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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.

Deputy prosecutor of the republic Aleksandr Nikitin denied information that Russian security agencies were involved in the abductions.

According to a source closely connected with the entourage of Aslan Maskhadov, there is no and has never been such a general in the Ichkerian Armed Forces.

Officials of the Austrian, Czech, and German police announced at a news conference in Prague on October 24 they have jointly cracked down on an international gang smuggling people into Western Europe, mostly immigrants from Chechnya, the Middle East and Central Asia.

He told it upon his return from Geneva, where he had attended the 79th session of the UN Human Rights Committee.