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Over 2,000 Georgian citizens took part in the liquidation of the emergency at the Chernobyl atomic station, reported chairman of the Association of Georgian Chernobyl People Vazha Chaduneli. More than 1,000 of them are disabled now.

Zardania's group has delivered a large amount of weapons to the law-enforcement agencies in exchange for the exemption from criminal prosecution.

Galina Ryzhkova, chairwoman of the regional committee on culture, sport, information policy and public associations, will be a speaker at the meeting.

The Georgian side has shifted units of the country's interior troops and military equipment there on April 26.

Residents of Chechnya think that the republican law-enforcement agencies have obviously received a private order "from the superiors" to dispose of members of the armed resistance, their relatives, and acquaintances by all means.

"By such a primitive means, they want to sow seeds of distrust and animosity among Chechen commanders," the man said to the Caucasian Knot correspondent.

The case against Dzhokhtaberidze will be closed, announced Georgian Prosecutor General Irakly Okruashvili.

The Tverskoy Court seconds the position of the Moscow government, which holds the city authorities do not have to indemnify for inflicted moral damage.

Several witnesses will be listened to today, and then the date of the next sitting will be announced, reported Russian Ambassador to Qatar Viktor Kudryavtsev.

The non-profit partnership Managerial Consulting has conducted researches to disclose the general situation with the rights of workers and has trained consultants in the field of social and economic rights.

The second part of the conference was a round table discussion on various issues, which resulted in the idea to found a discussion club on the issues of modern society development in Dagestan.

Armen Zalinian, advisor to the president of the Nagorno-Karabakh republic, presented an article in the local press in which he mentioned facts allowing the world community to recognize the genocide, which has been denied by the Turkish republic hitherto.

The state of emergency in Adjaria is illegal, Mr Saakashvili told journalists on April 25. He promised to cancel it and the curfew by issuing a corresponding presidential act.

Questions regarding the erection of the monument were solved by efforts of the Georgian president's envoy in the region of Samtskhe-Javakheti Nikoloz Nikolozoshvili and local authorities the day before the unveiling of Khachkar, reported the Armenian foreign ministry.

Three unknowns attacked head of the Armenian Union of Socialist Forces, ex-minister of foreign affairs, and former national security advisor to the president of Armenia Ashot Manucharian on April 22.

Before the Khachkar monument was dismantled, policemen had detained Ludwig Petrosian, who was in charge of the work on its unveiling, and held him in a police department for 4 hours.

The Georgian parliament passed a special resolution on the situation in Adjaria at the plenary session on April 23. 178 deputies voted for the document, and 2 abstained.

Mikael Danielian called upon all human rights organizations "to raise the alarm and write to international organizations in order to inform them of what is happening in Armenia."

In the statement addressed to the Russian Embassy and the Armenian Foreign Ministry, the NGOs expressed their indignation at the skinheads' attack on an Armenian boy in Kostroma, whom they tried to burn.

Nugzar Paliani, mayor of the largest city in Western Georgia, Kutaisi, resigned yesterday, April 23. He announced it himself at a session of the Kutaisi legislative assembly.