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The Week in Brief: June 4 - June 10, 2001

Parliamentary hearings on the situation of the disappeared and forcibly detained in Chechnya were held in the State Duma, the lower chamber of the Russian parliament. According to the presidential envoy for human rights in Chechnya, Vladimir Kalamanov, a total of 930 people are officially listed as missing in Chechnya.

Chechnya's deputy in the State Duma of the Russian Federation, Aslanbek Aslakhanov, said that he would resign if the human rights situation in Chechnya, which "was bad but now has become even worse", does not improve by fall.

Ten thousand Chechen refugees living in Ingushetia have signed a petition urging the international public to put pressure on Russian authorities to stop the war in Chechnya.

Local administration head of the village Gekhi-Chu Lema Idrisov was killed in the Urus-Martan district. Seventeen administration officials and six heads of village administrations have been killed in Chechnya since January.

Head of the Grozny district administration Shakhid Djamaldayev announced that following the murder of Lema Idrisov, three village administration officials handed in their resignations because of insufficient measures that would guarantee their personal security.

The pro-Russian Chechen government adopted a temporary provision regulating the stay of international non-governmental organizations (INO) in the republic. In addition to regular documents, INO representatives will have to carry copies confirming the corresponding international agreements and registration in the Russian Justice Ministry, and a permit, granted by the pro-Russian Chechen government, giving the right to take up humanitarian activity on the republic's territory.

The European Commission said it had earmarked additional 14.5 million euro for the victims of the conflict in Chechnya.

Dagestan's minister for information, national policy and foreign links Magomedsalikh Gusayev was injured when a plastic explosive device went off outside his house.

Almost 309,000 Chechens are currently living outside of their homes and have been officially registered as temporarily displaced persons, announced the head of the department for crisis situations of the Russian Ministry of Federation Affairs, Nationalities and Migration Policy, Vladimir Pavlenko.

According to the head of the pro-Russian Chechen administration Akhmad Kadyrov, heads of municipal, district and village authorities as well as religious leaders in Chechnya will receive personal arms which should improve their safety.

Lukman Madalov, head of the administration of village Valerik in the Achkhoy-Martan district, was shot dead in his house. His wife was seriously wounded during the incident.

Compiled by Prague Watchdog