Representatives of the Chechen national media did not suspend their work as they had announced before. It was reported by Deputy Director of the Information Agency "Grozny-Inform" Ayshat Akhmayeva.

"I declare my political position of adherence to peace and political adjustment remains unalterable. I believe that sooner or later plenipotentiaries of Chechnya and Russia will sit down at the bargaining table so as to put an end to the centuries-old confrontation between our nations," reads the statement.

An enlarged meeting took place at the Government of the republic to discuss the results of the first round of the presidential election in Karachaevo-Cherkessia and the preparation for the second round of the vote.

Prosecutor of the Republic Vladimir Gannochka, Interior Minister Alexey Lapin, Vice-Chairman of the Election Commission of the Republic of Karachaevo-Cherkessia Marat Tebuyev assured republican journalists there had not been any significant breaches of the electoral legislation during the past presidential election.

Women-representatives of the Muslim Cultural Center of North Osetia - Alania took part in the round-table meeting devoted to the topic "World Through Religion", where they discussed a role of a woman in the contemporary world.

A military motorcade was fired on Saturday morning in Grozny; one serviceman died and three more got wounded.

The participants of the protest campaign consider this event a step toward the solution of the problem.

200 thousand names of 540 thousand included into the electoral rolls in Chechnya were dead souls, State Duma Deputy Aslambek Aslakhanov, one of the contenders for the president of Chechnya, declared in his interview to the Agence France-Presse.

The part of the Karachai people supporting the active president of the Republic of Karachaevo-Cherkessia Vladimir Semyonov arranges meetings of protest against the first round results of the presidential election in the republic and demands to put out Mustafa Batdyev from the election race.

"I presume that we should not let any foreigner in Azerbaijan - whether it is a congressman, a mass media representative, a public figure or a politician - if he or she visits Nagorny Karabah without a permission of the official Baku", declared the Azerbaijan Foreign Minister.

The refugees of the tent camp "Bart" situated in the city of Karabulak in the Nazran region of Ingushetia appealed to the Ingush office of the Society for the Russian-Chechen Friendship.

Two unknown people in a camouflage uniform detonated a landmine near the Petropavlovsky settlement on Thursday; the landmine was put into a VAZ 2106 car left on the curb.

On August 21 Angelina Jolie, an American actress, arrived in Russia with an informal visit as a Goodwill Ambassador to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.

The deputy of the Legislative Assembly of the Krasnodar region Mikhail Kovalyuk appeared with the initiative to organize the 1st Congress of Representatives of the Kuban Public Self-government.

"The post-war situation in Abkhazia has convinced us that the policy of force pressure and isolation of the multinational population of Abkhazia from the outer world has made the process of negotiations even more complicated," reads the appeal.

The statement of public organizations of the Astrakhan region on the situation arisen with the Astrakhan regional department of the party "Liberal Russia"

Armenian National Assembly Speaker Artur Bagdasarian received PACE co-rapporteurs Jerzy Jaskiernia, Rene Andre, and Valery Klamer yesterday.

During their four-day visit to Armenia, the members of the PACE monitoring group Jerzy Jaskiernia and Rene Andre are to visit one of the military units in the Armavir region of Armenia to get acquainted with the situation in military units.

The appeal of non-government organizations of the Chechen Republic.

127 people were killed as a result of the firing at the helicopter from an anti-aircraft missile complex "Igla" near Khankala.