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On January 14, the central market of Grozny was blocked by policemen. They let nobody enter of leave the territory of the market.

"Ruslan Gelayev, extremists' and foreign mercenaries' group leader, is not among the ten bodies of militants destroyed last December by the federal forces. We have recently found them in the places of hostilities," Shamkhal Aliyev, chief of the search-and-rescue unit of the Dagestani Rescue Team of the Russian Emergencies Ministry, said on January 15 upon return to Makhachkala from the Tsuntinsky district.

The recruits who will win the competition will get special training at the Mozdok Training Center and then will be sent to Khankala.

They were arrested last week in the suburbs of Lyons, France.

The new Chechen parliament will consist of two chambers: the Council of the Republic and the National Assembly; each will have 61 deputies.

"An operative-investigative group is working at the scene of the incident. The main version is negligence when handling weapons. The territory is highly protected, therefore the version concerning the terrorist attack is of small possibility," head of the information department of the republican Interior Ministry Ruslan Atsayev said. The investigation considers all versions of the incident, the Chechen Prosecutor's Office announced.

"Yesterday's conclusion of the bombing trial in Moscow left us with feelings of profound dismay and frustration. We believe that justice has not been served, but the continued cover-up of a heinous crime has reached a new horrific proportion," reads the statement of Tatyana and Alyona Morozova, daughters of a woman killed in the 1999 apartment bombings.

Disbelief, a documentary directed by Andrey Nekrasov of Russia, will be presented at the international Sundance Film Festival, Utah, the U.S. This festival is one of the main independent film forums in the world. Disbelief is devoted to the explosions of apartment houses in Moscow in the autumn of 1999.

The appeal reads: "There can be only one explanation why the West is making such efforts to discredit the Chechen Resistance and is untiring in its attempts to link it with "international terrorism" - the Western politicians and state leaders are seeking a pretext for not interfering in the genocide of the Chechen people which is being carried out by Putin's criminal clique before the whole civilized world. Everything is happening as in the Chechen proverb: "Before gobbling her cub baby bear, the she-bear dragged it through the mud.""

A fire happened in the tent camp of Chechen refugees "Satsita" in the village of Ordzhonikidzevskaya on January 10. A tent for ten people, which the Batiyev family having many children lived in, was completely burnt down as a result of it. Six people who were in the tent when the fire started had time to run out.

A resident of the Roshni-Chu village Amagov was detained in his house by Russian servicemen on December 28, 2003.

Head of the press service of the North Caucasian Police Directorate Tamerlan Kazikhanov reported it on January 9

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.

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.