"We hope international organizations will recognize Armenia as occupant and take real measures to settle the Karabakh conflict," stressed Safar Abiev.

The trip is arranged by the Society for Russian-Chechen Friendship with the financial support of Husein Jabrailov, a Moscow businessman and deputy director general of the "Rossia" hotel complex.

The combined exhibition "Southern Transit" of the Abkhazian Union of Painters, Krasnodar Regional Organization and Sochi Branch of the Russian Union of Painters has opened in Sukhum for the first time in 10 years. The exposition at the exhibition hall of the Abkhazian Union of Painters presents 60 works by 20 authors.

Four employees of the National Library of Abkhazia are to take part in the VII International Conference "Information Technologies, Computer Systems, and Publishing Production for Libraries LIBCOM - 2003".

A film festival of the best German films of the last years is taking place at the Don State Public Library. This is a project of the German Cultural Center named after Goethe, Moscow.

The detention occurred on the territory of a car wash where the young people had come in a Zhiguli VAZ-21099 car.

A press conference devoted to the peacemaking action "Journey of Peace - 2003" and the act of charity "From Hands to Hands", which had been taken place from October 6 to November 4, 2003, was held in Moscow on November 10.

On November 7, Russian servicemen burst into the house of the Katsayevs in Samashki of the Achkhoy-Martan district and conducted an unwarranted search of the house.

Either the Revival Union or the ruling "For New Georgia" bloc will be the first number in the parliament of new convocation, according to preliminary data.

The ombudsmen, who will arrive mainly from the CIS countries and Eastern Europe, will exchange opinions on various aspects of their activity.

In spite of reinforced police cordons at the avenues of approach to Tbilisi, opposition supporters from Rustavi and the Kakhetinsky district in the east of Georgia managed to enter the city and join the meeting.

As it was reported by the Ingush Interior Ministry, Petrosian had been kept in a private house, in a pit 80 to 150 centimeters in size.

"Preliminary data of the counting in all the districts will be available tomorrow, and the final official data will do on November 20," said the spokesman of the Central Election Commission.

The committee urges the authorities in Moscow to see not to allow human rights violations during the counter-terrorist operation in Chechnya.

"The demands made by the opposition in the meeting were impossible to fulfill, because they were demanding that the elections be invalidated," said Eduard Shevardnadze.

The bloc's writ reads that several hundreds of thousands of people were not put on the lists and did not participate in the parliamentary elections.

The list contains brief information about people arrested as a result of the events of October 15-16, 2003 against whom criminal actions by Article 220.1 of the Azerbaijan Criminal Code have been launched.

Owners of the building that the Open Society Institute (Soros Foundation) is situated in raise claims to the American management of the Foundation. Kantemir Karamzin, head of the "Sektor-1" Close Corporation - the owner of the building, announced it.

On November 4, John Hughes, editor-in-chief of the on-line weekly "ArmeniaNow" and director of the "New Time" Journalism Training Center, addressed a letter to Armenian Military Prosecutor Gagik Jangirian.

Before the meeting had begun, the gunmen - about 30 people - opened fire from submachine guns and a grenade launcher.