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Speaking in Grozny on April 24 he reported 251 people were illegally detained and abducted in Chechnya since the beginning of the year, overwhelming majority of them were law-abiding citizens.

Christian Strohal, who arrived in Baku for a two-day visit yesterday, intends to acquaint himself with the process of preparation for elections of the President of Azerbaijan that have to be held coming autumn.

A self-made explosive assembly exploded in the center of Grozny. It happened when the motorcade of the responsible member of the staff of the Special Representative of the President of Russia for Human and Civil Rights and Freedoms in Chechnya Nurdi Nukhazhiyev was passing along the road.

?Whether the Council is informed of numerous international observers? testimonies, indicating gross breaches during the period which preceded so-called referendum, as well as during the so-called referendum itself?? the Secretary of the Transnational Radical Party asks.

On April 24, 1803 Emperor Alexander I issued the Imperial Decree on imparting the status of the medical region of national importance to the Caucasian Meneralnye Vody.

The conflict arose after the Armenian Deputy Hamlet Movsesian had appealed to the parliamentarians to keep the minute of silence in memory of victims of the Armenian genocide in the Ottoman Empire in 1915, and the Azerbaijan Deputy disliked it.

Moscow activists of the Transnational Radical Party and the "Club Khramov - Association for Libertarian Reforms? proceed to collect citizens? signatures on the streets of Moscow under the international appeal ?For the United Nations Administration Mission in Chechnya?.

The President of Armenia Robert Kocharyan, the Speaker of the Parliament Armen Hachatryan, the Prime Minister Andranik Markaryan, the Chairman of the Constitutional Court Gagik Arutyunyan, other statesmen and foreign diplomats were also presented at the ceremony that was held in the Tsitsirnakberd complex.

Particularly serious claims were raised by the deputy head of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs to the heads of the regional departments of Grozny, where great number of acts of terrorism and sabotage, underminings, and fires take place.

Seventy two Chechens applied for asylum in the Czech Republic today; since April 16 the total number of requests has reached 384.

People of Chechnya express growing anxiety regarding political persecution of persons who are disloyal to Kadirov?s administration and Russian authorities.

The Georgian Ambassador to the RF reported that the ?multiecheloned? defense from among the employees of the Georgian Frontier Service, special forces of Internal Affairs organs, and police-officers was organized on the Russian-Georgian frontier to prevent the break.

It is stated in the report prepared by the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance.

The public prosecutor at the trial Viktor Rastorguev accuses Budanov of two episodes.

150 Azerbaijan peacemakers are ready to leave for Iraq before May 12. The President of Azerbaijan Geydar Aliyev stated it on April 22 while meeting with the US Ambassador to Baku Ross Wilson.

Nino Burdjanadze announced that ?the superior executive power and the election bloc ?New Georgia? ignore democratic values, and the country is turning to dictatorship establishment?.

As experts estimate, the depth of the hope is to be about seventy metres for the twenty-second hole to reach an air hole of the tunnel.

According to the words of the First Deputy Head of the Federal Migration Service of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs Igor Yunash, there is no data bank of forced migrants from Chechnya, it is just being created.

Here is what Rustam Azizov, a member of the Chechen armed resistance movement, says about fighting for the village of Komsomolskoye in the spring of 2000 and his time in Russian captivity.

Azerbaijan?s ministry of communications will suspend re-transmission of the Russian television channel ?Rossiya? at 00:40 hrs local time on April 24. The Azeri authorities took this decision to prevent screening of ?Ararat?, the movie made by Canadian producer Atom Gegoyan.