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Representatives of the Danish Refugee Council explained to the displaced persons that they took such a step because they feared they would be likely denied access to refugee camps in the near future.

Several locals were reportedly detained in the course of the "purge".

The press release on the occasion reads that the draft suggests increasing pressure on Russia in such issues as human rights, a situation in Chechnya, media freedom, and cooperation in the cause of preservation of the environment.

Russian President's Commission on Human Rights is preparing materials on the problems of people displaced from the Chechen Republic to Ingushetia and will hand these documents over to the President.

We call your attention to the statement by Nikolay Khramov, secretary of the Russian Radicals movement, member of the Transnational Radical Party General Council, in connection with the 6 February terrorist act in the Moscow metro.

"The Union of Chechen Journalists expresses a stern protest against the informational war started by some Russian politicians through the central media against the Chechen people," reads the statement.

"We consider the hasty conclusions and accusations, which are exacerbating people's grief and suffering and provoking ethnic hatred and aggression in our society, to be blasphemy," reads the statement.

Gunmen attacked a group of Russian army servicemen in Grozny and blew up an armored vehicle in Achkhoy-Martan on February 9, leaving two servicemen killed and two injured.

On 8 February, refugees from Chechnya blocked a railway in the Austrian town of Gmuend for several hours as a sign of protest against possible deportation.

Participants opposed the closure of refugee camps planned for March 1. Over 200 refugees took part in the action. They still name lack of security guarantees in Chechnya as the main reason for them not to return.

The statement reads, in particular, "The European parliamentarians' initiative should be considered solely as a vivid demonstration of their distrust of Moscow's policy in Chechnya."

The statement reads, in particular, "Only a resolute change in the policy of the Russian leadership can bring peace and serenity to the Russian people."

46 civilians, including women and old people, were shot dead in the course of the police operation in the village of Noviye Aldy on 4 February 2000. 10 more people, including a one-year-old child, were shot down in residential areas of Grozny adjacent to the village.

Inmates are fed 3 times a day, with the Chechen Labor Ministry and the International Committee of the Red Cross supplying the full complement of foodstuffs.

The body of Major Khabilyayev was found in the morning of February 6 in Lisitsyna Street in Grozny's Oktyabrsky district, reported a spokesman for the Chechen Interior Ministry.