The Ichkerian State Defense Committee headed by Aslan Maskhadov warned about "coming vengeance" on all the Chechen presidential candidates, according to the Committee's resolution published in the underground newspaper "Ichkeria".

More than 200 scientists studying Armenia from 25 countries arrived in Yerevan to the International Congress on Studying of Armenia, which is taking place on September 15-20.

The UK Government called on the World Bank and other international credit organizations not to hurry to allot funds for the pipeline construction.

As the activist of the Human Rights Center "Memorial" in Nazran Shakhman Akbulatov noted, the explosion in Magas will undoubtedly complicate a situation in Ingushetia, and Chechen refugees settled in Ingushetia can indirectly suffer from this action.

A meeting of Armenian, Georgian and Azerbaijan parliamentarians under the aegis of the London information network on conflicts and state-building (LINKS), a British non-government organization, is to take place in Scotland before the middle of October.

Representatives of the Chechen Diaspora in Kirgizia - activists of the Chechen cultural center "Bart" - complained of xenophobia at a recent meeting with Russian ambassador Yevgeny Shmagin.

The displaced persons think Order 23/4449 of August 1, 2003 on the liquidation of the tent camp "Bella", which was signed by Federal Migration Service Deputy Head Major-General Yunash, is inhuman, going against Russian President Putin's statements and to be countermanded.

Levon Mkrtchian, the leader of the National Assembly's faction "ARFD", declared it. According to him, the mortals can not be given the right to kill a man.

Prosecutor of the Lazarevsky District Court of Sochi Kovalenko brought criminal proceedings by the article "slander" against Leonid Teleleyko, a well-known human rights activist and public figure of the Krasnodar region and Sochi. The writ was handed in by former Lazarevsky District Court Deputy Chairman Trukhan N. I. Teleleyko is articled for his publications in the Chernomorskaya Zdravnitsa and the Sochi newspapers in 2002.

In the village of Varennikovskaya local administration officials and policemen seized passports of the people of four houses, promising to give the documents back if the Turks fill in migration cards.

As it was reported at the Regional Operations Staff for the Control of the Antiterrorist Operation in the Northern Caucasus, this information was received from Lechi Aydiyev detained on suspicion of his belonging to armed units.

"The day before ten people armed with submachine guns, wearing masks and camouflage rushed into the house of police officer Ruslan Khalidov, which is situated on Sharipov Street in the Shalinsky district's Germenchuk village," said the interior ministry's official.

As it is indicated in the writ, they are threatened with life sentences and tortures in case of their extradition to Russia, and this contradicts the articles of the European Convention on Human Rights.

According to the oppositionist, it had been done to prevent him from taking part in a rally scheduled by his party for September 6.

The other day Hans Bodmer, a Swiss citizen, was arrested in Seoul. He was called a key figure in the bribery payments of tens of millions of dollars that were made to Azerbaijan top officials in 1997-1999 for giving the opportunity of taking part in the process of privatization in this country.

Chechen rebels are preparing new actions of intimidation, but this time terrorists are going to use virulent poison instead of bombs stuffed with bearings and ragged iron. This was reported at the Regional Operations Headquarters.

As it was reported at the Creative Union "Southern Wave", guests from the University of Cologne will appear at the seminar.

Russian Interior Minister Boris Gryzlov announced that Chechen separatists were preparing a series of terrorist acts on the threshold of the presidential election in Chechnya. This information was confirmed by field commander Shamil Basayev.

The studies of the Armenian Sunday school, which have been working for ten years already and basing in one of the secondary educational institution of the city, will be transferred into the Center.

On the threshold of the elections activists of "GOLOS" is going into the streets to remind citizens that it is important to vote during elections.