David Petrosian, the executive secretary of the network of NGOs and other representatives of civil society institutions of the Caucasus "Caucasian Forum", will be a reporter at the action.

Armed people in masks and camouflage uniform, who had driven up in cars without number plates, checked documents of Bislan Khayauri and then gunned him down.

"After giving it serious thought and having numerous conferences with my headquarters, I have made a decision, which was very hard for me, not to remain in the presidential race," said Aslakhanov.

In the opinion of Kaliningrad ecologists, the unique object of natural heritage is under threat due to LUKOIL Company's plans on starting oil production in the Baltic Sea at the D-6 oilfield situated in immediate proximity to the park.

The local court demanded that the authorities restored a house with dependencies, cattle and inventory to Nikolay Zadorozhy, a Cossack from the repressed.

According to the Georgian Interior Ministry, Interior Minister Koba Narchemashvili during his confidential meeting with locals on Tuesday called on them to voluntarily lay down firearms to the Georgian Interior Ministry's special-purpose detachment.

As the victims'lawyer Igor Trunov announced, the European Court can ask the plaintiffs to attend court sittings personally.

During the solemn ceremony Mustafa Batdyev was presented with the symbols of presidential power - the rod and the emblem.

A UN Observer Mission in Georgia (UNOMIG) patrol was launched on September 7 to carry out a preliminary investigation of an incident regarding alleged maltreatment of locals and rape of women by four uniformed Abkhazian customs officers in the Tagiloni village, Abkhazia's Gali district, on September 5-6.

The visit was aimed at discussing prospects of cooperation with NGOs of South Osetia and familiarizing with social and political situation.

Owners of multiple stalls selling audio and video production are forbidden not only to sell but also to reproduce songs of the Chechen singer under the threat of a 300-ruble fine and equipment confiscation in favor of the state.

A dead body of Adam Gatsayev, the administration head of the Goyskoye village situated in the Urus-Martan district, was found by local residents on the outskirt of this settlement on September 5.

According to Bayburtian, some Georgian media consider the Armenians residing in the republic to be a cause of all failures of the Georgian state.

Problems of the Nagorno-Karabah, Abkhazian, and Pridnestrovsky conflicts, as well as the situation on Cyprus will be discussed at the conference.

Other four apartment houses for those who had to stay in the tent camps on the territory of Ingushetia after their dwellings had been destroyed will be opened in Grozny before the end of September, acting Chechen President Anatoly Popov said at the opening ceremony.

The Monitoring Group of the Council of Europe particularly underlined in its report published in Strasburg that Armenia must pass the laws on the mass media activity and Azerbaijan must release all political prisoners.

Nadir Bagirov served 10 years in jail, and his death was caused by tuberculosis. Bagirov was, to all appearances, infected with it in one of the jails.

Speaking at a press conference in Moscow on September 9, Svetlana Gannushkina, Lev Ponomaryov and Yury Samodurov stressed that their human rights groups would continue as before to send their members to Chechnya on fact-finding missions but they would not act as official observers in these elections.

The re-registration of refugees that do not have Russian citizenship and exchange of old identity cards for new ones will be conducted in North Osetia from September 10 till November 15.

The other day during his meeting with power engineering specialists of the Republic of North Osetia - Alania the Russian President's Envoy for Osetian-Ingush Conflict Settlement Kulakovsky decided to allot 750 thousand rubles for the construction of a new power line that will lead to a refugee settlement. The settlement in question is 250 trailers situated on the border between Ingushetia and North Osetia.