Interior Minister Boris Gryzlov has reported to Vladimir Putin that the situation in the Chechen Republic remained under control, a regional operations stuff under Russian Deputy Interior Minister functioned.

On August 7 Khadzhi Bayram Bolat, an ethnic Adyg being a citizen of Turkey now, was deported from Nalchik to Istanbul by force; on August 15 a press-conference was held on the initiative of the regional branch of the Russian Public Movement "For Human Rights" in Kabardino-Balkaria and the Committee for Defense of Khadzhi Bolat's Rights created the day before.

The Tbilisi underground came to a standstill, and several dozen thousands of passengers were stranded in metro trains; metro workers made strenuous efforts to evacuate them to the surface.

Republican Election Commission Chairman Safar Geryukov noted that the date for the run-off will be set once the final results of the first round are available.

Ivan Pomeshchkenko, an acting head of the Department for Migration Affairs of Ingushetia, accused Chechen human rights activist Ruslan Badalov of bribing several refugees.

Two soldiers were dead and about 10 soldiers got wounds of different severity as a result of a massive fire on the building from the automatic and grenade-guns.

Earlier a collection of signatures on the streets of the capital was practically stopped because of the stubborn counteraction of Moscow's Central Administrative District Prefecture, and mainly because of complete destruction of the TRP Moscow's office as a result of a stealing of office equipment.

He underlined the approaches of the US and Russia to the conflict settlement were similar; they are based on the principles of peaceful adjustment and territorial integrity of Georgia.

In the morning of August 15 Russian soldiers blocked several streets in the village of Samashki in the Achkhoy-Martan region to hold the next "cleanups".

People of Chechnya express special concern of the fact that cases have become more frequent when officials of Russian special services come to the funeral and demand from relatives of the dead man to tell the cause of the death.

"Kadirov`s security service seized our passports and then compiled lists using our personal statistics," said Zulfiya Zaurbekova.

According to the words of Rasim Abbasov, he testified on the preparation of violent power usurpation having yielded to threats and moral pressure.

"We are sure, that it is in the interests of Russian democracy to put an end to the antidemocratic actions of Krasnodar authorities against the widely known and high-performance human rights Fund "School of Peace", reads the statement.

On August 13 the PPS (patrol and sentry service) post "Orpheus", located on the administrative border of North Osetia with Ingushetia not far from the village of Kurtag, was fired from an antitank rocket launcher. Two shots were made from the direction of the neighboring republic from a forest belt.

The main department of justice of the Krasnodar territory tries to liquidate the Novorossiysk Fund "School of Peace" through court. The cause is that the organization has only one founding member, the other two left it in 1999-2000. The department of justice was notified about it, but at that time it did not object to the Fund's work.

Chris Yanovsky, a representative of the UN department on refugees, informed that 200 refugees had been turned out by force from the tent camp "Bella" in Ingushetia the other day.

Neither deputy, nor chairman of the Chechen regional branch of the United Russia Party Ruslan Yamadayev, who was in the car too, has suffered.

The analysis of recently declassified CIA documents evidences an official, though confidential recognition of the fact that Nagorny Karabah is a historical part of Armenia.

A press-conference will be held at the Institute of Press Development (Tverskoy Bulvar, 20) at 11:00 on August 19, 2003.

The procession was held within the framework of the exhibition that is opened in the Exhibition Hall of the Dagestan Republican Library. The exhibition is timed to the sad date: a year ago, on August 12, 2002, Arjan Erkel was kidnapped. His whereabouts is still unknown.