Yesterday the European Commission allotted 9.5 million euro to help people suffered as a result of the conflict in Chechnya.

A round table discussion initiated by the Krasnodar city administration was held at the Center of National Cultures in Krasnodar, with leaders of national communities and cultural associations being its participants.

The Juvenile Center has opened in Rostov. The idea of creating such a center appeared when the regional branch of the Judicial Department launched the "Facilitating Justice Towards Minors" Project.

We call your attention to some extracts from the statement by the organization "Southern Wave".

"Participants reached the agreement to join efforts in their struggle against the ruling power," the DPA spokesman said.

The operations headquarters keeps on receiving information from locals, saying that rebels divided into small groups are circling in the Tsuntinsky district.

The Swiss Parliament passed a resolution on Tuesday, December 16, recognizing mass killings of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire during the First World War as genocide.

Four young men were captured and taken in an unknown direction by unknown gunmen in masks and camouflage in the village of Chiri-Yurt, Chechnya's Shali district.

The discussion club that has been founded in Nagorny Karabakh recently is going to hold its second meeting on December 18. The theme will be "Democracy: Problems and Outlook".

The feature film is called "May the Lord Help Us". Sofa Agumaa, Violet Maan, Zaira Ermolova, and Shalva Gitsba are acting in it.

The international conference "Peaceful and Legal Resolution of the Chechen Problem" addressed a special open appeal to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, President of the European Parliament Pat Cox and President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe Peter Schieder.

The picture "Festival on the Roadside" is about children in whose fates the war in Chechnya has left its trace.

Humanitarian aid will be send to tent camps in Ingushetia, schools and orphan's homes in Chechnya on the eve of New Year's Day within the framework of the action "Gifts from Santa Claus".

The Project of Peacemaking Process in the Region Covering Armenia, Azerbaijan and Nagorny Karabakh has been drawn out as a result of the meeting between public figures of Armenia, Azerbaijan and Nagorny Karabakh in Dortmund. The meeting was arranged and sponsored by the Kettering Foundation, the U.S.

The book includes selected pamphlets, satirical and critical articles published in 1988-2002 in Moscow and Kuban regional editions partly under the author's own name and partly under the pseudonyms "Heinrich Korbes, rat-catcher" (simply "Heinrich Korbes" sometimes) and "Angelica Kozobrod".

The main sitting will be held in the Scottish capital of Edinburgh on December 17-20, where the delegations of the three South Caucasian countries will discuss urgent regional problems.

Tsuntinsky district administration deputy head on public security Khizri Labayev has reported it today.

The amnesty will apply not only to those people who are imprisoned now but also to those - there are about 150 of them, according to some data - who have been hiding in the forests of western Georgia for all these years.

"Nine years have passed since the criminal Russian leadership scorned all the rules and norms of international law and committed direct military aggression against the independent Chechen state," reads the appeal.

At the end of November 2003, the Human Rights Center "Memorial" received the following information about killed civilians who were proclaimed to be rebels.