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Azerbaijan authorities plan to pardon Alikram Gumbatov on one condition. He will have to leave Azerbaijan for the Netherlands and reunite with his family in this country after his release.

Abkhazian Prime Minister Raul Khadzhimba has turned down the offer by Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili to reunite with Georgia, which the Georgian leader addressed to the Abkhazians and the Osetins.

The alleged reason for this large-scale mopping up operation was that four Russian policemen's dead bodies were discovered on the outskirts of Chernorechye in the evening of May 24.

Preventive punishment against Aramazd Zakarian, a member of the political council of the opposition party Republic, and Zhora Sapeian, head of the Talin regional branch, has been completely annulled, a source at the Armenian general prosecutor's office reported.

The Georgian side will also appoint its envoy, and both the men will solve current questions between the meetings of the delegations on security mechanisms.

Khalit Tagirov, who submitted documents for the registration as a candidate in the Chechen presidential election on May 25, refused to be a participant in the presidential race today.

The hunger strike had an extremely negative effect on the eyesight of Suren Sureniants and he had to stop the action of protest in six days after its beginning in order to avoid further complications, the opposition leader's lawyer said.

"If Sukhumi realizes and understands that the people who were evicted from Abkhazia have the right to go back to the graves of their loved ones and to their homes, then there will never be war again," the speaker of the Georgian parliament said.

The armored personnel carrier (APC) moving at the head of a military convoy of four cars and five APCs with Russian soldiers was blown up and then fired from automatic rifles.

Representatives of the Russian Federal Migration Service promised to pay a $500 reward to every refugee who would persuade 10 families of IDPs to voluntarily leave for the Chechen Republic.

"We are ready to consider any models for the structure of the state, taking into account the interests of the Osetins and Abkhazians to ensure their future," Mikhail Saakashvili said.

The resolution of the Georgian-Abkhazian problem is Georgia and Abkhazia's affair in fact, but Russia has a large part in the resolution of the conflict, Mikhail Saakashvili said.

How much does one human life cost? How many people are there who went away and never came back? How long will it last? People can address these questions to the President by signing a letter of inquiry prepared by lawyers of the Ryazan Memorial society and the Committee of Soldier's Mothers.

For the first time in the history of presidential elections in Chechnya, a woman decided to take part in the race. Her name is Mariat Gorchkhanova. She is a department head of the Urus-Martan town administration.

The simple denial of the convict's request to continue education violated 8 international documents obligatory for Azerbaijan.

Khanchukayev, Magomedov, Isayev, Aliyev, and Kushtanashvili were among 13 Chechens detained in August 2002 while crossing the Georgian-Russian border.

The International Society Memorial and the Rostov Foundation for Social Technologies carried out a joint action in Rostov-on-Don on May 25. It was devoted to the rights of the child.

The Russian military start applying the practice of conducting large-scale operations in Chechnya again. They completely cordon off settlements and check all people in the course of these operations.

A book about the situation in Chechnya has been published by Russian human rights organizations. Tatiana Lokshina, expertise and analysis director at the Moscow Helsinki Group, comments on its publication.

Suren Sureniants was arrested on April 6. He is charged with making public appeals to overthrow the power and insulting state officials.