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The Chechen human rights activist considers Ivan Pomeschenko is to be called to account for his public defamatory allegations and offences against him.

On November 1, 2003, the Information Center of the Society for Russian-Chechen Friendship received a report that Zairkhanov Ibragim (Rustam) Zelimkhanovich, 1979, was released on October 29, 2003.

A spokesman of the Chechen presidential press service reported it referring to the data of the Chechen Migration Service Department.

The information and analytical Internet agency "Caucasian Knot" publishes a text of the declaration of the Human Rights Center "Memorial" concerning the recent statements of the Chechen Public Prosecutor's Office on the number of people disappeared without a trace on the territory of Chechnya.

Attacks on Russian soldiers and policemen are quite common in public places in Chechnya and most often occur in marketplaces and public telephone centers.

European Union leaders should use their summit with Russia next week to voice concerns about recent developments in Chechnya and neighboring Ingushetia, Human Rights Watch said October 31.

The mountains of Chechnya are still the most difficult terrain for the Russian military in carrying out so called "counter-terrorist operation".

The workshop was arranged and held by the public organization "Echo of War" and the World Organization Against Torture.

On October 28, 2003, a member of the Society for Russian-Chechen Friendship, along with a delegation of displaced persons who had been excluded from the Migration Service's computer data base, visited the Ingush Interior Ministry's Migration Service Department.

At present, there are some 4,000 Chechen refugees in the Pankisi Gorge. Russia's Minister for Chechnya Stanislav Ilyasov conducted negotiations in Tbilisi over their return.

According to witnesses, the explosive hurled the truck with the servicemen and totally destroyed it, killing several soldiers.

"Actually, we do not insist on humanitarian relief. We would manage to find jobs to earn some money if we were not counted every week by migration service employees," complains Zargan Ulubayeva, a woman from the "Sputnik" tent camp.

The protest demonstration ensued from the recent abduction of two locals, Dudurkayev brothers, by unknown enforcement agents.

Such data were published yesterday by Kheda Saratova, director of the independent press center in Grozny, and journalist Aleksandr Mnatsakanian.

The Council of Europe's Committee of Ministers should pay attention to the human rights situation in the Chechen Republic.