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14:18, 14 April 2004

Russian military command: murderers of 9 Duba-Yurt residents established

The March 27 murder of nine peaceful residents of the Duba-Yurt settlement, Chechnya, was perpetrated by the gangs of Rapani Khalilov (subordinate to Basayev) and Akhmed Avdorkhanov (subordinate to Maskhadov). RIA Novosti learnt this on Wednesday from spokesman for the regional headquarters on the counter-terrorist operation in the North Caucasus Colonel Ilya Shabalkin.

13:46, 14 April 2004

Georgian Central Election Commission member forced out of Adjaria

"About 400 supporters of Adjarian leader Aslan Abashidze forced me out of the hotel in Kobuleti, took the documents for the second round of parliamentary elections due in two districts of Adjaria on April 18, and bundled me off the town," Georgia's Central Election Commission member Zaza Gorozia said to reporters on Wednesday, April 14.

13:34, 14 April 2004

Servicemen hit explosive device in Chechnya, one injured

A group of servicemen of Russia's Defense Ministry was blown up on an explosive device in the Itum-Kali district of Chechnya, with one man injured, RIA Novosti was told on Wednesday, April 14, in the headquarters of the joint group of forces in the North Caucasus.

13:14, 14 April 2004

Abductions in Kabardino-Balkaria

12 people have been abducted in Kabardino-Balkaria and taken away in the direction of Mozdok, North Osetia, for the last few days.

12:51, 14 April 2004

Unauthorized demonstrations and meetings banned in Yerevan

The police did not allow several dozens of people to hold an unauthorized sitting demonstration on Freedom Square in the heart of Yerevan.

12:27, 14 April 2004

Seven policemen killed in Chechnya

An armed group of up to 20 rebels opened fire on police cars killing three people. Then the same group captured four policemen and shot them dead.

12:15, 14 April 2004

Air strike kills six civilians in Chechnya

Air strikes killed six people - a woman and five children - in Chechnya on April 9, the Human Rights Center Memorial reported on April 13.

11:44, 14 April 2004

Human Rights Watch: amid evidence of new atrocities, UN Human Rights Commission must take action

"For too long, the world has been indulging Russia in its claims that the situation has been "normalized"," said Rachel Denber, acting executive director of Human Rights Watch's Europe and Central Asia Division. "It's time for the world to send an unequivocal message that Russia must take real measures to stop the abuses in Chechnya."

11:40, 14 April 2004

Self-immolation attempt in Krasnodar

A young man, presumably a Caucasian, poured inflammable mixture on himself and set himself on fire in Krasnodar on April 12. The incident took place in front of the building of the regional administration.

10:44, 14 April 2004

Talks between Georgia and Adjaria produce no results

Secretary of the Georgian National Security Council Ivan Merabishvili said after the talks with the Adjarian leader that "there is no alternative to the disarmament, and the central authorities will take measures provided for in the law for such cases."

23:41, 13 April 2004

Svetlana Gannushkina: "The closure of the Danish Refugee Council is a real disgrace"

"What explanation can be provided for it except the aspiration to remove from Russia all those who, occupied with humanitarian activity, cannot but see the violations of international standards that accompany the return of IDPs to Chechnya?" reads the statement by Svetlana Gannushkina, a member of the Presidential Human Rights Commission.

23:39, 13 April 2004

Police disperse opposition meeting in Yerevan

Meeting participants put up desperate resistance, but it was crushed, mainly due to the water jets. Then policemen started to beat people, including women and aged people, and to displace them from the avenue.

21:26, 13 April 2004

11 Russian soldiers killed in Chechnya in one day

A source at the republican administration reported it.

20:50, 13 April 2004

Chechen TV cameraman released

The criminals drove him to the region of the Chechen-Aul village, which is several tens of kilometers far from Grozny, and threw him out of the car without stopping.

20:15, 13 April 2004

Search at Boris Stomakhin's apartment

On 12 April, agents for the Moscow's public prosecutor seized a computer, books, newspapers and other documents during a search of the apartment of the editor of the Radikalnaya Gazeta newspaper. The public prosecutor is investigating Stomakhin for "incitement of national, racial or religious hatred."

19:53, 13 April 2004

Criminal proceedings in connection with violent actions against media representatives instituted

Criminal proceedings have been instituted by the article on hooliganism of the Armenian Criminal Code in connection with the violent actions against media representatives during the opposition meeting in Yerevan on April 5.

19:17, 13 April 2004

Chechen Prosecutor's Office denies information about attack on column in Shali district

Meanwhile, the rebel website Kavkaz Center confirms the information about the attack.

19:01, 13 April 2004

Duba-Yurt residents abducted, held at Russian base in Khankala, then found dead

Unidentified soldiers of federal forces, moving in several armored personnel carriers and UAZ cars without number plates, detained and took away in an unknown direction 8 civilians (men between the ages of 30 and 40) in the village of Duba-Yurt on March 27. It was established in the course of a check that the above-mentioned people were held at the military base in Khankala.

18:09, 13 April 2004

Novaya Gazeta: 72 rebels were destroyed out of court after giving themselves up in Komsomolskoye in 2000

Earlier they were considered to be missing. As the Novaya Gazeta newspaper reports, this fact has become known due to a video record made by an officer of the Ministry of Justice.

18:07, 13 April 2004

Georgian president ready to buy arms from residents of Adjaria

"If Aslan Abashidze cannot disarm these people, I am ready to open stations and buy arms from the population," Mikhail Saakashvili said to journalists.

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