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Today, Ramzan Kadyrov has officially entered the post of the president of the Chechen Republic. Many people in Chechnya are positively assessing Kadyrov's activities in his position, however, there are many of those who stick to a different point of view.

The prosecutor has demanded to recognize all the defendants in the Ulman's case guilty and sentence them to deprivation of freedom for the term from 18 to 23 years.

On Tuesday, the North-Caucasian District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don completed hearing evidences of the accusation party at the trial of interior officers Khudyakov and Arakcheev accused of murdering peaceful residents of Chechnya on January 15, 2003.

The authorities of Chechnya are preparing an application to the president of Russia with a request to help to find three thousand missing residents of the Republic.

A moral and material damage compensation claim worth more than 4.6 million roubles was lodged today by the persons who were injured at the Grozny-Moscow train explosion in summer of 2005, Valery Prilepskiy, advocate of one of the defendants, has reported.

The Court has rejected the petition of the defence of Eduard Ulman, who is accused of executing local residents in 2002 in the vicinity of the Chechen village of Dai whom he found in a car, to subject the defendants to an additional forensic psychological examination.

A couple of days are left till Ramzan Kadyrov's inauguration. Today, foreign newspapers write that this day will become the mourning day for all human rights activists in the world. In their opinion, a man involved in many crimes is becoming the official leader of Chechnya.

Ulman's advocate Roman Krzhechkovskiy insists on an additional psychological examination of the defendants. He has lodged a respective petition today to the North-Caucasian Regional Military Court in Rostov-on-Don.

The leadership of Chechnya has categorically disapproved the initiative of the European Parliament to send a commission to the Chechen Republic for studying the situation in the region. This was declared by Dukvakha Abdurakhmanov.

"After all the years of out studies of torture cases, we now have got an idea why they exist in Russia. However, we have no answer to the question how often tortures are applied to people," with these words Igor Kalyapin, chairman of the Nizhniy Novgorod regional public organization "Committee against Tortures," started his press conference in Moscow.

On February 28, the Committee against Tortures held a joint sitting with the power structures of the Chechen parliament.

Local observers find the statement disseminated by a number of mass media on behalf of former fighters of the "Gorets" FSB's special detachment (where Movladi Baisarov, who was killed several months ago in Moscow, was the commander) on their complicacy in the murder of journalist Anna Politkovskaya to be a pure disinformation.

On Tuesday, the Kondopoga City Court announced its verdict on the case of beating the workers of the "Chaika" restaurant, after which pogroms had burst out in the city against the natives from the Caucasus.

On Tuesday, mass media made public a new version of Anna Politkovskaya's death.

Nurdi Nukhazhiev, Chechen ombudsman, has made a statement today that the inactivity of military courts is the cause of repeated cases of execution by militaries of peaceful residents of Chechnya.