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Two other officers received wounds of different severity.

"There is no force which can make a sovereign state change its internal policy, except for international tribunal," said the Moscow director for Human Rights Watch.

"We have no information that Mikhail Sergeevich is going to visit Georgia," Vladimir Polyakov said on April 8.

The Moslem community of Dagestan has succeeded in canceling Boris Moiseyev's concerts on the territory of the republic.

The captured people were released after the regular quadripartite meeting in the village of Chuburkhindzhi in the Gali district on April 8.

The international court in Strasbourg announced its decision on April 8 that Tengiz Asanidze, former mayor of Batumi and a former deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the autonomous republic, should be released.

Human rights groups have recently documented a number of "disappearances," summary executions, and attacks against civilians in both Chechnya and Ingushetia.

Muzhakhoyeva was found guilty of attempting to commit a terrorist act near the Imbir restaurant in 1st Tverskaya-Yamskaya Street in the heart of Moscow on July 10, 2003. Then, a FSB bomb disposal expert Sergey Trofimov was killed by the bomb.

The All-Georgian Association for the Defense of Human Rights expressed a protest against the visit of former president of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev to Tbilisi designed for April 9. The organization demanded that the Georgian law-enforcement agencies arrested him.

The military assert that the killed bodyguard of Basayev, Abubakar Visimbayev, was directly connected with the terrorist act in the Theatre Center "Nord-Ost" in Moscow.

Speaker Murtuz Alekserov said the border opening could deal a serious blow to the relations between Azerbaijan and Turkey.

"Asanidze is not a politician or important figure, but he is still being held in prison in defiance of all judicial norms and procedures. We will not allow that a man be illegally held in custody in a Georgian region," the Georgian President said to journalists.

On April 7, the Promishlenny District Court of Stavropol was to consider a complaint by the chairman of the interregional youth public charitable organization Caucasian Youth Human Rights League, Maksim Abrakhimov, against an illegal decision by the Department of the Russian Ministry of Justice in Stavropol Territory.

"I can assert with all due responsibility that no one in the federal center or the Chechen administration will negotiate with Maskhadov," Akhmat Kadyrov said.

Armenian law-enforcement agencies have been arresting opposition activists for several days already. Thus, the National Unity party reports on 127 arrested party members and activists.

"If the culprits, several of them being known, are not punished and the damage to the media is not compensated, we will have to state that Armenian authorities are not interested in consolidating the basic democratic values in the country," reads the statement by a number of Armenian non-governmental organizations (NGOs).

The women and children who were in the bus were let go, and about 50 men were made get out and were conveyed to the town of Ochamchira.

"If investigations do not lead to criminal charges against those responsible for this crime, a negative signal will be sent to Europe that in Armenia attacks on dissident voices go unpunished," reads the letter by the international human rights organization.

"This terrorist act was prepared by the forces that want the bloody conflict in the North Caucasus to be continued and expanded," reads the statement by the Board of the International Society Memorial.

Special operations units of the federal forces and the Vostok battalion under the command of Sulim Yamadayev are conducting an operation to detain separatist leader Aslan Maskhadov in the southern part of Chechnya.