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The prisoners kept in the Corrective Colony No. 2, situated in the Chechen village of Chernokozovo, have announced a hunger strike, a relative of one of the Colony inmates told today to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

Jane Armstrong, a Canadian journalist and correspondent of the "Globe and Mail" newspaper, has been deported from Chechnya.

The Council of Europe is grateful to Ingushetia for rendering assistance to refugees from the Chechen Republic. This was declared yesterday, on April 22, in the city of Magas by Thomas Hammerberg, CE's Commissioner for Human Rights.

Notary Fail Sadretdinov, who had been accused of complicity in murder of Paul Khlebnikov, editor-in-chief of Russian Forbes, has been acquitted today by the Moscow City Court.

The "Kommersant" newspaper reports that over 300 privates and officers of the "Vostok" special battalion of the Ministry of Defence, commanded by Sulim Yamadaev, who is in conflict with President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov, decided to pass over for service in Chechen militia units.

The Prosecutor's Office of Chechnya has initiated three criminal cases in connection with the attack on the Ombudsman's representative and two armed collisions in the Vedeno District (south of Chechnya).

The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Chechnya is revolted with the statements about the Chechen militia, made yesterday, on April 18, by Sulim Yamadaev, commander of the "Vostok" (East) battalion.

Northern Caucasus remains one of the poorest Russian regions from the viewpoint of respect of human rights. This is the conclusion of the report entitled "Situation in Northern Caucasus. Autumn 2007 - Spring 2008" of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", prepared for the regular round of EU-Russia consultations on human rights that took place on April 16 in Ljubljana.

Today, the jury has acquitted Victor Vysokikh, deputy head of the Public Security Militia of Karelia, accused of professional negligence in relation to mass disorders in Kondopoga in 2006.

The cooperation of the authorities of the Chechen Republic with human rights activists is not thus efficient as could be expected after the meeting on February 22 of President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov with representatives of the Human Rights Centre "Memorial".

Parliamentarians of the Chechen Republic ask Anatoly Serdyukov, Russian Minister of Defence, to disband the "Vostok" (East) special purpose battalion, or to replace its commander Sulim Yamadaev.

Representatives of human rights and public organizations of Chechnya demand to make accountable the special-purpose battalion of the GRU named "Vostok" (East), which took part in the conflict with the guards of Ramzan Kadyrov, President of Chechnya that burst out in Gudermes.

In the memorandum published on April 15, the committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe for observance of human rights in Northern Caucasus has recognized the situation with human rights in the region to be "very disturbing".

Today, the photo of the supposed murderer of Anna Politkovskaya, journalist of the "Novaya Gazeta" was published; apparently, this is Rustam Makhmudov, 34, a native of the Achkhoy-Martan District of Chechnya.

In the evening on April 10, a picket was held in the Pushkin Square of Moscow in memory of the victims of the "zachistka" (clean-up) committed by Russian troops in the Chechen village of Samashki on April 7 and 8, 1995, during which over one hundred residents were killed.