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A meeting between representatives of the human rights organization ?Sintar? and the Society for the Russian-Chechen Friendship took place on July 29, 2003. The situation with Chechen refugee camps in Ingushetia was in the center of the discussion.

A group of Georgian peacekeeping military includes 34 fighters of special assignment forces, 20 army medics, and 15 engineers.

President of Russia Vladimir Putin ordered to provide all necessary help to the victims and families of the dead.

The work of the Center is supported by the Open Society Institute and the information and analytical agency ?Caucasian Knot?.

The heads of the parliaments of the Caucasian Four countries - Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia, and Russia has proceeded today to the discussion of regional security problems.

Specialists has been tasked to check what physical injuries Y. Budanov received in the period from 1995 to 2000 and determine what influence they could have on the health of the accused.

From today the acsses to the site of Chechen separatists "Kavkaz - Center", which was located on the server of the Estonian firm "Starman", has been closed.

According to the assurance of the Azerbaijan Ministry of Health, a strict quarantine regime was established at the airport "Bina" and Baku's railway station.

The Monitoring Group of the Human Rights Organizations does not recognize Eldar Zeynalov?s standpoint. At the same time, the Monitoring Groups calls the public to avoid any kind of violence against the organization, headed by Eldar Zeynalov.

On April 25, 2003 the regular action of protest against the visits of the Human Rights Center of Azerbaijan (HRCA) to Armenia and Nagorny Karabah was held in front of the office of this organization.

The Court did not answer on Monday the first three of 24 claims to the Moscow City Government for moral and material damage compensation to the sum of 4 million dollars.

A large crowd of about 40 women from the New Azerbaijan Party is smashing Arif and Leyla Yunusovs? office. They have already broken the panes, pelted the walls with eggs. They are trying to rush inside, breaking the doors.

On April 30 it will be 35 years since the day when ?The Chronicle of Current Events?, a typewritten informational bulletin of soviet human rights activists, a main dissident periodical of the end of 1960s ? the beginning 1980s, appeared in print in 1968 for the first time.

The Federation of Azerbaijan Human Rights Organizations issued a statement denouncing the pogroms of the office of Eldar Zeynalov?s Human Rights Center and the threats towards the director of the Institute of Peace and Democracy Leyla Yunus.

?The Organizational Committee for Antiwar Actions declares its support of the proposal made by the Transnational Radical Party on April 20, 2003 in its appeal ?For the United Nations Administration Mission in Chechnya? to the Secretary-General of the United Nations, the heads of the Member States of the United Nations, and the heads of their governments?, it is said in the statement.

The newspaper employees got the official notification that it was inadmissible to publish materials insulting honour and dignity of the president of the country.

The Armenian National Committee of America reported the President of the USA ?again broke his February 2000 campaign pledge to properly recognize the Armenian Genocide?.

?The countries counting on mutually beneficial relations with Russia do not have to place the informational resources of terrorists?, the Russian President?s Aide Sergey Yastrzhembsky announced while answering journalists? questions.

The director of regional network programmes and informational projects Grigory Shvedov handed over about 70 various books and publications to the Stepanakert?s Press Club.

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.