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Seventy-two thousand people in the republic have heart diseases, including 1,300 children.

Two dead bodied are found in Grozny and two police officers are killed by a blast.

People from the Russian-Chechen Friendship Society receive new threats of physical violence.

Two servicemen are wounded as a result.

A resident of Chechnya is abducted in the republic.

Official Refugee figures are about twice as low, however.

Blasts kill one and wound five servicemen in the republic.

A court rules against Kommersant newspaper in a retrial of its case over an interview with ex-leader of Chechen separatists <a href="http://eng.kavkaz.memo.ru/persontext/engperson/id/560900.html" target="_blank">Rights defenders stripped of funds</a>Aslan Maskhadov</a>.</p>

Officials deny Mr Basayev's <a href="http://eng.kavkaz.memo.ru/newstext/engnews/id/851521.html" target="_blank">statement</a>, while security officers treat it more seriously.

He says special services contributed to the preparation of the terrorist act in Beslan.

They are sure that officials shuffle numbers of people abducted in Chechnya.

An article by Sarah Mendelson and Fiona Hill dealing with the crisis of the North Caucasus.

A tax agency is seizing funds from accounts of the Russian-Chechen Friendship Society.

The condition of citizens of Chechnya has worsened over the past year, say human rights defenders.

Witnesses say the terrorists did not plan to keep hostages for longer than one week.