One of the versions concerns the January 27 developments in the Georgian-Abkhazian conflict zone, when a skirmish happened between Georgian policemen and an Abkhazian criminal group of 10 people.

As reported by chairman of the Abkhazian State Security Service Givi Agrba, a quadripartite meeting took place on the border between Georgia and Abkhazia in connection with the January 27 developments in Georgia's Tsalendjikha district.

By now law-enforcement agencies have no information on the destiny of 25-year-old David Badjagua, the activist of the Georgina NGO Association of Young Political Scientists and Journalists abducted in the Georgian-Abkhazian conflict zone.

To avoid such "incidents" from the direction of law enforcement agencies as the beatings of journalists covering the demonstration of the opposition on October 15 and 16, 2003, the Press Council has come up with a design of the uniform for journalists. The new clothes will allow members of "the forth power" to stand out in the crowd.

A group of human rights activists concerned with the problem of Meskhetian Turks in the Kuban region has issues a statement. The statement came in response to information published by RIA Novosti news agency, which quoted the Russian deputy interior minister, Colonel-General Aleksandr Chekalin, as saying, "Some 4 thousand Meskhetian Turks in Krasnodar Territory have become citizens of Russia."

Confidential circular letter #115, which started the genocide of the Cossacks, was signed by the Organizational Bureau of the Central Committee of RKP(b) (Russian Communist Party of Bolsheviks) 85 years ago. Cossack squads and cadets drew up in Novocherkassk on January 24 in commemoration of that tragic date.

Actions devoted to the 90th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire should be aimed at strengthening the country's might, preserving the Armenian Diaspora, and raising the nation's spirit.

Servicemen of the CIS Peacekeeping Forces (PKF) in the zone of the Georgian-Abkhazian conflict did not take part in the incident that occurred in the Tsalendjikha district at about 1:30 Moscow time on January 27. This was reported at the CIS PKF headquarters.

"We believe the Council of Europe's assessment of the election and post-election situation in Azerbaijan is objective and it will decide on the establishment of an independent international commission to investigate the presidential election in Azerbaijan," reads the appeal.

At a weekly conference, Prime Minister of Abkhazia Raul Khadzhimba urged upon heads of security agencies and the foreign ministry "to react to all the attacks by Georgian authorities against Abkhazia in time."

A local Khamzayev and his near relation were captured by gunmen in masks and camouflage in the village of Berkat-Yurt, Chechnya's Grozny (rural) district, on January 25.

The bomb was detonated via a distance-control device under an armored vehicle carrying interior troops.

Poligrafkombinat Company in Nazran refused to print a regular number of the Chechen Society newspaper. The director of the printing house, Suleiman Kostoev, motivated his refusal by saying that the newspaper raised the topic of possible unification of Chechnya and Ingushetia.

Since the moment of the Society's creation in April 2000, Imran Ezhiev has been arbitrary detained and held in custody by Russian security agencies many times.

"The Society rates the abduction and murder of Aslan Davletukayev as another act of state terror against people of the Chechen Republic and as another episode in the chain of physical extermination of political and ideological opponents by the regime," reads the statement made by the organization on the occasion of the murder of Aslan Davletukayev.

Witnesses say the abductors bear relation to security structures and Kadyrov's security service.

According to Mr Ilyasov, only 5 thousand displaced persons live in three tent camps and "nobody forces them to return to Chechnya."

The exchange of fire stopped only after an armored carrier with Russian peacekeepers had arrived at the clash site.

We call your attention to the statement by Olivier Dupuis in which he explains the reasons of his hunger strike.

The US Secretary of State also noted the United States hoped that Russia would find a political solution to the problem of terrorism with due account taken for human rights.