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If last year there were about 150 Chechens in Czechia, now there are about 3,000 of them there. Only one positive aspect can be discerned in this cheerless picture: the large Chechen Diaspora in Europe is aimed to become a serious political force so that to influence on the situation in the homeland and to convince Western politicians and public opinion of the necessity to demand that Russia should end the bloody war.

The invitation by the Human Rights Center "Memorial" in Nazran to take part in the "Peace to Our Home!" action.

The Alina temporary settlement center in the village of Ordzhonikidzevskaya in Ingushetia's Sunzha district was closed on December 1.

Council Chairman of the Human Rights Center "Memorial" Oleg Orlov, who has been on assignment in Chechnya recently, will be a participant in the press conference.

According to the spokesman for the regional headquarters, one of the militants killed during a special task operation by Russian troops in the Shali district was a citizen of Germany and other three were citizens of Turkey.

Representatives of the Russian military commandant's office who arrived to the site of occurrence on the same day admitted that the child had died through the federals' fault.

The Kavkaz checkpoint, which is situated on the Rostov-Baku federal rout at the administrative border between Chechnya and Ingushetia, is talked about among the republican population as the most unexpected and dangerous one.

Chairman of the Regional Public Organization "Union of Forced Migrants" Baudi Dudayev, who is well-known in the Republic of Ingushetia and in the Chechen Republic, is forced to hide from the possible pursuit by Russian special services.

"Despite the genocide in the Chechen Republic, which has been perpetrated for more that four years, the Russian authorities mislead the international community by pursuing the policy aimed at the legitimation of violence and terror in the zone of this bloody conflict," reads the statement.

Earlier President of Chechnya Akhmad Kadyrov, former commander-in-chief of the federal forces in the North Caucasus Gennady Troshev, as well as leaders of the Rodina election bloc promised to pay out a reward for Shamil Basayev's capture.

On November 26, a reconnaissance party went uphill from the settlement of Chinnakh, Chechnya's Itum-Kali district, to the Zumsoy village. Locals inform that the Russian servicemen rushed into the houses and behaved aggressively provoking a stampede.

On November 20, unknown men killed two non-departmental security guards near the oil well at the 57th sector of Grozny's Oktyabrsky district. The purpose of the criminals was to take the guards' guns.

A so called "purge" was conducted in the village of Ilyinovskaya, the Grozny district, on November 16. Two young people were detained as a result of it.

Unidentified attackers have fired at a school building where a polling station is located in the Chechen settlement of Mesker-Yurt, the Shali district. The attack was committed last Thursday, the Russian Interior Ministry's press centre in the North Caucasus informed on Saturday.

No one international observer has declared intention to visit the republic during the elections, reported an informed source in Moscow.