CAUCASUS NEWS UPDATE MAY 29
May 29 Four police officers were reported wounded by a bomb blast in South Ossetia.
May 29 Georgian foreign minister Eka Tkeshelashvili held talks with US secretary of state Condoleezza Rice in Stockholm.
May 29 The European Court of Human Rights held Russia responsible for the presumed death of two Chechen civilians, Lecha and Ibragim Betayev "following their unacknowledged arrest by [Russian] State servicemen" in 2003. The parents of the two were awarded 70,000 euros in damages.
May 28 Both Armenia and Azerbaijan marked the 90th anniversary of their declaration of independence in 1918.
May 27 Officials from the Council of Europe's Parliamentary Assembly, PACE, meeting in Kiev, said Armenia had made few tangible steps to comply with a PACE resolution relating to the disputed election and March 1 bloodshed in Yerevan.
May 26 The United Nations said it had concluded that a Russian air force plane shot down an unmanned Georgian spy drone over Abkhazia on April 20. Russia contested the report.
May 26 A court in Moscow ordered the closure of the main opposition website in Ingushetia,
May 26 The Georgian opposition held a mass rally to demand that the parliamentary election results of May 21 be annulled.
May 26 Georgia marked the 90th anniversary of its declaration of independence in 1918. Polish president Lech Kaczynski was the guest of honour.
May 23 US state department spokesman Tom Casey said that Georgia's parliamentary elections appeared to have gone better than the presidential ones in January.
May 21 Leading Armenian human rights activist Mikael Danielian was lightly wounded when Tigran Urikhanian, the former leader of the Armenian Progressive Party, fired an air gun at him.
COMING UP...
May 30 Twelve European Union ambassadors or senior diplomats based in Tbilisi are due to visit Abkhazia
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