A training for young lawyers took place in Stepanakert on August 30-31. It was organized by Stepanakert's Press Club and the Artsakh Human Rights Association.

Despite the nationalities of presidential contenders in the second round of the elections in the Republic of Karachaevo-Cherkessia did not suggest any conflicts (a Karachai Mustafa Batdyev, a half-Russian and a half-Karachai Vladimir Semyonov), still some national overtones could be heard at some appearances during the last pre-election days.

The servicemen were guarding a railway near the village of Sernovodsk in the Achkhoy-Martan region.

Esiyev Artur was detained by officers of the Russian power structures of the Urus-Martan region on February 14, 2002.

100 children from poor families of the Kirovsky region in the Republic of North Osetia - Alania received presents for a new school year.

This action gives a free way to hold the second round of the election appointed on August 31.

"We expect international human rights organizations to come out immediately on all available levels in favor of defense of rights and liberties of the Chechen refugees living on the Czech territory ", reads the appeal.

A new Criminal Code of Armenia came into force on August 1, 2003. The clauses 135, 136 and 318 of this law provide criminal liability for slander and insult of a state official and a judge.

Protest rallies were held yesterday in Zugdidi (western Georgia), Tbilisi, and Gori. The protesters demanded from authorities to pay off arrears of social payments.

As the republican Interior Ministry reported yesterday, several unidentified criminals fired at Dalilov from sub-machine guns in the village of Prigorodnoye on Thursday.

Forced migrants from the Chechen Republic ask to help them reinstate 325 people in the lists of refugees. They were struck off the registration in the Federal Migration Service without any ground.

Russian servicemen without military insignia broke into the Asayevs' yard at 3 a.m. Without any charges they seized Shamkhan Asayev, his brother Magomed and the three brothers-in-law and took them away in an unknown direction.

The Council of Europe motivates the necessity of sanctions against Armenia by the thought that otherwise it will be difficult to guarantee fair elections in neighboring Azerbaijan and Georgia which are to take place this autumn.

The warden of the compact residence "Slavyanka-Fulat" situated in the stanitsa Troitskaya Zina Magomadova appealed to the Ingush office of the Society for the Russian-Chechen Friendship with a request to help her solve the problem of water supplies in the camp.

Representatives of non-government organizations protesting against the construction of the pipe-line Baku-Tbilisi-Jeikhan held a press conference in Baku yesterday.

A new federal law "About Alternative Civil Service (ACS)" will come into force on January 1, 2004. However, this law has a number of faults: the mechanisms of its maintenance are not completely worked out, there is a contradiction between some of its clauses, - all these things hinder the proper development of the ACS institution in Russia.

The Azerbaijan diaspora of the Krasnodar region has already gained support on this issue from 22 regional national communes, including Russian one.

The tournament was organized by the public organization "Step into the Future" and financially supported by the International Committee of the Red Cross.

Staff officials believe the robbery was premeditated because the second round of the election to the Commissioner for Human Rights in the Russian Federation is to be held in September.

The Court of Appeal demanded that former Interior Minister Abdulla Allakhverdiev should prove that Azerbaijan National Independence Party Chairman Etibar Mamedov, one of the presidential contenders for the election lying ahead in October, was making for the Armenian occupation of the Lachinsky region of Azerbaijan or refute his words in the next issue of the Palitra newspaper.