The North Caucasian forum on migration "Ways and Methods of Cooperation and Coordination in the Work of State Structures, NGOs and International Humanitarian Organizations That Solve Problems of Refugees and IDPs in the Region" opened in Nalchik on January 21.

Local ecologists and human rights activists believe the authorities started to prosecute Konstantinidi in response to the fact that with his legal assistance, citizens of Novorossiysk gained an unprecedented court victory over Kaspiysk Pipeline Consortium (KTK).

The United Nations believes that the principle of sanctuary as such is seriously compromised if refugees are forced to move out without being provided with another place to live.

Russian Deputy Interior Minister Colonel-General Aleksandr Chekalin reported it.

Executive director of the Human Rights Center "Memorial" Tatyana Kasatkina has denied information that the book "Russia's Crimes of the Century in Chechnya" was published jointly with Chechenpress Agency.

In a report released on January 19 that says progress in resolving the Georgian-Abkhaz conflict remains "painfully slow," United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan appeals to the Abkhaz side to negotiate a settlement with the new Georgian Government.

As reported by the Council members, the main subject matter of the discussion was the reinstatement in the Ingush Migration Service's lists of those Chechen refugees who have been take off the books before without any grounds.

The decision has been made to direct NDI's activity towards cooperation with political parties so that to promote their political and social potential.

At the same time Ilkham Aliyev told that at this point he considered necessary to continue negotiations with Armenia.

"Those who will feel a need for peace will be able to come to this house, which will be a kind of cultural center," said coordinator of the NGO Nagorno-Karabakh Committee "Helsinki Initiative - 92" Karen Ogandzhanian.

Servicemen in masks rushed into a private house and shot down two young people between the ages of 25 and 30 who were in there.

"These meetings substitute the confrontation between Armenia and Azerbaijan for the problem of Nagorny Karabakh," stated the board member of the Armenian National Movement.

State Minister Zurab Zhvania demanded on Wednesday that law enforcement bodies should speed up investigation into financial machinations with issuing allowances to refugees from the Abkhazian Autonomous Republic.

The aim of the competitions is to stir up citizens' activity in the field of finding solutions to social problems and to develop charity in Southern Russia.

Former Georgian president Eduard Shevardnadze stated that Abkhazia and South Osetia were occupied by Russian troops and called upon new Georgian president Mikhail Saakashvili to solve this problem.

The discussion is arranged within the framework of the enlightening project "What Do You Know and Think of the War in Chechnya?" with the support of the Caucasian Knot information and analytical Internet media and the Memorial International Society.

"Having positively assessed the results of the ad hoc high-level meeting of 8 October, the sides agreed to take every measure to ensure the strict observance of the Moscow Ceasefire Agreement of 1994 and refrain from any action, which may destabilize the situation in the zone of conflict and have a negative impact on the peace process," reads the protocol of the meeting of 19 January.

The former second-in-command of the so called "Islamic special operations regiment" under the command of Arbi Barayev was arrested in the Kemerovo region.

The statement of the Human Rights Institute of the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences issued on the eve of the 14th anniversary of the so called Baku Events that "by the military incursion into Baku, the Soviet leadership violated the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights as well as others international documents, including the Convention on the Rights of the Child."

The camp is reportedly supplied with electric power several times a day. All the rest time people spend without electric light.