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Information is contradictory about <a href="http://eng.kavkaz.memo.ru/persontext/engperson/id/560900.html" target="_blank">Aslan Maskhadov</a>'s death. Many in the republic believe he was killed before 8 March in an area different from that in the official version.

Often criticised for its inability to ensure Meskhetian Turks' rights, the Russian government is happy to remind Georgia of commitments.

Azerbaijan's National Security Ministry neutralises an organised crime group that has long been involved in kidnappings.

Many in Tolstoy-Yurt think <a href="http://eng.kavkaz.memo.ru/persontext/engperson/id/560900.html" target="_blank">Aslan Maskhadov</a> was already dead when brought to the village.

There are strong reasons to believe <a href="http://eng.kavkaz.memo.ru/persontext/engperson/id/560900.html" target="_blank">Aslan Maskhadov</a> may have been killed by Chechen law enforcement and security agencies under Ramzan Kadyrov's command.

The ceasefire agreement between the parties to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict has today been violated.

Seven young men were abducted by people who appeared to be law enforcement officers.

The body of Zelimkhan Betelgeriyev with gunshot wounds was found in the Leninsky district of Grozny.

Locals say 20 people have already been detained and brought away.

The North Caucasus District Court Martial has today interrogated Private Ivan Melekhin, a prosecution witness in the Ulman case.

A bomb kills a reconnaissance unit commander.

Criminals took the policeman's pistol with eight cartridges and ID.

Local students and members of the Kmara ("Enough") organisation staged a rally near Batumi Secondary School No.5, the military base stationed not far from it.

Rebels were going to attack a federal military unit, according to information obtained by law enforcement agencies.

Elmar Huseynov, editor-in-chief of the opposition magazine Monitor, was murdered on the staircase of his house on 2 March at 9 pm local time.

Chechnya's authorities who strongly criticise the forum on Chechnya soon to be held in Strasbourg intend to host a similar round table discussion in Grozny.

Scheduled for today, a meeting in Paris between the foreign ministers Elmar Mammedyarov of Azerbaijan and Vartan Oskanyan of Armenia has been cancelled, Azerbaijan's Foreign Ministry says.

President Ilkham Aliyev of Azerbaijan will soon sign a new pardon decree, which is also expected to set free the opposition leaders arrested in connection with the 15-16 October 2003 events.

Several bodies have been found in two abandoned cars in the capital of Chechnya, Grozny.

Chechen law enforcers claim a group of 40 to 70 is trapped in mountains.