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16:08, 11 August 2003

Information about "coalition against Kadirov" is not confirmed

On August 7 the media reported presidential contenders in the republic made a "coalition against Kadirov" intending to put up a united front and to support in the second round of the election, if it is held, a contender alternative to today's head of Chechnya.

16:06, 11 August 2003

Videotape picturing Arjan Erkel, holding hostage in Dagestan, appeared in the Netherlands

Arjan Erkel looks healthy in the video; he speaks Russian and asks for ransom for his captors. The spokeswoman of "Doctors Without Borders" Marieke van Zalk confirmed the receipt of the videotape, but underlined all reports on its contents were "speculations".

16:03, 11 August 2003

Son of local administration's head was killed in Chechenya

Sayid-Akhmed Arsakhanov taught physics at a local secondary school.

15:57, 11 August 2003

Czech journalist was murdered in Dagestan

The body of a 30-year old Czech citizen Kraus Martin, who had permanently resided in Prague, was found on the river bank in the village Chirkata in the Gumbet district of the republic.

14:04, 11 August 2003

Doctors from blown-up Mozdok Military Hospital wrote letter to President Putin

Survived hospital staff insists on immediate release of Artur Arakelyan, an arrested head of the hospital facing a charge of negligence.

14:02, 11 August 2003

Eduard Shevarnadze: "50 thousand refugees "spontaneously" returned to Abkhazia"

"One could no longer stop this process", the president said.

14:00, 11 August 2003

Chechen refugees in Ingushetia are afraid of eviction

Chechen refugees from the tent camp "Bart" in Ingushetia are afraid of eviction. Their anxiety is caused by threats to liquidate a part of the camp coming from officials of the Ingush Union "Avtodor".

13:57, 11 August 2003

Next "ecological landing" will be made in October

The Stavropol Regional Public Organization "All-Russian Society of Nature Conservation" is summing up the days of protection from ecological danger that took place at the end of March - the beginning of June.

16:06, 9 August 2003

Georgia wants to be part of Europe

Membership in the European Union and NATO is what Georgia's foreign policy is aimed at. President Eduard Shevardnadze made a statement to this effect on the national television on Friday night.

16:04, 9 August 2003

Security measures were reinforced on Chechen-Ingush border

The military do not preclude a chance that separatists will break through into Chechnya. A recommendation was issued for local residents of border villages against going to surrounding forests.

16:03, 9 August 2003

Committee of Soldiers' Mothers affirms 12 000 people to be killed in second Chechen war

Such data were given by the responsible secretary of the Union of Russian Committees of Soldiers' Mothers Valentina Melnikova.

16:00, 9 August 2003

Nino Burdjanadze presented her election platform

Foreign diplomats accredited in Georgia, as well as representatives of opposition parties attended the presentation of Nino Burdjanadze's election platform.

15:57, 9 August 2003

Shamil Basayev was pronounced highly dangerous terrorist by the US and included into UN antiterrorist list

According to the US State Department statement circulated in Washington, the US also charged Basayev with having connections with the international terrorist organization "Al-Qaeda" and engineering terrorist acts in Moscow and Grozny.

13:46, 9 August 2003

All garrisons of federal forces were relocated from villages situated at foot of Black Mountains

The population took denudation of the foothills as a signal of forthcoming worsening of the situation.

13:45, 9 August 2003

Nine activists of opposition Democratic Party of Azerbaijan were arrested in Baku

The detained people picketed a building of the Central Election Commission striving for the registration of their party leader Rasul Guliyev as a candidate for the post of the country's president.

13:43, 9 August 2003

Regional Bureau of representatives for human rights under Chechen Ministry of Justice was established in Shali town

According to the words of the organization's chief Abdula Bachayev, the Bureau is under the legal assistance of the International Public Movement "Consolidation".

23:58, 8 August 2003

Khadzhy Bayram Bolat has been abducted in Nalchik

On August 7 a Turkish repatriate Khadzhi Bayram Bolat has been abducted from his house in Nalchik. Earlier Russian authorities tried to deport him beyond the bounds of the Caucasus.

23:55, 8 August 2003

Law-enforcement organs of Stavropol region are conducting interdepartmental complex operational and preventive operation ?Teenager?

It is planned to uncover teenage groups with unsocial orientation, including extremist orientation, as well as adults pushing minors for crime perpetration.

23:50, 8 August 2003

Action of protest of Alkhazurovo settlement inhabitants

Expressing protest against despotism of Russian soldiers, inhabitants of Alkhazurovo completely blocked a motor road passing near the settlement and blocked movement along the federal route ?Rostov-Baku? for several hours.

23:47, 8 August 2003

Council on Adygei language was established in Adygeya

Leading scientists of the republic, public men, well-known writers, school and institute teachers of Adygeya entered into the council.

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