A dead body of Adam Gatsayev, the administration head of the Goyskoye village situated in the Urus-Martan district, was found by local residents on the outskirt of this settlement on September 5.

According to Bayburtian, some Georgian media consider the Armenians residing in the republic to be a cause of all failures of the Georgian state.

Problems of the Nagorno-Karabah, Abkhazian, and Pridnestrovsky conflicts, as well as the situation on Cyprus will be discussed at the conference.

Other four apartment houses for those who had to stay in the tent camps on the territory of Ingushetia after their dwellings had been destroyed will be opened in Grozny before the end of September, acting Chechen President Anatoly Popov said at the opening ceremony.

The Monitoring Group of the Council of Europe particularly underlined in its report published in Strasburg that Armenia must pass the laws on the mass media activity and Azerbaijan must release all political prisoners.

Nadir Bagirov served 10 years in jail, and his death was caused by tuberculosis. Bagirov was, to all appearances, infected with it in one of the jails.

Speaking at a press conference in Moscow on September 9, Svetlana Gannushkina, Lev Ponomaryov and Yury Samodurov stressed that their human rights groups would continue as before to send their members to Chechnya on fact-finding missions but they would not act as official observers in these elections.

The re-registration of refugees that do not have Russian citizenship and exchange of old identity cards for new ones will be conducted in North Osetia from September 10 till November 15.

The other day during his meeting with power engineering specialists of the Republic of North Osetia - Alania the Russian President's Envoy for Osetian-Ingush Conflict Settlement Kulakovsky decided to allot 750 thousand rubles for the construction of a new power line that will lead to a refugee settlement. The settlement in question is 250 trailers situated on the border between Ingushetia and North Osetia.

The appeal reads that the UN Security Council adopted enough of decisions to settle the conflict. The present inactivity of the Council member states, as well as of the UN itself under such conditions "causes defensible discontent of the Azerbaijan public".

This was reported by the International Campaign to Ban Landmines.

The appeal was caused by the clash of the police with a group of oppositionists and journalists that took place in front of the Baku Police headquarters on September 8. As a result several people, including media workers, suffered.

"The materials published on the website "Kavkaz-Center" should be interpreted as a certain incitement against occupation Russian authorities in Chechnya and beyond its limits, however there is no incitement against the Russians and Christians themselves - this is the basic difference", declared the chairman of the commission.

As one of the authors of the draft, Parliament Vice-Speaker Tigran Torosian, reported, henceforth the ombudsman is appointed for a six-year term, he has no right to interfere in a trial, but he may introduce motions for fair treatment within the limits of the European norms on human rights.

Four sappers from the Georgian peacekeeping contingent stationed in Iraq have been transferred from a hospital in Kuwait to the United States for medical treatment. The Georgian Defense Ministry stated such a decision had been taken upon the recommendation of their US colleagues.

The National Assembly of Armenia ratified by 92 ayes with 1 nay Protocol 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights providing for the death penalty abolition.

On September 8 residents of the Jandara village in Eastern Georgia, mainly ethnic Azerbaijanians, held a rally protesting against local authorities.

Members of Azerbaijan's opposition Popular Front Party clashed with police in Baku on Monday. The incident occurred in front of the Baku police headquarters.

To all appearances, the unsanctioned detention of Kerimov, Patsayev, and Idigov is a way to put pressure upon Vagap Tutakov, the special representative of the Parliament of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria in the PACE.

Ziman Christoph noted Armenia had joined the Council of Europe voluntarily and undertaken concrete obligations, so it must respect the rules of this organization, including those for the unconditional death penalty abolition.