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12:27, 10 December 2003

Contests in Rostov devoted to human rights

Internet contests will be held at the Rostov regional center of the Internet Education Federation on December 13 and 14. They will be aimed at trying both students' human rights knowledge and their ability to find necessary information through Internet.

12:06, 10 December 2003

Picket devoted to Human Rights Day to be held in Krasnodar

On December 10, Human Rights Day declared by a resolution of the General Assembly in 1950, entrepreneurs of Krasnodar Territory are going to hold a picket in front of the building of the regional administration.

23:53, 9 December 2003

Terrorist act near National Hotel left 6 people dead

According to Deputy Prosecutor of Moscow Sergey Borisov, 11 people suffered. They all have been identified. One of the women who suffered in the terrorist act turned out to be a citizen of China.

23:37, 9 December 2003

Regional visit of OSCE Minsk Group co-chairmen is over

The question of Nagorny Karabakh's participation in negotiations is one of the main questions that are of concern for the public of Nagorny Karabakh in the context of the process of seeking political resolution to the Karabakh problem.

23:31, 9 December 2003

Negative attitude to Armenia molded in Turkey

The Turkish-Armenian Business Development Council, along with a group of academicians, conducted a public opinion poll in 12 towns of Turkey on December 3. 2,183 were questioned during it.

23:29, 9 December 2003

State grants bodyguards to retired president of Armenia for life

It is stated in the draft law "On Providing Security to Persons To Be Under Special Protection of the State" adopted by the National Assembly in the first reading.

23:26, 9 December 2003

Stavropol lawyers will learn to protect rights of refugees and displace persons

The international conference "Problems of Refugees and Displaced Persons in North Caucasus" was held in Stavropol on December 5.

18:05, 9 December 2003

Kidnapper of Spanish businessmen arrested

Tengiz Khangoshvili, a member of Shota Chichiashvili's criminal gang, was arrested by officers of the State Security Ministry in the village of Kvemo Khalani in the Pankisi region on December 8. Khangoshvili was wanted in connection with the kidnapping of two Spanish businessmen in Tbilisi on November 20, 2000. The two men were held hostage for a year. The prisoner has declared himself guilty.

17:53, 9 December 2003

Russian Government failed to avoid criticism by UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

The UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights takes the stand of the Russian NGOs that presented at the 31st session of the commission in Geneva their report on the implementation of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in the Russian Federation, parallel with the Russian Government's report.

17:03, 9 December 2003

Act of terrorism in Moscow

Today, at 10:43 Moscow time, an explosion occurred near the National Hotel in Moscow. The terrorist act left several people dead and injured.

16:39, 9 December 2003

Coordinator of the UN Secretary-General's Group of Friends, German Ambassador in Georgia Uwe Schramm visited Abkhazia

In Sukhum, Mr. Schramm was received by Vice-President Valery Arshba, Speaker of the Parliament Nugzar Ashuba, Prime Minister Raul Khajimba, and Foreign Minister Sergey Shamba.

15:58, 9 December 2003

Explosion in Essentuki leaves 44 people dead

Larisa Yakushko, a citizen of Kislovodsk, died on Sunday, December 7, in the Essentuki City Hospital; another citizen of Kislovodsk, Aleksey Amelekhin, died in the same hospital on the night of December 7-8.

14:28, 9 December 2003

Office of ombudsman introduced in Karachaevo-Cherkessia

The office of the commissioner for human rights in Karachaevo-Cherkessia has the A category and is equal in its rank to the office of the vice prime minister of the republic.

12:38, 9 December 2003

Memorial activist wins Martin Ennals Award

The Board of the Human Rights Center "Memorial" is pleased to inform that the Martin Ennals Foundation has conferred the 2004 Martin Ennals Award for Human Rights Defenders (MEA) on Lida Yusupova.

23:47, 8 December 2003

Statement by Yerevan Press Club about draft law "On Mass Communication"

"We rely on the fact that the wide coalition of forces, interested in the freedom and independence of media, will continue its efforts on improvement of legislation and at the same time will concentrate its attention on the development and introduction of mechanisms of the self-regulation of information sphere," reads the statement.

23:40, 8 December 2003

Chechen refugees are being moved from Alina camp

The people are offered to resettle to the neighboring Satsita camp. With all this going on, even minimal conditions have not been created for them to live there. Only graveling has been started at the site marked out for new tents.

23:31, 8 December 2003

44 rebels laid down arms

As the rebels who laid down arms can be supposedly hunted by those who are still in illegal armed units, they will spend some time on the territory of special elements.

15:22, 8 December 2003

Foreign mercenaries during Karabakh war in Ayk Demonyan's book

In the monograph "Karabakh Drama: Secret Acts" (Yerevan, Center for Iranian Studies, 2003), Armenian historian Ayk Demoyan succeeded in gathering and analyzing rich factual material about the military aid provided to Azerbaijan by Turkey during the Karabakh war and about the presence of recruited Chechen and Afghan mercenaries in the Azerbaijan army at that time.

15:19, 8 December 2003

Low turnout reported by observers in Chechnya

"Roughly 200 voters, about 10 percent, came to our booth, so I really don't know where the [official turnout of] 70 percent came from," said Ruslan Khadashev, who worked at Precinct 369 on behalf of Salambek Maigov, one of the candidates.

15:12, 8 December 2003

Chechnya: United Russia - 77%, People's Party - 6.3%, SPS - 4.4%

26.7% of the ballots in Chechnya's single-mandate constituency were counted by 8:00 Moscow time, December 8, reported Chairman of the Chechen Election Commission Abdul-Kerim Arsakhanov.

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