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In Ryazan on February 23, the 60th anniversary of the deportation of the Chechen people, the Sasovo human rights center Choice of Conscience and the Human Rights School attached to Ryazan's Memorial Society arranged a demonstration of films from the program of the international Chechnya Film Festival.

On February 23, after anarchists, antimilitarists and activists of the Ataka (Attack) movement had held an unauthorized picket against the war in Chechnya, some 30 people of the local branch of the Fascist organization Party of Freedom attacked them.

According to Rebecca Santana, Ruslan Sopakhanov, a resident of the Chechen Republic, worked with her for four days as a driver helping her collect information.

On February 23, the anniversary of Stalin's deportation of the Chechens and Ingushetians to Central Asia and West Siberia in 1944, a rally was held at Namesti Miru Square in Prague.

Russians - mostly Chechens - were easily the top asylum-seeking nationality in 2003, with a total of 33,400 (data from 29 rather than the full 36 industrialized countries), announced the UN refugee agency.

Today, February 25, a press conference of Olivier Dupuis, the Radical Member of the European Parliament, is to be held at the conference hall of the European Parliament.

Altogether 3,851 phone calls were received by Echo Moskvy Radio for 5 minutes of the survey.

The leaders of the Russian national organizations For Human Rights and Russian Radicals, Lev Ponomaryov and Nikolai Khramov, have been released from the Kitay-Gorod police station.

He told it in the interview published by Chechen separatists' Internet agency Kavkaz-Center.

Lechi Sardalov, Mate Tsekhisashvili, Madina, Magomadova, Ruslan Badalov, Zargan Makhadjiyev are among those human rights activists who went on hunger strike.

"We have repeatedly emphasized that voluntariness must be the fundamental principle of the return of displaced persons from Ingushetia to Chechnya," said Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Yuri Fedotov.

OMON (special tasks police platoon) fighters, who had been given notice in advance, came to the place of the action in 10 buses, as well as police detachments and ambulance cars.

The Moscow Mayor's Office banned the meeting to commemorate victims of the war, to protest against it, and to urge a political settlement of the Russian-Chechen conflict that was planned to be held at the memorial stone on Lubyanskaya Square in Moscow on February 23.

Refugees believe they are simply being forced to leave Ingushetia by the deliberate worsening of their living conditions.

"Whatever sphere of the Russian social life we take (not to mention the developments in Chechnya), everywhere we witness the growth of overt violations of fundamental rights," reads the statement.