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11:53, 16 March 2004

Abashidze does not intent to meet Saakashvili's ultimatum

"The president cannot deliver ultimatums to his own people in his own country, and even more so to the leader who is not appointed and dismissed by the president," Abashidze said in his interview with Russian journalists in Batumi on March 15.

22:27, 15 March 2004

High voter turnout in Chechnya achieved by added ballots

The high turnout at the polling stations in the Chechen Republic, despite the almost complete absence of voters, was due to election commission employees casting ballots they had filled in beforehand. This was privately confirmed by workers at the voting sites.

20:54, 15 March 2004

Batumi citizens start leaving

"We are going where it is peaceful and calm. There is no peace here," some refugees told journalists at Adjaria's administrative border.

20:42, 15 March 2004

State of emergency introduced in Adjaria

"A state of emergency and a curfew have been introduced," the leader of the Adjarian autonomy, Aslan Abashidze, said to Russian journalists in Batumi on March 15.

19:14, 15 March 2004

Georgian president rules out use of force to assume control over Adjaria

"I am not going to order troops in Adjaria and think that the use of military force is inadmissible," Mikhail Saakashvili said.

19:09, 15 March 2004

Georgian president presents ultimatum to Adjarian leader

Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili made a statement late in the evening on March 14 in which he gave Aslan Abashidze 24 hours for unconditional fulfillment of the requirement that the Adjarian leader should secure freedom of movement for the head of the Georgian state on the territory of the autonomy.

17:37, 15 March 2004

Medical College students protest against classmate's abduction in Grozny

The students demanded the release of the Medical College dental student who, according to them, had been taken just from the school by unknown armed men on March 11.

17:21, 15 March 2004

Abu al-Walid threatens Russia with new terrorist acts

Abu al-Walid, a notorious Chechen field commander of Arab origin, announced that Russia was threatened with a new series of terrorist acts if that one who would be elected new president advocated the war in Chechnya.

17:07, 15 March 2004

Georgian president not allowed into Adjaria

The motorcade carrying the president, the interior minister and other officials was stopped at a checkpoint on the Adjarian border.

14:00, 13 March 2004

Former deputy head of Kabardino-Balkarian State Trade Inspection turns to UN Commission on Human Rights

Asya Gogunkova told she had been contesting her dismissal as the deputy head of the State Trade Inspection of the Republic of Kabardino-Balkaria for three years already.

13:58, 13 March 2004

Local television no longer broadcasts programs in Kabardian and Balkarian languages

A press conference was held at the Center for the Protection of Human Rights on March 11. It focused on the situation that has arisen at the republican Kabalkteleradio company, which has broadcasted no programs in the Kabardian and Balkarian languages since January.

13:56, 13 March 2004

International Working Group to Search for the Missing and Hostages to be dismissed

The Caucasian Knot correspondent learnt about it from the Group's Karabakh coordinator.

13:48, 13 March 2004

Press conference "Mikhail Trepashkin Is a Political Prisoner in Putin's Russia" held in Moscow

Mikhail Trepashkin, a former officer of special services and known lawyer, was arrested in October 2003. He was charged with disclosing state secrets.

13:46, 13 March 2004

Article 19 conducts training on media monitoring in Tskhinvali

The training for journalists and NGO activists was devoted to the work of the mass media in a pre-election period.

13:45, 13 March 2004

Participants in antiwar picket detained in Moscow

The police detained Yevgeny Frumkin, Elena Batenkova, and Mikhail Kriger, who protested against the war in Chechnya. They were conveyed to the Tverskoye police department.

13:43, 13 March 2004

Woman abducted during special operation in Gudermes

On the night of March 11, Khavani Usmanova, a 51-year-old local, was detained by Russian security agents in the course of "address purges" in Gudermes.

13:24, 13 March 2004

PACE delegation will not observe election of Russian president in Chechnya

The situation in the republic is still "extremely difficult", said the head of the delegation, Rudolf Bindig.

17:58, 12 March 2004

Institute of Peace and Democracy calls trials against Azerbaijan oppositionists politically motivated

The Institute of Peace and Democracy, an Azerbaijan human rights organization, issued a statement devoted to the trials against oppositionists arrested in the autumn of 2003.

17:52, 12 March 2004

Peace Prize award ceremony held at Tretyakov Gallery

Twelve people who have been working in the field of peacemaking for a long time and have been advocating nonviolent approaches to the resolution of the Chechen conflict nominated for the prize.

17:49, 12 March 2004

New signatures under appeal for UN interim administration in Chechnya collected

The meeting "For Russia Without Putin" was held on Pushkinskaya Square in Moscow on March 10.

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