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Questions regarding the erection of the monument were solved by efforts of the Georgian president's envoy in the region of Samtskhe-Javakheti Nikoloz Nikolozoshvili and local authorities the day before the unveiling of Khachkar, reported the Armenian foreign ministry.

Three unknowns attacked head of the Armenian Union of Socialist Forces, ex-minister of foreign affairs, and former national security advisor to the president of Armenia Ashot Manucharian on April 22.

Before the Khachkar monument was dismantled, policemen had detained Ludwig Petrosian, who was in charge of the work on its unveiling, and held him in a police department for 4 hours.

The Georgian parliament passed a special resolution on the situation in Adjaria at the plenary session on April 23. 178 deputies voted for the document, and 2 abstained.

Mikael Danielian called upon all human rights organizations "to raise the alarm and write to international organizations in order to inform them of what is happening in Armenia."

In the statement addressed to the Russian Embassy and the Armenian Foreign Ministry, the NGOs expressed their indignation at the skinheads' attack on an Armenian boy in Kostroma, whom they tried to burn.

Nugzar Paliani, mayor of the largest city in Western Georgia, Kutaisi, resigned yesterday, April 23. He announced it himself at a session of the Kutaisi legislative assembly.

On April 13, at about noon, officers of the FSB (Federal Security Service) department in the Republic of Kalmykia detained a certain Nakayev (b.1976) in a hotel situated in the heart of Elista by. A high-capacity explosive assembly was found on him.

"The terror against participants in opposition rallies is being executed in Armenia today by Robert Kocharian's order," Viktor Dallakian, a leader of the Armenian opposition and secretary of the opposition parliamentary faction Justice, said.

Only 86 people have left the tent camp Satsita for the last 10 days.

The Russian Justice Ministry has denied media reports that Lecha Islamov, a Chechen field commander, died a violent death in a prison hospital.

Mikhail Saakashvili has denied information spread by the head of Georgia's Adjarian autonomy, Aslan Abashidze, on April 22 that the Georgian leadership have plans of physical destruction of Abashidze.

The center was created and operates in fact, but it is not a juridical person because the Kabardino-Balkarian department of justice hampers the registration by all means.

Ashot Manucharian, the outstanding Armenian politician and member of the political council of the Armenian Union of Socialist Forces and Intellectuals, was savagely beaten by three unknown people near the office of the Forum of Intellectuals Council of Elders on April 22.

"We hope that the Chechen issue in the UN Commission on Human Rights has been closed once and for all", Russian deputy foreign minister Yuri Fedotov said to a press-conference in RIA Novosti.

Natalia Vutova, representative of the Council of Europe Secretary General in Armenia, said that the draft law conflicted with the European Convention on Human Rights and a number of other international documents.

"I warned Aslan Abashidze about the terrorist act two days ago and advised him to reinforce his bodyguard," the chairwoman of the League of People's Defense said.

The Chechen regional department of the Russian Ministry for Press, TV, Radio Broadcasting, and Mass Media issued an official warning to the editorial staff of the independent social and political newspaper Chechen Society on April 19.

Nino Burdjanadze is a deputy for the city of Kutaisi.

Two unknown men shot and killed two Russian soldiers and wounded a third on April 20 in the outskirts of Nazran, Ingushetia's largest town.