An antiwar meeting devoted to the anniversary of tragic events in the Moscow theatre center on Dubrovka is to be held on Sunday, October 26, at Troitskaya Square of Saint Petersburg.

The press conference "The Abducted and Forgotten: What Should Relatives of More Than Two Thousand Missing Chechens Do?" is to take place at the Independent Press Center (former press center of the Institute of Press Development) on October 28, 2003.

Chechen refugees of the "Satsita" tent camp, which is situated on the outskirts of the Sleptsovskaya village, Ingushetia's Sunzha district, organized a mass action of protest in the morning of October 23.

On October 22, a famous actress Monique van de Ven arrived in Ingushetia for an informal visit as a UNICEF Goodwill ambassador.

On October 14, Doctor of Historical Science Alan Chochiev, a well-known political figure of South and North Osetia, was arrested in Vladikavkaz. We call your attention to some recent statements issued by different South Osetian public movements and parties.

Information about tortures against secretary general of the Azerbaijan Democratic Party Sardar Jalaloglu is available in Internet.

Chechen refugees who lived in the Bella tent camp before October 2003 and then, after the force liquidation of this temporary accommodation center, were moved to the Satsita camp, have not yet been put on the lists of inhabitants of this camp.

On October 23, deputies of the State Duma of the Astrakhan region voted unanimously to appoint Vladislav Vinogradov commissioner for human rights in the region.

Representatives of the OSCE, UNHCR, Council of Europe, and International Organization for Migration finished their working visit to the Krasnodar region.

Colonel Ilya Shabalkin stressed, "Murders of some elders and village chiefs of the Itum-Kali district, as well as an attack against soldiers of the federal troops, are on the list of crimes committed by Mukhayev.

Threatening with guns, drunk servicemen made Ezhiev go into the guard-room and said he was to be detained as the activity of human rights activists on the whole and of the Society for Russian-Chechen Friendship in particular is directed at discrediting the army, which "fulfills its complicated urgent tasks".

These data are the result of a public poll held on the eve of the anniversary of the tragedy in Moscow.

The workshop participants, journalists from both independent and national media, discussed different forms of "non-violence" they can use in their work.

Leaders of the Turkish-Meskhetian, Tajik and African communities participated in the workshop "Protection of Rights of Ethnic Minorities during Examinations of Papers by Police". Invited lawyers helped them to enrich their store of knowledge in the field of human rights.

The federal national and cultural autonomy of Chechens will be engaged in solving problems of not only Chechens, but of all the displaced persons from Chechnya, regardless of their nationality. It will advocate preservation of the language, national culture and originality of the nation.

80 residents of the Kazbek district of Dagestan held an unauthorized meeting on Red Square on October 22. They arrived in Moscow to complain about officials of local authorities.

According to the head of the movement, Lev Ponomaryov, punishment must be borne by officials, security services' chiefs, as well as high-ranked medical personnel.

On October 22, the international human rights organization "Human Rights Watch" published a statement in which it roundly denounced the massive arrests of opposition activists and frauds in the course of the presidential elections of October 15.

Moscow Helsinki Group Chairwoman Lyudmila Alekseyeva holds such an opinion. On October 22, the MHG presented a report on the human rights situation in the Chechen Republic.

Missing Azer Garachenli was kept in a ward of one of the police stations in Baku's Banagadinsky district.