"These meetings substitute the confrontation between Armenia and Azerbaijan for the problem of Nagorny Karabakh," stated the board member of the Armenian National Movement.

State Minister Zurab Zhvania demanded on Wednesday that law enforcement bodies should speed up investigation into financial machinations with issuing allowances to refugees from the Abkhazian Autonomous Republic.

The aim of the competitions is to stir up citizens' activity in the field of finding solutions to social problems and to develop charity in Southern Russia.

Former Georgian president Eduard Shevardnadze stated that Abkhazia and South Osetia were occupied by Russian troops and called upon new Georgian president Mikhail Saakashvili to solve this problem.

The discussion is arranged within the framework of the enlightening project "What Do You Know and Think of the War in Chechnya?" with the support of the Caucasian Knot information and analytical Internet media and the Memorial International Society.

"Having positively assessed the results of the ad hoc high-level meeting of 8 October, the sides agreed to take every measure to ensure the strict observance of the Moscow Ceasefire Agreement of 1994 and refrain from any action, which may destabilize the situation in the zone of conflict and have a negative impact on the peace process," reads the protocol of the meeting of 19 January.

The former second-in-command of the so called "Islamic special operations regiment" under the command of Arbi Barayev was arrested in the Kemerovo region.

The statement of the Human Rights Institute of the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences issued on the eve of the 14th anniversary of the so called Baku Events that "by the military incursion into Baku, the Soviet leadership violated the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights as well as others international documents, including the Convention on the Rights of the Child."

The camp is reportedly supplied with electric power several times a day. All the rest time people spend without electric light.

Camp inhabitants have encountered serious difficulties since 2000 because electricity supply has been constantly cut off in Maysky.

The number of players will be 40 people, who will form 5 groups. The players will come from Georgia, South Osetia, Abkhazia, North Osetia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Russia, and Chechnya.

Ilkham Aliyev expressed thanks to the Government of Iran for the support it provides on the international level to Azerbaijan's stance on the Karabakh issue.

"Discharge people arrested during October 15 and 16 events!" - activists of the Musavat Party intend to hold a meeting under such a slogan in front of the Azerbaijan Prosecutor General's Office. They are going to protest against the court decisions to extend detention terms for oppositionists charged with the organization of mass riots on October 15 and 16.

The chairman of the committee, Vagif Gadjibeyli, says that lawyers and human rights defenders have gathered by joint efforts detailed materials about 40 prisoners, 35 of whom are kept in the Bailovskaya prison today.

The government must declare amnesty for people arrested in connection with the events of October 2003, stated poet Ramiz Rovshan, who is chair of the Committee to Struggle Against Repressions and Election Fraud.

The Azerbaijan authorities impeded the arrival of the Armenian military in Baku last week.

It is a joint project sponsored by the Handicap International organization and the Chechen Labor Ministry.

Olivier Dupuis, Member of the European Parliament, Radical, asks the Commission: "What does the Commission think of the use of the term "Chechen network" by magistrates from EU member countries - and in particular by the French magistrate Bruguiere - to define a criminal affair in which the only involvement of Chechens seems to be the fact that the EU citizens - and not Chechens - under accusation have referred to Chechens as the possible beneficiaries of financial aid, or Chechnya as a place where they could carry out their plan for a holy war?"

Over 300 people participated in a meeting in the village of Gonio, not far from Batumi. They demanded that Adjarian leader Aslan Abashidze resign and accused him of establishing a totalitarian regime on the territory of the autonomy.

The main issue on the agenda is a criminogenic situation in the Gali district of Abkhazia, which has worsened recently.