"However badly Eduard Shevardnadze ruled his mountain republic of Georgia, and however tardy his departure, he exited with the grace that will allow him to retain his stature as one of the great statesmen in the final chapter of the cold war," writes The International Herald Tribune.

"I think, we all: both western "masters" of political technologies and our leaders are guilty of what have happened in Chechnya, as well as of what is happening in Iraq and other hot spots. Dudayevs, Maskhadovs have plunged our people into a legal jumble, and they will be given the people's appraisal," stated the candidate.

A criminal investigation has been launched into the vote fraud during the November 2 parliamentary elections.

"Taking into consideration a number of national features, I object to the privatization of lands," says Gersolt Elmurzayev.

Eduard Shevardnadze told it in his interview with CNN. But the Ex-President of Georgia did not want to name those people who borne relation to the substitution of the election results.

Deputies also elected Vice Speaker Gigi Tseriteli as Acting Chair of the Parliament by a majority.

The monograph is devoted to the complex analysis of ethnosocial processes in the republics of the North Caucasus, which are visibly displayed in the field of ethnopolitical relations.

The McCain-Lieberman resolution would express the Sense of Congress that the Russian Government's selective prosecution of its political opponents, suppression of free media, and commission of widespread atrocities against civilians in Chechnya do not reflect the minimum standards of democratic governance and rule of law that characterize every other member of the G-8.

"The director of Armenian Public TV Company has illegally released me from my job", journalist Sevak Grigoryan announces. The contract concluded with him was suspended on July 1, 2003, without any substantiation.

"Armenia hopes for the resumption of talks with Azerbaijan on Nagorno-Karabakh, because any military solution to the Karabakh problem is ruled out," said Armenian Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanian.

The action was aimed at drawing attention of the public to the state of children with mental disabilities, who are treated with no respect for their rights, and to urge the President to assist in providing the fulfillment of all fundamental rights of these children.

Ilya Shabalkin, a spokesman of the regional headquarters on the counter-terrorist operation in the North Caucasus, reported it.

Over 2,000 displaced persons - 500 of them are children - from the Prigorodny district of North Osetia living in a refugee camp in the village of Maysky still have no electricity and gas.

Adjaria also breaks all the ties with the center as it does not recognize the legitimacy of Acting Georgian President and Speaker of the Georgian Parliament Nino Burdjanadze, according to one of the leaders of the parliamentary Revival Party Tsotne Bakuria.

The conference is aimed at discussing those tasks of public organizations and movements fulfillment of which makes for preserving peace and providing stability in the region, informed leader of the Alan movement Sufiyan Beppayev.

Four young people were forcibly taken from their houses by unidentified gunmen in masks.

The symposium was arranged by the Administration of the Rostov region, where the issue of interethnic relations is regarded very seriously.

According to head of Salambek Maigov's election staff Adlan Khasuyev, his deputy, Ibragim Umarkhadzhiyev, was truly detained by security forces in the Staropromyslovsky district of Grozny.

The other day, the Russian President's adviser General Troshev claimed there was "no war" in Chechnya. He was quoted as saying, "the Russian servicemen were ordered not to conduct sweeps and not to enter private houses in Chechnya."

On November 17, Chechnya's military commandant's office alleged the death of Abu al-Walid, who is called a main financier of the Chechen rebels, in the vicinities of the Neftiyanka settlement, the Vedeno district of the republic.