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Sergey Lavrov said that "the approaches to these republics [Abkhazia, South Osetia] were coordinated long ago, there are interaction mechanisms concerning all questions both in Tskhinvali and Sukhumi."

Prosecutor General of Azerbaijan Zakir Garalov has promised that the trial will be fair and open.

The editors of the Caucasian Knot agency presented five students from Chechnya and Ingushetia with special prizes. Altogether 150 essays from Chechnya were submitted to the competition this year.

Amnesty International (AI), one of the world's largest human rights organizations, expressed its concern for the safety, and fear of further detention and torture of more than 80 relatives of Dr Omar Khambiev in Chechnya. We call your attention to AI's press release on this case.

The decision made by members of the Supreme Council was the last since the decree of the president of Georgia concerning the establishment of provisional direct presidential rule in the autonomous republic comes into force already today, May 7.

Only the leaders of the organization are empowered to issue a statement on its self-liquidation, representatives of the Revival party said.

A self-made explosive device went off when a police was going along Krasnoflotskaya Street.

"Until the elections are held, the Provisional Council will govern Adjaria. Its work will by under the control of the president of Georgia," Mikhail Saakashvili said to journalist today.

As a result of the liquidation of posts, the numerical strength of the Russian interior ministry's force will be reduced by more than 500 people, who will be sent to their permanent posts.

"They don't say it aloud, but there is an order to destroy or capture Maskhadov before May 7, that is to say, before the inauguration of President of Russia Vladimir Putin," the officer of the Chechen interior ministry said.

It is still a question how long the former head of the Adjarian autonomy will stay in the capital of Russia.

Azerbaijan's media is rated as "Not Free" in a new report by Freedom House, an international human rights organization.

Only Meskhetian Turks subjected to discrimination on the part of the Krasnodar regional authorities will move.

"The entire world should have been terrified by the deeds done, but it has remained deaf; the Russian society did more than show indifference, it, in the person of the jury, acquitted the criminals," reads the statement.

Approximately 20 people picketed a penal institution in the village of Tlyustenkhabl in the Republic of Adygeya on May 5. The aim of the action was to draw attention of the public to the inmates' maintenance conditions in this institution.

"Adjaria is free, the unification of all Georgia has begun," President of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili said during a short briefing commenting on the fact that Adjarian leader Aslan Abashidze had left the country.

Opposition leaders introduced the people holding a meeting to main directions of the resolution passed on April 28 by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) regarding the internal political situation in Armenia.

As reported by Reuters with reference to Tamara Gudava, press secretary of the Adjarian leader, Abashidze will speak "about the worsening situation in the region, as well as about the talks that have been conducted during the day."

The president of Georgia plans to establish direct presidential rule in the Adjarian autonomy from the moment when Aslan Abashidze resigns as head of Adjaria and until a new local government is elected.

"We find it impossible to work when women and children are beaten and we can't show it since every step we take is under control of up to 50 officers of special services. The time has come at last when the television will be given back to the Adjarian people," they said.