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Two residents of Shelkovskaya in Chechnya will be paid 300,000 rubles each within a few days for having alerted special services to the presence of a notorious separatist field commander and mastermind of terror attacks, Abubakar Visimbayev, in their village.

Fifteen years ago, elements of the Soviet Army dispersed thousands of activists of the national movement who had gathered for a peaceful meeting on Rustaveli Avenue in the heart of Tbilisi.

According to the military, the operation to destroy Saidov, who was Shamil Basayev's subordinate, was conducted by the special operations battalion Vostok under the command of Sulim Yamadayev.

Two other officers received wounds of different severity.

"There is no force which can make a sovereign state change its internal policy, except for international tribunal," said the Moscow director for Human Rights Watch.

"We have no information that Mikhail Sergeevich is going to visit Georgia," Vladimir Polyakov said on April 8.

The Moslem community of Dagestan has succeeded in canceling Boris Moiseyev's concerts on the territory of the republic.

The captured people were released after the regular quadripartite meeting in the village of Chuburkhindzhi in the Gali district on April 8.

The international court in Strasbourg announced its decision on April 8 that Tengiz Asanidze, former mayor of Batumi and a former deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the autonomous republic, should be released.

Human rights groups have recently documented a number of "disappearances," summary executions, and attacks against civilians in both Chechnya and Ingushetia.

Muzhakhoyeva was found guilty of attempting to commit a terrorist act near the Imbir restaurant in 1st Tverskaya-Yamskaya Street in the heart of Moscow on July 10, 2003. Then, a FSB bomb disposal expert Sergey Trofimov was killed by the bomb.

The All-Georgian Association for the Defense of Human Rights expressed a protest against the visit of former president of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev to Tbilisi designed for April 9. The organization demanded that the Georgian law-enforcement agencies arrested him.

The military assert that the killed bodyguard of Basayev, Abubakar Visimbayev, was directly connected with the terrorist act in the Theatre Center "Nord-Ost" in Moscow.

Speaker Murtuz Alekserov said the border opening could deal a serious blow to the relations between Azerbaijan and Turkey.

"Asanidze is not a politician or important figure, but he is still being held in prison in defiance of all judicial norms and procedures. We will not allow that a man be illegally held in custody in a Georgian region," the Georgian President said to journalists.