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20 days prior to Election Day, only one candidate, Alu Alkhanov, is active in his election campaign.

"The fact that the US government did not oppose the immigration decision, which had rejected unsubstantiated allegations by the Russian government, is a strong affirmation of the long held position of the opposition government that a peaceful solution is in the best interests of all parties in this long-standing dispute," said ACPC Executive Director Glen Howard.

Beslan Kubrava, a board member of the movement, gave a report about main directions of the movement's activity. According to him, the movement will pay special attention to the group of social issues, problems of demography and repatriation. "Our strategic task is to improve the people's well-being," Mr Kubrava said.

In Arshak Sadoian's opinion, a wrong structure of the ruling system has been created, which gives too much power to the authorities.

Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov mentioned one more time that his visit to Abkhazia had only business purposes. He said he would have to solve some economic questions during it.

According to information obtained by investigative agencies, officers of the road and sentry service helped the rebel leader make his way to the Republic of Kabardino-Balkaria. Criminal proceedings have been instituted against these officers.

Minister of Finance and Economy of the Republic of Nagorny Karabakh Spartak Tevosian neither denied these reports nor gave any information about the purposes and place of the printing.

Members of the Federation of Human Rights Organizations of Azerbaijan raised problems of corruption, political prisoners, municipal elections, dependence of courts, human rights activists' access to prisons, and persecution of human rights activists and journalists.

This deal shows that the Armenian banking system has improved and is trustworthy.

"I call on everybody to be fair. I call to be active. Only the fair election can stabilize the situation," Abdula Bugayev said.

The battalions Zapad, Vostok and others are to be withdrawn from the town. They all are interested in appropriating as much money as possible, but we will not let them do it," Ramzan Kadyrov said.

Rebels set off a bomb of high-capacity when a column of federal forces, numbering 3 armored vehicles, was moving in the vicinity of the village of Agishti, Chechnya's Shali district. The bomb had been mounted on the roadside.

5 people are nominated for the post of Stepanakert Mayor. But experts believe three candidates will be the main rivals. They are Amik Avanesian, the present mayor, Eduard Agabekian, a deputy of the National Assembly of the Republic of Nagorny Karabakh, and Pavel Nadzharian, a board member of the pro-government Democratic Artsakh Union.

OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Miklos Haraszti addressed a letter to Azerbaijan Foreign Minister Elmar Mamedyarov last Thursday in connection with recent attacks against Aydin Guliyev, editor-in-chief of the Baki Khabar newspaper, and Eynulla Fatullayev, a reporter for the Monitor weekly, reported the OSCE Office in Baku.

We call your attention to the press release issued by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) on July 29.

The statement of the Washington office of the Hay Dat Committee is caused by attacks of George Bush's administration against the amendment, proposed by Congressman Adam Schiff, which forbids Turkey to use American help for the purpose of spreading propaganda against the resolution on the Genocide.

"If it had been a usual public statement, like those the president of Azerbaijan makes for interior use, it wouldn't possibly have worth reacting. But this time he poses the problem to his ambassadors in such a way, which really raises deep concern," Gamlet Gasparian emphasized.

According to the decision made by the sides, this post will exist until there are guarantees of peace in the zone of the conflict.

Four police officers from the Osetian side, Gazayev, Dzhioyev, Pliyev and Khubulov, were slightly wounded as a result of the fire. There is no information about people suffered from the Georgian side.

"As I understood, materials about human rights abuse in Chechnya published in our newspaper do not suit security agencies," the editor-in-chief of the Chechen Society newspaper, Timur Aliev, said.