INFORMATION CENTER OF THE SOCIETY OF RUSSIAN- CHECHEN FRIENDSHIP

Press release No. 358, February 11, 2003

Forests near the village Samashki were bombarded.

Prosthetic-Orthopedic Centre is opened in Grozny.

New Trade Committee building is under construction.

Forced disappearance in the village Urus-Martan.

Chechen people search their missing relatives.

Ramzan Dzabrailov and SRCF continue shared humanitarian help program.


Report from the Chechen Republic

Achkhoi-Martan district

Forests near the village Samashki were bombarded

On February 5, 2003 according to residents of Achkhoi-Martan, settlementsSamashki and Zakan-Yurt, at 10.00 p.m. forest belt along the road Baku- Rostov near the village Samashki was subject to bombardment.No information has come about victims or damage.

(From our correspondent.).

Grozny

Prosthetic-Orthopedic Centre is opened in Grozny


In Grozny Prosthetic-Orthopedic Centre that has been closed for the wartime functions again. At present only prosthetic department is working wherethere are 25 specialists. Prosthetic device and repair for invalids, whose number has greatly increased since the war started, is in charge of government. At the moment 1055 invalids who need top-priority aid are registered in the Centre. This year the centre is planning to produce 300 prosthetic devices. The government order is partly done. Orthopedicdepartment will be opened soon. But specialists are planning to startworking to the full in spring 2003.

(From our correspondent.).

New Trade Committee building is under construction

In the centre of Grozny in Lenin Avenue a building company "Aldy" has started constructing new trade Committee building, which will include a restaurant, a cafe, a confectionary and shops. In the nearest future Chechen citizens will have an opportunity to do shopping and just relax in a peculiar for its architecture building designed by local architects. All the works inside and outside are carried on according to European quality standards. Only top-quality materials are used.

(From our correspondent.).

Urus-Martan district

Forced disappearance in the village Urus-Martan

On February 2, 2003 at daytime in the suburbs of the village Urus-Martan from the local fodder production mill military men drove away in the unknown direction Zizaev Nokha Ramazanovich born in 1984 who lives in KalanchakskayaSt. As became known, Zizaev, invalid since childhood, was at his workingplace when soldiers in two APCs without state numbers broke the mill gates and drove into the yard. Having produced no documents, they beat Zizaev and his father with rifle butts. After that federals ordered Ramazan Zizaev to lie on the ground and forced his son inside the APC. To Ramazan's request why they had seized his son, federals answered that he should be checked in computer database, and in case he was not guilty, the man would be released. Nokha's relatives
have appealed to various institutions but still knownothing about their son's future.

(From our correspondent.).

Report from Ingushetia

Chechen people search their missing relatives

SRCF regional information centre in Ingushetia received new information about missing people. Relatives of the lost ask everybody who possesses useful data to assist in search.

On April 25, 2002 Gazaev Ramzan Khasanovich (1959), who lives in the village Borzoi of Shatoi district,left for the town Mozdok by his car "NivaVAZ2131" of the violet color and didn't return.

On April 26, 2002 Mansuraev Magomed Abdurakhmanovich (1960), who lives in the village Ulkhigoi of Shatoi district, went to Mozdok by his car"VAZ21212". Nothing has been heard of him since that time.

On May 25, 2002 unknown people in masks and camouflage droveaway in hispersonal car "VAZ21110" of the green-brown color Zubairaev Umar Amirivich. The missing person lived in Grozny in 1 Polyarnikov St. Relatives's appeals to district administration lead to no results.

On August 12, 2002 unknown people in masks and camouflage drove away from his house Guluev Ramzan Dzhalaevich, who lived in the Staropromyslovsky district of Grozny in 1 Mariupolskaya St. The search lasted for 5 months gave no results. Ramzan Dzabrailov and SRCF continue shared humanitarian help program. A well-known Moscow businessman Ramzan Dzhabrailov and SRCF regional department in Chechenya and Ingushetia continue their shared refugee humanitarian help program. At present Ramzan Dzhabrailov is buying 50 cows and 100 tons of flour. Meat and flour will be distributed by SRCF members among the forced Chechen migrants who live on the territory of Ingushetia and also among the needy Chechen citizens on the Muslim holiday Kurban-Bairam.

(From our correspondent.).

Editor in chief Stanislav Dmitriyevsky.
Editor of this edition Oksana Bazhina.
This edition has been put out with the support of The National Endowmentfor Democracy, as part of their "Russian-Chechen Information Partnership".
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