The death of the rebels' leader can be asserted for sure only when the body is identified, the source added.

The Central Election Commission is still receiving information from some Tbilisi electoral districts, from polling stations abroad and from regional election commissions.

The document reads that the cancellation of the state of emergency is caused by the holding of the Georgian snap presidential election in the autonomous republic on January 4.

Mikhail Saakashvili's trip to the capital of South Osetia was short and had no excesses.

Kadyrov's people came to the village in 32 UAZ cars. They told themselves who they were and said their actions had been approved by the Chechen Interior Minister and President Kadyrov.

The two-year prospecting made by the organization on the territory of Nagorny Karabakh showed that the area of 1,500 hectares must be immediately cleared from 15,000 mines of different types.

Arkady Gukasian pointed out that the role of non-government and human rights organisations in the creation of civil society in Karabakh has become more important during the last year.

The arrested soldier explained that he was hunting birds. According to him, he hit the car where the deputy interior minister was by accident.

Immediately after the polling stations in Georgia were closed, the Georgian media publicized the results of the exit polls, which showed that Saakashvili garnered about 85% of the vote.

According to the driver of the car, FSB officers talked to him, in particular the FSB investigator who said the books were withdrawn as an "antistate propaganda".

Six rescuers, headed by Colonel Gadzhimurad Abdulatipov, were looking for three soldiers, lost during an army operation to destroy the armed gang which had broken into the Tsuntinsky district of the Dagestani Republic.

Originally, 15 candidates intended to run for the presidency but eight of them failed to gather the necessary number of signatures.

Approximately 3 million voting ballots were to be sent on Friday to all election polls, including the Adjarian Autonomy, the press-service of the Central Election Commission disclosed.

According to the authors of the statement, recently the Karabakh problem has appeared to be in the center of the country's political life again.

Ali Kerimli, APFP chairman and a Milli Majlis deputy, summed up the exchange of opinions. He spoke for the organization of mass actions in defense of the people arrested in connection with the events of October 15 and 16.

Governor of Krasnodar Territory Aleksandr Tkachyov took a firm stand towards the migratory law breakers.

On the instructions of the Ingush President, New Year presents were given on behalf of him on December 26 to all the children who were in the camps for internally displaced persons (IDPs) from North Osetia and Chechnya.

Semen Filatov, a student of the 11th form, became a winner in the "Learn Your Rights" Internet contest.

The academic council of the student club "Justice" (Chechen State University) made a decision to bring an action against journalist Sergey Dorenko, who stated in the Zavtra newspaper that to annihilate all the Chechen people would be enough for the elimination of terrorism.

According to preliminary information, the military killed three residents of the village. But it remains unknown so far if they were members of the armed resistance or civilians.