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In conformity with the law on the elections, elections are declared valid if one third of voters took part in the voting.

The Baksanyonok residents report that the plots of land and shares of property were allotted to them during the reorganization of a state farm but they were not given any documents certifying their title.

Temur Lomsadze, an acting public lawyer, visited Gia Dzhokhtaberidze on March 25. He found him sharing the cell with four prisoners accused of grave crimes.

The nearest picket of those planned for the period of mobilization is to take place at the Kursky railroad terminal on Sunday, March 28.

A four-year boy was hit by an APC (armored personnel carrier) with Russian servicemen in one of the streets of Grozny on March 25. Later, the child died from injures in the 9th city hospital.

On March 25, the court of first instance of Yerevan's Arabkir and Kanaker-Zeytun Communes rejected the suit of Artashes Bakhshian, a member of the Armenian State Commission on Protection of Economic Competition, versus the Business Express weekly.

Ramzan Alaudinov was held in a temporary district police department until May 2000. But when the Siberian policemen's assignment was over and they returned to Khanty-Mansiysk, Tamara Tabulayeva lost connection with her son.

David Badjagua, a 25-year-old activist of the Georgian NGO Association of Young Lawyers and Political Scientists, has been released in the zone of the Georgian-Abkhazian conflict. Abductors have been holding him on the territory of Abkhazia for two months.

On March 25, a 15-year-old teenager was killed and two teenagers were badly wounded in a missile attack from a military helicopter on the outskirts of the village of Ordzhonikidzevskaya, Ingushetia's Sunzha district.

Approximately 20 police officers armed with automatic weapons took part in the search, according to information of the movement.

Azerbaijan President Ilkham Aliyev has denied the existence of the agreement between Azerbaijan and Armenia concerning the resolution of the Karabakh conflict that was reached in Paris and Key West in the spring of 2001.

Early in the morning of March 25, a Russian bomb squad was in the village of Gordali, Chechnya's Gudermes district, trying to neutralize a land mine when it suddenly exploded.

One of the leaders of the Azerbaijan Diaspora, retired militia officer Makhir Ilyasov, was killed by a shot to the neck in Krasnoyarsk on the night of March 23-24.

"Russia will strongly object to such attempts, and we count on the support of the majority of Commission Members," Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Yuri Fedotov said.

The government of Nagorny Karabakh has passed a resolution on providing free medical care for certain sections of the population.

The Prague meeting of the foreign ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan on the resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict scheduled for March 29 will not be held.

As a convoy was leaving the village of Samashki, unidentified attackers opened grenade and small arms fire at an UAZ-452 van at the end of the convoy.

A Chechen policeman from Grozny was kidnapped in the village of Urus-Martan on March 24.

"The human rights monitoring in Chechnya must be carried out by an ombudsman in Chechnya. That is why the post of human rights envoy should be introduced there as soon as possible," Commissioner for Human Rights in the Russian Federation Vladimir Lukin said at a press conference on March 25.

"Had rebels really managed to take our soldiers prisoners, we would have known there names and other details by now," a source at the military commandant's office said.