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About 50 people from the Oktyabrsky district of the Chechen capital Grozny, displaced by the Sunzha River overflowing in June 2002, held an unauthorized meeting on February 26 to demand compensation for their homes destroyed by the flood.

The presentation of and discussion about three numbers of the Krasnodar rights catalogue-digest published by the regional branch of the Russian Society Memorial will take place in Krasnodar on March 3.

The text adopted on February 26 contains a call to the EU Member States to promote peace in Chechnya.

The main reason why some Russian politicians apply the rhetoric of nationalism and xenophobia is the ongoing war in Chechnya, stated Lev Ponomaryov, executive director of the all-Russian public Movement for Human Rights, on 26 February 2004, at the 1st All-Russian Assembly of Public Forces to Counteract Xenophobia and Extremism.

Police officers seized all posters that contained at least some criticism against President of Kalmykia Kirsan Ilyumzhinov.

Only several dozens of tents are left in Bart, a camp for Chechen refugees situated in the Ingush town of Karabulak. Inhabitants of this temporary accommodation center leave the camp under pressure of the authorities.

We call your attention the open letter addressed by Executive Director of the International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights Aaron Rhodes to Prosecutor of the Republic of North Osetia Aleksandr Bigulov in connection with the abduction of Ruslan Soltakhanov, a driver for journalist Rebecca Santana.

The tent camps for refugees from Chechnya in Ingushetia will be liquidated in March, Deputy Head of the Chechen Interior Ministry's Migration Service Lema Bichuyev said to Interfax on February 28.

The HRW representative's trip is to result in the report on the media situation in Azerbaijan in the aftermath of the presidential election.

Picketers condemned the murder of an Armenian officer in Budapest and declared against efforts of some political circles calling to join Karabakh to Azerbaijan by force.

Timerlan Akhayev, an officer of the Chechen Interior Ministry, disappeared without a trace in Urus-Martan on February 23.

The information campaign to familiarize Meskhetian Turks compactly residing in the region with the conditions of their resettlement to the United States as refugees by the program carried out by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) has been taking place in Krasnodar Territory for the second week already.

Families of Chechen refugees who departed for Chechnya from the Satsita tent camp the day before yesterday have been forsaken in the street in fact.

On February 26, residents of the Prorvensky village published an open letter to the governor of the Kuban region, Aleksandr Tkachyov.

Foreign Minister of Abkhazia Sergey Shamba received Ivar Vikki and Irina Nezhinskaya, representatives of the UN Human Rights Office, on February 25.