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"Stereotypes in relations with Russia should be changed," Saakashvili said, "and a favorable investment climate should be created in Georgia for Russia."

Ella Pamfilova, head of the Human Rights Commission for the Russian president, visited Chechen refugee camps in Ingushetia on March 6.

Igor Giorgadze, leader of the Justice Party, Georgia, was struck off the party's list of candidates for the parliamentary elections on March 28.

Three senior Georgian security officers have been convicted to three months' detention for insubordination.

"Unless Ajaria's leadership abolishes the republican State Security Ministry, there will be tough repressions," said the Georgian President.

This is what Zurich Prosecutor Pascal Gossner said yesterday.

There is no such group in the republic, Chechnya's Security Council Secretary Rudnik Dudaev told Interfax.

Displaced persons unwilling to return to Chechnya can stay in Ingushetia, and they will be provided with accommodation, Ingush President Murat Ziazikov said.

Duma international committee head Kosachiov says Lord Judd was not given a visa because he mentioned the wrong host information in his papers.

"Self-will is coming to a close. I am not Shevardnadze, and I am not going to dismember and destroy Georgia," Saakashvili said.

Officers of some yet unidentified law-enforcement/security agencies blocked the refugee camp Satsita in Orjonikidzevskaia, Ingushetia, on March 6.

Eleven people have received written notifications of compensations provided to them. Without having compensation cash on hand yet, the recipients must leave their rooms.

The Russian Foreign Ministry has denied a visa to Lord Judd, the former rapporteur on Chechnya to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. In Moscow he was to take part in a Peace Prize award ceremony on March 10.

Kavkaz-Center agency received a message from a group called White Shadows claiming responsibility for the explosion in the Metro on February 6, 2004.

"This case once again demonstrates the Russian government do all they can to prevent the press from covering developments in Chechnya," RSF representatives say.

"One can say for sure presently these vehicles were meant for large-scale terrorist acts," the officer on duty of Chechnya's Internal Affairs Ministry told us.

The Georgian television company Rustavi-2 says police officers beat its reporter Vakho Komakhidze in Batumi, Ajaria, on March 5.

A special operation under the personal command of Georgia's Interior Minister led to detention of a group of major criminals in the Imereti region.

The suit concerning Vladimir Putin's interview about "Nord-Ost" published by the Kommersant-Vlast weekly was filed with the Tverskoy Court of Moscow by the Nord-Ost organization. The plaintiffs ask for the indemnity at the rate of 1 million rubles to be paid by the magazine and 10 million rubles to be paid by Vladimir Putin to each plaintiff.

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