On Monday morning, January 12, militants fired at the complex of government buildings in Grozny with a grenade-launcher, a source at the press service of Chechnya's president reported.

We call your attention to the statement by The Former Political Prisoners for Human Rights NGO. Its authors raise concern about the human rights situation in Georgia after the so called velvet revolution.

Otherwise, the reaction to the unjust court decision will be keen, said Acting President of Georgia Nino Burdjanadze.

The action participants suggest holding elections of the refugees' representatives for the Abkhazian Supreme Soviet along with the Georgian parliamentary elections in March of 2004.

The "Azerros" organization, which unites Azerbaijanians with Russian citizenship, addressed the Moscow Public Prosecutor's Office demanding that the former candidate for the post of the mayor of Moscow German Sterligov be called to account for sowing the seeds of interethnic strife.

Russian security agents conducted addressed "purges" in the Oktyabrsky district of Grozny on January 7.

In the morning, thousands of people went to the central park of Kizlyar to lay flowers at the memorial to the people killed by the rebels.

According to him, a special emphasis in this work will be laid on the disclosure of persons connected with armed units and on the prevention of terrorist acts in the stage of their preparation.

The Chechen refugees living in three temporary accommodation centers in the village of Troitskaya, Ingushetia's Sunzhensky district, take a risk of becoming roofless.

"Azerbaijan is a member of many international organizations, and it have to be a receiving county for various actions, in which representatives of the Armenian side take part even if we do not want it," he told journalists on January 8.

The journalist is going to continue the hunger strike until the Constitution of the Russian Federation and the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms takes effect with respect to him.

The materials of the administrative case were considered in the absence of the men called to account. They had not been even notified of the time and place of their consideration.

The Chechen State Council intends to find out what and who is slowing down the process of return of forced migrants to their homes in Chechnya from three refugee camps in the Republic of Ingushetia.

A group of Azerbaijan intellectuals calls to hold an action of protest against Armenia's occupation of a part of the Azerbaijan territory, including Nagorny Karabakh. The action is expected to be held on February 26.

The Ministry of Defense of Azerbaijan issued a statement on January 7, accusing the Armenian snipers of the Monday murder of two shepherds: Orudzh Shukyurov and his son Mukhubbat Shukyurov.

Gunmen in masks and camouflage uniform rushed into the house of the Isayev brothers on the night of December 9-10, 2003 and took them in an unknown direction.

The headquarters of the Peacekeeping Forces in Sukhum has already received the decision by the Council of Heads of CIS States that the peacekeepers will stay in the zone of the Georgian-Abkhazian conflict until one of the parties declares for their withdrawal.

12 people have been abducted, three of whom have been killed, in the conflict zone through the fault of the Abkhazian side for the last two weeks, by information of the Georgian side.

There will be no debates about the problem of Nagorny Karabakh during the January and April sessions of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE).

In exchange for the cessation of torture and moving to the better ward, Trepashkin had to make a signed statement that he had no claims against his keeping conditions at the investigatory isolation ward.