Wounded activist of Amtsakhara movement dies in hospital June 10, 2004 15:57 Garri Ayba underwent an operation in the Sukhum town hospital, but he died several hours later.
Number of Chechen presidential contenders grows June 10, 2004 15:53 Lawyer Adam Edilov and doctor Sultan Aiskhanov filed their applications with the Chechen election commission on June 9 asking to register them as candidates for the Chechen presidency.
Chechen Diaspora in Samara to hold meeting June 10, 2004 15:20 Organizers of the action explain that the people were forced to take such a step by mass arbitrary detentions of Chechens on the basis of nationality which security agencies of the town of Samara practice.
Azerbaijan opposition to sue Baku administration June 10, 2004 14:59 The oppositionists are dissatisfied with the fact that the Baku city administration does not allow them to hold protest actions.
Detentions of disabled people continues in Chechnya June 10, 2004 14:56 Abducted Said Seriyev is a disabled man of the first group. He lost both arms in a landmine explosion while stacking hay last year.
Chechen presidential contender faced charges of fraud, abuse of power June 10, 2004 13:02 Marat Zaynalabidov was external manager at the Electroapparat defense company situated in Rostov Region.
Georgian special operations forces disperse people protesting against oil pipeline construction June 10, 2004 13:00 Residents of the Krtsanisi village insist that the land on which the oil pipeline is being constructed has belonged to them long since and demand that the title to this lend be given to them.
3 Georgian power engineering specialists abducted, then 2 found June 10, 2004 12:59 The state of released Avtandil Biblaya and Omekh Chitanava is satisfactory. However the destiny of the third abducted man, Abesalom Dzhabua, remains unknown.
Volunteers from North Caucasus ready to help Abkhazia against Georgia June 10, 2004 09:46 Representatives of the Union of Abkhazian Volunteers of Kabardino-Balkaria and youth organizations of the Adyga Khase public movement from Adygeya and Karachaevo-Cherkessia have arrived in Abkhazia.
Georgian journalists not allowed to enter South Osetia June 09, 2004 20:22 Osetian peacekeepers stopped the escort at a post and demanded that the journalists leave the territory of South Osetia.
Interior ministry denies reports about prevented terror attack in Grozny June 09, 2004 20:19 "There are no grounds to announce that a large terrorist attack was prevented in the center of Grozny or that rebels tried to blow up the Gosstroy building," the Interior Ministry's duty officer said.
Amtsakhara movement activist wounded in Sukhum June 09, 2004 16:48 A criminal waited for his victim in the deserted building of a hostel situated not far from Garri Ayba's house and took a shot from there, according to preliminary information.
Chechen family receives body of killed relative June 09, 2004 16:12 The man most likely died from cruel torture. His body had many knife wounds, his fingers and toes were cut off, and his both arms were broken.
Official makes his apology to NGO leader June 09, 2004 16:10 There was a media discussion in Adygeya and Krasnodar Region in which Tatyana Rudakova was called a woman who had been in prison twice.
Osetins to hold meeting, protest action in Moscow June 09, 2004 15:02 At the suggestion of the leader of the Moscow Osetian community, Mr Torchinov, the decision was made to hold the meeting on Pushkinskaya Square.
International human rights conference opens in Tbilisi June 09, 2004 15:00 Ombudsmen from Russia, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia, and representatives of international and non-governmental organizations are taking part in it.
Vladikavkaz, Tskhinvali discuss joint tactics June 09, 2004 12:52 Official Tbilisi has made no protest concerning the June 7 visit of President of North Osetia - Alania Aleksandr Dzasokhov to South Osetia so far, though this visit was not approved by the Georgian leadership.
South Osetian NGOs protest against actions of Georgian armed forces June 09, 2004 12:30 South Osetian non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have addressed an open letter to Head of the OSCE Mission in Georgia Ambassador Roy Reeve.
Kidnapping suspect arrested in Ingushetia June 09, 2004 12:28 Tukhan Elsayev, a 42-year-old resident of Chechnya, is accused of complicity in the March 1999 kidnapping of Gennady Shpigun, the Russian Interior Ministry's envoy in Chechnya.
Two Georgian power engineering specialists abducted in Abkhazia June 09, 2004 11:19 Unknown people in masks abducted two Georgian engineering specialists, Avtandil Biblaya and Abessalom Dzhabua, near the village of Rechkhi in the Gali district of Abkhazia in the morning of June 8.