The Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office stressed the incident was quite serious, considering the fact that the parties of the conflict were to guarantee the security of the observers' mission.

It was reported on Wednesday evening by Colonel Ilya Shabalkin, an official representative of the regional operations staff for control of the antiterrorist operation in the Northern Caucasus. He also said that ?many of the separatists blocked in were wounded, and the liquidation of the militant group was still going on?.

A special workgroup to prevent and settle South Caucasian conflicts and increase the role of parliaments in the settlement of these conflicts was established within the framework of the Initiative.

17 women refugees from Abkhazia made such a decision after they had got assurances they would be granted habitation in another building.

After 3 days of a waterless hunger-strike, on which Zimbovsky had went voicing a protest against the humiliation of human dignity in the ward, he was taken to the hospital on the ambulance and then released.

The trip was organized by the Regional Public Institution Art-Serlo and the Dagestani Regional Charitable Foundation SOS-Salvation.

Experts from profile ministries and departments, representatives of public organizations, scientific and cultural activists took part in the meeting.

This was reported by Argun City Administration Head Kerim Guchigov on Wednesday.

The Congress of the International Circassian Association decided to appeal to the President of the Russian Federation and all leaders of the South Federal District against the attempts to restore the monument to Admiral Lazarev in the village of Lazarevskoye, a compact residence of one of the Adyg people ? the Shapsugi of the Black Sea.

They spilled petrol over themselves and threatened with self-immolation if this building is not granted to them for habitation. The refugees threatened to burn several hostages, Metrostroy employees, as well.

The newspaper names Khizri Aldamov and Meka Khangoshvili as possible candidates.

The specialist is expected to go to Chechnya as a member of the group of Russian human rights activists. This group is being formed by the Moscow Helsinki Group along with the Commission on Human Rights under the President of Russia.

As Chechen Deputy Interior Minister Sultan Satuyev informed, people in masks and military uniform rushed in the houses, beat people and shouted they would kill them if they did not vote for Akhmad Kadirov at the presidential election.

The picketers tried to go to the building from several directions, but officers of law-enforcement structures suppressed this attempt.

It is not possible to hold free election in Chechnya today, stated Chechen and Russian human rights defenders from the Memorial, the Chechen National Rescue Committee, the Council of Non-Government Organizations, the Mothers of Chechnya and others during their meeting in Nazran on August 18.

Executive power officials warn the entrepreneurs that it is inadmissible for them to hold election posters of opposition contenders for the president of Azerbaijan in their shop-windows and threaten closure to their businesses.

In the opinion of the relatives of the missing, their solidarity will promote the search and get the negotiation process moving.

GIBDD services will daily see to the traffic near all schools and educational institutions.

In the opinion of the director for contacts with the Congress of the Armenian Assembly of America, the opening of the border met Turkish economic interests and would serve as a guarantee of common regional stability.

"We hope we?ll manage to make sure that our friends ? congressmen, senators and their assistants will get more information on the range of Armenian problems which are of current importance to Armenia and the Diaspora", said the regional director of the Armenian Assembly of America Arpi Vardanian.