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Today, the leading Russian human rights organizations have demanded from US president George Bush to give explanations concerning his meeting in the White House with the general accused by the public of mass violations of human rights in Chechnya.

An operation is underway in the Vedenskiy District of the Chechen Republic aimed to search militants from the squad of Suleiman Imurzaev (Hirullah), killed in the morning on April 4 in the vicinity of the settlement of Egishbatoj.

Today, the European Court for Human Rights has found Russian authorities guilty of kidnapping and murdering a person in Chechnya.

Investigators of the Military Office of Public Prosecutor of the United Force Grouping (UFG) in North Caucasus continue their enquiry into the incident that occurred on March 24 in the high-mountainous Shatoi District of Chechnya.

Today, Ramzan Kadyrov has officially entered the post of the president of the Chechen Republic. Many people in Chechnya are positively assessing Kadyrov's activities in his position, however, there are many of those who stick to a different point of view.

Another regular inspection was made to the premises of the "Educated Media" Foundation headed by Manana Aslamazyan. The fact has become known to the "Echo Moskvy" Radio Station. This time the office of the Foundation, which is under special attention of law enforcement bodies, was inspected by firemen.

The main threat to stability originates from Georgia and the top Georgian officials who hide their true aims behind peace-loving rhetoric. Sergey Shamba, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Abkhazia, made this statement.

Susanna Dudieva, chair of the "Beslan Mothers" Committee, thinks that neither a temple nor a mosque can replace the "live" evidence of the Beslan tragedy - the gym.

Today in Krasnodar, a preliminary hearing was completed on a medical malpractice case, which has resulted in arm amputation of newborn Sofia Kulivets.

On March 30 an armed attack was made on the mosque "Yuzhnaya" (Southern) located in the outskirts of the capital of Dagestan, as a result of which several mosque visitors became victims.

The prosecutor has demanded to recognize all the defendants in the Ulman's case guilty and sentence them to deprivation of freedom for the term from 18 to 23 years.

The Office of Public Prosecutor of Kabardino-Balkaria has completed investigation into the criminal case in relation to employees of the Elborus District Interior Department ("ROVD") suspected of beating teenagers.

On Tuesday, the North-Caucasian District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don completed hearing evidences of the accusation party at the trial of interior officers Khudyakov and Arakcheev accused of murdering peaceful residents of Chechnya on January 15, 2003.

"Georgia has its position of principle in relation to Russia's joining the WTO, and it assumes legitimization of frontier-customs points and closure of illegal check points in the separatists' sections of Georgian-Russian border," Giorgi Arveladze, Minister of Economy of Georgia, has stated at a briefing upon termination of the sitting of Georgian government.

Dagestan Prosecutor Igor Tkachov has announced today disclosure of the murder of Bitar Bitarov, prosecutor of the town of Buinaksk, committed on the 8th of last August, and attempts on Adilgirej Magomedtagirov (on August 8, 2006, and February 4, 2007).

The authorities of Chechnya are preparing an application to the president of Russia with a request to help to find three thousand missing residents of the Republic.

A moral and material damage compensation claim worth more than 4.6 million roubles was lodged today by the persons who were injured at the Grozny-Moscow train explosion in summer of 2005, Valery Prilepskiy, advocate of one of the defendants, has reported.

The Court has rejected the petition of the defence of Eduard Ulman, who is accused of executing local residents in 2002 in the vicinity of the Chechen village of Dai whom he found in a car, to subject the defendants to an additional forensic psychological examination.

A couple of days are left till Ramzan Kadyrov's inauguration. Today, foreign newspapers write that this day will become the mourning day for all human rights activists in the world. In their opinion, a man involved in many crimes is becoming the official leader of Chechnya.

On April 1 in the morning, a bomb exploded in a shuttle van ("marshrutka") on the route from Udzhar to Baku, capital of Azerbaijan. As a consequence, Ragim Askerov, 37, a resident of Hachmaz, who was carrying the bomb, was killed, and several passengers were wounded.