The Human Rights Centre Memorial receives information that beating and torture are used in Chechnya against a relative of applicants to the European Court of Human Rights.

The Moscow Helsinki Group chair denies allegations of its being involved in espionage against Russia.

One police officer is killed and another one is wounded in the capital of Dagestan, Makhachkala.

Another resident of the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria, Zaur Pshigotyzhev, has gone missing, unofficial sources say.

Mr Rasul Kudayev, the former Guantanamo Bay prisoner, is found not to be in the White Swan prison in Piatigorsk, Stavropol territory.

Amnesty International regrets that President Putin has approved amendments to laws regulating NGO operation in Russia.

No witness comes to the Kulayev trial, including Ingush ex-president Ruslan Aushev and businessman Mikhail Gutseriyev.

There were around 25 killings and more than 200 assaults on an ethnic basis last year, says a human rights defender.

Six Russian military men are killed and five are wounded in Chechnya on 16-17 January, according to a France-Presse source.

Mr Kadyrov once said that those who refused to come back to Chechnya were "criminals and terrorists," Prague Watchdog reports.

There is information that he has some fingers and toes broken and his kidneys injured and that he is currently in a very grave condition.

Andrei Gagloyev, commander of the engineering troops of the 58th army, gives evidence at the Beslan attack case trial.

Rasul Kudayev accused of taking part in the 13 October 2005 events in Kabardino-Balkaria is kept in a prison in Piatigorsk, Stavropol territory.

Parents of rebels killed on 13 October 2005 ask Kabardino-Balkaria's Prosecutor Yuri Ketov for an opportunity to make certain that their sons' bodies are safe.

A 16-year-old boy is wounded because of the explosion of an unidentified device in Chechnya's Urus-Martan district.

Four contract soldiers are seriously wounded in a blast of a military truck in Chechnya's Nozhai-Yurt district.

The Beslan Voice public organisation makes a statement demanding that some federal officials give evidence and even prove their innocence.

A Mairtup, Kurchaloi district, resident is abducted in the republic.

Mr Dzasokhov claims that there was no information about a terrorist act planned in the republic.

The International Helsinki Federation is concerned about increasingly frequent cases of torture with respect to residents of Ingushetia.