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Chechen refugees temporarily living in the Pankisi Gorge will not welcome being unceremoniously transported to Russia like bandits, and their response to any illegal action may be "unpredictable", head of the Chechen International Human Rights Committee Aslanbek Abdurzakov told journalists on February 6.

Ms Politkovskaya also noted that at present they "do not load refugees onto carts, as it was in 1944", in order to forcibly evict them. "The first means is to cut off gas supply, and one will not be able to live in a tent for long. The other means is to constantly seize people they plan to evict," the journalist said.

Chechnya's President Akhmat Kadyrov said February 6 he shared the grief over the terrorist act in the Moscow metro, but he believed at the same time that statements fanning ethnic tensions were incorrect even in that situation.

"We do not need indirect evidence. We know for sure that Maskhadov and his bandits are connected with this terror," said the President.

We call your attention to the statement by the president and government of the unrecognized Chechen Republic of Ichkeria.

First Deputy Head of the Federal Migration Service Militia Major-General Yunash announced it at a news briefing on February 5.

Manifestations for the establishment of the United Nations Interim Administration in Chechnya will be held in some European capitals, including Moscow, on February 23.

Ingush President Murat Zyazikov and Russian Minister for Chechnya Stanislav Ilyasov met in Magas to discuss the return of refugees from Ingushetia to Chechnya.

In opinion of Oleg Orlov, head of the Memorial human rights center, the European parliamentarians' initiative is a vivid demonstration of their distrust of Moscow's policy in Chechnya.

The Union of Russian Committees of Soldier's Mothers has notified the Russian Ministry of Justice of its intention to found a political party.

The Defense Ministry's group in Chechnya has been reduced from 53,000 to 31,000 servicemen, with 20,000 of them being stationed there permanently.

Internally displaced persons (IDPs) who temporary live in Ingushetia filed no complaint with the Ingush ombudsman's office in 2003.

Large-scale special operations have been conducted in the Kurchaloy district of the republic for several days without a break.

An explosive device was allegedly found in the house of Movsar Dagalayev, which served as a ground for his detention. But the man's relatives insist the device was put stealthily by the servicemen themselves.

Russian servicemen came in an UAZ car and armored troop carriers to the village and abducted three locals there.