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Over 10 students at the Ingush State University who participated in a meeting at the Government House in Magas recently, have been reprimanded by the university administration. The Caucasian Knot correspondent learnt it from one of the university students.

As reported by the Krasnodar regional NGO Creative Union "Southern Wave", the subject of the discussion will be "Civil Education as a Way to Pubic Policy".

An explosive device was set off on the federal route Kavkaz when the president's car was moving to Magas. Murat Zyazikov did not suffer.

The NGO activists assert the 2002-2003 Kutaisi city budget was worked out incorrectly and budget funds were not spent for the purpose.

Outstanding human rights activist Elena Boner, widow of Academician Andrey Sakharov, holds Vladimir Putin is in fault for the Chechen war on the Russian part, and Akhmat Kadyrov is in fault for it on the Chechen part.

"We will not allow human rights in Adjaria to be trampled underfoot because somebody there wants to preserve his material status and monopoly", said the Georgian president.

Federal forces and the Chechen president's security service carried out several special operations in the mountains and the forests to arrest members of bandit formations who were preparing large-scale terrorist attacks both in and outside of Chechnya.

Former hostages and relatives of victims of the 2002 hostage crisis at the Dubrovka theater in Moscow will file a plea with the city prosecutor's office on Monday for opening a criminal case on the city government financial department's refusal to carry out a Tverskoy court ruling on the payment of compensation to them, announced their lawyer Igor Trunov.

According to the press secretary of the opposition bloc Justice, Ruzanna Hatchatrian, more than 10 members of opposition parties were arrested in the evening of April 4 and in the morning of April 5 in Yerevan and surrounding regions.

Achishvili, Muskhanov and the Chalayev brothers, members of illegal armed groups who are now in custody, committed several acts of terrorism against federal servicemen.

Participants passed the organization's charter again and adopted the program of its further activity.

On April 2, the Azerbaijan Court for Grave Crimes put imam of Baku's Juma Mosque Ilgar Allakhverdiev (Ibragimoglu) on probation for five years.

Main efforts of the agencies engaged in problems of the return of IDPs [internally displaced persons] to Chechnya have been aimed at the liquidation of the Satsita tent camp since 2 April.

Gelayev's relatives have made three unsuccessful attempts to take his body from the morgue of a hospital in Rostov.

The capacity of each of the explosive assemblies was about 40 kilograms of trotyl equivalent, the officer of the republican interior ministry said.

On April 2, former Defense Minister of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria Umar Khambiyev spoke on the Grozny television and called upon all the members of the Chechen armed resistance to lay down arms.

The creation of the new social and political organization Movement-88, initiated by the deputy of the Karabakh parliament Eduard Agabekian, was announced in Nagorny Karabakh in February 2004.

Early in the morning of April 1, Russian soldiers opened fired in the Leninsky district of Grozny on a passenger bus going from the Chechen capital to Argun.

According to information of the Internet media, 20 Ingush students who took part in the [March 29] protest rally against abductions of people by Russian special services and against the Russian helicopter attack on the village of Ordzhonikidzevskaya that left two people dead have been sent down by direct instructions from the head of Ingushetia, Murat Zyazikov.

"The idea of creating the movement appeared following the aggravation of the internal political situation in the county in late January. And the initiator of the creation of United Abkhazia was the Unity deputy group," deputy Daur Tarba said at the press conference.