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"This is the only question the Georgian authorities are ready to discuss with Abashidze," said, a leader of the ruling bloc United National Movement - Democrats.

Chechen journalist Timur Aliyev has become a laureate of the 2003 Artyom Borovik Award, instituted by the New York-based Overseas Press Club of America.

Commenting on the incident, David Berdzenishvili, a Georgian MP and a leader of the Our Adjaria movement, blamed the leadership of the Adjarian interior ministry for the beating of the opposition activists.

"The law provides for clear rights and obligations of the organizers of and participants in public actions, it regulates authorities of the police and empowered organ, as well as the grounds and procedure for stopping the actions," said the Armenian Minister of Justice.

Aslan Abashidze bought a large consignment of arms from Russian arsenals from Zviadists [followers of Zviad Gamsakhurdia] in 1994, and this armament is in the hands of General Dumbadze now.

"The autonomy's authorities are ready to defend constitutional order in Adjaria and the republican population," head of Adjaria Aslan Abashidze said.

"According to our information, people will be leaving the tent city more actively at the end of May. This is for objective human reasons: children will finish their school year, and it's also more convenient to move in the summer," Igor Yunash, first deputy head of the Russian Federal Migration Service, said.

Gunmen in masks rushed into the house of the deputy editor of the Marsho newspaper and demanded that the newspaper stop publishing articles containing negative information about the process of paying compensations for lost housing and property to residents of Chechnya.

The ships stay on the territory of the yacht-club without crews. The yacht-club is situated right in front of the residence of Adjarian leader Aslan Abashidze, and his leader reinforced guard defend it.

"If the power doesn't respond to our demands by May 4, we will undertake resolute actions," said Aram Sargsian.

"No one will tolerate the existence of a feudal microstate within Georgia," Georgian Interior Minister Georgy Baramidze emphasized.

They accused President of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili of taking aggressive actions against the autonomy's leadership and demanded that the confrontation between the center and the region be resolved in a peaceful way.

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has been working in Dagestan for almost 10 years. ICRC employees, Zumrat Magomedova and Luisa Khazhgeriyeva, told the media workers what had been done for this period.

More than 50 people representing public and religious organizations, ethnic minorities of Russia's South, and government took part in the conference "The Role of Human Rights Organizations in Normalizing Interethnic Relations and Overcoming Xenophobia in the South Federal District". The Commission on Human Rights in Krasnodar Region was among them.

Aliaskhab from the village of Miatli was tortured by putting ice on his head, which created a center of brain fever, he said. Aliaskhab went mad after it, and blew up himself when he was set free. The mother of Khanali Umakhanov asserts that her son lost his reason not having stood the torture which he was subjected to during the investigation.