6.1% of the population in the Republic of Nagorny Karabakh are disabled people, according to the data for the first six months of 2003. Most of them became disabled as a result of hostilities on the territory of Nagorny Karabakh. But people who have been disabled since childhood also make a considerable part of them.

The public forum "Development of Social Partnership in Russian Regions" started in Rostov on November 25.

On October 18, 2003, at about 5 p.m., Lom-Ali Makalov, a local villager, was mortally wounded in the yard of his house (10 Verkhnyaya Street) in the village of Kulari, the Grozny (rural) district.

The Institute of Psychotherapy and Consultation "Harmony", Russia, and Common Bond Institute, the U.S., have begun preparing the 12th Annual International Conference on Conflict Resolution, which is scheduled for May 10-15, 2004 and will be held in Saint Petersburg.

In Vienna, Austria, on November 13, 2003, the activist of the Memorial Office in Nazran Ousam Baysaev was given the so called "Recognition Award", which is annually conferred on human rights activists by the International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights (IHF).

The project "Work with Russia's Public Opinion to Form the Unbiased and Balanced Appraisal of Russia's Actions in the North Caucasus and Caucasus as a Whole" has been launched by the Memorial Society in several regions of the country this autumn.

The initiative group of the "Working Meeting of Participants in the Movement of Veterans of Local Wars" made a pre-arranged visit to Baku in early November.

At dawn of November 26, 1994, squads of armed opposition, backed up by Russian tanks and infantry, attacked Grozny from three directions.

Igor Georgadze, ex-state security minister, was the last who submitted an application for registration as a presidential contender to the Central Election Commission (CEC), reported the CEC news center.

"However badly Eduard Shevardnadze ruled his mountain republic of Georgia, and however tardy his departure, he exited with the grace that will allow him to retain his stature as one of the great statesmen in the final chapter of the cold war," writes The International Herald Tribune.

"I think, we all: both western "masters" of political technologies and our leaders are guilty of what have happened in Chechnya, as well as of what is happening in Iraq and other hot spots. Dudayevs, Maskhadovs have plunged our people into a legal jumble, and they will be given the people's appraisal," stated the candidate.

A criminal investigation has been launched into the vote fraud during the November 2 parliamentary elections.

"Taking into consideration a number of national features, I object to the privatization of lands," says Gersolt Elmurzayev.

Eduard Shevardnadze told it in his interview with CNN. But the Ex-President of Georgia did not want to name those people who borne relation to the substitution of the election results.

Deputies also elected Vice Speaker Gigi Tseriteli as Acting Chair of the Parliament by a majority.

The monograph is devoted to the complex analysis of ethnosocial processes in the republics of the North Caucasus, which are visibly displayed in the field of ethnopolitical relations.

The McCain-Lieberman resolution would express the Sense of Congress that the Russian Government's selective prosecution of its political opponents, suppression of free media, and commission of widespread atrocities against civilians in Chechnya do not reflect the minimum standards of democratic governance and rule of law that characterize every other member of the G-8.

"The director of Armenian Public TV Company has illegally released me from my job", journalist Sevak Grigoryan announces. The contract concluded with him was suspended on July 1, 2003, without any substantiation.

"Armenia hopes for the resumption of talks with Azerbaijan on Nagorno-Karabakh, because any military solution to the Karabakh problem is ruled out," said Armenian Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanian.

The action was aimed at drawing attention of the public to the state of children with mental disabilities, who are treated with no respect for their rights, and to urge the President to assist in providing the fulfillment of all fundamental rights of these children.