"We did not start the disorders, but Musavat leader Isa Gambar and his companions did start them," Aliyev declared in his interview to the "Rossiyskaya Gazeta".

Thus, the total sum that the German Foreign Ministry has allotted in 2003 to help Chechen refugees exceeds 1,800,000 euro.

Murad Petrosian, an independent expert and editor of the author newspaper "What To Do" published in Nagorny Karabakh expressed such an opinion in his interview to the Karabakh "Azat Artsakh" newspaper.

An annual seminar of the Early Warning and Conflict Prevention Network (EAWARN) was held in the town of Kumbor (Chernogoria) from October 4 to October 11, 2003.

The republican interior ministry has reported it.

Ekaterina Geniyeva told a press conference for Dagestani journalists the Foundation had many prospective plans in Dagestan.

A source at the Chechen presidential staff told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent the inauguration ceremony was planned to be held on October 22.

One of them is editor-in-chief of the party newspaper Rauf Arif-oglu. He has been declared wanted on suspicion of arranging disorders in Baku during presidential elections.

This was discussed at the seminar on UN methods for protection of human rights and economic, social and cultural rights that was held by the World Organization Against Torture in Ingushetia on October 17 and 18.

"This seminar is a continuation of the program to assist with making the institution of the ombudsman in the South Federal District, which is one of the most problem districts in Russia," said chairwoman of the presidential commission on human rights Ella Pamfilova.

Hoj-Akhmed Nukhayev is an author of a number of books, in which he proposed the ways of the Russian-Chechen military conflict settlement. His proposals caused an ambiguous critical reaction of the Chechen politicians and leadership.

The seminar was focused on the issues concerned with protection of human rights in economic, social, and cultural fields.

The newspaper "Overcoming of Informational Barriers" is issued by the Association of Stavropol Territory's Migrant Organizations "Solidarity" with the assistance of the Caucasian Knot Internet website, the Memorial society and the Soros Foundation.

The seminar "Urgent Problems of Legal Proceedings on Civil and Criminal Cases" took place in Pyatigorsk on October 16-17.

Akhmad Kadyrov took his oaths of office and swore to serve the peoples of Chechnya and to abide by the constitutions of the Russian Federation and the Chechen Republic.

The Bureau of International Information Programs of the U.S. Department of State disseminated the speech of Ronald McNamara made on October 7 at the OSCE Human Dimension Implementation Meeting in Warsaw.

On October 10-12, the seminar "Elections of 2003 in South Caucasian Countries and Their Impact on Regional Processes" took place in Tsakhkadzor. It was organized by the Yerevan Press Club with the support of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation.

The participants protested against the frequent cases of attacks on representatives of mass media by law-enforcement agencies.

From the roof of a nearby building, a Human Rights Watch researcher saw police and military troops chase down protesters, surround them and viciously beat them.

The minister stressed that the truce on the contact line of the Azerbaijan-Karabakh conflict was sustained mainly due to the balance of military forces, which was to a large extent conditioned by the level of economic development of the conflict parties.