The International Helsinki Federation and the International Human Rights Federation has said in a report presented in Moscow by several groups that assurances by Russian authorities that "Chechnya has returned to a peaceful life is not the case in reality."
Chechnya continues to see daily armed clashes between separatist rebels and Russian forces six years after Moscow sent troops to the republic in October 1999 to re-establish control.
That followed Russia's defeat in a first war against separatist guerrillas in 1994-1996.
(AFP)
