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18:27, 29 August 2003

Precedent was established in Dudinka: court sided to member of Azerbaijan diaspora in case against regional police department head

The Azerbaijan diaspora of the Krasnodar region has already gained support on this issue from 22 regional national communes, including Russian one.

14:05, 29 August 2003

Youth mini-football tournament took place in Grozny

The tournament was organized by the public organization "Step into the Future" and financially supported by the International Committee of the Red Cross.

14:03, 29 August 2003

Yesterday night there was raid on rooms of Russian Commissioner for Human Rights Oleg Mironov

Staff officials believe the robbery was premeditated because the second round of the election to the Commissioner for Human Rights in the Russian Federation is to be held in September.

14:00, 29 August 2003

Court acquitted oppositionist

The Court of Appeal demanded that former Interior Minister Abdulla Allakhverdiev should prove that Azerbaijan National Independence Party Chairman Etibar Mamedov, one of the presidential contenders for the election lying ahead in October, was making for the Armenian occupation of the Lachinsky region of Azerbaijan or refute his words in the next issue of the Palitra newspaper.

13:58, 29 August 2003

New Russian OSCE Minsk Group co-chairman is awaited in Baku

The leadership of Azerbaijan assumes that the forthcoming change of the Russian OSCE Minsk group co-chairman will not affect the process of the Karabah conflict settlement.

11:00, 29 August 2003

Civil rights activists has sued Central Election Commission

The GYLA and other human rights advocacy organizations protest against the ruling adopted by the CEC on August 25, which defines the principles of coverage of the election process by the state and private mass media.

22:54, 28 August 2003

Teachers and doctors of Ust-Donetsk held meeting of protest

The Committee of the Russian Communist Party in the Rostov region says that people are displeased with the fact that this year they have been deprived of their privileges for housing and public utilities payments for the second time already.

22:52, 28 August 2003

Slave-trader from Azerbaijan has been arrested in Novocherkassk

A city resident addressed officials of the Novocherkassk Department for Struggle against Organized Crime. She said that her daughter was in the Arabian Emirates where she was forced to work as a prostitute. They started to check this information and found out that the girl managed to go abroad under the patronage of an Azerbaijan citizen.

22:50, 28 August 2003

OSCE plans to hold regular monitoring on Armenian-Azerbaijan border

The last OSCE monitoring was foiled by shooting on August 19.

22:48, 28 August 2003

US wants to help Armenia to buy flats for refugees

Over 300 thousand people fled from Azerbaijan to Armenia during the Karabah conflict in 1988-1991. Many of them still have no permanent residence.

22:46, 28 August 2003

Group of public figures and human rights activists has spoken in defense of former head of Mozdok hospital Artur Arakelyan

"A doctor who had taken on the responsibilities of the hospital head three weeks before the explosion can not be responsible for what happened", reads the statement.

22:45, 28 August 2003

Kuban ecological organizations has launched campaign against construction of port "Zhelezny Rog" in Taman

A meeting of protest against the ammoniac terminal of the corporation "TogliattiAzot" and the port "Zhelezny Rog" will take place in the center of Taman on August 31.

15:17, 28 August 2003

Suspects of organization of Krasnodar explosions has been detained

This was reported by the head of the Interior Department of the Krasnodar region Sergey Kucheruk after the meeting of the Regional Security Council.

15:15, 28 August 2003

Despotism of Russian servicemen at block-post "Kavkaz-1"

At about noon on August 25, 2003, Russian servicemen seized identity cards of two members of the Human Rights Center "Memorial" during the inspection of motor transport at the block-post "Kavkaz-1".

15:14, 28 August 2003

Russian servicemen terrorize residents of Khattuny village

"We'll soon slay all of your men here and your women will have to marry us for nobody is left here", said the servicemen.

15:12, 28 August 2003

Convicts almost do not appeal for pardon

Another meeting of the Regional Pardon Commission took place.

13:31, 28 August 2003

Akhmad Kadirov - 1st registered candidate for Chechen presidency

This was disclosed by Chechnya's Central Election Commission Secretary Ela Vakhitov on Wednesday.

13:29, 28 August 2003

Suspects of assassination of Minister Gusayev has been established

Acting top prosecutor of Dagestan Magomed Abdulkhalikov told it at a news conference.

23:57, 27 August 2003

Libraries of penitentiary institutions of Nagorny Karabah are enriched

On August 26, members of the Karabah non-government human rights organization "Center of Civil Initiatives" (CCI) visited the Reformatory and Labor Institution of the Interior Ministry of the Nogorno-Karabah Republic (NKR). They handed 150 books over to the Institution's administration.

23:56, 27 August 2003

Central Election Commission of Georgia has declared moratorium for politicians' media appearances in 50 days before election

The opposition and experts qualify this resolution of the Central Election Commission as a limitation of freedom of mass media and political activity.

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