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The amnesty will apply not only to those people who are imprisoned now but also to those - there are about 150 of them, according to some data - who have been hiding in the forests of western Georgia for all these years.

"Nine years have passed since the criminal Russian leadership scorned all the rules and norms of international law and committed direct military aggression against the independent Chechen state," reads the appeal.

At the end of November 2003, the Human Rights Center "Memorial" received the following information about killed civilians who were proclaimed to be rebels.

Only 28% of respondents said they believe life in Chechnya is becoming more peaceful. What is more, 67% said they think that talks should now begin to establish peace in the republic.

This action was initiated by the Viktor Popkov Information and Analytical Center and the Sintar human rights organization.

Films about Chechnya were demonstrated in Lvov on December 10 as a part of the program timed to Human Rights Day. Film director Murad Mazayev, who was invited by the organizers as a special guest, presented two projects: the documentary one "Things I Remember" shot by Chechen journalists and cut by Poles in Krakow and the feature film "Marsho", which is already world-famed.

The award ceremony took place on December 10, International Human Rights Day, in the Andrey Sakharov Public Center.

Seven separatists were killed in the Tsuntinsky district of Dagestan in the morning on Tuesday, announced head of the North Caucasian frontier department of the Russian Federal Security Service Lieutenant-General Nikolay Lesinsky.

MP candidates, election commission members of different levels, observers, and activists of public organizations were participants in the discussion.

Chechen separatists who captured a hospital in the village of Shauri in the Tsuntinsky district of Dagestan have divided into three or four groups, which are moving away in the direction of Chechnya and Georgia.

In conformity with the agreement reached in Ochamchira on November 17, the Georgian party had to produce information on Abkhazians who remain missing after the 1992-1993 Patriotic War.

The action was held within the framework of the "Strengthening Democracy in the South Caucasus through Freedom of Expression" Project implemented by the Article 19 international organization.

The Yeni Musavat newspaper expresses regret that the opposition in Azerbaijan is splintered today and will not be able to stand against the signing of the defeatist peace treaty.

Locals report that the village of Dzumsoy, which numbered 40 houses, was razed to the ground by Russian soldiers several days ago.

The ex-president of Azerbaijan died at the age of 80 on Friday December 12 in the clinic in Cleveland, the U.S., where he had been receiving treatment for heart and kidney problems since August 6.

According to some versions, the rebels occupied one of the Dagestani villages. According to other data, the group of rebels was detected when they were trying to flee to Georgia.

Several days ago, the police found a depot with 84 unguided antitank missiles apparently left by Chechen guerillas in a forest near the village of Khalatsani.

Last week two cultural events took place in the center of Prague dedicated to Caucasians who either still live in their homeland under disturbing conditions, or left to seek shelter in the Czech Republic.

On December 11, Russian mass media published information that the Georgian Security Ministry's special unit had entered the village of Megvrikisi in South Osetia.

On December 7, the day of the Russian State Duma elections, Yunus V. Yakubov, 1948, was killed in Gudermes. He was an observer for the Chechen regional branch of the United Russia Party.