The CEC member Azer Tagiev alleged that the free air limit granted to the candidates by the national television companies was increased from 3 hours to 6 hours per week.

Yesterday Filandrov met Abkhazian Foreign Minister Sergey Shamba. He told about a project concerning freedom of speech and conflict settlement. In his turn, Sergey Shamba emphasized the importance of this project for Abkhazia.

On August 24, Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie, the Goodwill Ambassador to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, ended her visit to Russia.

At the headquarters of the United Forces in the Northern Caucasus, they do not exclude that it was Basayev who planned the recently launched attempt to seize the village of Avtury which is situated on one of the main routes from the mountains to the plains of Chechnya.

The principal version is terrorism. At the same time the regional State Department of Internal Affairs did not exclude the version of hooliganism and considered it possible that mentally unstable people, supposedly former participants of military actions, were connected with the explosions.

Relatives of Elza Kungayeva, who was savagely murdered by Colonel Yuri Budanov in 2000, have left Russia. As journalist Anna Politkovskaya said, the Kungayev family has left to "one European country" forever.

"Local and federal authorities in Ingushetia must immediately cease any attempts to coerce these refugees into returning to what continues to be an unsafe environment," Amnesty International urges.

As the head of the Department for Migration and Refugees under the republican government Gagik Eganian informed in his interview on Tuesday, this decision was made by the Armenian government on Wednesday.

Ruslan Badalov, a chairman of the Regional Public Movement "Chechen National Rescue Committee" told the correspondent about it on Saturday.

Representatives of the Chechen national media did not suspend their work as they had announced before. It was reported by Deputy Director of the Information Agency "Grozny-Inform" Ayshat Akhmayeva.

"I declare my political position of adherence to peace and political adjustment remains unalterable. I believe that sooner or later plenipotentiaries of Chechnya and Russia will sit down at the bargaining table so as to put an end to the centuries-old confrontation between our nations," reads the statement.

An enlarged meeting took place at the Government of the republic to discuss the results of the first round of the presidential election in Karachaevo-Cherkessia and the preparation for the second round of the vote.

Prosecutor of the Republic Vladimir Gannochka, Interior Minister Alexey Lapin, Vice-Chairman of the Election Commission of the Republic of Karachaevo-Cherkessia Marat Tebuyev assured republican journalists there had not been any significant breaches of the electoral legislation during the past presidential election.

Women-representatives of the Muslim Cultural Center of North Osetia - Alania took part in the round-table meeting devoted to the topic "World Through Religion", where they discussed a role of a woman in the contemporary world.

A military motorcade was fired on Saturday morning in Grozny; one serviceman died and three more got wounded.

The participants of the protest campaign consider this event a step toward the solution of the problem.

200 thousand names of 540 thousand included into the electoral rolls in Chechnya were dead souls, State Duma Deputy Aslambek Aslakhanov, one of the contenders for the president of Chechnya, declared in his interview to the Agence France-Presse.

The part of the Karachai people supporting the active president of the Republic of Karachaevo-Cherkessia Vladimir Semyonov arranges meetings of protest against the first round results of the presidential election in the republic and demands to put out Mustafa Batdyev from the election race.

"I presume that we should not let any foreigner in Azerbaijan - whether it is a congressman, a mass media representative, a public figure or a politician - if he or she visits Nagorny Karabah without a permission of the official Baku", declared the Azerbaijan Foreign Minister.

The refugees of the tent camp "Bart" situated in the city of Karabulak in the Nazran region of Ingushetia appealed to the Ingush office of the Society for the Russian-Chechen Friendship.