As it was reported by the Ingush Interior Ministry, Petrosian had been kept in a private house, in a pit 80 to 150 centimeters in size.

"Preliminary data of the counting in all the districts will be available tomorrow, and the final official data will do on November 20," said the spokesman of the Central Election Commission.

The committee urges the authorities in Moscow to see not to allow human rights violations during the counter-terrorist operation in Chechnya.

"The demands made by the opposition in the meeting were impossible to fulfill, because they were demanding that the elections be invalidated," said Eduard Shevardnadze.

The bloc's writ reads that several hundreds of thousands of people were not put on the lists and did not participate in the parliamentary elections.

The list contains brief information about people arrested as a result of the events of October 15-16, 2003 against whom criminal actions by Article 220.1 of the Azerbaijan Criminal Code have been launched.

Owners of the building that the Open Society Institute (Soros Foundation) is situated in raise claims to the American management of the Foundation. Kantemir Karamzin, head of the "Sektor-1" Close Corporation - the owner of the building, announced it.

On November 4, John Hughes, editor-in-chief of the on-line weekly "ArmeniaNow" and director of the "New Time" Journalism Training Center, addressed a letter to Armenian Military Prosecutor Gagik Jangirian.

Before the meeting had begun, the gunmen - about 30 people - opened fire from submachine guns and a grenade launcher.

The Burdjanadze - Democrats opposition bloc led by Parliament Speaker Nino Burdjanadze said they would not recognize the results of the parliament election of November 2 and would abstain from working in the new parliament.

Supporters of the Revival Union, led by Ajarian leader Aslan Abashidze, are gathered today in the Philharmonic Hall in the center of Tbilisi to celebrate the success in the November 2 parliamentary elections.

"Despite considerable pre-electoral assistance from the Council of Europe and OSCE, the elections held in Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia in 2003 did not meet international standards due to an apparent lack of political will in these countries," stated CoE/OSCE meeting participants.

Election observer from the Georgian Young Lawyers Association Giorgi Mshvenieradze was detained by the Ajarian authorities on November 2, while he was monitoring the elections in Kobuleti; he was sentenced to three-month pre-trail detention.

"I have no intention of cooperating with the Government, whose members have all proved to be cowardly rabbits. It's immoral when the street opposition keeps demanding that voting results be rigged, and when the Government agrees to do this," said Irina Sarishvili-Chanturia, one of the leaders of the ruling pro-presidential "For New Georgia" bloc.

After presenting an ultimatum to President Eduard Shevarnadze, leader of the National Movement opposition bloc Mikhail Saakashvili urged the crowd in front of the Central Election Commission's building to disperse and to get ready for mobilization.

On November 4, 2003 in the village of Alkhan-Yurt, Chechnya's Urus-Martan district, Russian security agents, jointly with officers of Chechen Interior Ministry, arbitrary detained and took in an unknown direction four residents of this village.

Ingush Migration Service head Ivan Pomeschenko announced it. According to him, close checks of the humanitarian missions' activity will start as early as just after the New Year's Day.

Participants in the All-Russian Conference of Civil Society Organizations that took place in Moscow on October 26-28 have published their resume.

The Chechen human rights activist considers Ivan Pomeschenko is to be called to account for his public defamatory allegations and offences against him.

The demonstrators supported the demand to Georgian President Eduard Shevarnadze to cease garbling parliamentary election results and acknowledge a victory of "National Movement" led by Mikhail Saakashvili.