In the village of Varennikovskaya local administration officials and policemen seized passports of the people of four houses, promising to give the documents back if the Turks fill in migration cards.

As it was reported at the Regional Operations Staff for the Control of the Antiterrorist Operation in the Northern Caucasus, this information was received from Lechi Aydiyev detained on suspicion of his belonging to armed units.

"The day before ten people armed with submachine guns, wearing masks and camouflage rushed into the house of police officer Ruslan Khalidov, which is situated on Sharipov Street in the Shalinsky district's Germenchuk village," said the interior ministry's official.

As it is indicated in the writ, they are threatened with life sentences and tortures in case of their extradition to Russia, and this contradicts the articles of the European Convention on Human Rights.

According to the oppositionist, it had been done to prevent him from taking part in a rally scheduled by his party for September 6.

The other day Hans Bodmer, a Swiss citizen, was arrested in Seoul. He was called a key figure in the bribery payments of tens of millions of dollars that were made to Azerbaijan top officials in 1997-1999 for giving the opportunity of taking part in the process of privatization in this country.

Chechen rebels are preparing new actions of intimidation, but this time terrorists are going to use virulent poison instead of bombs stuffed with bearings and ragged iron. This was reported at the Regional Operations Headquarters.

As it was reported at the Creative Union "Southern Wave", guests from the University of Cologne will appear at the seminar.

Russian Interior Minister Boris Gryzlov announced that Chechen separatists were preparing a series of terrorist acts on the threshold of the presidential election in Chechnya. This information was confirmed by field commander Shamil Basayev.

The studies of the Armenian Sunday school, which have been working for ten years already and basing in one of the secondary educational institution of the city, will be transferred into the Center.

On the threshold of the elections activists of "GOLOS" is going into the streets to remind citizens that it is important to vote during elections.

As a result of the military men's action 9 local residents, mainly young people of 20-25 years old, were captured and taken away in an unknown direction.

According to the preliminary data of the Ingush Interior Ministry, two people were killed and over twenty wounded, as a result of an explosion near the building of the Federal Security Service Department in Magas.

According to some data, two of the kidnapped were thrown away on the outskirt of the settlement, having been savagely tortured and beaten.

Tent camp inhabitants asked the guests to do their best not to allow forced liquidation of the tent camp "Bella", authorities trying to close it at all costs.

The head of the Moslems of Kabardino-Balkaria Anas Pshikhachyov told it in an interview on Friday.

It was claimed by Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Internally Displaced Persons Francis Deng at a press-conference in Moscow.

A car with the chief of the Kizilyurt region of Dagestan, Abdurakhman Gadzhiyev, was fired at from an automatic gun on Saturday, reported the Interior Ministry of Dagestan.

On September 11 Ella Pamfilova, the Chairwoman of the Commission on Human Rights under the President of the Russian Federation, called the disinclination of the country's leading human rights activists to send observers to the Chechen presidential elections a "moral defeat of the whole community of human rights defenders".

Chairwoman of the Armenian National Press Club, Ambion Newspaper Editor-in-Chief Narine Mkrtchian announced it in Yerevan on Saturday speaking at a hearing on the issue of the adoption of the new law of Armenia "On the Mass Media".