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A GAZ-53 truck with civilians going to pick damsons hit a landmine near the village of Assinovskaya on February 25.

About 50 people from the Oktyabrsky district of the Chechen capital Grozny, displaced by the Sunzha River overflowing in June 2002, held an unauthorized meeting on February 26 to demand compensation for their homes destroyed by the flood.

The text adopted on February 26 contains a call to the EU Member States to promote peace in Chechnya.

Only several dozens of tents are left in Bart, a camp for Chechen refugees situated in the Ingush town of Karabulak. Inhabitants of this temporary accommodation center leave the camp under pressure of the authorities.

The tent camps for refugees from Chechnya in Ingushetia will be liquidated in March, Deputy Head of the Chechen Interior Ministry's Migration Service Lema Bichuyev said to Interfax on February 28.

Timerlan Akhayev, an officer of the Chechen Interior Ministry, disappeared without a trace in Urus-Martan on February 23.

Families of Chechen refugees who departed for Chechnya from the Satsita tent camp the day before yesterday have been forsaken in the street in fact.

In her interview with the Interfax news agency, the chairwoman of the Moscow Helsinki Group expressed the opinion that negotiations with Chechen leader Aslan Maskhadov would barely resolve the conflict.

Nearly 8,000 retirees in Chechnya are unable to receive retirement benefits for which they are eligible, announced Bogdan Istamulov, deputy director of the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation for Chechnya.

The collection of signatures for the United Nations interim administration in Chechnya took place on Pushkinskaya Square in Moscow on February 21 and 22. The action was arranged by members of the Transnational Radical Party.

On February 23, about 4 thousand people held an authorized meeting in Dagestan. The main demand of its participants was that Akkinsky Chechens (Chechens who have originally been living in Dagestan) should be given their lands back and the Aukhovsky district of Dagestan should be restored.

Representatives of the republican interior ministry recommended refuges in categorical terms not to hold the action in the open air. The functionaries said such an action would be broken up by police.

The purpose of the demonstration was to express a protest against actions of the Russian army in Chechnya, against abductions and extrajudicial punishments of civilians there, and against the discrimination of Chechens by their ethnic belonging all over Russia.

The Center for Peacekeeping and Human Rights Actions jointly with the All-Tatar Public Center arranged a demonstration of films from the program of the international Chechnya Film Festival.

Liberal human rights defenders, former political prisoners, about twenty anarchists and Workers' Democracy members participated in the action.