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Activists of the Shield human rights organization hold that Aliyev persecuted Soviet dissidents and Azerbaijan democrats when being Azerbaijan KGB (State Security Committee) chief and a member of the Political Bureau of the Soviet Communist Party. To build a monument to him in Ukraine is a "shameful and foolish" undertaking.

Russian servicemen came in an UAZ car and armored troop carriers to the village and abducted three locals there.

Ruzana Shibzakharova, a local resident, was detained by Russian servicemen in the district center of Shelkovskaya several days ago.

The process of the refugees' home-coming to Chechnya, which started last spring so actively, has almost come to naught after New Year.

Early in the morning today, the Georgian Interior Ministry launched a special operation in Georgia's Zugdidi district to disarm gangs acting in the Georgian-Abkhazian conflict zone.

The head of the NGO Clear World, Mekhribana Zeynalova, is convinced that the night bars where facts of child prostitution have been established are "in ward" of officials connected with law-enforcement agencies.

We call your attention to the statement by the Coalition of Chechen and Russian NGOs "Yalta Initiative for Peace in Chechnya."

Various religious sects have been quite active in their missionary work in the region for the last ten years. Participants of the conference were offered to pay attention to two confessions: Wahhabism and Jehovism.

Its creation was initiated by refugee journalists as a result of their meeting in Tbilisi in late January.

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) calls for the immediate and unconditional release of Usman Saidaliev and wishes to stress that the abduction of civilians is prohibited under international humanitarian law.

The statement reads, in particular, "Olivier Dupuis, a member of the European Parliament, has gone without food for thirteen days but has received no glance from his parliamentary colleagues, from the Council of Europe, from other European bodies or from the transatlantic UN or White House."

10. Explosion in Shali district leaves three servicemen dead The first explosion took place on a road about 100 meters from the settlement. The other one was set off on the road to Shali not far from a bridge.

After the traditional offering ceremony, the cow's meat was distributed among 214 orphan children living in the villages of Stariye Atagi, Avtury, Serzhen-Yurt, and in the district center of Shali, Chechnya.

Tamerlan Aliyev is threatened with savage punishment for being a "national traitor".

The founder of the Angusht newspaper, Murat Oziev, has to print it beyond the bounds of Ingushetia as the Ingush printing houses were given a private instruction not to cooperate with this media, which lays claim to be oppositionist.

About 140 thousand people from socially unprotected sections of population, including displaced persons from Chechnya, are expected to receive humanitarian aid this year.

The third pan-Armenian youth gathering "Baze - 2004" is taking place in Armenia from 2 to 9 February.

The action is supposed to be held under the slogan "Set Rauf Arifoglu free!" in front of the Prosecutor General's Office on February 5.

The goal of the action was to express a protest against discrimination of national minorities and corruption in Georgian judicial bodies.

Even though the two men staying in the house did not offer resistance, Kadyrov's people kept on firing until it became obvious that those people were dead.