Below is an article published by People’s Daily Online:

The European Commission has approved a 17.5-million-euro (23-million-U.S.-dollar) humanitarian aid package to support victims of the conflict in Chechnya, Russia.

The recipients will include people driven from their homes by the conflict and vulnerable groups in Chechnya, as well as displaced people in Ingushetia and Dagestan, and Chechen refugees in Azerbaijan and Georgia, said the commission, the executive body of the European Union (EU), on Wednesday.

Assistance will be in the form of protection, shelter, income-generation activities, health, water and sanitation, psycho-social assistance and education on the risk of mines, it said.

Although the conflict in Chechnya has receded, humanitarian needs remain acute, the European Commission said.

Some 180,000 people, almost one quarter of the population, continue to be internally displaced. Many of them are returnees have come back from Ingushetia over the past few years but could not go home because their houses were destroyed during the conflict.

Outside Chechnya, around 20,000 people are still displaced in Ingushetia and some 7,000 in Dagestan. In addition, some 2,800 refugees currently reside in Azerbaijan, as well as 1,800 in Georgia, most of them living in dire conditions.