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01:49, 25 April 2003

Federal Center is dissatisfied with actions of Chechen Ministry of Internal Affairs

Particularly serious claims were raised by the deputy head of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs to the heads of the regional departments of Grozny, where great number of acts of terrorism and sabotage, underminings, and fires take place.

16:23, 24 April 2003

Chechens from Polish refugee camps continue to apply for asylum in the Czech Republic

Seventy two Chechens applied for asylum in the Czech Republic today; since April 16 the total number of requests has reached 384.

13:53, 24 April 2003

People are persecuted in Chechnya for their relationship to field commanders

People of Chechnya express growing anxiety regarding political persecution of persons who are disloyal to Kadirov?s administration and Russian authorities.

13:50, 24 April 2003

Georgia does not exclude a possibility of Chechen soldiers break into Pankissi Gorge coming summer

The Georgian Ambassador to the RF reported that the ?multiecheloned? defense from among the employees of the Georgian Frontier Service, special forces of Internal Affairs organs, and police-officers was organized on the Russian-Georgian frontier to prevent the break.

23:27, 23 April 2003

Council of Europe has stated violation of rights of Armenians and refugees in Azerbaijan

It is stated in the report prepared by the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance.

23:25, 23 April 2003

Verdict has been read out at trial of Budanov

The public prosecutor at the trial Viktor Rastorguev accuses Budanov of two episodes.

23:23, 23 April 2003

Azerbaijan will send 150 peacemakers to Iraq

150 Azerbaijan peacemakers are ready to leave for Iraq before May 12. The President of Azerbaijan Geydar Aliyev stated it on April 22 while meeting with the US Ambassador to Baku Ross Wilson.

23:20, 23 April 2003

Speaker of Georgian Parliament believes that country is turning to dictatorship

Nino Burdjanadze announced that ?the superior executive power and the election bloc ?New Georgia? ignore democratic values, and the country is turning to dictatorship establishment?.

23:18, 23 April 2003

About 5 metres are left to access a tunnel entry in Kardamon Gorge

As experts estimate, the depth of the hope is to be about seventy metres for the twenty-second hole to reach an air hole of the tunnel.

23:14, 23 April 2003

More than 200 thousand people has left Chechnya irretrievably

According to the words of the First Deputy Head of the Federal Migration Service of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs Igor Yunash, there is no data bank of forced migrants from Chechnya, it is just being created.

16:21, 23 April 2003

War in Chechnya: a Chechen militiaman tells his story

Here is what Rustam Azizov, a member of the Chechen armed resistance movement, says about fighting for the village of Komsomolskoye in the spring of 2000 and his time in Russian captivity.

15:57, 23 April 2003

?Ararat? film won?t be shown in Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan?s ministry of communications will suspend re-transmission of the Russian television channel ?Rossiya? at 00:40 hrs local time on April 24. The Azeri authorities took this decision to prevent screening of ?Ararat?, the movie made by Canadian producer Atom Gegoyan.

09:41, 23 April 2003

S. Stepashin has proposed making an offshore zone in Chechnya

The Chairman of the Accounts Chamber of the RF Sergey Stepashin claimed on April 18 in Grozny that Chechnya needs particular, ?breaking? decisions, for example, making a special economic zone.

23:33, 22 April 2003

Antimonopoly committee has fined Government of Karachaevo-Cherkessia

A local antimonopoly committee fined the government of the republic half a million rubles for the attempt to redistribute a property of ?Vodokanal? in favour of people close to the authorities.

23:30, 22 April 2003

NATO?s military exercises will be conducted in Armenia

According to the words of the Armenian Minister of Defense Serzh Sarkisyan, this action will be extremely useful for the Armenian soldiers, since they have got things to learn from their NATO colleagues.

23:24, 22 April 2003

Public organization ?Nord-Ost? functions

The Society ?Nord-Ost? unites people suffered in Moscow in October 2002 and invites victims of other acts of terrorism and ?antiterrorist operations? of the recent years in Russian towns to enter the organization for joint advocacy of interests.

23:18, 22 April 2003

Moscow Helsinki Group is against persecution of public organizations in Krasnodar Territory

The Moscow Helsinki Group makes a request to the mass media for paying rapt attention to this situation, as the broadest publicity is able to stop despotism of Krasnodar authorities.

23:15, 22 April 2003

Chechnya needs United Nations Administration Mission

The Transnational Radical Party has called for the Secretary-General of the United Nations as well the heads of the Member States of the United Nations to undertake all initiatives needed ?for study and subsequent realization of an Akhmadov?s plan to establish peace and democracy in Chechnya?.

15:44, 22 April 2003

Security tightened in Baku

Speaking at the military college?s anniversary ceremony in Baku on April 21, president Geidar Aliyev felt unwell twice.

17:01, 21 April 2003

Armenian Church has been accused of Karabah conflict unleashing

?The Armenian Church has played an important role in Karabah conflict unleashing and now as before does not revise its stand?, the Head of the Spiritual Administration of Moslems of the Caucasus Sheyhulislam Allakhshukyur Pasha-zade declared.

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