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"If the Karabakh people solve some question, Armenia will always assist. In other words, this question should not be presented as the one only between Armenia and Azerbaijan," Andranik Margarian added.

We publish the full text of a statement by Svetlana Gannushkina, chair of the Civic Assistance committee for refugees, head of the Migration and Law Network of the Memorial Human Rights Center and a member of the Commission on Human Rights for the Russian President.

Valery Kraev, first deputy chief of the main penal authority at the Russian Justice Ministry, said on May 7 that the Justice Ministry had information that human rights organizations provide funding for gangs.

"There are reasons to believe the ruling political elite are not going to learn their lesson from the Georgian-Abkhaz war," reads the statement.

"We think that the composition and strength of Defense Ministry forces, interior troops, and other security agencies are enough for today," said Russian Minster of Defense Sergey Ivanov.

The opposition still intends to hold a meeting in Yerevan on May 14, in spite of negotiations with the coalition. Moreover, today it will hold a meeting in Vanadzor, another Armenian town.

One of the Center's main goals is to seek recognition of the Khodzhaly residents as genocide victims.

The court has satisfied 26 claims for the compensation of material damage in connection with the loss of the breadwinner, reminded the lawyer. Approximately 30 claims are under consideration.

The people have been huddling together in a village drugstore for a month already, women and children sleeping on the floor and men living in a garage.

A representative of Azerbaijan Themis, who came out of the court building, suddenly told the people gathered that only selected media could attend the court hearing.

Producer Sergey Govorukhin said many times that the state was not able even to provide disabled soldiers with prosthetic appliances.

A North Caucasus district court martial has acquitted four commandos of the reconnaissance unit in the Russian armed forces' General Staff, citing lack of evidence.

A place of temporary disposition of an interior unit was shelled by rebels from underbarrel grenade-launchers and fired from automatic weapons.

The overwhelming majority of people in the republic are convinced that only a candidate having the support of the Kremlin can become head the Chechen Republic.

Earlier Husein Dzhabrailov held the post of Minister for Nationalities, Information and Foreign Relations in the Chechen government.

Muslim Khadzhiev, a young man, was reportedly detained during these actions and taken in an unknown direction.

Ali Yusupov, a local resident, was detained by officers of security agencies at a post in the Naursky district of Chechnya.

The Revival party "cannot continue its work since the founder of the party, Aslan Abashidze, has left the county, Gamlet Chipashvili, the former head of the delegation of the Adjarian Autonomous Republic in Tbilisi, said.

"We have every reason to suspect that the terrorist act was organized by special services of the invaders to get rid of the puppet government that has exhausted all resources of the pseudo-political process," stated the Chechen separatist leader.

Parliament Speaker Artur Bagdasarian announced it at the close of a regular meeting between officials of the ruling pro-president coalition and the opposition.