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"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.

The authorities explained their actions by saying that the NGO Danish Refugee Council had illegally built housing for displaced persons from liquidated tent camps on the territory of the accommodation center.

As reported by a high-ranking official at Bailovsky Investigatory Isolation Ward 1, the state of Arifoglu's health worsened and isolation ward workers had to warn him of the possibility of using forced feeding.

The films to be shown are Murder with International Consent (Poland), Terror in Moscow (Great Britain), Chechen Lullaby (France), and Children's Stories - Not for Kids (Russia).

The organizers of the rally were going to commemorate the victims of the Chechen genocide, to urge the political settlement of the Russian-Chechen conflict and establishment of a United Nations interim administration in Chechnya.

More than twenty non-government organizations, foundations and parties founded the association "Against Numbering of People". Its main task is to stop the process of introducing the system of social cards in Armenia.

Svetlana Gannushkina has appealed to Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov drawing his attention to leaflets extremist in content that appeared in Moscow metro trains. These leaflets call upon the citizens to come to the meeting "Clear Moscow of Chechen Bandits."

The State Security Ministry of Georgia will make KGB (State Security Committee of the USSR) archives accessible to the wide public in the near future.

The Russian authorities closed the OSCE mission in Chechnya twice: in 1998 and in 2002. They were displeased with the appeals to conduct negations with Chechen separatists and with the criticism of the human rights situation made by the organization.

David Rstakian, who leads the Virk party acting in the region, noted with regret that "representatives of the new Georgian authorities, like their predecessors, do not want to consider this issue even on the level of a proposal."

The geopolitical situation in the world and economic and political processes in the region have led the Party to the persuasion that the first thing Armenia needs is the development of liberalism and democracy, said Ovannes Ovannisian.

Deputy groups supporting Chechnya worked in the Estonian parliament of the seventh, eighth, and ninth convocations too.

In the course of his first visit to Moscow on February 10-12, the new president of Georgia asserted that the territory of Abkhazia was used to convey drugs as transit goods and to expand terrorism.

"The militants' base consisted of two dug-outs with the accommodation capacity of up to 10 people each, places for cooking food and for meals, and four combat security trenches situated along the perimeter of the base," a headquarters official said.

The goal of such seminars is to train human rights defenders, including lawyers, in methods and mechanisms of human rights protection in international instances.

The trial was caused by the article published in the newspaper on 22 October 2003 under the title "Reports from the Gestapo".

The UNHCR field office in Ingushetia has arranged the delivery of drinking water to the refugee camp in special tanks, but Satsita inhabitants still have to limit its use.

We call your attention to the text of the letters addressed by the Human Rights Center "Memorial" to the Moscow Mayor and Prosecutor in view of the forthcoming meeting titled "Clear Moscow of Chechen Bandits".