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The government must declare amnesty for people arrested in connection with the events of October 2003, stated poet Ramiz Rovshan, who is chair of the Committee to Struggle Against Repressions and Election Fraud.

The Azerbaijan authorities impeded the arrival of the Armenian military in Baku last week.

It is a joint project sponsored by the Handicap International organization and the Chechen Labor Ministry.

Olivier Dupuis, Member of the European Parliament, Radical, asks the Commission: "What does the Commission think of the use of the term "Chechen network" by magistrates from EU member countries - and in particular by the French magistrate Bruguiere - to define a criminal affair in which the only involvement of Chechens seems to be the fact that the EU citizens - and not Chechens - under accusation have referred to Chechens as the possible beneficiaries of financial aid, or Chechnya as a place where they could carry out their plan for a holy war?"

Over 300 people participated in a meeting in the village of Gonio, not far from Batumi. They demanded that Adjarian leader Aslan Abashidze resign and accused him of establishing a totalitarian regime on the territory of the autonomy.

The main issue on the agenda is a criminogenic situation in the Gali district of Abkhazia, which has worsened recently.

On January 17, two locals were killed in the village of Katayama, which is in the Staropromislovsky district of Grozny.

A delegation from Chechnya, headed by acting chairman of the Chechen Government Eli Isayev, visited the tent camps of Chechen refugees "Satsita" and "Sputnik" on January 17.

The Achkhoy-Martan district was massively stricken by the federal attack aviation on the night of January 13-14.

"It is not by accident that the world powers persistently present the conflict as the one between Armenia and Azerbaijan and not between Karabakh and Azerbaijan," says the Karabakh politician.

"The Turks-Meskhetians are tired of explaining that they require no compensation, no restitution of the villages and territories taken from them before, they are not inclined to declare autonomy in Samtskhe-Javakheti, they just want to come back and start normal life at home," said Chingiz Neyman-Zade, deputy chair of the Association of Akhaltsikhe (Meskhetian) Turks "Vatan" (Motherland) in Azerbaijan.

Many thousands of people who were executed or sent to camps as well as millions of people who were dispossessed, deported and disfranchised have not been rehabilitated so far.

Russian servicemen rushed into houses, robbed and beat locals all night.

Increased centrifugal trends in Georgia along with Russia's increased activity in Transcaucasia make one recall the early 1990s. That time, this country, as a regional superpower, acted here as in an "area of its vital interests." Now the "country of unlearned lessons" is reviewing its path. Contributing to this cause, we present Memorial member Alexander Cherkasov's article "The lost Chegem" posted on Polit.Ru two months ago, to the 10th anniversary of the end of the Georgian-Abkhaz war.