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Aleksandr Cherkasov of the Human Rights Center Memorial also called reports about Ingush rebels into question. According to information he had, only one group acting in the area of the Nazran market was made up of Ingushetians, the composition of the other groups was mixed.

Among the dead, there are 23 civilians, 29 police officers, 10 Federal Security Service officials, 5 prosecutors, 19 servicemen, 2 Chechen Interior Ministry officials and 7 border guards.

Head of the OSCE Mission in Georgia Ambassador Roy Reeve emphasized that "Georgian journalists have turned to the OSCE Mission many times after the South Osetian authorities started hampering the coverage of the situation in the conflict zone."

Three of the arrestees had forged certificates of officers of the Chechen president's security service on them.

The Ingush president also claimed that the group of security forces in Ingushetia would not be considerably enlarged. "I don't think it is necessary to increase the strength of security agencies radically," he said.

Appeals to organize pogroms were heard in the village on Yandare, Ingushetia's Nazran district, during funerals of people who fell victims to the developments of the night of June 21-22.

As reported by the Ingushetia.ru website, Shamil Basayev or a man bearing resemblance to him was noted among the attackers.

The decision by the Ingush leadership to compensate for moral and material damage applies to both republican law enforcers and civilians.

The wound on the head of Tamar Tadtayeva looks much more like an injury with a deep abrasion. No proof that the woman was wounded by a shell fragment exists.

For the last 10-15 years, ecological services and a group of scientists and specialists of Novocherkassk institutes of higher education have done serious researches on the city's ecology.

The conference titled "Citizens' Constitutional Rights in the Draft Federal Constitutional Law on the Referendum in the Russian Federation" was held in Stavropol on June 21.

Yevloyev is commander of the group that acted on the territory of Ingushetia, Alu Alkhanov added.

Today, Movsar Khamidov officially notified the Chechen Central Election Commission of his intention to take part in the forthcoming presidential election in Chechnya.

18 civilians were killed in Nazran, 1 - in Karabulak, 2 - in the Sunzha district and 20 - in the Nazran district of the republic.

A press conference of Amnesty International devoted to the situation in Ingushetia has started in the Independent Press Institute in Moscow.

Officers of security agencies in masks and camouflage uniform, who came in several cars without number plates, captured Rezvan Dudayev without bringing any charges and took him away in an unknown direction.

The International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights and the Moscow Helsinki Group have raised their concern in connection with the developments in Ingushetia.

Early in the morning of June 22, activists of the Organization for Karabakh Liberation with anti-Armenian transparencies surrounded the hotel in which the conference is being held. Several people were injured in the clash with law enforcers, and one activist was detained.

These figures are tentative, the source said.

A rebel group numbering up to 20 people assaulted a check-point with police officers from Khakasiya.