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If the functionaries apply so many energies to build up a whole system of tangled and lying calculations, it means they have what to be afraid of and true figures can shock society.

Leaders of the opposition movement say the movement has lost motivation to exist in its previous form.

Over one hundred presents were given to inmates of the Maikop special school for deaf children on May 12.

Human Rights Watch, an international human rights organization, and its employee Peter Burkhard won the prize among organizations.

On May 10 and 11, residents of the Chiri-Yurt village blocked the road leading from Grozny to the Shatoy district. They demanded that the authorities should immediately release Ramzan Shoipov and stop the acts of terror against civilians committed by the military men.

Families of people killed in the terrorist act will get 114 thousand rubles, seriously injured people will get 50 thousand rubles, and slightly injured people will get 15 thousand rubles.

"The Chechen president's security service spread this information, we have nothing to do with it. No exact people suspected of organizing and executing this terrorist act have been detained by law-enforcement agencies so far," a source at the Chechen interior ministry said.

Representatives of Armenian non-governmental organizations (NGOs) gathered with handcuffs on their hands and transparencies demanding that all political prisoners be released.

When a group of activists of the Krasnodar regional NGO Mothers in Defense of Rights of Arrested Persons, Persons Under Investigation, and Convicts came to a high security penal institution in Adygeya to make an initial medical examination of convicts who had complained about cruel treatment, it turned out that those convicts were being conveyed to other institutions.

Representatives of approximately 25 media organizations can attend the preliminary hearing in the case of opposition leaders in the Court for Grave Crimes set for May 12.

As reported by locals, servicemen in masks conducted unwarranted searches in several houses and detained three Yashikhanov brothers at the ages between 18 and 25.

No one was allowed to enter and to leave Ulus-Kert.

"No alleged alterations and supplements to the Constitution of Chechnya and the Law on Elections of the President of the Republic will be made," said an official of the Chechen election commission.

Akhmad Kadyrov was elected president of Chechnya in October 2003 in elections that were neither free nor fair. All of the main contenders for the post either withdrew their candidacy or were disqualified prior to election day.

The press conference titled "Crime Without Punishment? New Details, an Assessment of the Case on the Murder of Civilians by Special Operations Soldiers in Chechnya's Shatoy District in January 2002" will be held at the Independent Press Center on May 14.

"According to experts, the explosive device was set into the central stand of the Dinamo stadium in the summer of 2003, when a serious reconstruction was done there," an officer of the Chechen interior ministry said.

Aslambek Aslakhanov is convinced "there will be much more candidates for the post of head of the republic than there were during the previous presidential campaign."

"Such funds are not provided for in the budget of the Chechen republic," the Russian President's Plenipotentiary in the South Federal District Vladimir explained.

"If the Karabakh people solve some question, Armenia will always assist. In other words, this question should not be presented as the one only between Armenia and Azerbaijan," Andranik Margarian added.

We publish the full text of a statement by Svetlana Gannushkina, chair of the Civic Assistance committee for refugees, head of the Migration and Law Network of the Memorial Human Rights Center and a member of the Commission on Human Rights for the Russian President.