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22:24, 4 August 2003

Head of Federal Migration Service: ?Compensation payments to people of Chechnya for lost dwelling and property will become important stimulus for refugees to return to republic?

In accordance with the decision of the Government of the Russian Federation, a family residing in Chechnya will get a compensation in sum of 350 thousand rubles, a family residing in the other Russian regions ? in sum of about 120 thousand rubles.

18:42, 4 August 2003

Abkhazian Minister of Foreign Affairs finds it necessary to fix exact number of refugees with help of international organizations

He informed journalists about it after his return from Geneva where a meeting of the Group of Friends of the Secretary-General of the United Nations had taken place.

18:39, 4 August 2003

Human rights organizations advocate creation of independent commission for settlement of refugees? problems

A meeting between representatives of the human rights organization ?Sintar? and the Society for the Russian-Chechen Friendship took place on July 29, 2003. The situation with Chechen refugee camps in Ingushetia was in the center of the discussion.

16:07, 4 August 2003

Georgian military leave for Iraq to join peacekeeping operation

A group of Georgian peacekeeping military includes 34 fighters of special assignment forces, 20 army medics, and 15 engineers.

16:00, 4 August 2003

Today in North Osetia is day of mourning for victims of explosion

President of Russia Vladimir Putin ordered to provide all necessary help to the victims and families of the dead.

15:55, 4 August 2003

Center of Public Information has been founded in Krasnodar

The work of the Center is supported by the Open Society Institute and the information and analytical agency ?Caucasian Knot?.

00:23, 1 May 2003

Heads of parliaments of Caucasian Four countries has assembled in Tbilisi

The heads of the parliaments of the Caucasian Four countries - Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia, and Russia has proceeded today to the discussion of regional security problems.

23:12, 30 April 2003

Court has sent Colonel Budanov to next examination

Specialists has been tasked to check what physical injuries Y. Budanov received in the period from 1995 to 2000 and determine what influence they could have on the health of the accused.

23:09, 30 April 2003

Estonians has closed site of Chechen separatists

From today the acsses to the site of Chechen separatists "Kavkaz - Center", which was located on the server of the Estonian firm "Starman", has been closed.

17:43, 30 April 2003

First patient with suspicion of atypical pneumonia has been delivered to clinical hospital in Baku

According to the assurance of the Azerbaijan Ministry of Health, a strict quarantine regime was established at the airport "Bina" and Baku's railway station.

19:18, 29 April 2003

The statement of the Monitoring Group of Azerbaijan Human Rights Organizations

The Monitoring Group of the Human Rights Organizations does not recognize Eldar Zeynalov?s standpoint. At the same time, the Monitoring Groups calls the public to avoid any kind of violence against the organization, headed by Eldar Zeynalov.

11:51, 29 April 2003

Action has revealed genuine organizers of ?people?s protest?

On April 25, 2003 the regular action of protest against the visits of the Human Rights Center of Azerbaijan (HRCA) to Armenia and Nagorny Karabah was held in front of the office of this organization.

11:47, 29 April 2003

Moscow City Court has not answered claims of relatives of people perished during act of terrorism in Dubrovka

The Court did not answer on Monday the first three of 24 claims to the Moscow City Government for moral and material damage compensation to the sum of 4 million dollars.

22:18, 28 April 2003

Office of human rights activists is being smashed up in Baku

A large crowd of about 40 women from the New Azerbaijan Party is smashing Arif and Leyla Yunusovs? office. They have already broken the panes, pelted the walls with eggs. They are trying to rush inside, breaking the doors.

22:15, 28 April 2003

"Chronicle of Current Events" is 35

On April 30 it will be 35 years since the day when ?The Chronicle of Current Events?, a typewritten informational bulletin of soviet human rights activists, a main dissident periodical of the end of 1960s ? the beginning 1980s, appeared in print in 1968 for the first time.

22:10, 28 April 2003

Statement of Federation of Azerbaijan Human Rights Organizations

The Federation of Azerbaijan Human Rights Organizations issued a statement denouncing the pogroms of the office of Eldar Zeynalov?s Human Rights Center and the threats towards the director of the Institute of Peace and Democracy Leyla Yunus.

22:07, 28 April 2003

Resolution of Organizational Committee for Antiwar Actions on campaign for United Nations Administration Mission for Chechnya

?The Organizational Committee for Antiwar Actions declares its support of the proposal made by the Transnational Radical Party on April 20, 2003 in its appeal ?For the United Nations Administration Mission in Chechnya? to the Secretary-General of the United Nations, the heads of the Member States of the United Nations, and the heads of their governments?, it is said in the statement.

22:35, 26 April 2003

Pressure upon employees of Azerbaijan newspaper ?Milliyet?

The newspaper employees got the official notification that it was inadmissible to publish materials insulting honour and dignity of the president of the country.

22:32, 26 April 2003

Armenians in United States are dissatisfied with George Bush?s statement on occasion of 88-th anniversary of Armenian genocide

The Armenian National Committee of America reported the President of the USA ?again broke his February 2000 campaign pledge to properly recognize the Armenian Genocide?.

22:29, 26 April 2003

Yastrzhembsky has urged other countries to close Chechen sites

?The countries counting on mutually beneficial relations with Russia do not have to place the informational resources of terrorists?, the Russian President?s Aide Sergey Yastrzhembsky announced while answering journalists? questions.

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