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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The battalions Zapad, Vostok and others are to be withdrawn from the town.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.

Ilgar Ibragimoglu is a member of the Majlis of the Islami Ittihad society, the activity of which has been outlawed in Azerbaijan recently.

The editor of the Azadlyg newspaper, Ganimat Zaidov, announced that the organizational committee to hold the forum, consisting of 9 people, had already been set up. The goal of the action is to draw the attention of the international community and Azerbaijan's authorities to the threat to freedom of the media.

All police units and the military unit quartered in Kabardino-Balkaria have gone on higher state of alert as operational information about an imminent rebel attack had been received.

The Chairman of the Committee to Protect Rights of Officers of the OPON Special Police Force, Famil Suleymanov, has accused human rights activists Gadjimurad and Rena Sadaddinovs of bribery.

The Dagestani Prosecutor's Office has finished an investigation into the criminal case against Colonel Imamudin Temirbulatov and Major Ayvar Akhmedov. The investigators' version is that they are involved in abductions of people in Dagestan.

Timur Aliyev, editor of the independent newspaper Chechen Society, was summoned to the Organized Crime Unit of the Ingush Interior Ministry in the morning today.

"The Former Political Prisoners for Human Rights non-governmental organization (NGO) often lays strictures on authorities. That is why it is not included in the group of NGOs chosen by the president to form the council," Nana Kakabadze, the leader of this NGO, stated.