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We call your attention to the statement by Nikolay Khramov, secretary of the Russian Radicals movement, member of the Transnational Radical Party General Council, in connection with the 6 February terrorist act in the Moscow metro.

"We consider the hasty conclusions and accusations, which are exacerbating people's grief and suffering and provoking ethnic hatred and aggression in our society, to be blasphemy," reads the statement.

Gunmen attacked a group of Russian army servicemen in Grozny and blew up an armored vehicle in Achkhoy-Martan on February 9, leaving two servicemen killed and two injured.

Federal Security Service (FSB) deputy director Vyacheslav Ushakov suggested studying the experience of the United States. The United States drafted a national patriotic platform after the notorious terrorist act of September 11 and afterwards enacted it into law.

46 civilians, including women and old people, were shot dead in the course of the police operation in the village of Noviye Aldy on 4 February 2000. 10 more people, including a one-year-old child, were shot down in residential areas of Grozny adjacent to the village.

Chechnya's President Akhmat Kadyrov said February 6 he shared the grief over the terrorist act in the Moscow metro, but he believed at the same time that statements fanning ethnic tensions were incorrect even in that situation.

"We do not need indirect evidence. We know for sure that Maskhadov and his bandits are connected with this terror," said the President.

The death toll from the explosion that occurred in the Moscow metro on Friday morning has reached 39 people as of 3:15 p.m.

Action participants demanded that the Russian side should take immediate measures to release the activist of the Association of Young Lawyers and Political Scientists, 25-year-old David Badjagua, who was abducted by an armed group in the Zugdidi district of Georgia on January 27.

The head of the NGO Clear World, Mekhribana Zeynalova, is convinced that the night bars where facts of child prostitution have been established are "in ward" of officials connected with law-enforcement agencies.

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) calls for the immediate and unconditional release of Usman Saidaliev and wishes to stress that the abduction of civilians is prohibited under international humanitarian law.

According to the data of the Association of Young Lawyers and Political Scientists, the activist of the organization was abducted by Gena Ashkhartsava, who leads a 30-strong group operating in the Gali district.

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.

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

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