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11:58, 2 June 2004

Yerevan city administration bans opposition meeting

The administration explained the refusal by the fact that criminal cases had been opened in connection with meetings held by the opposition before.

11:36, 2 June 2004

Versions of Zelimkhan Kadyrov's death differ

According to official information, Zelimkhan Kadyrov died from a heart attack.

10:06, 2 June 2004

Gori-Tskhinvali road blocked by Georgian special operations forces

The Osetian population living in the area has been deprived of the chance to get living essentials for several days already," reads a report by the Committee on Information and Press of the breakaway republic of South Osetia.

23:41, 1 June 2004

Ruslan Yamadayev nominated for Chechen presidency

Activists of the United Russia party branch in Chechnya assert 27 thousand signatures in support of Ruslan Yamadayev have already been collected in the republic.

19:16, 1 June 2004

Georgia imposes economic blockade against South Osetia

The Georgian leadership has in fact imposed an economic blockade on South Osetia depriving it of the possibility to convey transit loads. At the same time, some remove Osetian villages situated in the Gori district are blockaded since police posts do not allow to convey essential foodstuff there, taking away even mineral water, cereals, and flour.

16:56, 1 June 2004

Armenian turncoats cannot get refugee status

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees was absolutely right to deny refugee status to two Armenian turncoats who had arrived in Baku. This is an opinion of Svetlana Gannushkina, a board member of the Human Rights Center Memorial.

16:27, 1 June 2004

Three terrorist suspects wait sentence in Chechnya

The Supreme Court of the Chechen Republic adjourned the pronouncement of the sentence to three residents of the republic who are accused of the terrorist attack on the Government House on December 27, 2002.

14:42, 1 June 2004

Jehovah's Witnesses still imprisoned in Armenia

By information of Amnesty International, 27 people who do not want to go to the army are still imprisoned and another 5 are waiting for their sentence.

14:19, 1 June 2004

Train service between South Osetia and Georgia to be resumed

The Georgian president pointed out that political dialogue would certainly be established with the leadership of the breakaway republic.

12:05, 1 June 2004

Authorities close refugee camp in Ingushetia

It is known that First Deputy Head of the Russian Federal Migration Service Major-General Igor Yunash signed the order on May 25 according to which the tent camp for Chechen refuges Satsita, situated on the outskirts of the village of Ordzhonikidzevskaya in Ingushetia, must be liquidated on June 1, 2004. Satsita inhabitants got to know about this document on May 29.

11:38, 1 June 2004

Azerbaijan politicizes humanitarian problems hampering search for missing, war prisoners

Co-chairmen of the International Working Group to Search for the Missing, Hostages and Prisoners of War in the Karabakh Conflict Zone stated that it was inadmissible to politicize humanitarian problems.

11:02, 1 June 2004

Antiwar campaign underway in Ryazan

The organizers of the campaign prepared one more latter of inquiry about the measures taken to provide safety for people in the zone of the Chechen conflict, reasons for the authorities' inaction in this field, and responsibility of those guilty of people's deaths.

09:40, 1 June 2004

Son of late Chechen president Kadyrov dies

Zelimkhan Kadyrov was found dead in his home in the settlement of Tsentoroy.

09:38, 1 June 2004

Oppositionists go on hunger strike in Nakhichevan

Opposition activists started this action to protest against persecution and beatings on the part of the police. They demand that the persecution be stopped.

23:26, 31 May 2004

3 killed in landmine explosion in Chechnya

A high-capacity explosive device was mounted by unknown people in a garbage heap on Kraynyaya Street, reported a source at the Chechen interior ministry.

23:26, 31 May 2004

Abkhazian parliament passes law on presidential elections

Under the Constitutional Law on the Elections of the President of the Republic of Abkhazia, the candidate for the post of president will have to undergo testing by a special commission, which will be created by the Central Election Commission.

22:32, 31 May 2004

Chechen refugees abducted in Ingushetia

Military men who came out of the helicopter rushed into one house and captured five people who were in it - four young men and a girl.

22:07, 31 May 2004

Military men kill woman in Chechen village

When gunmen in camouflage uniform arrived at the village, they continued to drink up alcoholic drinks cursing loudly. When a local woman rebuked them, one of the men fired several shot in her direction.

21:11, 31 May 2004

Grozny-Moscow train makes first run

A passenger train left Grozny for Moscow in the morning of May 30, for the first time over the last several years.

20:56, 31 May 2004

1 local resident killed, 2 abducted in Chechnya

Criminals moved in three UAZ cars without number plates. They wore military uniforms.

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