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12:33, 18 September 2003

Independent Information Center's services are available not only to journalists

The Independent Information Center has been created within the limits of the project "The Media in the Election Process" brought about by Internews Azerbaijan and the Press Club of Baku with the support of the Open Society Institute (Soros Foundation).

10:59, 18 September 2003

Ilyasov will "invite Chechen refugees to return home"

The first batch of Chechen refugees, who are now living in Georgia's Pankisi Gorge, will be able to return home in late September-early October, according to Stanislav Ilyasov, Russian Minister for Chechnya's Affairs.

10:57, 18 September 2003

Maskhadov threatens candidates in Chechen presidential campaign

The Ichkerian State Defense Committee headed by Aslan Maskhadov warned about "coming vengeance" on all the Chechen presidential candidates, according to the Committee's resolution published in the underground newspaper "Ichkeria".

17:43, 17 September 2003

Scientists from 25 countries are taking part in International Congress on Studying of Armenia

More than 200 scientists studying Armenia from 25 countries arrived in Yerevan to the International Congress on Studying of Armenia, which is taking place on September 15-20.

16:40, 17 September 2003

British Government is not confident of Baku-Tbilisi-Jeikhan pipeline's ecological safety

The UK Government called on the World Bank and other international credit organizations not to hurry to allot funds for the pipeline construction.

15:51, 17 September 2003

Explosion in Magas can do harm to refugees

As the activist of the Human Rights Center "Memorial" in Nazran Shakhman Akbulatov noted, the explosion in Magas will undoubtedly complicate a situation in Ingushetia, and Chechen refugees settled in Ingushetia can indirectly suffer from this action.

12:43, 17 September 2003

Parliamentarians of Southern Caucasian countries are to discuss ways of regional conflicts settlement

A meeting of Armenian, Georgian and Azerbaijan parliamentarians under the aegis of the London information network on conflicts and state-building (LINKS), a British non-government organization, is to take place in Scotland before the middle of October.

12:40, 17 September 2003

Chechens in Kirgizia complain of dissocial treatment

Representatives of the Chechen Diaspora in Kirgizia - activists of the Chechen cultural center "Bart" - complained of xenophobia at a recent meeting with Russian ambassador Yevgeny Shmagin.

12:39, 17 September 2003

Refugees from camp "Bella" appealed to Russian Prosecutor General

The displaced persons think Order 23/4449 of August 1, 2003 on the liquidation of the tent camp "Bella", which was signed by Federal Migration Service Deputy Head Major-General Yunash, is inhuman, going against Russian President Putin's statements and to be countermanded.

12:38, 17 September 2003

ARF "Dashnaktsutyun" attaches high profile to death penalty abolition

Levon Mkrtchian, the leader of the National Assembly's faction "ARFD", declared it. According to him, the mortals can not be given the right to kill a man.

11:48, 17 September 2003

Judge decided to imprison former deputy - human rights activist

Prosecutor of the Lazarevsky District Court of Sochi Kovalenko brought criminal proceedings by the article "slander" against Leonid Teleleyko, a well-known human rights activist and public figure of the Krasnodar region and Sochi. The writ was handed in by former Lazarevsky District Court Deputy Chairman Trukhan N. I. Teleleyko is articled for his publications in the Chernomorskaya Zdravnitsa and the Sochi newspapers in 2002.

23:44, 16 September 2003

Turks-Meskhetians are being forced to acknowledge themselves to be migrants in Kuban

In the village of Varennikovskaya local administration officials and policemen seized passports of the people of four houses, promising to give the documents back if the Turks fill in migration cards.

23:41, 16 September 2003

Maskhadov ordered rebels to leave Russia

As it was reported at the Regional Operations Staff for the Control of the Antiterrorist Operation in the Northern Caucasus, this information was received from Lechi Aydiyev detained on suspicion of his belonging to armed units.

23:36, 16 September 2003

Territorial police department's officer was abducted in Chechnya

"The day before ten people armed with submachine guns, wearing masks and camouflage rushed into the house of police officer Ruslan Khalidov, which is situated on Sharipov Street in the Shalinsky district's Germenchuk village," said the interior ministry's official.

23:34, 16 September 2003

European Court on Human Rights holds hearings of claim registered by group of Chechens who do not want to be extradited to Russia

As it is indicated in the writ, they are threatened with life sentences and tortures in case of their extradition to Russia, and this contradicts the articles of the European Convention on Human Rights.

19:50, 16 September 2003

Opposition activist was held at Azerbaijan Department for Straggle Against Organized Crime

According to the oppositionist, it had been done to prevent him from taking part in a rally scheduled by his party for September 6.

17:20, 16 September 2003

Azerbaijan leadership is suspected of corruption

The other day Hans Bodmer, a Swiss citizen, was arrested in Seoul. He was called a key figure in the bribery payments of tens of millions of dollars that were made to Azerbaijan top officials in 1997-1999 for giving the opportunity of taking part in the process of privatization in this country.

16:34, 16 September 2003

Chechen rebels are preparing to use poison

Chechen rebels are preparing new actions of intimidation, but this time terrorists are going to use virulent poison instead of bombs stuffed with bearings and ragged iron. This was reported at the Regional Operations Headquarters.

16:08, 16 September 2003

"Human Rights and the Media" is theme of seminar in Krasnodar

As it was reported at the Creative Union "Southern Wave", guests from the University of Cologne will appear at the seminar.

15:34, 16 September 2003

Basayev launches "Boomerang"

Russian Interior Minister Boris Gryzlov announced that Chechen separatists were preparing a series of terrorist acts on the threshold of the presidential election in Chechnya. This information was confirmed by field commander Shamil Basayev.

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