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17:35, 6 August 2003

First conference of Regional Public Organization ?Voice of Motherland? will be held on September 20

The Public Organization ?The Voice of Motherland? was created to assist all those who wish to move to the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic

17:33, 6 August 2003

Armenian-Turkish boundary opening is on foreign policy agenda of the US

The US Ambassador to Armenia John Ordway noticed it is early to speak about the exact date of the boundary opening.

17:31, 6 August 2003

Chechen militia men were shifted to barracked state

According to the words of the authorities, the reinforcement is connected with hearsays being spread in all settlements of the republic that illegal armed units may ostensibly become more active on August 6 (the 7-th anniversary of intrusion of Maskhadov?s separatists into Grozny in 1996).

13:03, 6 August 2003

Number of "addressed special operations" in Chechnya grows

People of the republic express their anxiety in connection with sudden increase in number of "addressed special operations" during which dozens of civil people are detained and disappear without traces.

13:01, 6 August 2003

Punitive ?cleanups? are awaited in regional center Nozhay-Yurt

It was indicated in the federals? leaflets thrown from helicopters that a lot of separatists were located in the settlement of Nozhay-Yurt, and on the ground of it scaled passport regime checks would be conducted in this settlement.

12:58, 6 August 2003

Anatoly Popov was appointed Acting President of Chechen Republic yesterday

The Head of the Chechen Administration Akhmad Kadirov, who signed an edict on Popov?s appointment, announced he went on leave till October 5, in other words, till the day of the republican presidential election.

12:56, 6 August 2003

Official list of people died in act of terrorism in Mozdok

Officially specified by the acting duty soldiers of the ?Hot Line? in Mozdok, the list of 46 people died in the act of terrorism is placed on the pages of the Internet project ?My Pain?.

19:53, 5 August 2003

Two soldiers were killed in Chechnya

According to the evidences of the local residents, they saw a ?Zhiguli? car of light color near the place of the murder. Several people in camouflage were in the car.

19:52, 5 August 2003

250 refugees returned to Chechnya

60 families of temporal migrants who found shelter in the tent camp ?Bella? in Ingushetia has returned to Chechnya today.

19:50, 5 August 2003

Ministry for Emergency Situations is warning about possibility of emergency situations because of heavy showers

Water-levels in some small rivers of Kabardino-Balkaria, Ingushetia, and Chechnya may reach dangerous points.

19:47, 5 August 2003

Candidate for post of Azerbaijan president Shadman Guseyn suddenly died in Baku last night

In 1990s Guseyn was one of the leaders of the opposition party ?National Independence of Azerbaijan?.

19:45, 5 August 2003

Meeting with demand for intensification of security measures has taken place in Mozdok

Speakers demanded to give Mozdok ?the status of a special town, to take under control migration processes, resulting in flow-out of Russian-speaking population from the town?.

15:55, 5 August 2003

Civil Forum is aimed to consolidate Chechen society

The idea to hold a Civil Forum of Chechnya arose quite long ago. The aim of the forum is to ease tension in the Chechen society, to draw together the positions of representatives of different political movements.

15:53, 5 August 2003

Abkhazian Ministry of Foreign Affairs made Georgian party responsible for murder of customs officials

In connection with the act of terrorism in the village of Chuburkhindzh in the Galskiy region the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Abkhazia made a statement in which it expressed categorical aversion of the method Georgia used in the settlement of Georgian-Abkhazian contradictions.

15:50, 5 August 2003

Nine bodies of people died in Mozdok remain unidentified

Relatives and colleagues of the soldiers died during the act of terrorism in Mozdok will come to Rostov-on-Don for an identification of the bodies.

15:47, 5 August 2003

Five militia men suffered in Chechnya from landmine explosions

For the past day Chechen separatists exploded three landmines in Chechnya.

15:45, 5 August 2003

Samashki village inhabitants demand to return abducted fellow-villager

17-year old Elsa Katsayeva was taken just from her house and driven in an unknown direction by the Russian soldiers on four armored cars with board numbers painted over.

12:21, 5 August 2003

On August 1 new youth center ?An Echo? opened in Stavropol

Its founders are specialists of the regional charitable fund ?A Mother and a Child?, the winners of the competition of NGO?s social projects that was held by the city administration.

12:19, 5 August 2003

One year since Commissioner for Human Rights has been working in Stavropol region

In July one year passed since the institution of ombudsman had been established in the Stavropol region. On July 25, 2002 the State Duma of the Stavropol region appointed A. Selyukov Commissioner for Human Rights in the region.

12:16, 5 August 2003

In accordance with federal grogram ?Children of Russia? program ?Disabled Children? was developed in Karachaevo-Cherkessia

By now the ministry of labor and social development is just in the center of program realization.

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