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The statement reads, in particular, "Olivier Dupuis, a member of the European Parliament, has gone without food for thirteen days but has received no glance from his parliamentary colleagues, from the Council of Europe, from other European bodies or from the transatlantic UN or White House."

10. Explosion in Shali district leaves three servicemen dead The first explosion took place on a road about 100 meters from the settlement. The other one was set off on the road to Shali not far from a bridge.

After the traditional offering ceremony, the cow's meat was distributed among 214 orphan children living in the villages of Stariye Atagi, Avtury, Serzhen-Yurt, and in the district center of Shali, Chechnya.

Tamerlan Aliyev is threatened with savage punishment for being a "national traitor".

The founder of the Angusht newspaper, Murat Oziev, has to print it beyond the bounds of Ingushetia as the Ingush printing houses were given a private instruction not to cooperate with this media, which lays claim to be oppositionist.

About 140 thousand people from socially unprotected sections of population, including displaced persons from Chechnya, are expected to receive humanitarian aid this year.

The third pan-Armenian youth gathering "Baze - 2004" is taking place in Armenia from 2 to 9 February.

The action is supposed to be held under the slogan "Set Rauf Arifoglu free!" in front of the Prosecutor General's Office on February 5.

The goal of the action was to express a protest against discrimination of national minorities and corruption in Georgian judicial bodies.

Even though the two men staying in the house did not offer resistance, Kadyrov's people kept on firing until it became obvious that those people were dead.

Protesting against the authorities' policy, the residents formed a committee, which declared the Government's decision to alienate the land-plots for construction anticonstitutional.

The statement issued on January 29 reads: "The society is experiencing a political crisis."

The servicemen in masks and camouflage reportedly rushed at daybreak into the house where the young man lived and took him in an unknown direction without bringing any charges against him.

The agreement on interaction was reached in Grozny during a meeting between Kadyrov, members of the presidential commission and activists of the Human Rights Center "Memorial".

200 Georgian peacekeepers are on their way to Iraq. Another 60 Georgian peacekeepers, medics and builders were sent to Iraq this past summer.

As it is known, clashes between civilians - adversaries and supporters of Aslan Abashidze, leader of the republic - have taken place in Adjaria.

66% say it is time to begin peace talks, while only 20% are convinced that military activity should be continued.

Last year there were more than 4,500 Chechen asylum seekers in the Czech Republic; and 3,500 left without waiting for their applications to be processed.

The ombudsman is an independent official, who, proceeding from the Armenian Constitution and norms of jus cogens, will defend human rights and freedom oppressed by state services as well as bodies of local self-government and their representatives.

"I met many civil society activists in Georgia. It seems that there is no real opposition and the results of the parliamentary elections in March are already easy to predict," said EU Special Envoy for the South Caucasus Heikki Talvitie.