As a result of the undermining of the electric train near Kislovodsk on Wednesday, 4 people died, 79 got wounded.

On September 1, 2003, the administration of the Chechen refugees' camp "Bella" situated on the outskirts of the Ordzhonikidzevskaya village in the Sunzhensky region of Ingushetia made an announcement. The announcement read, "According to the edict of the Federal Migration Service of the Russian Interior Ministry, the place of temporal residence "Bella" is closed since September 1".

The meeting lasted for more than an hour. All the speakers said a resolute 'No!' to the ammoniac terminal. They also stressed that the construction of the petrochemical port "Zhelezny Rog" on the Taman land was inadmissible.

5 people are in the group, all being citizens of Saransk. The recruitment was conducted at the instance of the Moscow Helsinki Group.

"The complex situation in the republic urges me to take up the duties of the republic's president", declared Mustafa Batdyev after his adjuration.

According to local authorities' information, Amayev got numerous injuries and a brain concussion.

A group of people wearing camouflage beat the Ministry's officials and their security guard and escaped by taking away 500 thousand rubles destined for salary payments.

According to the words of Russian Minister for Chechnya's Affairs Stanislav Ilyasov, the migrants must start living in normal conditions already before a winter colder weather begins.

On September 3, Kurds went into the street adjoining the office of the committee "Kurdistan" and performed a symbolical dance. They did it within the framework of the protest action.

The action was the expression of protest against the visit of the US Congressmen's representatives to Nagorny Karabah without Azerbaijan authorities' knowledge.

First Vice Chairman of the Musavat Party Vurgun Eyub was savagely beaten by police officers in the Akhmedly village of Baku.

The Tbilisi City Court answered to the claim of several media and non-government organizations to abolish the resolution passed by the Central Election Commission (CEC) on August 25, which appreciably limited the role of the mass media in the parliamentary elections coming on November 2.

On September 3 security forces in Abkhazia killed Georgian fugitive Gervasi Dzhologua in the village of Kindgi.

This was reported in an interview by people who are familiar with the current situation in the camp, as well as by refugees themselves.

Ambulance cars rushed 34 victims right from the site of explosion to hospitals of the population centers located in the Caucasian Mineral Spas health resort area.

The Azerbaijan Ministry of Defense refuted the report of the general staff commander of the Armenian Armed Forces Mikael Arutyunian that Azerbaijan servicemen had fired several shots from light artillery during the monitoring.

The investigation revealed that during the monitoring a hunter's shot had rung out on the Armenian territory three kilometers west from the Azerbaijan-Armenian border.

The Prosecutor General's Office of Russia has successfully investigated two acts of terrorism in Mozdok committed this year - the explosions of a military hospital and a bus with servicemen.

On September 2, the Central Election Commission of Azerbaijan ordered that the Ministry of Justice analyzed the appearance of the leaders of opposition parties on the state television. An insult of President Geydar Aliyev is imputed to them.

The round-table meeting was aimed at the exchange of experience and opinions between Azerbaijan and German journalists on the questions of the coverage of pre-election campaigns and the role of mass media in politics and elections.