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From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng  (Original Message)    Sent: 8/14/2005 12:41 AM
CAUCASIAN KNOT / NEWS

11/8/2005
Unauthorised public meeting held in Grozny

An unauthorised public meeting is being held the capital of Chechnya in front of an office of Rosselkhozbank ("Russian Agricultural Bank"). Around 100 people demand starting payment of compensations for their homes and property lost in military action in Chechnya, RIA Novosti says. Participants in the meeting threaten to go on hunger strike unless their money is paid to them.

http://eng.kavkaz.memo.ru/newstext/engnews/id/841640.html

From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng  (Original Message)    Sent: 8/15/2005 6:09 AM
CAUCASIAN KNOT / NEWS

13/8/2005
Protest action in Grozny

Local residents have been holding a protest action in the centre of Grozny for several days. Fifty to 100 people take part in public meetings day by day. The people demand that authorities should pay them compensations for their lost homes and property intending to go on hunger strike unless this issue is settled soon.

They say they have waited for three years already.

The main reason for the delay in paying compensations is that there is no money in the republic, the administrative staff for the republican president and government told Caucasian Knot.

Officials say money for compensations are allocated by the federal centre. As soon as it is transferred, compensations will start to be paid, according to them.

Compensations for homes (300,000 roubles) and property (50,000 roubles) lost in action in the republic began to be paid in ...
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From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng  (Original Message)    Sent: 8/24/2005 3:16 AM
Food aid to Chechnya and Dagestan
17.08.2005 - 00:32:33

The Danish Refugee Council is continuing food aid distribution funded by the European Union...

Danish Refugee Council (DRC) is continuing food aid distribution to the population of Chechnya and IDPs living in Dagestan.

The program is funded by the European Union through its Humanitarian Aid Department (ECHO).

Over 110,000 people, living in Vedeno, Groznenskiy Rural, Gudermes, Kurchaloy, Nozhay-Yurt, Urus-Martan and Shali districts, will receive food aid and around 5,000 people in Dagestan, residing in Kizlyar, Nogayskiy, Tarumovskiy and Khasav-Yurt districts.

Only the most vulnerable groups of the population are in beneficiary lists.

Aid beneficiaries in Chechnya are poor and very poor families with low income and high expenditures.

In Dagestan these are people who fled Chechnya after September 1999, and have not settled permanently in Dagestan.

Criteria for inclusion into DRC/ECHO food aid beneficiary lists are presented at DRC Information Centers located ...
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From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng  (Original Message)    Sent: 8/24/2005 3:18 AM
Chechen refugees protest in Pankisi Georgia
18.08.2005 - 00:06:16

Chechen refugees of Pankisi Georgia carried a protest action on Tuesday, against the United Nations´ hidden policy of keeping refugees in Pankisi and are asking assistance for housing in a third country...

A group of 30 Chechen refugees in Duisi village of Pankisi Georgia carried a protest action on Tuesday and spoke aloud about their problems and activities of UNHCR in Georgia.

The protesters stated to the journalists that UNHCR in Georgia is avoiding the Chechen refugees and play deaf to refugee demands for housing in other countries than Georgia.

The protesters stated that they will continue to protest until their voice is heard by international organizations.

The protesters claimed that the situation of Chechen refugees in Pankisi Georgia is very unfavorable and no way to repatriate to war conditions in Chechnya.

The protesters finally demanded an international scrutiny on ...
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From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng  (Original Message)    Sent: 8/25/2005 7:26 AM

Russia Activists Call for Silent Protest

By STEVE GUTTERMAN : Associated Press Writer
Aug 24, 2005 : 10:18 pm ET

MOSCOW -- A group of prominent Russian rights activists held a demonstration Wednesday outside the prison that holds the imprisoned tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who says he has gone on a hunger strike.

About 70 people took part in what was billed as a silent protest, some holding posters or wearing T-shirts calling for the release of Khodorkovsky and his business partner Platon Lebedev. Both were sentenced in May to nine years in prison for fraud and tax evasion.

The demonstration was organized by six activists including Lyudmila Alexeyeva, head of the Moscow Helsinki Group, and Sergei Kovalyov, a Soviet-era dissident and political prisoner who has fiercely opposed Russia's war in Chechnya.

"Everyone to whom human dignity is dear and who has time to support it today, let us ...
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