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Firemen arrived in time to help the center's guard who had started extinguishing the fire. They coped with it in a few minutes.

"Another five people, including one officer, received wounds of different severity. They were hospitalized," a source in the Chechen military commandant's office said to the Caucasian Knot correspondent.

According to information of the Osetian side, not all armed units have been withdrawn from the zone controlled by peacekeeping forces, some of them have been quartered in the villages situated in the zone of the conflict.

The PACE delegation was unable to meet with representatives of the Grozny office of the Human Rights Center Memorial though the meeting had been planed in advance.

The book "To All People Whose Fates Are Seen in the Distance" holds not only reminiscences but also a piece of advice how to register rehabilitation, what documents must be prepared, what agencies one should address, and what legislative acts one can use proving his or her innocence.

Experienced lawyers will help Malik Saidullayev during his election campaign, a source at the Chechen Central Election Commission reported.

The constitutional regime will be based on the system that has developed and justified itself in the last ten years. The matter concerns the presidential system of government.

Deputy chair of the Azerbaijan Popular Front Party branch in Nakhchivan Gasan Aliyev explained his decision by the persecution of opposition activists in the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic.

These municipal elections will be the third in Karabakh after the declaration of independence.

Three terrorists, Akhmed Ismailov, Yusup Yunusov, and Valid Suleymanov, were sentenced to life imprisonment. They all were charged with a number of grave crimes, terrorism, murder and illegal use of arms.

Head of the Kabardino-Balkarian Organized Crime Unit Beslan Mukozhev told a briefing on June 2 that 380 followers of radical Islam were on the lists of the republican Interior Ministry.

Said-Emin Abubakarov together with his family has to stay with his relatives now in order to be in more safety.

Several deputies voiced the opinion that Georgia's highest legislative body should react to the recent developments in the Tskhinvali region.

Members of the International Working Group to Search for the Missing, Hostages and Prisoners of War in the Karabakh Conflict Zone arrived in Stepanakert on May 31.

Mr Slutsky gave the number of his mobile phone for further instructions. All the attempts made by the Memorial Human Rights Center to get in touch with Mr Slutsky using this number have failed so far.

Vakha Visayev is an adviser to the president of Chechnya. He holds Ph.D. (Russian Candidate of Science) in Economics.

The news programs in Osetian will be broadcast twice a day, Director General of Georgian National Television and Radio Company Zaza Shengelia told journalists.

Georgia's quota in the CIS Peacekeeping Force in the zone of the Georgian-Osetian conflict is 500 people. Only 150 Georgian peacekeepers are dislocated in the conflict zone now.

Six members of the Center for Democratic Development, which unites branches of the country's leading opposition parties in the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic, went on a hanger strike on May 31 to protest against the pressure put on the opposition by the police.

Relatives of people abducted by officers of federal security agencies gathered in the center of Grozny and broke into the building of the Chechen government at about 1 p.m. on June 2. However, the building was cleared soon after it and the people were dispersed.