thousands gathered in Baku to bid farewell to Geidar Aliyev

The ex-president of Azerbaijan died at the age of 80 on Friday December 12 in the clinic in Cleveland, the U.S., where he had been receiving treatment for heart and kidney problems since August 6.

15:00, 15 December 2003

50 rebels burst through into Tsuntinsky district of Dagestan

According to some versions, the rebels occupied one of the Dagestani villages. According to other data, the group of rebels was detected when they were trying to flee to Georgia.

14:31, 15 December 2003

Georgian Interior Minister: situation in Pankisi Gorge may worsen

Several days ago, the police found a depot with 84 unguided antitank missiles apparently left by Chechen guerillas in a forest near the village of Khalatsani.

14:00, 15 December 2003

Prague hosts cultural events aimed at helping people from Caucasus

Last week two cultural events took place in the center of Prague dedicated to Caucasians who either still live in their homeland under disturbing conditions, or left to seek shelter in the Czech Republic.

13:16, 15 December 2003

South Osetian Prime Minister's aide denies information that Georgian special operations unit entered the republic

On December 11, Russian mass media published information that the Georgian Security Ministry's special unit had entered the village of Megvrikisi in South Osetia.

12:40, 15 December 2003

Murder of Yunus Yakubov - details

On December 7, the day of the Russian State Duma elections, Yunus V. Yakubov, 1948, was killed in Gudermes. He was an observer for the Chechen regional branch of the United Russia Party.

11:58, 15 December 2003

South Osetian State Security Committee head: special unit of Georgian Security Ministry troops did be in conflict zone

As head of the State Security Committee of the Republic of South Osetia Colonel Oleg Alborov declared, the fact that a special unit of Georgian Security Ministry troops entered the Georgian-Abkhazian conflict zone on December 11 is true.

11:09, 15 December 2003

Human rights activists in Yekaterinburg protested against war in Chechnya

At the monument to the founders of the city, they mounted a stand informing of human rights abuses in Russia.

17:15, 13 December 2003

Commission on women's affairs created in Chechnya

The commission on women's, family and youth affairs has been created under the State Council of the Chechen Republic. The well-known teacher Napsat Yusupova is at the head of it.

16:44, 13 December 2003

Human rights defenders receive legal training in Nazran

According to one of the organizers, Vladimir Weissman of the International Helsinki Federation (IHF), the goal was to teach the proper way of writing applications to be filed with the European Court of Human Rights, the UN Human Rights Committee and other international bodies.

16:30, 13 December 2003

Rally to protest arbitrary enforced actions against Chechen refugees took place in Brno

Members of the Nesehnuti public organization and the regional branch of Amnesty International organized a rally in front of the Russian Consulate in Czechia's second largest town of Brno on Thursday, December 11, to protest the arbitrary enforced actions taken against Chechen refugees in Ingushetia.

15:34, 13 December 2003

Press freedom curtailed since Ilham Aliev's election as president

Reporters Without Borders calls on Ilham Aliev to change direction in his government's policies toward the news media and to carry out reforms that would facilitate the development of a free and independent press.

14:45, 13 December 2003

Russia to receive food aid for Chechnya

James Morris, head of the World Food Programme, said he had just agreed a new 18-month programme to deliver food to Chechen residents, schoolchildren and those displaced by the conflict into neighbouring Ingushetia.

17:23, 11 December 2003

Action against infringement of Turks-Meskhetians' rights in Krasnodar Territory

Participants declared they would continue their struggle for human rights and were ready to resume the mass hunger strike. But this time they will do it throughout Krasnodar Territory, they said.

17:19, 11 December 2003

Opposition activists arrested for participation in mass riots in Baku stopped hunger strike

About 50 oppositionists held in Investigatory Isolation Ward 1 went on hunger strike last week, demanding that the authorities of the country meet recommendations by the OSCE on the non-admission of political persecution.

16:56, 11 December 2003

Mass media coverage of interethnic relations in Stavropol Territory

The information and analytical round table discussion "Mass Media in Stavropol Territory: Coverage of Interethnic Relations" took place at the Pyatigorsk Branch of the North Caucasian Academy of Public Service on November 27.

16:26, 11 December 2003

Only handful of Chechen refugees voted in State Duma elections

By human rights activists' preliminary estimate, the turnout did not reach even 1% of the displaced persons from Chechnya living in Ingushetia.

16:01, 11 December 2003

Concert devoted to 15th anniversary of creation of Moscow Memorial

The Memorial Society kept and keeps on playing a noticeable part in the making of civil society in Russia.

15:25, 11 December 2003

Fine imposed on former head of military hospital in Mozdok

The Pyatigorsk Garrison Court Martial pronounced sentence on the former head of the military hospital in Mozdok blown up by kamikaze terrorists.

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