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The press service for the Combined Federal Forces in Chechnya reported on April 11 that the man was Magomed Kazayev, who was a member of the rebel group led by Shaa Turlayev, chief of Maskhadov's security.

Non-governmental organizations in Dagestan arranged many actions to second the demand to release Arjan. It may be that they contributed to his release.

The Armenian opposition held a meeting on April 9. Among the slogans were "Robert Kocharian, leave," "The illegitimate president must leave."

The director of the center, Valery Khatazhukov, called the actions of the regional department of justice "hysterics" and said it had no formal legal grounds for not registering his organization.

On April 9, the Stavropol Regional Court made a decision to liquidate the humanitarian aid agency Danish Refugee Council.

A Georgian armed group captured a serviceman of the Abkhazian Armed Forces, Valery Morokhia, on April 6.

Human rights defenders mention arbitrary bans on meetings, bans on citizens' free movement in the country, illegal detentions, and attacks against media representatives.

A cameraman for Chechen State TV and Radio Company was abducted by gunmen in masks and camouflage in Grozny on April 9.

"The authors of such statements really impede the process of political settlement in Chechnya," Akhmad Kadyrov said on Friday, April 9.

Two residents of Shelkovskaya in Chechnya will be paid 300,000 rubles each within a few days for having alerted special services to the presence of a notorious separatist field commander and mastermind of terror attacks, Abubakar Visimbayev, in their village.

Fifteen years ago, elements of the Soviet Army dispersed thousands of activists of the national movement who had gathered for a peaceful meeting on Rustaveli Avenue in the heart of Tbilisi.

According to the military, the operation to destroy Saidov, who was Shamil Basayev's subordinate, was conducted by the special operations battalion Vostok under the command of Sulim Yamadayev.

Two other officers received wounds of different severity.

"There is no force which can make a sovereign state change its internal policy, except for international tribunal," said the Moscow director for Human Rights Watch.

"We have no information that Mikhail Sergeevich is going to visit Georgia," Vladimir Polyakov said on April 8.

The Moslem community of Dagestan has succeeded in canceling Boris Moiseyev's concerts on the territory of the republic.

The captured people were released after the regular quadripartite meeting in the village of Chuburkhindzhi in the Gali district on April 8.

The international court in Strasbourg announced its decision on April 8 that Tengiz Asanidze, former mayor of Batumi and a former deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the autonomous republic, should be released.

Human rights groups have recently documented a number of "disappearances," summary executions, and attacks against civilians in both Chechnya and Ingushetia.

Muzhakhoyeva was found guilty of attempting to commit a terrorist act near the Imbir restaurant in 1st Tverskaya-Yamskaya Street in the heart of Moscow on July 10, 2003. Then, a FSB bomb disposal expert Sergey Trofimov was killed by the bomb.