The forum "Young People of Kuban. The Present and the Future" was conducted at the Krasnodar Exhibition Center on November 14. Establishments and youth public organizations, institutions of higher and specialized secondary education, and charitable foundations from 48 municipal areas of the territory participated in the forum.

The action is to take place simultaneously at the Sport Palace, at the City Philharmonic Hall, at Tbilisi's theatres and houses of culture.

"We will peacefully march to the State Chancellery as no law forbids us to hold a meeting near this building," said the leader of the radical Georgian opposition.

The Chechen Cultural and Social Center "Bart" (Agreement) has been successfully functioning in Ufa, Bashkorstan's capital, for 8 years. This public organization headed by Vom-Ali Israilov works to make the lives of more than one and a half thousand Chechens in Bashkorstan a little bit more interesting and diverse.

Co-Chairs of the Society for Kuban-Turkish-Meskhetian Friendship Tamara Karastilyova and Sarvar Tedorov announced that an exhibition of documents and photos is to open in Moscow in mid December and hearings on the discrimination of the Turks-Meskhetians in Krasnodar Territory are also to be held at that time.

It was reported by a spokesman of the regional headquarters on the counter-terrorist operation in the North Caucasus Colonel Ilya Shabalkin.

Politicians in the Republic of Nagorny Karabakh believe the negotiation process should be resumed, with Karabakh being its obligatory participant and the Republic of Nagorny Karabakh being recognized as a part in the conflict.

Unknown people reportedly attacked the Foundation's guard at about 10:50 p.m. Moscow time. Four security guards suffered as a result and were taken to the Sklifosofsky Institute of Emergency Care.

On November 14, the Supreme Court of Azerbaijan reduced sentences of Alikram Aliyev, leader of the Islamic Party of Azerbaijan, and Jabrail Alizade, chair of the Union of Baku and Baku Villages.

On November 8, the body of Imran Kagirov was found on a bank of the Sunzha River near the Ingush village of Barsuki. Imran had been a 1972-year born displaced person from Chechnya; he had lived in the place of IDPs' compact residence in the Nasir-Kort settlement, Nazran.

We call your attention to the statement by Leyla Yunus, director of the Institute of Peace and Democracy.

Since September 30, human rights activist Ruslan Makayev has been advocating constitutional rights of the officers of law-enforcement structures as leader of the public organization "Law Is Superior to Power".

"Two thousand Adjarian police in mufti are about to arrange provocations in the places where the opposition holds meetings against the official authorities," announced Mikhail Saakashvili.

The office of the All-Russian Movement "For Human Rights" received a reply made by the FSB (Federal Security Service) Department for Moscow and Moscow region to the movement's September inquiry about the composition and concentration of the gas and the duration of it use when storming the theatre building.

The seminar started close contacts between Chechen and Don teachers. Many ideas of joint projects in the field of legal education and enlightenment of pupils occurred.

Magomed Akhayev, a 17-year-old resident from the Alkhan-Yurt village in the Urus-Martan district, was kidnapped from his home a month ago and his family is convinced the operation was carried out by members of one of the Chechen security forces.

"The widespread use of torture and ill-treatment by the Russian authorities, as documented by Amnesty International and other human rights groups, had given rise to well-based fears for Akhmed Zakayev's physical safety if sent back to Russia," Amnesty International said.

Judge Timothy Workman announced the court decision. He pointed out that Zakaev's return to Russia would be an unfair decision.

Deputy Public Prosecutors of the Shatoysky and Shalinsky districts of Chechnya Nadezhda Pogosova and Aleksey Klimov were released during a special operation by republican security agencies.

The opposition action at the Parliament building was halted on Friday night. Only a few young people, obviously protecting the stretched placards and flags, remained at the building in the Saturday morning.