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Federal forces and the Chechen president's security service carried out several special operations in the mountains and the forests to arrest members of bandit formations who were preparing large-scale terrorist attacks both in and outside of Chechnya.

Achishvili, Muskhanov and the Chalayev brothers, members of illegal armed groups who are now in custody, committed several acts of terrorism against federal servicemen.

The capacity of each of the explosive assemblies was about 40 kilograms of trotyl equivalent, the officer of the republican interior ministry said.

"We send a letter asking the prosecutor's office to provide information on virtually every abduction. They open a criminal case following every abduction. Most of the prosecutor office's replies to our requests say that the kidnappers have not been found," the Memorial spokesman, Dmitry Grushkin, said.

"We consider the happening a sequel to the atmosphere of political intolerance that has been seen in the country recently," reads a statement by the Yerevan Press Club, the Union of Armenian Journalists, Internews Armenia, and the Glasnost Defense Foundation.

An unexampled trial has started in Novocherkassk. The one who is standing trial is an organizer of the international criminal group that has been supplying white slaves from Rostov Region to the United Arab Emirates.

Basayev accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of ignoring Basayev's earlier call for Russian authorities to observe international law in Chechnya - specifically to end to alleged executions without trial and the disappearance of civilians - in return for an end to Chechen terrorist attacks against civilians in Russia, according to a letter published Tuesday on a rebel Web site.

Local residents hold that the killed men fell victims to extrajudicial execution by special operations units of the Russian security structures, which are called "death squadrons" in Chechnya.

Temur Lomsadze, an acting public lawyer, visited Gia Dzhokhtaberidze on March 25. He found him sharing the cell with four prisoners accused of grave crimes.

As a convoy was leaving the village of Samashki, unidentified attackers opened grenade and small arms fire at an UAZ-452 van at the end of the convoy.

On March 24, special operations units of the Georgian Interior Ministry conducted a special operation in the village of Etseri, in a mountain part of Georgia's Svanetia. Three dangerous gangsters - Gocha, Omekhi and Yevgeny Aprasidze - were liquidated during the operation.

Four citizens of Azerbaijan who abducted a Palestinian have been detained in Moscow, reported the information and public relations division of the Moscow City Interior Department.

The purges were caused by the murder of Chersi Gatayev, deputy chief of the Achkhoy-Martan district police department, and his driver, Inderbiyev, which was committed by a group of unknown people on a road between the villages of Davidenko and Noviy Sharoy on March 19.

Nadyr Aliyev, an Azerbaijan businessman and leader of the Organization of National Unity, has decided to grant a scholarship to Ramil Safarov, the Azerbaijan officer who killed his Armenian colleague, Gurgen Margarian, in Budapest on February 19, 2004.

Abu al-Walid, a notorious Chechen field commander of Arab origin, announced that Russia was threatened with a new series of terrorist acts if that one who would be elected new president advocated the war in Chechnya.