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Muzhakhoyeva was found guilty of attempting to commit a terrorist act near the Imbir restaurant in 1st Tverskaya-Yamskaya Street in the heart of Moscow on July 10, 2003. Then, a FSB bomb disposal expert Sergey Trofimov was killed by the bomb.

The military assert that the killed bodyguard of Basayev, Abubakar Visimbayev, was directly connected with the terrorist act in the Theatre Center "Nord-Ost" in Moscow.

"I can assert with all due responsibility that no one in the federal center or the Chechen administration will negotiate with Maskhadov," Akhmat Kadyrov said.

Special operations units of the federal forces and the Vostok battalion under the command of Sulim Yamadayev are conducting an operation to detain separatist leader Aslan Maskhadov in the southern part of Chechnya.

The peculiarity of the action was the increase in the number of its participants due to members of the youth movement Yabloko and supporters of the Democratic Russia party, reorganized on the initiative of Yuli Ribakov.

Recent researches display that in spite of assurances by the Russian leadership about stabilization of the situation in Chechnya, mass human rights violations, such as torture, forcible disappearances and extrajudicial executions are going on there.

Law enforcement officers discovered a repeater that militants used to broadcast their speeches on television.

Militant leaders' messenger has surrendered to the law enforcement bodies in Chechnya, reported the joint press center of the Regional Headquarters on the Counter-terrorist Operation in the North Caucasus.

Many residents of the republic hold that recently, Kadyrov's people have been actively introducing the practice to take relatives of Chechen commanders hostages compelling those commanders to "voluntarily give themselves up" for the sake of saving their close people's lives.

The 2004 Martin Ennals Award for Human Rights Defenders (MEA) ceremony is to take place in Geneva on April 7. This year's MEA goes to Lida Yusupova, head of the Grozny Office of the Human Rights Center Memorial.

Over 10 students at the Ingush State University who participated in a meeting at the Government House in Magas recently, have been reprimanded by the university administration. The Caucasian Knot correspondent learnt it from one of the university students.

Outstanding human rights activist Elena Boner, widow of Academician Andrey Sakharov, holds Vladimir Putin is in fault for the Chechen war on the Russian part, and Akhmat Kadyrov is in fault for it on the Chechen part.

Federal forces and the Chechen president's security service carried out several special operations in the mountains and the forests to arrest members of bandit formations who were preparing large-scale terrorist attacks both in and outside of Chechnya.

Achishvili, Muskhanov and the Chalayev brothers, members of illegal armed groups who are now in custody, committed several acts of terrorism against federal servicemen.

Main efforts of the agencies engaged in problems of the return of IDPs [internally displaced persons] to Chechnya have been aimed at the liquidation of the Satsita tent camp since 2 April.