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The fate of the employee of the Grozny office of the International Red Cross Committee who was kidnapped in Chechnya by unidentified persons in summer of 2003 is still unknown.

On February 6, the first session on the case of a Russian officer, through whose fault the village of Starye Atagi in Grozny district, Chechnya, was shelled, started in Grozny garrison military tribunal.

During the period from 2000 to 2005, the courts of Stavropol Territory have considered 440 civil cases connected with compensation for damage to persons who suffered as a result of crisis in Chechnya.

On February 2, 2006, the Supreme Court of the Republic of Ingushetia completed the hearing of the case of Murad Iraklievich Margoshvili, a Chechen resident accused of crimes under Article 205, Part 3 (terrorism), Article 209, Parts 1, 2 (banditism), Article 222, Part 3 (Illegal acquisition, storage, transportation or wearing of arms and explosives), Article 223, Part 3 (Illegal manufacture of arms), Article 34, Part 3 (Illegal trade in hard or poisonous substances).

On February 3, a clean-up ("zachistka") was carried out in the Kotar-Yurt settlement of Achkhoi-Martan district, Chechnya.

The sentence given today to Stanislav Dmitrievskiy, human rights activist and journalist, has been commented on by Oleg Panfilov, director of the Centre of Extreme Journalism under the Union of Journalists.

On February 3, at 10 a.m. the court session on the case of Stanislav Dmitrievskiy, executive director of Russian-Chechen Friendship Society and chief editor of the "Pravozaschita" newspaper, started in Soviet district court of Nizhni Novgorod.

Officers of some law enforcement or security agencies conduct a so-called "targeted clean-up" in Giliany, Nozhai-Yurt district.

The Human Rights Centre Memorial receives information that beating and torture are used in Chechnya against a relative of applicants to the European Court of Human Rights.

Six Russian military men are killed and five are wounded in Chechnya on 16-17 January, according to a France-Presse source.

Mr Kadyrov once said that those who refused to come back to Chechnya were "criminals and terrorists," Prague Watchdog reports.

There is information that he has some fingers and toes broken and his kidneys injured and that he is currently in a very grave condition.

A 16-year-old boy is wounded because of the explosion of an unidentified device in Chechnya's Urus-Martan district.

Four contract soldiers are seriously wounded in a blast of a military truck in Chechnya's Nozhai-Yurt district.

A Mairtup, Kurchaloi district, resident is abducted in the republic.