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Nikolai Zakharov, Military Commissar of the Chelyabinsk Region, has stated that now the army will not draft residents and natives of the Caucasian republics who live in other regions of Russia; however, this information is not confirmed by the group of informational support of the Central Military District of the Russian Ministry of Defence.

Human rights activists state systemic sabotage on the part of Chechen law enforcement bodies and inability of the Investigatory Committee to fulfil its immediate duties to investigate crimes in the republic, especially kidnappings. These are the topics of the ongoing press conference in Moscow.

On Monday, April, 18, a meeting of commemoration of Victor Popkov, peacemaker, journalist and human rights activist, was held in the Museum and Public Center named after Andrey Sakharov.

The court in Strasbourg imposed a compensation of 61 thousand euro on the authorities of Russia to pay off to the mother and wife of Khamzat Tushaev, resident of Chechnya who disappeared after being summoned for interrogation.

At today's court session on the criminal case on slander initiated against Oleg Orlov, Chairman of the Board of the Human Rights Centre "Memorial", Judge Karina Morozova from the judicial precinct No. 363 of the Moscow district of Khamovniki, has satisfied the petition lodged by Andrei Krasnenkov, representative of the suffered party, to conduct interrogation of the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov in the form of a videoconference on April 28.

Today, Egle Kusaite, a citizen of Lithuania, accused of preparing a terror act in the territory of Russia, has filed a lawsuit with a demand to stop tapping her telephone conversations.

The leadership of the Lutheran Church of Finland has dismissed the Finnish pastor, doctor of theology Juha Molari for his criticism of the website "Kavkaz-Centre", which is close to the terrorist leader Dokku Umarov. Human rights activists from the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) offer Molari to move to Orthodoxy.

On Saturday, April 16, the Chechen Republic will mark the second anniversary of cancellation of the counterterrorist operation (CTO) regime, which had lasted in the republic for almost 10 years. This day is celebrated in Chechnya as the end of war; therefore, it is declared the Day of Peace. However, the official authorities and NGOs disagree in evaluation of this event.

Today, a trial has started in Finland on the case of illegal immigration of Chechen natives. One of the defendants in this case is Abdulkhamid Mechiev, 26, who identified himself as the brother of Shamil Basaev, field commander of Chechen militants. The court will announce its verdict on May 9.

During the first three months of this year, at least 468 persons suffered or became victims of the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus. Of them, 211 persons were killed and 257 injured. These are the results of calculations of the "Caucasian Knot", based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

A Finnish priest Yukha Molari against whom criminal proceedings were started for fomentation of interethnic strife by his severe attack upon "The Kavkaz Center" web-site supporting North-Caucasian gunmen considers it necessary to lay open to the public the names of the participants of this internet community.

Officials of the Ministry of Agriculture consider that that the process of mine clearing of the territory of Chechnya must be accelerated manifold. With the present-day speed of performing these works clearing agricultural and forest lands of Chechnya will take no less than one hundred years.

Parliamentary Assembly of Council of Europe (PACE) awarded the "Human Rights" prize to a Russian non-governmental organization "Committee Against Torture" of Nizhny Novgorod for investigations of crimes in Chechnya. The respective decision was officially announced on April, 12, within the framework of the spring session of the organization in Strasbourg.