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Memorial evenings devoted to the 60th anniversary of the deportation of the Ingush people are being held in all towns and regions of the republic these days. On February 23, it was 60 years since the day of the deportation of the Ingush people to Kazakhstan.

A special session of the Presidium of the National Assembly of Nagorny Karabakh was held on February 20. It was devoted to the Day of Artsakh's Revival.

The authors of the statement call the "absurd list" of persons giving information as one of the main defects of the draft legislation.

Lechi Sardalov, Mate Tsekhisashvili, Madina, Magomadova, Ruslan Badalov, Zargan Makhadjiyev are among those human rights activists who went on hunger strike.

On February 20, it was 16 years since the Soviet of People's Deputies of Nagorny Karabakh passed the resolution on the reunification of the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Region with Armenia.

"We have repeatedly emphasized that voluntariness must be the fundamental principle of the return of displaced persons from Ingushetia to Chechnya," said Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Yuri Fedotov.

OMON (special tasks police platoon) fighters, who had been given notice in advance, came to the place of the action in 10 buses, as well as police detachments and ambulance cars.

The Moscow Mayor's Office banned the meeting to commemorate victims of the war, to protest against it, and to urge a political settlement of the Russian-Chechen conflict that was planned to be held at the memorial stone on Lubyanskaya Square in Moscow on February 23.

The possible change of the place for the exercises is connected with the brutal murder committed in Budapest on February 19, when a lieutenant of the Armenian Armed Forces was killed by an Azerbaijan officer.

"The state of the hunger strike participants is normal; medical intervention is not needed. Just some changes have been made to their nourishment, with their state being taken into consideration," said the official of the Ministry of Justice.

"We are not going to start a war, but we shall not allow Abkhazia to become an exporter of arms and drugs," said the Georgian President.

Refugees believe they are simply being forced to leave Ingushetia by the deliberate worsening of their living conditions.

"Whatever sphere of the Russian social life we take (not to mention the developments in Chechnya), everywhere we witness the growth of overt violations of fundamental rights," reads the statement.

Both the officers were taking part in English courses within the framework of NATO's Partnership for Peace program in Hungary.

About 500 thousand antipersonnel mines are buried and wait for their time in Chechnya.

Larisa Alaverdian, chairwoman of the Foundation Against Illegality, has been appointed the first ombudsperson of Armenia.

$4.5 dollars have come in on al-Walid's foreign account the other day, according to special services' information.

"We have been working for many years to form a certain field for the resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, and I am not going to throw all this work into the water," stressed the President of Armenia.

The police watched the Chechens and human rights activists being evicted from the school but preferred to remain aloof and not to interfere in the situation.

According to information received by Amnesty International, minority ethnic groups from the Caucasus region have once again become the target of discriminatory rhetoric, arbitrary document checks and searches, and racially-motivated revenge attacks.