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23:09, 27 February 2004

Refugees who departed for Chechnya are left to mercy of fate

Families of Chechen refugees who departed for Chechnya from the Satsita tent camp the day before yesterday have been forsaken in the street in fact.

23:09, 27 February 2004

Residents of Krasnodar village protest against authorities' actions resulted in ecocatastrophe

On February 26, residents of the Prorvensky village published an open letter to the governor of the Kuban region, Aleksandr Tkachyov.

22:27, 27 February 2004

Representatives of UN and Abkhazian Foreign Ministry discuss rights situation in republic in context of Georgian-Abkhazian conflict

Foreign Minister of Abkhazia Sergey Shamba received Ivar Vikki and Irina Nezhinskaya, representatives of the UN Human Rights Office, on February 25.

17:01, 27 February 2004

Eight Armenian NGOs unite against corruption

The organizations disagree with some clauses of the governmental Anticorruption Strategic Program.

16:07, 27 February 2004

Lyudmila Alekseyeva: "Only international peacekeeping forces can settle the situation in Chechnya"

In her interview with the Interfax news agency, the chairwoman of the Moscow Helsinki Group expressed the opinion that negotiations with Chechen leader Aslan Maskhadov would barely resolve the conflict.

15:56, 27 February 2004

Residents of Novomikhailovskoye village suspend hunger strike

14 people went on a hunger strike because they had not received housing in return of that lost in the flood of 2002.

15:38, 27 February 2004

Mikhail Saakashvili: Tbilisi is ready to grant Abkhazia broad autonomy within Georgia

"When we talk about the autonomy, we mean that we are ready to introduce federal elements in relations between the centre and the autonomy," said the Georgian president.

23:38, 26 February 2004

8 thousand Chechen retirees unable to receive proper pensions

Nearly 8,000 retirees in Chechnya are unable to receive retirement benefits for which they are eligible, announced Bogdan Istamulov, deputy director of the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation for Chechnya.

22:34, 26 February 2004

Signatures for UN interim administration in Chechnya collected in Moscow

The collection of signatures for the United Nations interim administration in Chechnya took place on Pushkinskaya Square in Moscow on February 21 and 22. The action was arranged by members of the Transnational Radical Party.

16:22, 26 February 2004

Foreign Minister of Nagorny Karabakh: refugees in republic have no legal status

Summarizing the visit of Terry Davis, rapporteur of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, to Stepanakert, Foreign Minister of the Republic of Nagorny Karabakh Ashot Gulyan noted in his interview with the Caucasian Knot correspondent that the rapporteur was especially interested in the problems of refugees in the context of the Karabakh settlement.

16:03, 26 February 2004

Chechens demand to restore Aukhovsky district in Dagestan

On February 23, about 4 thousand people held an authorized meeting in Dagestan. The main demand of its participants was that Akkinsky Chechens (Chechens who have originally been living in Dagestan) should be given their lands back and the Aukhovsky district of Dagestan should be restored.

14:24, 26 February 2004

Actions in commemoration of 60th anniversary of deportation take place in refugee camps

Representatives of the republican interior ministry recommended refuges in categorical terms not to hold the action in the open air. The functionaries said such an action would be broken up by police.

14:01, 26 February 2004

Action of Moscow anarchists against war in Chechnya

The purpose of the demonstration was to express a protest against actions of the Russian army in Chechnya, against abductions and extrajudicial punishments of civilians there, and against the discrimination of Chechens by their ethnic belonging all over Russia.

13:30, 26 February 2004

PACE rapporteur on Karabakh conflict arrives in Baku

The purpose of his visit is to prepare a report on the Karabakh conflict by the PACE fall session.

13:14, 26 February 2004

Armenian General Staff Chief: Armenia ready for war with Azerbaijan

"If we see that they are readying for war, we will take corresponding measures. The Armenian army is ready for war. If a war begins, it will be a brutal one," said Chief of the Armenian Armed Forces' General Staff Mikhail Arutyunian.

13:02, 26 February 2004

Action devoted to 60th anniversary of deportation of Chechens takes place in Kazan

The Center for Peacekeeping and Human Rights Actions jointly with the All-Tatar Public Center arranged a demonstration of films from the program of the international Chechnya Film Festival.

20:30, 25 February 2004

Meeting in Petersburg in commemoration of 60th anniversary of deportation of Chechen people

Liberal human rights defenders, former political prisoners, about twenty anarchists and Workers' Democracy members participated in the action.

19:13, 25 February 2004

Terry Davis: "I arrived in Karabakh not as a mediator"

PACE rapporteur on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict Terry Davis met with the leaders of Nagorny Karabakh on February 23.

19:05, 25 February 2004

Films of international Chechnya Film Festival shown in Ryazan

In Ryazan on February 23, the 60th anniversary of the deportation of the Chechen people, the Sasovo human rights center Choice of Conscience and the Human Rights School attached to Ryazan's Memorial Society arranged a demonstration of films from the program of the international Chechnya Film Festival.

18:14, 25 February 2004

Attack on participants in antiwar picket in Izhevsk

On February 23, after anarchists, antimilitarists and activists of the Ataka (Attack) movement had held an unauthorized picket against the war in Chechnya, some 30 people of the local branch of the Fascist organization Party of Freedom attacked them.

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