The Board of Trustees Chairman of the Armenian Assembly of America said Senators' initiative was invaluable for Armenia in its economic development.

Observers are supposed to visit all 245 polling places of Karachaevo-Cherkessia on a day of the election (August 17) and to monitor the observance of a citizens' right for a free will.

"We welcome the concern you have expressed for Mr Erkel and we would like to respectfully urge you, and the Russian authorities on the ground, to spare no efforts in securing Mr Erkel's swift and safe release," reads the letter.

"We have identified both the terrorists and all individuals involved in purchasing the tool of the crime, the KAMAZ truck," Savenkov said.

"The international humanitarian law does not allow taking civilians hostage. Security is still a major problem for all humanitarian organizations working in the Northern Caucasus," recalled the Red Cross.

As local human rights affirm, the authorities of Krasnodar territory began threatening the Fund with closure after it had taken over a work of defending the rights of Turks-Meskhetians.

There are good causes to believe the true reason for bringing a suit was an active work of fund's staff on the observance of human rights in the Krasnodar region.

On August 10, 2003 the Chairman of the International United Committee of Refugees from Chechnya Shirvani Gunayev was detained by the officers of the Sunzhensky regional interior department in his tent in the tent camp "Sputnik".

Conference delegates reelected Roman Geriya, a Hero of Abkhazia, for the next term as a head of the regional department of "Aytaira".

The demonstration is timed to the anniversary of the abduction of the mission's head Arjan Erkel in Dagestan. "Doctors Without Borders" are dissatisfied with the progress of the investigation.

A group of Azerbaijan journalists visited the village at the instance of local residents. They saw there that house roofs are riddled with bullets, some bullets hit administrative buildings of the village.

Nine refugees from those who had been recently shifted from the camp "Bella" to the village of Ordzhonikidzevskaya were hospitalized because of poisoning by chemical substances by means of inhalation.

Unknown people rushed in the house of the militiaman, disarmed him and drove him away.

According to a source in the local police, several people attacked Valyukhin, who was inside his car, in an attempt to rob him.

A group of unidentified criminals opened fire at Khachilayev's car outside his home on Monday evening; the criminals fled.

According to preliminary results of the investigation, Artayeva hit a booby trap while playing in one of the abandoned houses.

"As a result of the anticriminal and antiterrorist operation started by Georgian power structures in August 2002, there is no separatist infrastructure in the Pankissi George any more, as well as, one may say, there are no separatists there", the official representative of the Georgian State Security declared.

On August 10 about 10 soldiers of the Nozhay-Yurt Regional Internal Affairs Department entered into a fire with separatists while being on concealed patrol not far from the village of Sogunti.

The Prosecutor of the Chechen Republic Vladimir Kravchenko noted that the highest activity of separatists' appearance to law-enforcement organs was registered in the Gudermes region.

Three Chechens, two women and a man, were in the passenger compartment; all of them wore shakhids' belts filled with explosives.