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President Ilkham Aliyev of Azerbaijan will soon sign a new pardon decree, which is also expected to set free the opposition leaders arrested in connection with the 15-16 October 2003 events.

Several bodies have been found in two abandoned cars in the capital of Chechnya, Grozny.

Chechen law enforcers claim a group of 40 to 70 is trapped in mountains.

An attempt on the life of Alexander Ankvab, prime minister of the breakaway republic of Abkhazia, was carried out in the evening of 28 February while on his way from Sukhum to Gudauta.

An Antiwar Committee picket "against the Russian government's policy in the North Caucasus" scheduled for 27 February was not held, just like a similar action scheduled for 20 February.

Federal artillery shelled woodlands in Chechnya's Vedeno and Shali districts in the evening of 27 February.

Large-scale operations to cordon off and destroy rebels have been launched in all mountainous districts of Chechnya.

Leaders of the Musavat party, the Azerbaijan Popular Front Party (APFP) and the Azerbaijan Democratic Party (ADP) will conduct negotiations within the next few days and sign a joint statement then.

The protesters consider that UN representatives should increase financial aid to refugees since life in Azerbaijan has become more expansive.

Convicts of the 11th correctional facility in Baku stopped their protest action this night as the prison was stormed.

In the time of Aslan Maskhadov's presidency, Makhmut Magomadov was one of the deputies of the Chechen prosecutor general and headed a special group which investigated cases connected with kidnappings.

Irakli Alasania, chairman of the Abkhazian government in exile, has been appointed envoy for the Georgian-Abkhazian negotiations by Mikhail Saakashvili's order today.

A press conference devoted to the prosecution of the Pravo-Zashchita newspaper was held at the Moscow Independent Press Center on February 14.

According to preliminary data, the death of Zurab Zhvania was a tragic accident.

The authorities may take such a step to avoid revolutionary scenarios.

Chechen First Deputy Prime Minister Ramzan Kadyrov has announced he is going to sue human rights activists slandering him.

The inauguration of Sergey Bagapsh, new Abkhazian president elect, was held in Sukhum on February 12.

According to Foreign Minister of Nagorny Karabakh Armen Melikian, foreign experts registered 5 thousand Armenians settled in the regions of Azerbaijan adjacent to Nagorny Karabakh.

An attempt to set legal and democratic values above security issues was made for the first time in the modern history of Nagorny Karabakh.

On February 7, the International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights (IHF) and the Human Rights Center Memorial presented statistic and correspondents' information on the violations in Chechnya committed in 2004 and told about a new aspect of the crisis – Chechenization of the conflict.