Another meeting of the Regional Pardon Commission took place.

This was disclosed by Chechnya's Central Election Commission Secretary Ela Vakhitov on Wednesday.

Acting top prosecutor of Dagestan Magomed Abdulkhalikov told it at a news conference.

On August 26, members of the Karabah non-government human rights organization "Center of Civil Initiatives" (CCI) visited the Reformatory and Labor Institution of the Interior Ministry of the Nogorno-Karabah Republic (NKR). They handed 150 books over to the Institution's administration.

The opposition and experts qualify this resolution of the Central Election Commission as a limitation of freedom of mass media and political activity.

The women protest against the night abductions of people that go on. In the case in question the matter concerns electricians from the villages of Makhkety and Tovzeni that were taken away in armored personnel carriers in an unknown direction over 10 days ago.

The number of complaints to the European Court of Human Rights from Azerbaijan has approached 600. This was alleged by the Azerbaijan representative in the European Court of Human Rights Khanlar Gajiev.

The Human Rights Center of Azerbaijan decidedly condemns the campaign of moral and administrative terror in universities, which contradicts obligations of the Azerbaijan government to the Council of Europe.

"Gusayev pursued a course of counteracting extremism and terrorism and worked to defuse the acute situation in the republic. His assassination is an attempt to shatter the Dagestani society," Zorin said in an interview".

A protest rally against the actions of the Russian military was held on Monday in the Ingush village of Ordzhonikidzevskaya near the Chechen border. About one hundred people, locals as well as Chechen refugees, took part in this protest.

An explosive device went off as a Volga car was carrying Dagestani Minister for Nationalities and Information Magomedsalikh Gusayev to his office.

The armored UAZ-469 car hit a high-capacity radio-controlled landmine planted on the roadside.

On the instructions of Armenian National Assembly Chairman Artur Bagdasarian, a group of deputies visited the Nubarashen penitentiary institution on August 24.

The authors of the document express their opinion that, if the government does not take the step mentioned, Armenia will reach a new deadlock.

According to information of the press-service of the President of North Osetia, the meeting was held as there was a necessity to urgently study information available about actions of extremist groups in the Northern Caucasian region.

A scientific and practical conference "Islam in the Present Day World: Life and Activity of Saiid Muhammad Hadji Abubarakov" took place in Makhachkala on August 22.

The non-profit association conducted an action in the regional center's Park Pobedi last weekend. During it activists explained to the people what an echo could their own civic inactivity produce.

Georgian President Eduard Shevarnadze welcomed a statement of the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church in which it recognizes Abkhazia as an integral part of the canonical territory of the Georgia Orthodox Church.

"The Human Rights Institute appeals to human rights activists to support the UNICEF initiative in working out the international legislation for struggle against child slavery. Not only scientists, lawyers, and human rights activists should settle down to the work at the legislation but, for example, popular artists such as UN Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie, who has recently finished her visit to Russia.", reported Human Rights Institute Director General Kamilzhan Kalandarov.

According to the words of Spokesperson for the Georgian Defense Ministry Nino Sturua, one of the Georgian soldiers has been severely injured and will probably be hospitalized to the United States for further treatment.