About 150 policemen broke up the unsanctioned meeting of the Democratic Party of Azerbaijan, tens of the picketers being injured.

"We will pursue them until they leave, no matter where," declared Aleksandr Tkachyov.

A delegation of Russian human rights defenders led by Ella Pamfilova, the chairwoman of President Putin's Commission on Human Rights, paid a visit to refugee camps in Ingushetia, primarily to the Bella camp. According to Pamfilova, their aim was "to see for themselves what the current situation in the camps was."

People from the village of Khambi-Irze (Lermontovo) in the Achkhoy-Martan district rallied on the Rostov-Baku road on September 5 demanding to put an end to the night raids of various military and police forces, which result in civilian "disappearances".

Representatives of the ruling Yeni Azerbaijan Party threatened to deport residents of the Cherkibogan village of the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic's Sharur region (Azerbaijan) in case they supported opposition candidates at the presidential elections.

"It is up to the Turkish authorities to make a political decision and the railroad will start working", noted Armenian Minister of Transport and Communications Andranik Manukian.

"Rybkin, Yakunin and Kovalyov present everything in the way as if nothing is being done in the republic. I am going to disprove it. Of course, there are several facts of human rights violations, but we do not say that everything is smooth", remarked Ilyasov.

Stavropol's residents Vlasov, Demchinsky and Zhizhin appealed to the Stavropol region's Department of the Ministry of Justice with a request to call Jewish organizations to account for extremist activity.

The head of the Commission on Human Rights under the President of Russia Ella Pamfilova and the members of the Commission - Moscow Helsinki Group Chairwoman Lyudmila Alekseyeva and the head of the public reception chain "Migration and Law" Svetlana Gannushkina - arrived in the Republic of Ingushetia on September 4, 2003.

"To shatter the situation on the eve of the coming Chechen presidential elections is, at least, politically illiterate, and it can affect the elections themselves", reads the declaration.

People not registered in the database of the migration service lose their right to get humane aid and registration in the place of temporary residence.

As a result of the undermining of the electric train near Kislovodsk on Wednesday, 4 people died, 79 got wounded.

On September 1, 2003, the administration of the Chechen refugees' camp "Bella" situated on the outskirts of the Ordzhonikidzevskaya village in the Sunzhensky region of Ingushetia made an announcement. The announcement read, "According to the edict of the Federal Migration Service of the Russian Interior Ministry, the place of temporal residence "Bella" is closed since September 1".

The meeting lasted for more than an hour. All the speakers said a resolute 'No!' to the ammoniac terminal. They also stressed that the construction of the petrochemical port "Zhelezny Rog" on the Taman land was inadmissible.

5 people are in the group, all being citizens of Saransk. The recruitment was conducted at the instance of the Moscow Helsinki Group.

"The complex situation in the republic urges me to take up the duties of the republic's president", declared Mustafa Batdyev after his adjuration.

According to local authorities' information, Amayev got numerous injuries and a brain concussion.

A group of people wearing camouflage beat the Ministry's officials and their security guard and escaped by taking away 500 thousand rubles destined for salary payments.

According to the words of Russian Minister for Chechnya's Affairs Stanislav Ilyasov, the migrants must start living in normal conditions already before a winter colder weather begins.

On September 3, Kurds went into the street adjoining the office of the committee "Kurdistan" and performed a symbolical dance. They did it within the framework of the protest action.