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The exercises were conducted not with the purpose of launching an invasion of Adjaria but in order to show Aslan Abashidze the power of federal troops, Mikhail Saakashvili said.

Violence and infringements of human rights and freedoms cannot be a subject of political bargaining, regardless of the results of negotiations between the Armenian authorities and the opposition, reads a statement by the forum of Armenian non-governmental organizations (NGOs) Civil Will For and Against.

"The bomb had been set into ferroconcrete elements. That is why it was not found during examination of the territory. Terrorists just waited for an opportune moment," a source at the interior ministry said.

Rights of the Chechens-Kistins are violated as there have been ungrounded arrests and searches, Nana Kakabadze, chairwoman of The Former Political Prisoners for Human Rights NGO, said.

A representative of the Russian Federal Migration Service, Mr Panasyuk, has demanded that the warden of the Chechen refugee tent camp Satsita should reduce the number of refugees living in the camp to 940 people by all means.

The decree on the appointment of Kadyrov junior was signed by Acting President of Chechnya Sergey Abramov on May 10, the Caucasian Knot correspondent was told at the presidential administration in Grozny.

Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Interior Troops General Vyacheslav Tikhomirov heads the commission.

The task of this project is to attract society's attention to the problem of "language of hostility" and to create moral bars which can stop mutual intolerance, the organizers said.

"The tragedy is that Russians and Chechens keep on dying, and this doesn't at all advance the resolution of Russia's main problem - the preservation of its territorial integrity," Boris Berezovsky said.

Tariel Khalvashi, the former head of the Kobuleti district, was arrested in his house right after Brigadier General Roman Dumbadze.

President of Chechnya Akhmad Kadyrov, Chairman of the State Council of the Chechen Republic Hussein Isayev, journalist Adlan Khasanov, two of Kadyrov's guards, and an 8-year-old girl were killed.

Many people fell victims to the terrorist act. President of Chechnya Akhmad Kadyrov and Chairman of the State Council of Chechnya Husein Isayev died in the explosion; Commander of the Joint Group of Forces in the North Caucasus Colonel-General Valery Baranov received severe injuries.

Agvan Ovsepian denied the reference in the PACE resolution concerning the arrest of journalists and stated there were no journalists among the arrested people.

The ancient capital of Karabakh, Shushi, served as an important weapon emplacement for Azerbaijan forces in the years of the Karabakh conflict of 1991-1994.

The only demand they made is that the United Nations should give them the opportunity to leave for the third countries.

Approximately 40 supporters of the Justice bloc and the National Unity party were subjected to administrative arrest and fined from 2 to 6 May.

The third round of political consultations "power-opposition", arranged on the initiative of chairman of the Armenian National Assembly Artur Bagdasarian, was held in the Armenian parliament on May 6.

The humanitarian organization Catholic Relief Services (CRS) presented its Raising Public Awareness of the Equality of Sexes project at the International Press Center on May 5.

In its statement, the organization raises concern about the violence used against journalists during opposition meetings.

The regional headquarters on the counter-terrorist operation in the North Caucasus reported it today.