The last OSCE monitoring was foiled by shooting on August 19.

Over 300 thousand people fled from Azerbaijan to Armenia during the Karabah conflict in 1988-1991. Many of them still have no permanent residence.

"A doctor who had taken on the responsibilities of the hospital head three weeks before the explosion can not be responsible for what happened", reads the statement.

A meeting of protest against the ammoniac terminal of the corporation "TogliattiAzot" and the port "Zhelezny Rog" will take place in the center of Taman on August 31.

This was reported by the head of the Interior Department of the Krasnodar region Sergey Kucheruk after the meeting of the Regional Security Council.

At about noon on August 25, 2003, Russian servicemen seized identity cards of two members of the Human Rights Center "Memorial" during the inspection of motor transport at the block-post "Kavkaz-1".

"We'll soon slay all of your men here and your women will have to marry us for nobody is left here", said the servicemen.

Another meeting of the Regional Pardon Commission took place.

This was disclosed by Chechnya's Central Election Commission Secretary Ela Vakhitov on Wednesday.

Acting top prosecutor of Dagestan Magomed Abdulkhalikov told it at a news conference.

On August 26, members of the Karabah non-government human rights organization "Center of Civil Initiatives" (CCI) visited the Reformatory and Labor Institution of the Interior Ministry of the Nogorno-Karabah Republic (NKR). They handed 150 books over to the Institution's administration.

The opposition and experts qualify this resolution of the Central Election Commission as a limitation of freedom of mass media and political activity.

The women protest against the night abductions of people that go on. In the case in question the matter concerns electricians from the villages of Makhkety and Tovzeni that were taken away in armored personnel carriers in an unknown direction over 10 days ago.

The number of complaints to the European Court of Human Rights from Azerbaijan has approached 600. This was alleged by the Azerbaijan representative in the European Court of Human Rights Khanlar Gajiev.

The Human Rights Center of Azerbaijan decidedly condemns the campaign of moral and administrative terror in universities, which contradicts obligations of the Azerbaijan government to the Council of Europe.

"Gusayev pursued a course of counteracting extremism and terrorism and worked to defuse the acute situation in the republic. His assassination is an attempt to shatter the Dagestani society," Zorin said in an interview".

A protest rally against the actions of the Russian military was held on Monday in the Ingush village of Ordzhonikidzevskaya near the Chechen border. About one hundred people, locals as well as Chechen refugees, took part in this protest.

An explosive device went off as a Volga car was carrying Dagestani Minister for Nationalities and Information Magomedsalikh Gusayev to his office.

The armored UAZ-469 car hit a high-capacity radio-controlled landmine planted on the roadside.

On the instructions of Armenian National Assembly Chairman Artur Bagdasarian, a group of deputies visited the Nubarashen penitentiary institution on August 24.