Pavel Lyuzakov, author of "Kavkaz-Center," released

On January 19, having served his complete sentence of two years at a general security corrective colony of the Nyrob settlement in the Perm Territory, Pavel Lyuzakov, permanent author of the "Kavkaz-Center" web-site of Chechen separatists and the editor of the "Svobodnoe Slovo" (Free Word) newspaper of the Democratic Union, got liberty. The correspondent of the "Caucasian Knot" has learnt about it from Mr. Lyuzakov's friends in the Democratic Union and Russian Movement for Independence of Chechnya.

Pavel Lyuzakov, permanent author of the "Kavkaz-Center" web-site of Chechen separatists, the editor of the "Svobodnoe Slovo" newspaper of the Democratic Union and co-editor of the "Separatist" newspaper of the Russian Movement for Independence of Chechnya, was detained by militia on January 20, 2005. During the check, a "TT" pistol was found on him and confiscated. Pavel and his supporters assert that prior to the detainment a man who cooperated with law enforcement bodies had sold him the combat pistol instead of a gas one. In his opinion, it was a pre-planned provocation, aimed at stopping Lyuzakov's journalist activities, who was a tough critic in his publications of the policies of Russian authorities in Chechnya and the entire country.