The action was the expression of protest against the visit of the US Congressmen's representatives to Nagorny Karabah without Azerbaijan authorities' knowledge.

First Vice Chairman of the Musavat Party Vurgun Eyub was savagely beaten by police officers in the Akhmedly village of Baku.

The Tbilisi City Court answered to the claim of several media and non-government organizations to abolish the resolution passed by the Central Election Commission (CEC) on August 25, which appreciably limited the role of the mass media in the parliamentary elections coming on November 2.

On September 3 security forces in Abkhazia killed Georgian fugitive Gervasi Dzhologua in the village of Kindgi.

This was reported in an interview by people who are familiar with the current situation in the camp, as well as by refugees themselves.

Ambulance cars rushed 34 victims right from the site of explosion to hospitals of the population centers located in the Caucasian Mineral Spas health resort area.

The Azerbaijan Ministry of Defense refuted the report of the general staff commander of the Armenian Armed Forces Mikael Arutyunian that Azerbaijan servicemen had fired several shots from light artillery during the monitoring.

The investigation revealed that during the monitoring a hunter's shot had rung out on the Armenian territory three kilometers west from the Azerbaijan-Armenian border.

The Prosecutor General's Office of Russia has successfully investigated two acts of terrorism in Mozdok committed this year - the explosions of a military hospital and a bus with servicemen.

On September 2, the Central Election Commission of Azerbaijan ordered that the Ministry of Justice analyzed the appearance of the leaders of opposition parties on the state television. An insult of President Geydar Aliyev is imputed to them.

The round-table meeting was aimed at the exchange of experience and opinions between Azerbaijan and German journalists on the questions of the coverage of pre-election campaigns and the role of mass media in politics and elections.

The number of people expecting to get political asylum in Europe has reached its lowest mark since 1999. Such data are contained in the UNHCR report for the second quarter of 2003 published on Tuesday in Geneva.

The Prime Minister of Chechnya signed the edict on disbandment of the Ministry for Press, TV and Radio Broadcasting, and Mass Media Communications and the Ministry for Nationalities of the Chechen Republic.

About 120 people are taking part in the seminar. They are experts in youth policy of the Rostov region's municipal areas, youth public and student activists.

The data show that from January 1999 to July 1, 2003 the courts of first instance brought in only 14 and the Court of Appeal - only 13 verdicts of "not guilty".

The Yeni Nesil journalist union and the human rights organization "Article 19" are drafting together a law "About Freedom of Information".

Yury Merzlyakov of Russia, a new co-chair of the OSCE Minsk Group, the aim of which is to negotiate a peaceful solution to the Nagorno-Karabah conflict, refused to say unambiguously whether the principle of territorial integrity of Azerbaijan should, in his opinion, serve as a basis for the settlement of this dispute.

The Georgian Foreign Ministry does not agree with First Deputy Foreign Minister of Russia Valery Loshchinin, who said that the problem of the return of IDPs to Abkhazia had been settled, Georgian Deputy Foreign Minister Kakha Sikharulidze said on September 2.

The explosion in the train took place near Kislovodsk at about 7:35 a.m. on Wednesday. Five people were killed.

Salikh Shamkhalov, an officer from the Dagestani interior ministry's department for fight against extremism and criminal terrorism, and his wife were gunned down in Makhachkala.