The aim of the festival show is to demonstrate possible ways of interaction between "the third sector" and executive authority in search of effective solutions for social security problems.

About 10 unknown armed people in masks and camouflage broke into one of the Gudermes hospitals. They seized the security guard Aslan Usmayev who was treated there and took him away in an unknown direction.

The court made such a decision because Artur Arakelyan's health had deteriorated.

The Armenian Committee of Soldiers' Mothers made an appeal to the Azerbaijan presidential contenders not to renew military confrontation between Yerevan and Baku.

Unknown armed people broke into a house on Industrialnaya Street in the Zavodskoy district of Grozny and forcibly took away Ismail Isayev, 1981 year born.

Azerbaijan police broke up an election meeting held by supporters of Isa Gambar in the township of Darnagyul near Baku on September 1. Gambar is the leader of the Musavat opposition party. Four activists from Gambar's campaigning staff were arrested.

Representatives of the Public Prosecutor's Office, the Security Service Department, the State Interior Department of the Krasnodar region, regional interior departments, the Administration of the Krasnodar Region, leaders of public organizations, and TV and mass media representatives took part in the work of the meeting.

September 1 marked the new school year beginning for all children, but children of Turks-Meskhetians will study, as they did 10 years ago, in segregated classes.

The return of Chechen refugees from Georgia to their home country will start at the end of this September, Russian minister Stanislav Ilyasov told journalists in Tbilisi.

A group of gunmen wearing masks and camouflage burst into the house of Saipudi Tsitsyaev, shot him dead and fled.

As the head of the ministry department Gaidukov said, the program gives more consideration to the improvement of disabled people's environment, availability of social structures, physical training and sports institutions.

A delegation of the German military headed by the deputy chief of the German Defense Ministry's Department for Armament and Military-Political Problems, Brigadier General Jurgen Bornemann visited Armenia these days.

Vakha Khagayev, Khasan Elbuzdukayev and Sultan Abubarakov kidnapped by Russian servicemen at night on August 13 were found murdered.

"People voluntarily laying down arms will rather trust the security blankets given to them by a legitimately elected president. The results will be more effective", noted Akhmar Zavgayev.

For the last few days the air forces and artillery of the Russian army have massively struck again the outskirts of settlements in some mountain and foot-hill regions of Chechnya.

Residents of the village of Selmentauzen in the Vedeno region reported that on August 19, 2003 Russian servicemen had kidnapped four residents of the village.

According to the meeting organizers' opinion, it was aimed to express the protest and attract international public attention to "rude violations of law by the Azerbaijan authorities in the process of election campaign and mass violations of political liberties and rights of the Azerbaijan citizens."

Khalide Taipov, a Chechen refugee who applied for asylum in the Netherlands, is likely to be deported from the country. He was detained in the street as an "illegal" and put in a special camp in Terpol, from which refugees are usually deported to their native countries.

The bandits led the family of Madagov to the courtyard and shot him before the very eyes of his wife and children. They set the house on fire and rode away in cars.

A meeting of protest against the construction of the ammonia reloading terminal on the Taman peninsula was to take place on Central Square of the village of Taman at 10 a.m. on August 31. The meeting was organized by the Social and Ecological Union of the West Caucasus and public organizations of Taman.