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On December 11, all those who support this action are offered for 15 minutes to substitute the "memorial page" with a picture of a burning candle against the black background for home pages of their websites.

"Terrorism in Russia is organized and managed by the Russian security and military intelligence services for propaganda (...). We do not think that the latest bombing in Moscow is an exception to this rule," reads the statement.

According to Deputy Prosecutor of Moscow Sergey Borisov, 11 people suffered. They all have been identified. One of the women who suffered in the terrorist act turned out to be a citizen of China.

The UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights takes the stand of the Russian NGOs that presented at the 31st session of the commission in Geneva their report on the implementation of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in the Russian Federation, parallel with the Russian Government's report.

The Board of the Human Rights Center "Memorial" is pleased to inform that the Martin Ennals Foundation has conferred the 2004 Martin Ennals Award for Human Rights Defenders (MEA) on Lida Yusupova.

As the rebels who laid down arms can be supposedly hunted by those who are still in illegal armed units, they will spend some time on the territory of special elements.

In the monograph "Karabakh Drama: Secret Acts" (Yerevan, Center for Iranian Studies, 2003), Armenian historian Ayk Demoyan succeeded in gathering and analyzing rich factual material about the military aid provided to Azerbaijan by Turkey during the Karabakh war and about the presence of recruited Chechen and Afghan mercenaries in the Azerbaijan army at that time.

"Roughly 200 voters, about 10 percent, came to our booth, so I really don't know where the [official turnout of] 70 percent came from," said Ruslan Khadashev, who worked at Precinct 369 on behalf of Salambek Maigov, one of the candidates.

26.7% of the ballots in Chechnya's single-mandate constituency were counted by 8:00 Moscow time, December 8, reported Chairman of the Chechen Election Commission Abdul-Kerim Arsakhanov.

There are several events planned in the Czech Republic for the period between December 8 and 13 that will be devoted to the Caucasus: its culture, history, tradition, as well as a current situation in the Caucasian republics. These events are also aimed at helping Chechen refugees.

The republican population is extremely alarmed with what is happening and express indignation about the continuing high-handedness from the direction of security agents.

Mothers whose sons were abducted or disappeared without a trace during the second Chechen war have blocked the building of the Government and let nobody in or out.

The Grozny Office of the Human Rights Center "Memorial" is one of the few human rights organizations still operating in Chechnya and providing the world with crucial information on violations of human rights in this Russian republic.

A press conference of Oleg Orlov, Council Chairman of the Human Rights Center "Memorial", was held at the Independent Press Center on December 3. Its subject was "Chechnya After the Election: Abductions, Illegal Prisons, and Torture".

According to the data by the Independent Military Review, altogether the group of forces in Chechnya and around it (in the North Caucasian Military District) comes to no less than 300 thousand soldiers.