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A Georgian man is abducted in order to be exchanged for an Ossetian.

A former Guantanamo prisoner is abducted in the republic.

Unknown attackers kill a police officer.

The Beslan attack case continues to be heard in N Ossetia.

Adherents to xenophobic slogans numbered between 50% and 60% in the first half of 2005 in Russia, studies say.

One hundred and sixty thousand have been killed in the two Chechen wars.

Three children are wounded in the republic.

A 10-year-old boy is killed and eleven people are wounded in Chechnya.

Five Russian military men are killed in a rebel attack.

Chechen citizens demand compensations due to them for homes and property lost in action.

Chechnya's authorities admit that Vostok battalion servicemen carried out the <a href="http://eng.kavkaz.memo.ru/newstext/engnews/id/814535.html" target="_blank">clean-up</a> in Borozdinovskaia, but deny abductions.

Unidentified persons abduct Ichkeria Vice President Doku Umarov's sister.

People left without homes stage a rally.

Two local residents abducted in Starye Atagi are released after being beaten in a police station.

Unidentified persons set fire to the houses of some law enforcement agents.

An Azerbaijani youth movement activist undergoes violence in a prosecutor's office.

Police officer wounds his fellow servicemen.

Torture and degrading treatment of Muslims in this North Caucasus republic are regular, thinks a human rights defender.

"About 1,000 Azerbaijani citizens will not be able to exercise their electoral right," says human rights defender Leila Yunus.

The OSCE Baku Office makes a statement condemning attacks on People's Front of Azerbaijan.