Abuyadig Saayev was attacked yesterday in Grozny. He was rounded up by gunmen; they put him in a car and took away.

As soon as meetings of protest is over in Tbilisi, Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov and representatives of Abkhazian and South Osetian virtual authorities will arrive in Georgia, according to Shevardnadze.

"The Erkel case remains unsolved. We are urging those responsible for this crime to free Erkel unconditionally and immediately," the UN acting Coordinator for Humanitarian Problems Mikko Vienonen said at a press conference at the Interfax central office on Wednesday.

Humanitarian organizations have two strategic goals in the Northern Caucasus: "to offer urgent humanitarian aid and help to restore normal living conditions and to enhance the potential of local civil society and government agencies".

Bodies conducting the investigation established that leaders of the opposition Musavat Party and Azerbaijan Democratic Party had planned the mass riots of October 15-16 in Baku beforehand, said Azerbaijan Interior Minister Ramil Usubov.

The opposition newspapers "Novoye Vremya", "Yeni Zaman", "Yeni Musavat", "Azadlyg" and "Khurriyet" have not been published in Baku since November 15. Their publication was suspended because publishing houses that printed them refused to sell paper.

The actions of protest are to star on November 19 with a picket of about 50 OKL activists in front of the Russian embassy in Baku.

The refugees themselves connect the raids by law-enforcement agents with the recent tragic occurrence in the Ingush village of Troitskaya when five Ingush OMON (special tasks platoon) fighters were killed as a result of an explosion.

Jean-Marie Guehenno will meet with leaders of the republic, political parties and non-government organizations, and with CIS Peacekeeping Forces Commander Major-General Aleksandr Yevteev.

The task of the international observers would be to assess the electoral process by reference to national legislation and international election commitments of the Russian Federation and to monitor all aspects of the election campaign as well.

On November 17, the Association of Stavropol Territory's Migrant Organizations "Solidarity" held a concluding meeting on the philanthropic project "Overcoming Informational Barriers".

A conference of constitutors of the Russian national and cultural autonomy was held in Maikop on November 15. It was decided to register the autonomy in the institutions of justice. While grounding such a step, head of the initiative group N. Burkhaylo said the Russian population in Adygeya is actually left now beyond the interests of not only the local ethnocratic regime but also the federal authorities.

The Court of Yerevan's Tsentr and Nork-Marash Communes announced a verdict in the case on the murder of the well-known TV reporter, chairman of the republican Public TV and Radio Company Tigran Nagdalian.

An Arab gangster has been killed in the Vedeno district of Chechnya. Perhaps, this is Abu al-Walid, a notorious mercenary terrorist. Three million rubles were promised for help in arresting him.

The meeting in front of the parliament building in Tbilisi will be apparently a long-term one. Now people supporting the constitutional system and protesting against the authorities' forced dismissal are gathered their.

The conference "Humane Catastrophe in Chechnya and Ways to Achieve Peace" was held at Boston University on November 14 and 16.

This was caused by the letter addressed to the Abkhazian parliament by officers of the law-enforcement agencies of Abkhazia's Gali region. The authors of the letter raise their concern about and negative attitude towards the intention to establish UN Civilian Police in the region.

On November 15, 2003, members of the Council of NGOs of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria in Azerbaijan made a statement welcoming the verdict of London's Magistrates' Court, which rejected a bid to extradite Akhmed Zakayev - a representative of the Chechen president - to the Russian Federation.

"Mr. Soros decided to seriously interfere in the political affairs in Georgia, but it is not his business," stated Shevardnadze.

The criminal action against Alan Chochiev was caused by his open letter in which he asked to condemn Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze for "carrying out a pro-fascist policy raised to the state level in the republic."