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Unidentified soldiers of federal forces, moving in several armored personnel carriers and UAZ cars without number plates, detained and took away in an unknown direction 8 civilians (men between the ages of 30 and 40) in the village of Duba-Yurt on March 27. It was established in the course of a check that the above-mentioned people were held at the military base in Khankala.

Earlier they were considered to be missing. As the Novaya Gazeta newspaper reports, this fact has become known due to a video record made by an officer of the Ministry of Justice.

"If Aslan Abashidze cannot disarm these people, I am ready to open stations and buy arms from the population," Mikhail Saakashvili said to journalists.

The letter signed by Basayev reads: "We warn everybody not to come near to Zyazikov, to beware of his presence since we will use any chance to attack him, no matter who will be near."

212 people left the Satsita tent camp, which is in Ingushetia's Sunzha district, for places of their permanent residence on the territory of Chechnya from 5 to 11 April 2004.

A column of Russian soldiers was attacked in the Shali district of Chechnya in the morning of April 12.

On the night of April 9-10, an armed clash between a rebel group and officers of Akhmad Kadyrov's security service took place on the outskirts of the Avtury village, Chechnya's Shali district.

Doctor Vakhab Vatsayev, deputy head of the republican veterinary station, was abducted by unknown criminals in Grozny on April 10.

The round table discussion "Intercontinental and Ethnic Conflicts in the Context of Globalization" will follow the demonstration. Representatives of Estonian Moslems, the Chechen Diaspora in Estonia, and the clergy are expected to be its participants.

The name of the detained man is not disclosed in the interests of investigation. He is being held in the investigatory isolation ward of the Abkhazian State Security Service.

"All the efforts we have made to learn anything about the destiny of meeting participants being held by the police have been unsuccessful," reads the statement by the opposition party Anrapetutiun (Republic).

"In case of an inadequate reaction from Tbilisi, the peace march may have any ending," Tsotne Bakuriya, a member of the Revival Party, emphasized. "We don't want to have common people suffer from that," he added.

It was devoted to the violations of human rights in the Krimsk district.

The factions Justice and National Unity demanded that the parliament should adopt the amendments and supplements to the Law on the Referendum that the opposition need to conduct a referendum on the vote of confidence to President Robert Kocharian.

Residents of Duba-Yurt are convinced their killed fellow-villages were taken away by officers of Russian security structures.

Georgian Prime Minister Zurab Zhvania and Security Council Secretary Vano Merabishvili will arrive in Batumi for a new round of talks on April 13.

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.