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As head of the State Security Committee of the Republic of South Osetia Colonel Oleg Alborov declared, the fact that a special unit of Georgian Security Ministry troops entered the Georgian-Abkhazian conflict zone on December 11 is true.

At the monument to the founders of the city, they mounted a stand informing of human rights abuses in Russia.

The commission on women's, family and youth affairs has been created under the State Council of the Chechen Republic. The well-known teacher Napsat Yusupova is at the head of it.

According to one of the organizers, Vladimir Weissman of the International Helsinki Federation (IHF), the goal was to teach the proper way of writing applications to be filed with the European Court of Human Rights, the UN Human Rights Committee and other international bodies.

Members of the Nesehnuti public organization and the regional branch of Amnesty International organized a rally in front of the Russian Consulate in Czechia's second largest town of Brno on Thursday, December 11, to protest the arbitrary enforced actions taken against Chechen refugees in Ingushetia.

Reporters Without Borders calls on Ilham Aliev to change direction in his government's policies toward the news media and to carry out reforms that would facilitate the development of a free and independent press.

James Morris, head of the World Food Programme, said he had just agreed a new 18-month programme to deliver food to Chechen residents, schoolchildren and those displaced by the conflict into neighbouring Ingushetia.

Participants declared they would continue their struggle for human rights and were ready to resume the mass hunger strike. But this time they will do it throughout Krasnodar Territory, they said.

About 50 oppositionists held in Investigatory Isolation Ward 1 went on hunger strike last week, demanding that the authorities of the country meet recommendations by the OSCE on the non-admission of political persecution.

The information and analytical round table discussion "Mass Media in Stavropol Territory: Coverage of Interethnic Relations" took place at the Pyatigorsk Branch of the North Caucasian Academy of Public Service on November 27.

By human rights activists' preliminary estimate, the turnout did not reach even 1% of the displaced persons from Chechnya living in Ingushetia.

The Memorial Society kept and keeps on playing a noticeable part in the making of civil society in Russia.

The Pyatigorsk Garrison Court Martial pronounced sentence on the former head of the military hospital in Mozdok blown up by kamikaze terrorists.

NGO activists from Dagestan, Chechnya, Stavropol Territory, South and North Osetia discussed their plans of work for the next year, which includes human rights workshops and trainings for GRINGO Network in Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia, South and North Osetia.

According to preliminary information, the direct performers were three kamikaze women. Another woman is supposed to be an organizer, and the police are seeking for her now.