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By means of it, qualified lawyers will give primary advice to the suffered.

"I want Tbilisi to know that the November [2003] developments will not repeat themselves in the Adjarian autonomy. The local population will defend the elected power to the end," said Djemal Gogitidze.

The opposition is ready to guarantee safety for Armenian President Robert Kocharian, said leader of the opposition National Unity party Artashes Gegamian.

Defense Minister of the Republic of South Osetia Zelim Muldarov was found dead in his flat in Tskhinvali in the morning of April 15. The cause of his death has not been established so far.

Ruzanna Khachatrian gave a written undertaking not to leave a place.

The military assert they know who leads the bandits in spite of the fact that no member of the gang that attacked Ishkhoy-Yurt has been captured.

"We hope that the tragedy in the village of Rigakhoy will be thoroughly investigated nevertheless, and the guilty will be punished," reads the statement by the Memorial Center.

Akhmad Kadyrov says he has had no contacts at all, telephone talks included, with Aslan Maskhadov ever since the second Chechen campaign broke out late in summer 1999.

Zagra Muchuyeva, 51, who was on a wanted list, was detained in the Gudermes district in the east of Chechnya. She is suspected of preparing a number of crimes, RIA Novosti was told on April 14 by the official spokesman for the regional headquarters on the counter-terrorist operation in the North Caucasus.

Representatives of the Russian delegation said in Geneva that, despite its rather quiet nature, some clauses of the resolution are utterly not true to fact.

A cameraman of the Tbilisi-based Rustavi-2 TV channel was beaten up on April 14 near a bridge across the Choloki River that separates Georgia's autonomous region of Adjaria from the rest of the country. The incident occurred after a crowd of 200 to 300 Adjarians had not allowed the chairman of the Georgian Central Election Commission, Zurab Chiaberashvili, to enter the autonomy on his car.

Zurab Chiaberashvili voiced hope that the leaders of the autonomy understood what they did since the frustration of the elections is "a penal action, for which they will have to account."

People involved in the creation of the cache are being searched for.

"It should be taken into consideration that the Stavropol Danish Refugee Council was registered as a Russian non-governmental organization. It is an independent juridical person. The decision by the Stavropol Court cannot be rated as the liquidation of our organization as a whole," the Council's representative said via phone.

Headquarters of the opposition parties, and first of all of the National Unity and Republic parties, are still under the control of the police.

Mairbek Taramov referred to the ruling by the European Court that bans the extradition of people detained in connection with the developments in Chechnya to Russia.

There is one episode in the case on the murder of an Armenian officer in Budapest, namely an attempt to murder another officer of the Armenian Armed Forces, which has been disregarded for some reason.

The following opposition leaders will go on trial some day soon: Arif HajЩlЩ and Ibrahim Ibrahimli, deputy leaders of the Musavat Party, Rauf Arifoglu, editor-in chief of the newspaper Yeni Musavat, Serdar Jelaloglu, chief secretary of the Azerbaijan Democratic Party (ADP), Penah Huseynov, leader of the Azerbaijan Peoples' Party, Igbal Agazade, chairman of the Umid Party, and Etimad Esedov, chairman of the Karabakh Invalids Society.

The March 27 murder of nine peaceful residents of the Duba-Yurt settlement, Chechnya, was perpetrated by the gangs of Rapani Khalilov (subordinate to Basayev) and Akhmed Avdorkhanov (subordinate to Maskhadov). RIA Novosti learnt this on Wednesday from spokesman for the regional headquarters on the counter-terrorist operation in the North Caucasus Colonel Ilya Shabalkin.

"About 400 supporters of Adjarian leader Aslan Abashidze forced me out of the hotel in Kobuleti, took the documents for the second round of parliamentary elections due in two districts of Adjaria on April 18, and bundled me off the town," Georgia's Central Election Commission member Zaza Gorozia said to reporters on Wednesday, April 14.