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The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has been working in Dagestan for almost 10 years. ICRC employees, Zumrat Magomedova and Luisa Khazhgeriyeva, told the media workers what had been done for this period.

More than 50 people representing public and religious organizations, ethnic minorities of Russia's South, and government took part in the conference "The Role of Human Rights Organizations in Normalizing Interethnic Relations and Overcoming Xenophobia in the South Federal District". The Commission on Human Rights in Krasnodar Region was among them.

Aliaskhab from the village of Miatli was tortured by putting ice on his head, which created a center of brain fever, he said. Aliaskhab went mad after it, and blew up himself when he was set free. The mother of Khanali Umakhanov asserts that her son lost his reason not having stood the torture which he was subjected to during the investigation.

The Swiss Government will continue to finance the project on the construction of houses for Ingush refugees from the Chechen Republic.

Action participants demanded that "the state of emergency and curfew on the territory of the autonomy be immediately canceled."

Adjarian Prime Minister Rostom Dzhaparidze will be responsible for overall coordination of the security councils' operations.

The launching of the website of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) will give transparency to their work, noted head of the Center for Humanitarian Studies Avaz Gasanov.

Rauf Arifoglu has announced the investigative bodies have no proofs of his guilt. Statements, according to the editor-in-chief, "were obtained under torture, and those who made them repudiated them later in a written form.

90% of proposals forwarded after the first reading were adopted, said Minister of Justice David Arutyunian, who presented the law.

The president of Chechnya warned functionaries against practicing extortion towards this group of people.

"Mr. Abashidze signed no mobilization orders," deputy head of the press service Zurab Khoperia said.

Many people in the republic believe the fact that Ramzan Kadyrov has not responded for several days to the reports of him being wounded is evidence of the version that the incident took place nevertheless.

There is no need for the Abkhazian army to go on higher state of alert because of the exercises, Deputy Defense Minister of Abkhazia Garri Kupalba said.

The vehicle was seriously damaged and force-landed in the area of the Vedeno village.

Many Azerbaijan organizations in Iran have denounced the authorities of this country for lending support to the Armenians and blamed official Teheran for the incident.

"It is essential for the talks that both the sides have good will. But the ruling coalition doesn't have it, therefore we find it pointless to continued the dialogue," secretary of the opposition parliamentary faction Justice Viktor Dallakian said.

Russians who are charged with the murder recognized a man who had tortured them during the preliminary investigation in a witness for the prosecution.

Gunmen in masks and camouflage uniforms opened fire from automatic weapons on Senior Lieutenant Khamid Khadzhiyev when he was going home from work.

Over 2,000 Georgian citizens took part in the liquidation of the emergency at the Chernobyl atomic station, reported chairman of the Association of Georgian Chernobyl People Vazha Chaduneli. More than 1,000 of them are disabled now.

Zardania's group has delivered a large amount of weapons to the law-enforcement agencies in exchange for the exemption from criminal prosecution.