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18:28, 28 May 2004

Businessman to run for Chechen presidency

Malik Saidullayev, chairman of the board of directors of the Milan concern, has announced his intention to run for the Chechen presidency.

18:26, 28 May 2004

President of North Osetia proposes placing new item on agenda of Russian-Georgian talks

"We forecast developments, and we have no reason to think that a campaign with spiny roses comes into the picture," President of North Osetia Aleksandr Dzasokhov said at a press conference in Moscow.

17:18, 28 May 2004

Amnesty International - 43 years of work

On May 28, 1961, lawyer Peter Benenson launched the first campaign to protect political prisoners, which gave birth to one of the largest international organizations.

17:14, 28 May 2004

Council of Europe wants commissioner for human rights in Chechnya

"People still disappear in the republic, and unacceptable deaths are registered their. I think it is normal for the Council of Europe to monitor the situation in Chechnya, this question is fully in its line," stated Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights Alvaro Gil-Robles.

15:49, 28 May 2004

Authorities in Karachaevo-Cherkessia dislike Krishna devotees

The Krishna devotees raise their concern that the recent actions by the authorities are aimed at extruding their community from the republic.

15:47, 28 May 2004

Russian singer voices readiness to assist Amnesty International

Amnesty International has launched its annual report about the human rights situation in 156 countries of the world.

13:47, 28 May 2004

Azerbaijan authorities ready to preserve stability in country

The opposition party Popular Front of Azerbaijan is going to hold a meeting in Baku on May 29 to demand that human rights be observed and arrested opposition leaders be released.

13:25, 28 May 2004

2,500 Chechen residents declared abducted, missing

Twice a month, officers of the Chechen military prosecutor's office receive residents of the Chechen republic having complaints about violations of their rights by federal soldiers. The reception is conducted in the office of the Committee to Secure Constitutional Rights of the Residents of Chechnya.

12:40, 28 May 2004

War Prize competition to end in June

The date when final results of the War Prize competition are to be summed up has been postponed till June 15 in view of the recent tragic developments in Grozny.

12:36, 28 May 2004

Performance action in Ryazan

The theme of the action is the variance between official data and data of the committees of soldier's mothers concerning the number of servicemen killed in Chechnya.

12:34, 28 May 2004

Refugees detained in Satsita camp

Right after the detention of Daudov and Dzhabrailov, police officers cut ropes of the tents in which the activists' families live. Both the detainees are held in the Sunzha district police department now.

18:24, 27 May 2004

Rights activists respond to president's statement

"The fact that the getting of official grants by human rights and ecological organizations is equated to the maintenance of "dubious interests" gives away the way of thinking typical for the State Security Committee (KGB) when any connection with the West is taken as something illegal," reads the statement by the Russian Movement for Human Rights.

17:54, 27 May 2004

Trumped-up case press conference

Mikhail Trepashkin, a former Federal Security Service officer, has been sentenced to 4.6 years in a settlement on a trumped-up charge. His lawyers and a human rights activist speak about that.

17:14, 27 May 2004

Abkhazia rejects any subordination to Georgia

Igor Akhba, Abkhazia's envoy in Russia, noted that the referendum conducted in 1999 showed that the majority of the Abkhazian population was for its independence.

17:11, 27 May 2004

Russian foreign ministry: no analogy between situation in Chechnya and abuse of captive Iraqis

Russia is ready to explain the real situation in Chechnya to all interested countries and organizations and "is doing it patiently," the Foreign Ministry's spokesman said.

17:04, 27 May 2004

Military command reports on 18 rebels destroyed in Chechen mountains

Spokesman for the regional headquarters on the counter-terrorist operation in the North Caucasus Ilya Shabalkin emphasized that "there is no any intensification of the rebel activity, several gangs numbering from five to ten people have been revealed and operations to liquidate them are being conducted now."

15:28, 27 May 2004

Fire attack on Chechen State Council

Several people were injured in the attack. They cut with splinters of smashed panes. An investigation in the incident has been launched.

14:41, 27 May 2004

Azerbaijan rights activists concerned about situation with Armenian turncoats

Chairperson of Helsinki Citizens' Assembly National Committee of Azerbaijan Arzu Abdullayeva has made an appeal to international organization concerning the issue of granting political refugee status and asylum in a third country to two Armenian turncoats, Artur Apresian and Roman Terian.

14:39, 27 May 2004

Armenia sees no need for EU mediation effort in resolution of Karabakh conflict

Negotiations on Nagorny Karabakh are held within the framework of the OSCE Minsk Group now, and it completely suits the Armenian side, said Armenian Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanian.

14:23, 27 May 2004

Organization for Karabakh Liberation declares against peace talks with Armenia

Participants in the conference "Karabakh: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow" believe that "Azerbaijan has a right to liberate occupied territories by military means as nobody asked for permission to occupy a part of the country."

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