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The Tbilisi-Tskhinvali bus will run daily.

State Duma Deputy Oleg Shein and member of the Russian President's Human Rights Commission Svyatoslav Zabelin sent letters of inquiry about the Cherepanov case on May 26. On May 28, the "Freedom to Aleksey Cherepanov!" action took place at the building of the State Drug Control Agency in Moscow.

"Extra military units have been transferred to the scene of the fight. They are cleaning the area and searching for the bandits," a source in the republican military commandant's office said to the Caucasian Knot correspondent.

Residents of Grozny believe Misirov, Ginayev, and Giriyev may have been detained because they did not have a town residence permit.

On February 23, human rights activists staged a picket at the Solovetsky Stone on Lubyanskaya Square in Moscow instead of a meeting, but it caused the authorities' aversion. The picket was dispersed, 15 people being detained by the OMON special police force.

Tens of thousands of Chechen refugees are still in Ingushetia. Of them, more than 18,000 live in private houses and another 19,000 in small Chechen-dominated settlements.

The case comes under Article 2 of Protocol 1 to the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, therefore it can be appealed in Strasbourg.

Residents of the village of Nikozi told journalists that "members of an Osetian armed unit demanded that railroad men stop their work."

Women who took part in the action say that officers of security agencies beat them using butts of their automatic rifles and legs and continuously fired in the air.

Leaders of the Abkhazian government and the North Caucasus plan to meet in the near future in Sukhumi to consider the issue of common actions in the future, Raul Khadzhimba said.

It was already the second landmine explosion in the Chechen capital for 24 hours.

Officers of the police and migration services were involved in the operation.

As reported by correspondents of the Society for Russian-Chechen Friendship, an armed clash between Chechen policemen and rebels occurred in the vicinity of the village of Dzhani-Vedeno, Chechnya's Vedeno district, on June 2.

Witnesses say the women were killed as a result of the disorderly fire opened by officers of security agencies on separatists who were running away.

Migration service officials demanded that camp inhabitants should sign papers certifying that they bind themselves to leave their tents by June 5.

We call your attention to a press release of the International Working Group for the Search of Missing People and Hostages and Release of Prisoners in the Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict Area.

On June 2, head of the Ingush Interior Ministry's migration department Lieutenant Colonel Ivan Pomeshchenko and officials of the Interior ministry who accompanied him demanded that Chechen refugees living in the camp in the village of Yandare in Ingushetia should immediately dismantle the tents and leave the camp for Grozny, Nazran or any place they want.

The street photo exhibition "The Road to Nowhere" will open in Ryazan on June 5. The exhibition is arranged within the framework of the "How Many?" campaign waged by the Ryazan Human Rights Coalition.

The work of the organization was suspended because of the four-month examination of the organization's activity conducted by the Pyatigorsk prosecutor's office. No violations of the law have been established.

The subject matters of the last day of the conference were the promotion of the Caucasian women's status and role in society by means of developing education in the spirit of tolerance and human rights and the protection of migrants' rights as an important component of neighborly relations between the Caucasian peoples.