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16:09, 17 March 2004

Azerbaijan court obliges rights defender to deny her assessment of school director's behavior

On March 12, the Sabailsky Court pronounced judgment on the suit brought by the former director of school No 249, Mirfaig Mirgeidarli, against the Azadlig newspaper and human rights defender Saida Godjamanli.

14:48, 17 March 2004

Nino Burdjanadze arrives in Batumi

Speaker of the Georgian Parliament Nino Burdjanadze and State Security Minister Zurab Adeishvili arrived in Batumi to conduct negotiations with Adjaria's leader Aslan Abashidze.

14:25, 17 March 2004

Two ministers and five NGO leaders not allowed in Adjaria

Armed supporters of Adjarian leader Aslan Abashidze did not let Georgian Minister of Education Khakha Lomaia through the Choloki post, which is at the autonomy's administrative border. The minister's trip was concerned with the information that studies were suspended at local schools.

14:02, 17 March 2004

Nine Russian servicemen taken prisoners in Chechnya

Rebels encircled a group of federal forces in the mountains of the Itum-Kali district, Chechnya. "As the Russian soldiers saw the despair of the situation, they decided to surrender," reported Chechen separatists' website.

13:48, 17 March 2004

Karabakh war death-roll published in Armenia

Names of 7,000 victims appeared in central newspapers in Armenian and Russian.

13:39, 17 March 2004

Administrative cases against antiwar picket organizers considered in court

Nikolay Khramov thinks the authorities are trying to limit citizens' constitutional right to freedom of assembly, "basing on indistinct by-laws, which have become old, and their own high-handedness."

12:23, 17 March 2004

Nino Burdjanadze to meet with Adjarian leader for talks

The speaker of the Georgian parliament told reporters that she was going to discuss with Abashidze a way out of the crisis situation that had arisen in relations between Tbilisi and Batumi.

12:16, 17 March 2004

Georgian president to discuss situation around Adjaria with Luzhkov

Secretary of the Russian Security Council Igor Ivanov pointed out that the efforts of the Moscow Mayor in the interests of establishing a dialogue between Tbilisi and Batumi were supported by the Russian leadership.

11:41, 17 March 2004

Kadyrov dismisses Chechen premier, appoints new one

Sergey Abramov, 32, an official of the Russian Accounts Chamber has been appointed to replace Anatoly Popov.

23:46, 16 March 2004

Association "Golos" publishes results of March 14 election monitoring in Stavropol

The Association's team was not allowed in one of the polling stations, which attracted attention by servicemen's mass voting. Police officers were posted at the entrance, who threatened to launch criminal investigation.

19:06, 16 March 2004

Elena Batenkova: authorities want to ban antiwar picket

Elena Batenkova, a member of the Feedback group and the Committee for Antiwar Actions, is a participant in the picket on Pushkinskaya Square, protesting against the war in Chechnya and appealing to stop the conflict their through negotiations.

16:12, 16 March 2004

Explosive assembly found in Dagestani school

An explosive assembly weighting about 15 kilograms was found by a school watchman.

16:03, 16 March 2004

Ruslan Gelayev's relatives cannot take his body for burial

The body of Ruslan (Khamzat) Gelayev, a notorious Chechen commander, has not been given to his relatives so far. The agreement that the relatives were allowed to take his body was reached a week ago, one of them said in his interview with the Caucasian Knot correspondent.

14:59, 16 March 2004

Adjaria is ready to resist armed invasion

Adjarian Interior Minister Djemal Gogitidze made such a statement.

14:51, 16 March 2004

Tbilisi residents differ about arrest of Vasily Mkalavishvili

The Georgian NGO International Center on Conflict and Negotiation conducted a phone survey on March 13, the next day after the arrest of an Orthodox radical Vasily Mkalavishvili and his seven followers.

13:17, 16 March 2004

No debate about project of peaceful resolution of Abkhazian conflict in Georgian parliament

Members of the Abkhazian deputation and most representatives of the Abkhazian Supreme Soviet did not appear at the parliament session.

13:03, 16 March 2004

Videotapes showing Islamic rebels in Dagestan found by Spanish police

It happened in the house of a Moroccan arrested in connection with the [March 11] terrorist acts in Madrid.

12:59, 16 March 2004

Seminar on resolution of international conflicts held in Moscow

Activists of such NGOs as the Chechen Mothers for Peace association, the Society for Russian-Chechen Friendship, the Victor Popkov Center, and the Committee for Antiwar Actions took part in the seminar.

12:01, 16 March 2004

Moscow mayor meets with Abashidze in Adjaria

Yuri Luzhkov came to Batumi together with Garry Luchanski, a well-known businessman

11:58, 16 March 2004

Situation at Adjarian administrative border remains tense

"Both the parties have taken no active steps after the Georgian president's ultimatum expired. However raised units have not been withdrawn form their stands," Adjarian Interior Minister Djemal Gogitidze said.

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