On November 27, the direction of Bailovsky Investigatory Isolation Ward 1 did not allow Lawyer Samed Panakhov to see his client - Yeni Musavat Newspaper Editor-in-Chief Rauf Arifoglu, who has been kept under arrest there for over a month being charged with organization of mass riots.

Malcolm Bruce, Chairperson of the PACE Sub-Committee on Penal Law and Criminology, will meet representatives of Azerbaijan governing bodies and non-government human rights organizations.

Commander of the Joint Group of Forces in the North Caucasus Valery Baranov disclosed it.

The Interchurch Peace Council is going to appoint a permanent representative to the "Helsinki Initiative - 92" committee of Nagorny Karabakh.

Earlier the Russian Foreign Minister stated Russia has recognized the independence and territorial integrity of Georgia and does recognize it now. "It is Russia's position of principle, and there have been no changes in it," stressed Mr. Ivanov.

Idris Kadyrov, 50, was brutally killed in the Vedeno district of Chechnya. He was an agent of Aslan Zavgayev, a candidate for the State Duma in Chechnya's single-mandate constituency.

The President of Russia put forward a proposal to the Federation Council to extend the time of presence of the Russian contingent that is a part of the CIS Peacekeeping Forces in the Georgian-Abkhazian conflict zone.

The Fair Elections non-government organization expresses indignation about the fire on the flat of Lyuba Eliashvili, an Iberiya TV Company journalist and television presenter, and demands that appropriate bodies immediately react to this fact.

The explosion damaged the Ural truck of the Shali police carrying officers from Altai Territory, who were on detachment in the North Caucasus.

The Abkhazian delegation is led by Foreign Minister Sergey Shamba.

The conference was arranged by Scandinavian support committees for Chechnya. Delegates of the conference were activists of analogous committees from 15 European countries, as well as journalist Anna Politkovskaya and First Deputy Foreign Minister of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria Usman Ferzauli.

6.1% of the population in the Republic of Nagorny Karabakh are disabled people, according to the data for the first six months of 2003. Most of them became disabled as a result of hostilities on the territory of Nagorny Karabakh. But people who have been disabled since childhood also make a considerable part of them.

The public forum "Development of Social Partnership in Russian Regions" started in Rostov on November 25.

On October 18, 2003, at about 5 p.m., Lom-Ali Makalov, a local villager, was mortally wounded in the yard of his house (10 Verkhnyaya Street) in the village of Kulari, the Grozny (rural) district.

The Institute of Psychotherapy and Consultation "Harmony", Russia, and Common Bond Institute, the U.S., have begun preparing the 12th Annual International Conference on Conflict Resolution, which is scheduled for May 10-15, 2004 and will be held in Saint Petersburg.

In Vienna, Austria, on November 13, 2003, the activist of the Memorial Office in Nazran Ousam Baysaev was given the so called "Recognition Award", which is annually conferred on human rights activists by the International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights (IHF).

The project "Work with Russia's Public Opinion to Form the Unbiased and Balanced Appraisal of Russia's Actions in the North Caucasus and Caucasus as a Whole" has been launched by the Memorial Society in several regions of the country this autumn.

The initiative group of the "Working Meeting of Participants in the Movement of Veterans of Local Wars" made a pre-arranged visit to Baku in early November.

At dawn of November 26, 1994, squads of armed opposition, backed up by Russian tanks and infantry, attacked Grozny from three directions.

Igor Georgadze, ex-state security minister, was the last who submitted an application for registration as a presidential contender to the Central Election Commission (CEC), reported the CEC news center.