The fact-finding mission of the European Court on Human Rights is now scheduled to take place in Georgia and Russia at the beginning of 2004.

Chiaberashvili, who was released later, told he had gone in a taxi and had witnessed his driver's bribing a road police officer.

The OSCE Chairman-in-Office announced that, during his short visit to Armenia, he had a thorough talk with the president of the county and the foreign minister, had effective meetings with a number of public organizations.

Information about a thousand of missing Chechens is to be delivered to the Ministry of Justice and send to regional human rights organizations this week.

Reports of Georgian media say a blast occurred in the backyard of the house of David Mumladze in Georgia's Zestaponi district this morning. Mr. Mumladze is a candidate MP for the United National Movement opposition election bloc.

According to Mr. Aliyev, the failure of the OSCE peacemaking mission in Nagorny Karabakh means that the time has come to settle the problem of this region independently by applying variants that presume the use of force.

David Berdzenishvili, one of the leaders of "Saakashvili ? National Movement" bloc, chairman of the Republican Party of Georgia and MP candidate for Batumi, was brutally beaten by supporters of Aslan Abashidze, president of the Ajarian Republic.

An attack on Arman Saakian's election headquarters was made on the night of October 23. The attacker savagely beat the headquarters staff.

The statement reads, "We are deeply indignant at the demonstrative detention of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, YUKOS Company president, made in Novosibirsk by instructions of the prosecutor general's office."

The international conference "Institution of the Commissioner for Human Rights in Subjects of Russia's South: Problems of Making, Experience of Interaction with Public Authorities, and Prospects of Development" was held in Astrakhan on October 16-17.

Though the authorities assure they are seeking after normalization of relations with all the mass media, regardless of their political orientation, pressure on opposition periodicals still goes on.

An antiwar meeting devoted to the anniversary of tragic events in the Moscow theatre center on Dubrovka is to be held on Sunday, October 26, at Troitskaya Square of Saint Petersburg.

The press conference "The Abducted and Forgotten: What Should Relatives of More Than Two Thousand Missing Chechens Do?" is to take place at the Independent Press Center (former press center of the Institute of Press Development) on October 28, 2003.

Chechen refugees of the "Satsita" tent camp, which is situated on the outskirts of the Sleptsovskaya village, Ingushetia's Sunzha district, organized a mass action of protest in the morning of October 23.

On October 22, a famous actress Monique van de Ven arrived in Ingushetia for an informal visit as a UNICEF Goodwill ambassador.

On October 14, Doctor of Historical Science Alan Chochiev, a well-known political figure of South and North Osetia, was arrested in Vladikavkaz. We call your attention to some recent statements issued by different South Osetian public movements and parties.

Information about tortures against secretary general of the Azerbaijan Democratic Party Sardar Jalaloglu is available in Internet.

Chechen refugees who lived in the Bella tent camp before October 2003 and then, after the force liquidation of this temporary accommodation center, were moved to the Satsita camp, have not yet been put on the lists of inhabitants of this camp.

On October 23, deputies of the State Duma of the Astrakhan region voted unanimously to appoint Vladislav Vinogradov commissioner for human rights in the region.

Representatives of the OSCE, UNHCR, Council of Europe, and International Organization for Migration finished their working visit to the Krasnodar region.