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12:26, 13 August 2003

Red Cross appealed to Arjan Erkel's kidnappers

"The international humanitarian law does not allow taking civilians hostage. Security is still a major problem for all humanitarian organizations working in the Northern Caucasus," recalled the Red Cross.

12:23, 13 August 2003

Amnesty International raises its concern about future of Novorossiysk Fund "School of Peace"

As local human rights affirm, the authorities of Krasnodar territory began threatening the Fund with closure after it had taken over a work of defending the rights of Turks-Meskhetians.

23:18, 12 August 2003

Date of legal proceedings at suit of Main Department of Ministry of Justice for Krasnodar territory against Fund "School of Peace" has been set

There are good causes to believe the true reason for bringing a suit was an active work of fund's staff on the observance of human rights in the Krasnodar region.

23:16, 12 August 2003

Leader of public organization of Chechen refugees was detained in Ingushetia

On August 10, 2003 the Chairman of the International United Committee of Refugees from Chechnya Shirvani Gunayev was detained by the officers of the Sunzhensky regional interior department in his tent in the tent camp "Sputnik".

20:06, 12 August 2003

Regional conference of Public and Political Movement "Aytaira" took place in Gudaut on August 8

Conference delegates reelected Roman Geriya, a Hero of Abkhazia, for the next term as a head of the regional department of "Aytaira".

20:04, 12 August 2003

"Doctors Without Borders" stages demonstration on Lubyanskaya Square in Moscow

The demonstration is timed to the anniversary of the abduction of the mission's head Arjan Erkel in Dagestan. "Doctors Without Borders" are dissatisfied with the progress of the investigation.

20:02, 12 August 2003

Residents of Geydarabad (Azerbaijan) state they undergo firing from Armenian direction

A group of Azerbaijan journalists visited the village at the instance of local residents. They saw there that house roofs are riddled with bullets, some bullets hit administrative buildings of the village.

20:00, 12 August 2003

Refugees who had returned from Ingushetia were placed in former storage facilities

Nine refugees from those who had been recently shifted from the camp "Bella" to the village of Ordzhonikidzevskaya were hospitalized because of poisoning by chemical substances by means of inhalation.

16:46, 12 August 2003

Militia officer was murdered in Naursky region of Chechnya last night

Unknown people rushed in the house of the militiaman, disarmed him and drove him away.

16:44, 12 August 2003

Attack against secretary with Russian embassy to Georgia

According to a source in the local police, several people attacked Valyukhin, who was inside his car, in an attempt to rob him.

16:42, 12 August 2003

Former Duma deputy Nadirshakh Khachilayev was killed in Dagestani capital

A group of unidentified criminals opened fire at Khachilayev's car outside his home on Monday evening; the criminals fled.

14:53, 12 August 2003

8-year old girl was injured in grenade explosion

According to preliminary results of the investigation, Artayeva hit a booby trap while playing in one of the abandoned houses.

14:52, 12 August 2003

Georgian State Security Ministry asserts no Chechen separatist remains in Pankissi George

"As a result of the anticriminal and antiterrorist operation started by Georgian power structures in August 2002, there is no separatist infrastructure in the Pankissi George any more, as well as, one may say, there are no separatists there", the official representative of the Georgian State Security declared.

14:50, 12 August 2003

Militia sergeant died in skirmish with separatists in Chechnya

On August 10 about 10 soldiers of the Nozhay-Yurt Regional Internal Affairs Department entered into a fire with separatists while being on concealed patrol not far from the village of Sogunti.

14:48, 12 August 2003

About 100 separatists were amnestied in Chechnya

The Prosecutor of the Chechen Republic Vladimir Kravchenko noted that the highest activity of separatists' appearance to law-enforcement organs was registered in the Gudermes region.

14:40, 12 August 2003

Group of ready-to-die terrorists aiming at nuclear reactor of institute named after Kurchatov was detained in Moscow

Three Chechens, two women and a man, were in the passenger compartment; all of them wore shakhids' belts filled with explosives.

20:39, 11 August 2003

Russian Ministry of Education announces creation of Federal Reference-Book "Public Resources of Education"

The Ministry of Education invites Russian and international public unions and non-profit organizations to take part in the creation of an electronic database of educational projects to be included into the Federal Reference-book "Public Resources of Education".

20:37, 11 August 2003

Soldiers' fire in suburbs of Grozny

Russian soldiers blocked transport movement along this part of the road and opened a disorderly fire from all kinds of weapon in all directions.

20:35, 11 August 2003

Armenians from Georgia are indignant at Georgian deputy's provocative statements

In his interview to one of Georgian TV channels Bregadze spoke "about false programs of the US Armenian lobby directed to accomplish an upheaval so that local Armenians could come to power in the country".

20:33, 11 August 2003

Mahomet Tekeyev insists on withdrawal of OMON platoons from Karachaevo-Cherkessia

The presidential contender motivated his demand with the fact that many of the OMON (militia platoon for special purposes) officers had taken part in a counter-terrorist operation on the territory of Chechnya, that is why they were prejudiced against the Caucasian people.

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