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A group of Russian human rights defenders, headed by Chairwoman of the Russian President's Commission on Human Rights Ella Pamfilova, arrived in the North Caucasus for a working visit on January 29.

On January 27, the UN delegation headed by UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Jan Egeland visited the camp of Chechen refugees Satsita, situated on the outskirts of the Ordzhonikidzevskaya village in Ingushetia.

Highlands and woodlands lying on the border between Chechnya's Achkhoy-Martan and Urus-Martan districts were battered on the night of January 27-28.

Last year a group of members of the European Parliament awarded the "Passport for Freedom" to Akhmed Zakayev, Minister of Culture in the Chechen government of President Maskhadov, shortly after the Danish authorities had rejected the application for extradition made by the Russian Federation.

Sad results of the incident that took place in the district center of Shali on January 20 are being reckoned in Chechnya. Then the northwestern outskirts of the town were shelled with missiles from a helicopter.

Khamzat Osmayev, the known Chechen doctor and body-builder abducted from his consulting room in the village of Pliyevo on January 12, was found in Ingushetia's Sunzhensky district.

The open letter reads, "I would obviously be very glad to be able to meet you to discuss whether, and in what way, you can contribute to restore hope to the Chechens and dignity to Europe, with respect, at least, to more specifically humanitarian questions."

"Ecological conditions in Chechnya today are very bad, which is a result of the hostilities," Aleksandr Cherkasov, an activist of the Human Rights Center "Memorial", said in Strasbourg.

There are 12 thousand IDPs from the zone of the Georgian-Osetian conflict among them and 250 thousand IDPs from Abkhazia. 3 thousand refugees from Chechnya are living in Georgia today too.

District police departments of Grozny plan to hold a joint action soon to deport Tajik Gypsies from the territory of the Chechen Republic.

At the end of 2003, the Shamayev father and son were detained by officers of Russian security agencies on the road leading to Molsovkhoz 15 and taken away in an unknown direction.

A local Tazbiyev was killed by officers of Russian security agencies in the course of the so called "address purges" in the village of Tsotsin-Yurt, Chechnya's Kurchaloy district, on January 26.

A local Khamzayev and his near relation were captured by gunmen in masks and camouflage in the village of Berkat-Yurt, Chechnya's Grozny (rural) district, on January 25.

The bomb was detonated via a distance-control device under an armored vehicle carrying interior troops.

Poligrafkombinat Company in Nazran refused to print a regular number of the Chechen Society newspaper. The director of the printing house, Suleiman Kostoev, motivated his refusal by saying that the newspaper raised the topic of possible unification of Chechnya and Ingushetia.