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A riot police officer shoots himself in the head.

Several dozen women hold a picket against abductions in Chechnya.

Three young men hack Azerbaijani to death.

Georgian military authorities deny hazing with respect to the ethnic Armenians who deserted the army.

A detainee denies torture in the pre-trial detention centre of Ingushetia's Internal Affairs Ministry.

Young men are reported to increasingly often go to rebels in the mountains.

A plan is implemented to settle the conflict.

An Ingush opposition leader says detainees are tortured in a pre-trial detention centre.

Twelve servicemen desert the Georgian army.

Police in Azerbaijan fight Wahhabism by shaving beards.

Azerbaijan's Tax Ministry blocks Norwegian Refugee Council accounts.

The AZAL airline bans sale of opposition newspapers.

The report on Georgia from the U.S. State Department's <a href="http://www.state.gov/s/ct/rls/c14813.htm" target="_blank">Country Reports on Terrorism 2004</a>.

The report on Azerbaijan from the U.S. State Department's <a href="http://www.state.gov/s/ct/rls/c14813.htm" target="_blank">Country Reports on Terrorism 2004</a>.

The report on Armenia from the U.S. State Department's <a href="http://www.state.gov/s/ct/rls/c14813.htm" target="_blank">Country Reports on Terrorism 2004</a>.

North Caucasus related excerpts from the report on Russia from the U.S. State Department's <a href="http://www.state.gov/s/ct/rls/c14813.htm" target="_blank">Country Reports on Terrorism 2004</a>.

In saying so, <a href="http://eng.kavkaz.memo.ru/analyticstext/enganalytics/id/783160.html" target="_blank">Ramzan Kadyrov</a> is guided by his nearly unlimited power in Chechnya and some neighbouring republics and his wish to revenge for his father's assassination.

Ingush refugees are prevented from coming back in spite of prior government arrangements.

A reproduction of a posting from the Turkish newspaper Hurriyetim in which it says that while Armenians were moved, Turks were also moved.

A document is published that is said to prove the 1915-1923 Armenian Genocide in Turkey.