RUSSIA-UN-BOUNDARY

Chechen women pass by a dividing safety boundary at Minutka square in Grozny, 15 April 2006. Security conditions that have previously prevented the UN refugee agency from working in Russia’s war-torn province of Chechnya have improved and the body would like to open its own office there as soon as possible, the head of the agency said here 11 April. AFP PHOTO / HASAN KAZIYEV