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12:43, 8 December 2003

OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media urges Azerbaijan authorities to set Rauf Arifoglu free

On December 4, Freimut Duve addressed a special letter to Azerbaijan Foreign Minister Vilayat Guliyev in which he expressed concern about the case of editor-in-chief of the Yeni Musavat newspaper Rauf Arifoglu.

11:49, 8 December 2003

Several events devoted to Caucasus to take place in Czech Republic

There are several events planned in the Czech Republic for the period between December 8 and 13 that will be devoted to the Caucasus: its culture, history, tradition, as well as a current situation in the Caucasian republics. These events are also aimed at helping Chechen refugees.

23:49, 6 December 2003

Large-scale "purges" in Grozny

The republican population is extremely alarmed with what is happening and express indignation about the continuing high-handedness from the direction of security agents.

23:46, 6 December 2003

Day of mourning for victims of terrorist act in Essentuki

Yesterday, December 5, 42 people were killed and more than 100 passengers were wounded as a result of the explosion of a railway car in the vicinity of the Essentuki station.

23:22, 6 December 2003

President of Azerbaijan: "There are terrorist camps and drug plantations in Nagorny Karabakh"

"The Azerbaijan party has information there is drug trafficking through Nagorny Karabakh. It is possible that drug plantations as well as camps to provide training to international terrorists are situated there," noted Mr. Aliyev.

22:45, 6 December 2003

Government building blocked by mothers of abducted Chechens

Mothers whose sons were abducted or disappeared without a trace during the second Chechen war have blocked the building of the Government and let nobody in or out.

22:33, 6 December 2003

Dismissal as instrument of putting pressure on electorate in Kabardino-Balkaria

The administration of the Kabardino-Balkarian State University gathered all the university staff in the rector's office, gave them a task to vote for the United Russia party, and threatened to dismiss those who would not follow the instruction.

16:45, 6 December 2003

Martin Ennals Award goes to coordinator of Memorial Office in Grozny Lida Yusupova

The Grozny Office of the Human Rights Center "Memorial" is one of the few human rights organizations still operating in Chechnya and providing the world with crucial information on violations of human rights in this Russian republic.

15:49, 6 December 2003

Explosion in electric train in Essentuki left 42 people dead

35 people died at the site of the terrorist act, the other 7 died in a hospital.

15:48, 6 December 2003

Russian Embassy to Georgia demanded that Georgian authorities inquire into attack on Russian diplomat

The Russian Embassy to Georgia demanded that Georgian authorities immediately launch an investigation in the armed attack on charge de'affaires of the embassy Viktor Rynza, press secretary of the Russian Embassy in Tbilisi Denis Gonchar reported via phone.

14:45, 6 December 2003

Train explosion committed by three Shakhid women and one kamikaze

According to FSB director Nikolay Patrushev, two women were in the carriage and jumped out of it before the explosion. One woman led the action and observed. She has hardly survived, Mr. Patrushev noted.

14:29, 6 December 2003

Murat Zyazikov met with representative of Islamic Relief

On December 3, President of Ingushetia Murat Zyazikov received in his Magas residence Islamic Relief's Country Director for the Russian Federation Mohammed Allaa Ammar.

14:00, 6 December 2003

Banker reportedly abducted in Tbilisi

Tamaz Maghlakelidze, Supervisory Board Chairman of the United Georgian Bank, was kidnapped early in the morning yesterday, December 5.

17:31, 5 December 2003

Abductions of people in Chechnya can be stopped

A press conference of Oleg Orlov, Council Chairman of the Human Rights Center "Memorial", was held at the Independent Press Center on December 3. Its subject was "Chechnya After the Election: Abductions, Illegal Prisons, and Torture".

13:41, 5 December 2003

Number of victims in explosion of Kislovodsk-Minvody train reached 32 people

The total number of victims has reached 155 people, a spokesman for the South Regional Center of the Russian Ministry for Emergency Situations (MEC) told Interfax-South.

13:39, 5 December 2003

No less that 300 thousand Russian soldiers involved in hostilities in Chechnya

According to the data by the Independent Military Review, altogether the group of forces in Chechnya and around it (in the North Caucasian Military District) comes to no less than 300 thousand soldiers.

13:03, 5 December 2003

Explosion in Kislovodsk-Minvody train

According to the preliminary data, 4 people were killed and 50 were injured.

12:25, 5 December 2003

Project of Stavropol Regional Library for the Blind marked in Moscow

The contest for libraries in memory of Doctor Gaaz has been summed up in Moscow. It was held by the Tolerance Institute of the All-Russian State Library of Foreign Literature, the Russian Ministry of Culture and the Open Society Institute (Soros Foundation).

11:55, 5 December 2003

Nino Burdjanadze discussed ways of Georgian-Abkhazian settlement with Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General in Georgia

The parties stressed it was necessary that negotiations between Tbilisi and Sukhumi on the conflict settlement should continue, Heidi Tagliavini told journalists after the meeting.

23:58, 4 December 2003

Appeal by human rights activists in Kuban region to the territory's governor

The round table "How Not To Be Afraid of the Militia" took place in Krasnodar on December 2, 2003. It was organized by the Fund "School of Peace", the Novorossiysk Committee on Human Rights, and the Krasnodar Club of Civil Education of the Krasnodar Regional Public Organization "Creative Union "Southern Wave".

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