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15:38, 22 March 2004

Ethnic Osetins from Georgia's Akhmetsky district strive to resettle to South Osetia

A group of Osetins living in the Akhmetsky district of Georgia arrived in South Osetia on March 18 to meet with authorities there.

14:55, 22 March 2004

European Union provides up to 1 million euros in grants for Georgian NGOs

There are three priority areas to be financed under the European Initiative for Democracy and Human Rights (EIDHR) microprojects programme: support to the rule of law and the fight against corruption; the fight against torture; and combating discrimination against religious and ethnic minorities.

14:05, 22 March 2004

Police official killed in Chechnya's Achkhoy-Martan district

Unknown people shot down Chersi Gatayev, deputy chief of the Achkhoy-Martan district police department, and his driver on March 19.

13:36, 22 March 2004

Process of paying compensations for lost housing and property in Chechnya to be accelerated

"1,654 residents of the Chechen Republic have got compensations for lost housing and property for the last six months. Another 4 thousand people are expected to get compensations till the end of March," chairman of the Chechen governmental committee for compensation payments and displaced persons Abubakar Baybatirov said in his interview with the Caucasian Knot correspondent on March 20.

12:36, 22 March 2004

EU special representative for South Caucasus to arrive in Yerevan on March 23

During his visit, which will last till March 27, Heikki Talvitie will meet with the Armenian political leadership.

12:25, 22 March 2004

Yeni Musavat newspaper journalists stop hunger strike

On March 19, five contributors to the Yeni Musavat newspaper suspended the hunger strike they had started on March 15. "The editor-in-chief of the newspaper, Rauf Arifoglu, who is held in Bailovsky Investigatory Isolation Ward No 1, addressed an appeal to the hunger strikers, asking them to stop it," reported Yeni Musavat deputy editor-in-chief Gabil Abbasoglu.

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.

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