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Some Chechen public leaders would like to meet with Malik Saidullaev, a candidate for president of the republic who also ran in 2003, to discuss ways to make the upcoming election "clean and honest."

Bislan Gantamirov, former deputy prime minister of Chechnya, is going to lodge papers to the local electoral commission to run for president of the Chechen Republic.

The Chechen-Ingush community of Samara held a protest meeting on June 10 demanding that abuses on an ethnic basis should be stopped and seeking protection from the Russian president.

Below is a full-text version of a statement addressed to leaders of a number of Georgian NGOs by the Abkhaz Women Association alarmed with some developments in South Ossetia and Abkhazia.

Vagarshak Arutyunian, the member of the political council of the opposition party Anrapetutiun (Republic) and former Armenian defense minister, was released from custody after giving a written undertaking not to leave a place.

3,293 incidents when people fell victims to mine and UXO explosions, including 2,553 cases of injuries, have been registered in Chechnya since 1995, according to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in the Russian Federation.

Miriam Yevikova, a Slovak citizen who worked for the Organization for Aid to Refugees (OPU), disappeared on the way from Pyatigorsk to Vladikavkaz on June 1, reported Dmitry Grushkin, a representative of the Memorial Human Rights Center.

"The active PR-campaign to promote Alkhanov that has been launched both in the Chechen and Russian media indicates that the Kremlin has made its choice," said a 37-year-old teacher at the Chechen State University.

The 31-year-old field commander killed yesterday, Nashkho Khamzatkhanov, was wanted for membership in illegal armed units for several years.

44 Ural military trucks passed through the Kavkaz post on the Rostov-Baku federal route on June 10. They moved from the direction of the village of Ordzhonikidzevskaya, Ingushetia's Sunzha district, to Chechnya.

Chechen non-governmental organizations engaged in IDPs' problems report on approximately 1,000 people still living in canvas tents on the territory of different places of compact residence.

Residents from different districts of the republic started arriving at Tsentoroy, the ancestral village of the Kadyrov family, in the morning of June 10.

Over 20 representatives of Chechen human rights organizations and pubic movements attended the conference.

Vagarshak Arutyunian was arrested on the night of April 12-13, when interior troops used force to disperse a demonstration on Bagramian Avenue in Yerevan.

The leader of the Public Court human rights group, Valery Krasnobrizhev, was arrested in the prosecutor's office of Krasnodar's Central District on June 5.