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Russian servicemen rushed into houses, robbed and beat locals all night.

Increased centrifugal trends in Georgia along with Russia's increased activity in Transcaucasia make one recall the early 1990s. That time, this country, as a regional superpower, acted here as in an "area of its vital interests." Now the "country of unlearned lessons" is reviewing its path. Contributing to this cause, we present Memorial member Alexander Cherkasov's article "The lost Chegem" posted on Polit.Ru two months ago, to the 10th anniversary of the end of the Georgian-Abkhaz war.

A reference drawn up on the basis of monitoring the living conditions in refugee camps in Ingushetia, Russia, and "temporary accommodation points" in Grozny, Chechnya, Russia.

Erkan Mumcu emphasized that the showing of Ararat in Turkey was not prohibited after all. The matter concerns only the refusal of Belge Company to show the film in Turkey.

"Due to the fact that the international community has not recognized our state for already 10 post-war years and Russia, along with other CIS countries, has introduced sanctions against Abkhazia, people in the republic have no fundamental rights secured by the Declaration of Human Rights, including the right to leave Abkhazia and to return to it," thinks Lawyer Tsiza Gumba, a former deputy of the Abkhazian Parliament.

On January 15, the senior investigator of the Trusovsky District Prosecutor's Office of Astrakhan, Rashid Zhumgaliyev, brought a charge against Damir Batyrshin, former director general of Publishing House Media Prestizh Company, and Vladimir Nikonov, his deputy. The mentioned company published and distributed the Moskovsky Komsomolets in Astrakhan newspaper.

Chechen refugees living in the Bart tent camp in Karabulak, Ingushetia, were offered to leave the camp territory within 10 days.

President of Ingushetia Murat Zyazikov is going to Geneva to discuss issues concerning the return of internally displaced persons (IDPs) from Ingushetia to Chechnya.

In particular, the second meeting of working groups on security issues and a policy within the Geneva Process is designed for late February. This meeting was to be held in Tbilisi as early as the autumn of 2003, but it did not take place. The first meeting was held in Sukhum in the summer of 2003.

The open letter to Doctor Leonid Roshal reads, "The statement "of an eye-witness" you made yesterday that the terrorists [in the Theatre Center] on Dubrovka provoked a storm of the theatre and the use of homicidal gas is comparable in its shamelessness with President Putin's statement that "the gas was innocuous"."

Executive Director of the International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights Aaron Rhodes addressed an open letter to Prosecutor of the Republic of Ingushetia Magamet Belkhoroev in connection with the abduction of Khamzat Osmaev, a popular physical therapy practitioner.

We call your attention to the response of Leonid Roshal to Irina Khakamada's statement concerning the investigation into the storm of the Theatre Center on Dubrovka.

The EU High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP), Javier Solana, stated it at a press conference in Tbilisi on January 15.

Specific proposals concerning the forming of civil society institutions and environment which could help them to work more productively, as well as those concerning the development of interaction between authorities and civil society institutions were given at the presentation.