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The Board of Chechen Refugees in Azerbaijan has addressed Mr. Anthoniu Gutterish, UN High Commissioner for Refugees, to draw attention of the international community to the "trend of serious aggravation of situation with Chechen refugees in Azerbaijan.

Journalists' investigation of Anna Politkovskaya's murder "committed in February will be full-scale unfolded," Dmitri Muratov, Editor-in-Chief of the "Novaya Gazeta" newspaper, has stated on live air of the "Echo Moskvy" Radio Station.

Today, the International Department of the Committee Against Tortures has lodged a complaint to the European Court for Human Rights on behalf of Aslan Dovletukaev, a resident of Chechnya.

Investigation of the case on the fight near the "Chaika" restaurant in Kondopoga is over, Piotr Klemeshev, deputy public prosecutor of Karelia has stated.

Today, a source in the law enforcement bodies of Chechnya has reported that a militiaman with a gunshot wound has been brought to a hospital in Grozny.

Today, the "Interfax" was told at the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) that Chechnya has broken the age record among the participants of illegal armed formations (IAF), who have voluntarily surrendered to the law enforcement bodies.

Last Monday, a member of illegal armed formations gave himself up to the standby unit of the Grozny District Interior Department ("ROVD").

The Karelia prosecutor's office has accused of murder two residents of Chechnya who took part in a mass fight in the city of Kondopoga which resulted in ethnic-based disturbances in the city at the beginning of September.

A gene-molecular examination has confirmed that the remains of the terrorist liquidated in Ingushetia that were delivered for investigation belong exactly to Shamil Basaev.

In 2006, about 380 former militants have got back to peaceful life in Chechnya, Alu Alkhanov, president of the Republic, has reported this fact to the press conference.

On December 23, the city of Grozny, capital of Chechnya, was the presentation venue of a new non-governmental organization named "Mir" (Peace).

On Wednesday, December 20, the deputies of the Russian parliament refused to ratify Protocol No. 14 to the Convention on Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, which forms the basis for operation of the European Court for Human Rights in Strasbourg.

An officer from the Chechnya military kommandatura (commandants' office) thinks that a mere mistake could be the most probable cause of the incident in the Achkhoj-Martan District that resulted in death of two peaceful residents.

On Thursday, December 21, the North-Caucasian Regional Military Court interrogated six victims in the case of the group special fighters ("spetsnaz") under command of captain Eduard Ulman accused of murdering six peaceful Chechens in 2002.

The law enforcement bodies of Chechnya are investigating the fact of perishing in the mountains of two residents of the Achkhoi-Martan District who were shot dead on Wednesday night in a dense forest 15 kilometres from the dwelling settlement Chozhi-Chu.