Recent bomb attacks in southern Russia and Moscow display a flagrant disrespect for civilian life, Amnesty International said 9 December.

The statement reads: "The international human rights system, built over decades by governments themselves, has come under unprecedented strain ".

3 thousand Russian peacekeepers will stay in the zone of the conflict till one of the parties declares for the cessation of the peacekeeping operation.

Representatives of all the republican security agencies as well as activists of public organizations will form the commission, announced President of Chechnya Akhmad Kadyrov.

Moscow lawyer Ekaterina Bugayenko, who represented interests of the defendant, the Fund "School of Peace", in court on the initiative of the Independent Expert Legal Council, stated during a sitting of the court that the department of justice violated rights of the public association and Article 11 of the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, which ensures freedom of peaceful assembly and freedom of association.

"Purges" are conducted in Grozny, Gudermes, Argun, and other settlements by officers of the Chechen OMON (militia platoon for special purposes) and the republican department for struggle against organized crime, with a minimum of Russian soldiers' participation.

On December 11, it will be 9 years since the "restoration of constitutional order" began in Chechnya.

The Georgian-Abkhazian negotiation process was the main subject matter of the meeting between Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General in Georgia Heidi Tagliavini and Abkhazian Prime Minister Raul Khajimba and Abkhazian Foreign Minister Sergey Shamba.

Georgy Mshveniaradze, an activist of the non-government organization "Young Lawyers Association" detained by Adjarian law-enforcement agencies in Kobuleti on November 2, the day of parliamentary elections in Georgia, was released on December 7.

Refugees from Chechnya who temporary live in the villages of the Pankissi George, Georgia, did not take part in the elections for the Russian State Duma on December 7.

On December 11, all those who support this action are offered for 15 minutes to substitute the "memorial page" with a picture of a burning candle against the black background for home pages of their websites.

"Terrorism in Russia is organized and managed by the Russian security and military intelligence services for propaganda (...). We do not think that the latest bombing in Moscow is an exception to this rule," reads the statement.

Internet contests will be held at the Rostov regional center of the Internet Education Federation on December 13 and 14. They will be aimed at trying both students' human rights knowledge and their ability to find necessary information through Internet.

On December 10, Human Rights Day declared by a resolution of the General Assembly in 1950, entrepreneurs of Krasnodar Territory are going to hold a picket in front of the building of the regional administration.

According to Deputy Prosecutor of Moscow Sergey Borisov, 11 people suffered. They all have been identified. One of the women who suffered in the terrorist act turned out to be a citizen of China.

The question of Nagorny Karabakh's participation in negotiations is one of the main questions that are of concern for the public of Nagorny Karabakh in the context of the process of seeking political resolution to the Karabakh problem.

The Turkish-Armenian Business Development Council, along with a group of academicians, conducted a public opinion poll in 12 towns of Turkey on December 3. 2,183 were questioned during it.

It is stated in the draft law "On Providing Security to Persons To Be Under Special Protection of the State" adopted by the National Assembly in the first reading.

The international conference "Problems of Refugees and Displaced Persons in North Caucasus" was held in Stavropol on December 5.

Tengiz Khangoshvili, a member of Shota Chichiashvili's criminal gang, was arrested by officers of the State Security Ministry in the village of Kvemo Khalani in the Pankisi region on December 8. Khangoshvili was wanted in connection with the kidnapping of two Spanish businessmen in Tbilisi on November 20, 2000. The two men were held hostage for a year. The prisoner has declared himself guilty.