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11:32, 22 March 2004

New NGO to help displaced persons in Stavropol region

The founders see the main task of the organization in providing moral, legal and financial assistance to displaced persons and socially vulnerable residents of the Stavropol region.

17:46, 20 March 2004

Picket against war in Chechnya held in Moscow despite authorities' ban

An antiwar picket banned by the authorities was held on Pushkinskaya Square in Moscow on March 18, at 5:30 p.m.

16:13, 20 March 2004

Mass action of protest in Ingushetia

Representatives of unidentified security agencies have abducted and taken away in an unknown direction over 20 residents of Ingushetia since the beginning of the year. On March 19, relatives and friends of abducted and missing people, who have been driven to despair by the unsuccessful search, staged a spontaneous action of protest on the outskirts of Nazran.

14:58, 20 March 2004

Murderer of Armenian officer to receive scholarship

Nadyr Aliyev, an Azerbaijan businessman and leader of the Organization of National Unity, has decided to grant a scholarship to Ramil Safarov, the Azerbaijan officer who killed his Armenian colleague, Gurgen Margarian, in Budapest on February 19, 2004.

14:42, 20 March 2004

State official sues Business Express weekly

On March 15, the trial in the case of Artashes Bakhshian, a member of the Armenian State Commission on Protection of Economic Competition, versus the Business Express weekly started at the court of first instance of Yerevan's Arabkir and Kanaker-Zeytun Communes.

13:39, 20 March 2004

Two people killed in skirmish in Grozny

On March 17, officers of Akhmad Kadyrov's security service opened fire in the center of Grozny, near the Fashion House. Two people - a teenager and a woman - who turned out to be near the scene were killed as a result.

23:52, 19 March 2004

North Osetian Communists report on fraud during presidential election

The secretary of the North Osetian regional branch of the Russian Communist Party (KPRF) and envoy of Communist presidential contender Nikolay Kharitonov, Nataliya Mikhaylenko, told in her telephone interview with the Caucasian Knot correspondent that the March 14 presidential election in North Osetia had bee held with gross violations.

23:14, 19 March 2004

Resident of Ingushetia kidnapped, whereabouts still unknown

Timur Yandiyev, 25, was abducted at 5 p.m. on March 16 in the center of Nazran, Ingushetia. According to eyewitnesses, unknown armed men forcibly bundled Yandiyev into a white Niva car as he was leaving the building of Ingushenergo Company and drove off to an unknown destination.

23:06, 19 March 2004

Yeni Musavat newspaper staff continue hunger strike

The hunger strikers are protesting against the pressure on the Yeni Musavat, appearing in demands to pay court fines, the total sum of which comes to 733 million manats (about $150 thousand), reminded Gabil Abbasoglu, deputy editor-in-chief of the newspaper.

22:28, 19 March 2004

Yuri Samodurov: attempts to prevent festival of films about Chechnya from holding caused by Estonia's unwillingness to damage relations with Russia

"It is really undesirable to damage relations with Russia, but one shouldn't yield to the recommendations by Russian authorities not to hold the festival if there were any," Yuri Samodurov, director of the Andrey Sakharov Museum and Public Center, said.

21:35, 19 March 2004

Festival of documentary films about Chechnya postponed in Estonia

The festival is arranged by the organization Estonian War Memorial with the assistance of the Sakharov Public Center.

18:15, 19 March 2004

Sputnik tent camp in Ingushetia to be dismantled soon

The Caucasian Knot correspondent learnt about it at the Sunzha district migration department.

17:44, 19 March 2004

Memorial: over 60 people abducted in Chechnya in 2004

26 people were released, 35 are missing, and 2 were found dead, said Dmitry Grushkin, Memorial's activist.

16:49, 19 March 2004

Most Russians find authorities to be responsible for aid workers' safety

An express survey conducted within the framework of the Rikoshet program via interactive phones has revealed that 68% of the respondents find Russian authorities to be responsible for the safety of aid workers, including those in the North Caucasus.

16:46, 19 March 2004

"Address purges" in Chechnya's Vedeno district

Locals reported on several men detained by security officers during the actions.

16:16, 19 March 2004

Blockade against Adjaria lifted

In line with a decree issued by Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili, all economic sanctions, introduced against the Adjarian autonomy on March 15, were lifted during the night of March 18-19.

16:04, 19 March 2004

Mikhail Saakashvili: no conflict between Georgia and Adjaria

"The main thing is that democratic system and peace have been maintained. There is no conflict between Adjaria and Georgia," the Georgian president emphasized after his talks with Aslan Abashidze.

23:03, 18 March 2004

Georgian civil society on developments in Adjaria

We call your attention to the statement issued by a number of Georgian civil society activists concerning the developments in Adjaria.

15:56, 18 March 2004

Statement by the Movement Against Religious Intolerance in Georgia in connection with arrest of Vasil Mkalavishvili

"In the current pre-election period, some political parties have made attempts to use the discontent a certain part of the society has with Mkalavishvili's detention and methods the police has used in order to gain political benefits. Manipulating religious issues and using personal feelings of individuals in order to improve one's own rating is morally unacceptable everywhere, especially in a country that has been suffering from religious violence for years," reads the statement.

15:23, 18 March 2004

Kabardino-Balkarian branch of Movement for Human Rights gains court victory over regional department of justice

On March 17, the Nalchik City Court satisfied the claim by the regional brunch chairman of the All-Russian Movement for Human Rights, Valery Khatazhukov, against the department of the Russian Ministry of Justice in the Republic of Kabardino-Balkaria concerning the registration of the branch.

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