They spilled petrol over themselves and threatened with self-immolation if this building is not granted to them for habitation. The refugees threatened to burn several hostages, Metrostroy employees, as well.

The newspaper names Khizri Aldamov and Meka Khangoshvili as possible candidates.

The specialist is expected to go to Chechnya as a member of the group of Russian human rights activists. This group is being formed by the Moscow Helsinki Group along with the Commission on Human Rights under the President of Russia.

As Chechen Deputy Interior Minister Sultan Satuyev informed, people in masks and military uniform rushed in the houses, beat people and shouted they would kill them if they did not vote for Akhmad Kadirov at the presidential election.

The picketers tried to go to the building from several directions, but officers of law-enforcement structures suppressed this attempt.

It is not possible to hold free election in Chechnya today, stated Chechen and Russian human rights defenders from the Memorial, the Chechen National Rescue Committee, the Council of Non-Government Organizations, the Mothers of Chechnya and others during their meeting in Nazran on August 18.

Executive power officials warn the entrepreneurs that it is inadmissible for them to hold election posters of opposition contenders for the president of Azerbaijan in their shop-windows and threaten closure to their businesses.

In the opinion of the relatives of the missing, their solidarity will promote the search and get the negotiation process moving.

GIBDD services will daily see to the traffic near all schools and educational institutions.

In the opinion of the director for contacts with the Congress of the Armenian Assembly of America, the opening of the border met Turkish economic interests and would serve as a guarantee of common regional stability.

"We hope we?ll manage to make sure that our friends ? congressmen, senators and their assistants will get more information on the range of Armenian problems which are of current importance to Armenia and the Diaspora", said the regional director of the Armenian Assembly of America Arpi Vardanian.

?This law will regulate the case of constitutional complaints. Thereafter the Constitutional Court will be able to make decisions on personal complaints?, said the head of the Court. The new law will reflect the process of lodging a personal complaint.

Ashot Gulyan said it was inadmissible for Azerbaijan to politicize the humanitarian problems, and in particular, the problem of the search of the missing.

The aim of the program is to enlighten people of their election rights, inform the audience about the candidates and their election platforms.

Chechen Security Council Secretary Rudnik Dudayev reported in the phone conversation.

Six public (non-party) organizations of the Stavropol region became initiators of the association establishment. The founders find their main purpose in exercising control of the election process in the region. Such organizations successfully function in 30 regions of Russia.

More than 80 delegates from Jordan, Syria, Turkey, Israel, the US, the Netherlands, France, Great Britain - countries where Adyg diasporas live compactly, as well as delegations from Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Krasnodar Territory and republics of the Northern Caucasus arrived.

"We are still seriously concerned about the abductions. Law enforcement agencies have not been doing enough to prevent and solve these crimes," announced Chechnya's First Deputy Prime Minister Movsar Khamidov.

The Eni Musavat newspaper with a reference to the Turkish web-site Avrasiya.turk.com informs that some power circles of Azerbaijan are trying to form illegal armed units to get rid of several opposition leaders.

As Lawyer Lyudmila Trunova said, a complaint was made after the rejection of the Tverskoy Court to answer 24 claims for the compensation of moral damage.