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The Russian authorities claimed earlier that the release of the head of the Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) mission had become possible due to a special operation conducted by the Interior Ministry jointly with the Federal Security Service.

Viktor Vekselburg thinks Russian businessmen may be interested in the Georgian tourism, hotel system, roads, transportation and communications.

The Russian Emergencies Ministry's Southern regional center reported that the first explosion took place under the last car, and the second one took place under the fourth car.

Organizers of the discussion are Dagestani regional branches of political parties and the Union of Dagestani Journalists.

"It had become known to us that federals wanted to abduct him. And if we hadn't taken him, your son would have disappeared without a trace. We arrested him in order not to let it happen," a man working in a temporary detention isolator said to the mother of Said-Ibragim Rasayev.

The 14 June 1995 attack of Shamil Basayev's group on Budyonnovsk left 129 people dead and over 400 wounded.

The Azerbaijan side considers the existence of this mobile company on the territory of Nagorny Karabakh illegal.

Malik Saidullayev, chairman of the board of directors of the Milan concern, has announced his intention to run for the Chechen presidency.

"We forecast developments, and we have no reason to think that a campaign with spiny roses comes into the picture," President of North Osetia Aleksandr Dzasokhov said at a press conference in Moscow.

On May 28, 1961, lawyer Peter Benenson launched the first campaign to protect political prisoners, which gave birth to one of the largest international organizations.

"People still disappear in the republic, and unacceptable deaths are registered their. I think it is normal for the Council of Europe to monitor the situation in Chechnya, this question is fully in its line," stated Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights Alvaro Gil-Robles.

The Krishna devotees raise their concern that the recent actions by the authorities are aimed at extruding their community from the republic.

Amnesty International has launched its annual report about the human rights situation in 156 countries of the world.

The opposition party Popular Front of Azerbaijan is going to hold a meeting in Baku on May 29 to demand that human rights be observed and arrested opposition leaders be released.

Twice a month, officers of the Chechen military prosecutor's office receive residents of the Chechen republic having complaints about violations of their rights by federal soldiers. The reception is conducted in the office of the Committee to Secure Constitutional Rights of the Residents of Chechnya.

The date when final results of the War Prize competition are to be summed up has been postponed till June 15 in view of the recent tragic developments in Grozny.

The theme of the action is the variance between official data and data of the committees of soldier's mothers concerning the number of servicemen killed in Chechnya.

Right after the detention of Daudov and Dzhabrailov, police officers cut ropes of the tents in which the activists' families live. Both the detainees are held in the Sunzha district police department now.

"The fact that the getting of official grants by human rights and ecological organizations is equated to the maintenance of "dubious interests" gives away the way of thinking typical for the State Security Committee (KGB) when any connection with the West is taken as something illegal," reads the statement by the Russian Movement for Human Rights.

Mikhail Trepashkin, a former Federal Security Service officer, has been sentenced to 4.6 years in a settlement on a trumped-up charge. His lawyers and a human rights activist speak about that.