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The "Nord-Ost" Organization demands excitation of a new criminal case on Dubrovka act of terror.

The policy of adults has poor consequences for the most vulnerable group - children. Chechnya lacks boarding schools for children with disabilities. It also has no special institutions, where parents could leave their children while at work. Lilia Yusupova, leader of the "Sozidanie" (Creation) NGO (City of Gudermes), said about it in her interview to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

The Public Prosecutor's Office of the Elborus District, Kabardino-Balkaria, has accused two workers of the District Interior Department (ROVD) - M. Baichekuev and M. Mashezov - of applying physical violence to detained minor residents of Neitrino village, Kabardino-Balkaria, Yusup Nakani and Ravil Nuraliev.

The Georgian Public Prosecutor's Office has detained three policemen suspected of beating Alexander Hositashvili, 36, who died on March 15.

Offices of international humanitarian organizations located in Naberezhnaya Street, Tagrim community, City of Nazran, Ingushetia, have closed.

About 90 percent of those who suffered from dispersals of the so-called "Disagreement Marches" in Moscow and Saint Petersburg are going to appeal against the actions of law enforcement bodies.

During the last 24 hours, employees of power agencies have found two hiding places with weapons and ammunition in Grozny and Urus-Martan District of Chechnya.

Mr. Bulatov and Mr. Dambegov, residents of Kabardino-Balkaria, who were tortured at the so-called "T-Centre," have appealed against their District Court's verdict.

Chechen residents treat the utterances of Dmitri Rogozin, Russian State Duma Deputy, that Captain Ulman and his two subordinates could have been kidnapped by Chechens as "complete ramble" and "fiction."

On April 12, the village named Vtoroe Otobaya, Galskiy District, Abkhazia, was attacked by fire.

The International Writers' Organization "Russian PEN-Centre" has expressed its serious concern of and protest against the force methods used by law enforcement bodies against the journalists who performed their professional duties during the actions of opposition in the streets of the Russian capital on April 14.

A complex work to improve custody conditions will be implemented in South Ossetia.

The next court session on the assassination case of Imam of the city of Kislovodsk (Stavropol Territory) will take place on April 23 at 11 a.m. in the premises of the Pyatigorsk City Court.

On April 16, the Supreme Court of the Republic Ingushetia started to consider the criminal case of 12 defendants accused of a terrorist attack on the Republic in June 2004.

Nurdi Nukhazhiev, Human Rights Ombudsman for the Chechen Republic, made a special statement concerning disappearance of a group of militaries from special troops of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Russian General Staff (known as "GRU") accused of murdering peaceful residents.

State Duma Deputy Dmitri Rogozin thinks that the three defendants in Ulman's case who failed to appear at the court session last week, could have been kidnapped.

The problems of Chechnya and North Caucasus cannot be settled without changing Russian political regime. Stanislav Dmitrievsky, leader of the Society of Russian-Chechen Friendship, liquidated in Russia by court ruling, expressed this opinion to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

"Ramzan Kadyrov's signing of a decree on the national policy of the Chechen Republic (ChR) was dictated by his wish to show that Chechnya is a full-fledged part of Russia," Zaindi Choltaev, a Chechen political scientist, thinks.

The Office of Public Prosecutor of one of the Districts of Grozny, the capital of Chechnya, has excited a criminal case on the fact of assassination by a militiaman of a minivan driver.

On April 13, the Security Council of the United Nations (UNSC) unanimously adopted the resolution on a six-month extension of the mandate of the UN Mission for Monitoring in Georgia (UNMMG) in the Abkhazian-Georgian conflict zone till October 15, 2007.