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17:04, 16 January 2004

Public organization "Nord-Ost" blames Doctor Leonid Roshal for telling lies

The open letter to Doctor Leonid Roshal reads, "The statement "of an eye-witness" you made yesterday that the terrorists [in the Theatre Center] on Dubrovka provoked a storm of the theatre and the use of homicidal gas is comparable in its shamelessness with President Putin's statement that "the gas was innocuous"."

16:53, 16 January 2004

International Helsinki Federation accuses Russian law-enforcement agencies of abduction of physical therapy practitioner in Ingushetia

Executive Director of the International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights Aaron Rhodes addressed an open letter to Prosecutor of the Republic of Ingushetia Magamet Belkhoroev in connection with the abduction of Khamzat Osmaev, a popular physical therapy practitioner.

15:39, 16 January 2004

Leonid Roshal: gas used to set hostages on Dubrovka free was not homicidal

We call your attention to the response of Leonid Roshal to Irina Khakamada's statement concerning the investigation into the storm of the Theatre Center on Dubrovka.

14:52, 16 January 2004

EU forces need corresponding UN mandate to take part in peacemaking operation in Abkhazia

The EU High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP), Javier Solana, stated it at a press conference in Tbilisi on January 15.

13:59, 16 January 2004

Book "Problems of Civil Society Development in the Republic of Dagestan" presented in Makhachkala

Specific proposals concerning the forming of civil society institutions and environment which could help them to work more productively, as well as those concerning the development of interaction between authorities and civil society institutions were given at the presentation.

13:21, 16 January 2004

Azerbaijan oppositionists to be held in custody for 3 more months

The court decided to extend detention terms for Azerbaijan oppositionists arrested in connection with the October mass riots in Baku. They will be held in custody for three more months.

12:13, 16 January 2004

Residents of Chechen village of Prigorodnoye detained

Officers of Russian security agencies abducted two men during the January 10 "address purges" in the village of Prigorodnoye, the Grozny district.

11:59, 16 January 2004

Resident of Pervomayskaya killed in bomb explosion

A local was killed on January 12 in the village of Pervomayskaya, the Grozny (rural) district.

21:10, 15 January 2004

Press conference "Competition for Peace Prize" to be held on January 16

The prize will be presented to Russian peacemakers by Lord Judd, who is arriving from London especially for it.

21:07, 15 January 2004

Local policeman beaten in Batumi for criticism against Adjarian authorities

Unknown people forced Iokobadze out of the car when he was going home from work. They started beating him, saying "you are the one who dislikes Abashidze".

21:05, 15 January 2004

Purge at central market of Grozny

On January 14, the central market of Grozny was blocked by policemen. They let nobody enter of leave the territory of the market.

21:04, 15 January 2004

Ruslan Gelayev not found among killed in Dagestan

"Ruslan Gelayev, extremists' and foreign mercenaries' group leader, is not among the ten bodies of militants destroyed last December by the federal forces. We have recently found them in the places of hostilities," Shamkhal Aliyev, chief of the search-and-rescue unit of the Dagestani Rescue Team of the Russian Emergencies Ministry, said on January 15 upon return to Makhachkala from the Tsuntinsky district.

20:57, 15 January 2004

Georgian Central Election Commission officially announces Mikhail Saakashvili's victory

According to the final official data, Saakashvili won 96.27% of the vote.

19:47, 15 January 2004

Known doctor and masseur Khamzat Osmayev abducted in Ingushetia

On January 12, Russian security agents abducted Khamzat Kh. Osmayev, 1954, in the village of Pliyevo, which is a municipal district of the Ingush town of Nazran.

18:03, 15 January 2004

Representatives of territorial authorities, business and public meet informally in Krasnodar

They gathered at the restaurant "Krasnodar" to exchange opinions about possible ways of cooperation in an informal atmosphere.

17:46, 15 January 2004

Aleksandr Podrabinek: seizure of book "FSB Blows Up Russia" is act of intimidation against society

"We remember how they came in and conducted searches 20 years ago. Everybody knew it was dangerous to read books as it could be a ground for imprisonment. Now they make it clear to the society that it is dangerous to read such books," says Aleksandr Podrabinek.

16:16, 15 January 2004

Meeting in Sukhum between members of Abkhazian People's Party and leaders of "Akhyatsa" social and political movement

Members of the Abkhazian People's Party met with leaders of the "Akhyatsa" social and political movement in Sukhum on January 12. They discussed their positions and priorities in their activity.

15:01, 15 January 2004

Irina Khakamada makes appeal to victims of State terrorism

"I have been mistaken believing that President Putin will help find truth and will repent of his order to use homicidal gas," Ms. Khakamada confesses in her statement. Now she has decided to respond to the appeal by relatives of those who died as a result of the explosions of apartment houses in Moscow in 1999 and during the storm of "Nord-Ost".

13:43, 15 January 2004

Ashot Gulyan: neither Armenia nor Nagorny Karabakh has ever prohibited from participation of Azerbaijan representatives in international meetings

Foreign Minister of the Republic of Nagorny Karabakh Ashot Gulyan has given comments on the refusal of the Azerbaijan authorities to receive the Armenian representatives at NATO's conference in Baku.

13:07, 15 January 2004

People to serve by contract in Chechnya being recruited in Karachaevo-Cherkessia for first time

The recruits who will win the competition will get special training at the Mozdok Training Center and then will be sent to Khankala.

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