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13:58, 13 March 2004

Local television no longer broadcasts programs in Kabardian and Balkarian languages

A press conference was held at the Center for the Protection of Human Rights on March 11. It focused on the situation that has arisen at the republican Kabalkteleradio company, which has broadcasted no programs in the Kabardian and Balkarian languages since January.

13:56, 13 March 2004

International Working Group to Search for the Missing and Hostages to be dismissed

The Caucasian Knot correspondent learnt about it from the Group's Karabakh coordinator.

13:48, 13 March 2004

Press conference "Mikhail Trepashkin Is a Political Prisoner in Putin's Russia" held in Moscow

Mikhail Trepashkin, a former officer of special services and known lawyer, was arrested in October 2003. He was charged with disclosing state secrets.

13:46, 13 March 2004

Article 19 conducts training on media monitoring in Tskhinvali

The training for journalists and NGO activists was devoted to the work of the mass media in a pre-election period.

13:45, 13 March 2004

Participants in antiwar picket detained in Moscow

The police detained Yevgeny Frumkin, Elena Batenkova, and Mikhail Kriger, who protested against the war in Chechnya. They were conveyed to the Tverskoye police department.

13:43, 13 March 2004

Woman abducted during special operation in Gudermes

On the night of March 11, Khavani Usmanova, a 51-year-old local, was detained by Russian security agents in the course of "address purges" in Gudermes.

13:24, 13 March 2004

PACE delegation will not observe election of Russian president in Chechnya

The situation in the republic is still "extremely difficult", said the head of the delegation, Rudolf Bindig.

17:58, 12 March 2004

Institute of Peace and Democracy calls trials against Azerbaijan oppositionists politically motivated

The Institute of Peace and Democracy, an Azerbaijan human rights organization, issued a statement devoted to the trials against oppositionists arrested in the autumn of 2003.

17:52, 12 March 2004

Peace Prize award ceremony held at Tretyakov Gallery

Twelve people who have been working in the field of peacemaking for a long time and have been advocating nonviolent approaches to the resolution of the Chechen conflict nominated for the prize.

17:49, 12 March 2004

New signatures under appeal for UN interim administration in Chechnya collected

The meeting "For Russia Without Putin" was held on Pushkinskaya Square in Moscow on March 10.

17:38, 12 March 2004

Abduction of Adjarian opposition leader connected with his political activity

One of the leaders of the opposition organization Democratic Adjaria, Tengiz Apkhazava, who had disappeared in Batumi several days ago, returned home at daybreak on March 11 savagely beaten.

16:46, 12 March 2004

Refugees from Sputnik camp refuse to return to Chechnya

Another deadline for dismantling the Sputnik refugee camp in Ingushetia expired on March 10; but unsurprisingly, only 20 families left the camp.

16:25, 12 March 2004

Assassination attempts on 2 Chechen officials

An assassination attempt on the Chechen Deputy Interior Minister Sultan Saduyev and Deputy Justice Minister Mussa Yevsultanov was made in Grozny.

15:57, 12 March 2004

About 150 refugee families plan to return to Chechnya from Ingushetia

Meanwhile, Moscow Helsinki Group chairwoman Lyudmila Alekseyeva said "refugees are being forced to return to Chechnya from Ingushetia."

15:46, 12 March 2004

No evidence of authorities' involvement in abduction of Arian Erkel

Ali Temirbekov, press secretary of the republican prosecutor's office, announced it.

15:32, 12 March 2004

OSCE urges Georgia to cooperate with human rights agencies

According to Christian Strohal, Director of the OSCE's Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) official Tbilisi should use the possibility it has due to the "Rose Revolution" to establish contacts between "the electors and the elected".

15:14, 12 March 2004

Abkhazian side releases Georgian woodcutters after four months of detention

By its decision, the Sukhumi Court set the detainees free from the courtroom because it saw no crime in their actions.

14:44, 12 March 2004

Unknown assailants abduct Chechen refugee in Ingushetia

In the afternoon of March 10, armed men in military camouflage abducted 19-year-old Bislan Dokuyev from the Satsita refugee camp, located near Ordzhonikidzevskaya, Ingushetia.

23:43, 11 March 2004

Memorial: Magomed Khambiyev compelled to surrender by taking hostages

Mass detentions of relatives of Umar and Magomed Khambiyevs, who had occupied high positions in Aslan Maskhadov's government earlier, started on February 29 in the villages of Meskety, Benoy, and Turty-Khutor.

21:46, 11 March 2004

Competent observers to control presidential election in Stavropol

The round table discussion "The Institution of Observation at the Elections: Purposes, Tasks, and Outlook" was held in Stavropol on March 5.

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