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The workshop "We Cover Diversity. How to Achieve Visible Results", arranged by the British Media Diversity Institute jointly with the Stepanakert Press Club, took place in Stepanakert on April 27-29.

The leader of a Dagestani criminal group which financed terrorists in the North Caucasus was arrested by Moscow's anti-terrorist police.

President of Chechnya Akhmat Kadyrov signed a decree on April 29 pursuant to which the posts of all 7 vice prime ministers of the Chechen government would be abolished.

The incident occurred on April 28 in the village of Staraya Sunzha, Chechnya's Grozny district.

Dokka Dzhantemirov, one of the terrorists who shot down a Mi-26 helicopter killing 127 people, was sentenced to life by the Rostov Regional Court.

One soldier died on the way to a hospital, the other two are in grave condition.

According to the investigators, three special operations soldiers under command of Captain Eduard Ulman shot down a UAZ car with civilians.

Officials of the Rostov mayor's office are suspected of robbing 3.5 thousand veterans and disabled people living in Rostov, a capital of Rostov Region, of legal benefits.

"This is the only question the Georgian authorities are ready to discuss with Abashidze," said, a leader of the ruling bloc United National Movement - Democrats.

Chechen journalist Timur Aliyev has become a laureate of the 2003 Artyom Borovik Award, instituted by the New York-based Overseas Press Club of America.

Commenting on the incident, David Berdzenishvili, a Georgian MP and a leader of the Our Adjaria movement, blamed the leadership of the Adjarian interior ministry for the beating of the opposition activists.

"The law provides for clear rights and obligations of the organizers of and participants in public actions, it regulates authorities of the police and empowered organ, as well as the grounds and procedure for stopping the actions," said the Armenian Minister of Justice.

Aslan Abashidze bought a large consignment of arms from Russian arsenals from Zviadists [followers of Zviad Gamsakhurdia] in 1994, and this armament is in the hands of General Dumbadze now.

"The autonomy's authorities are ready to defend constitutional order in Adjaria and the republican population," head of Adjaria Aslan Abashidze said.

"According to our information, people will be leaving the tent city more actively at the end of May. This is for objective human reasons: children will finish their school year, and it's also more convenient to move in the summer," Igor Yunash, first deputy head of the Russian Federal Migration Service, said.

Gunmen in masks rushed into the house of the deputy editor of the Marsho newspaper and demanded that the newspaper stop publishing articles containing negative information about the process of paying compensations for lost housing and property to residents of Chechnya.

The ships stay on the territory of the yacht-club without crews. The yacht-club is situated right in front of the residence of Adjarian leader Aslan Abashidze, and his leader reinforced guard defend it.

"If the power doesn't respond to our demands by May 4, we will undertake resolute actions," said Aram Sargsian.

"No one will tolerate the existence of a feudal microstate within Georgia," Georgian Interior Minister Georgy Baramidze emphasized.

They accused President of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili of taking aggressive actions against the autonomy's leadership and demanded that the confrontation between the center and the region be resolved in a peaceful way.