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As meeting with Tskhinvali residents, Eduard Kokoity said international funds and governments would not make South Osetia give up its desire to reunite with Russia irrespective of an amount of money they offered for that.

Beginning from June 4, they start holding permanent meetings and other actions of civil protest and disobedience, the opposition leaders said.

Danilbek Magomadov, a 26-year-old local, was captured by officers of security agencies in the Chechen village of Achkhoy-Martan. The officers arrived at the settlement in several cars without number plates and took the man away in an unknown direction.

Sulim Eldarov was one of the commanders subordinated directly to separatist leader Aslan Maskhadov.

Movsar Ibragimov, a professor at the Moscow State Pedagogical University, was appointed Chechen Minister for Nationalities, Information, and External Relations.

The defendants explained their actions by the refusal of the court to satisfy their numerous petitions concerning the holding of the preliminary hearing.

Both the detainees are suspected of committing attacks on federal soldiers and republican law enforcers and murdering civilians.

Two former refugees living in the Achkhoy-Martan district of the Chechen Republic turned to the Ingush office of the Information Center of the Society for Russian-Chechen Friendship in Karabulak. They complained about difficult conditions their families were in.

Locals categorically demanded that Kadyrov's people should abandon the practice of committing arbitrary night attacks on private houses.

The election commission intends to strictly abide by the Constitution and the law on elections of the president of the Chechen Republic while making preparations for and holding the election, the chairman of the election commission, Abdul-Kerim Arsakhanov, emphasized.

On May 30, for the first time over the last several years, the Grozny-Moscow train will make its run.

Vladimir Weissman of the International Helsinki Federation and Karina Moskalenko of the Moscow-based International Protection Center arrived in Nazran as experts in international law.

The press conference titled "Mikhail Trepashkin: Sentence with Particular Cynicism" will be held at the Independent Press Center in Moscow on May 24.

"We expect an unbiased, not pro-Georgian position from Russia. We wish the Abkhazian population well and are not going to evict them from their houses," the speaker of the Georgian parliament said.

The united Armenian opposition informs of the beginning of a new wave of detentions of its activists.

Ingush migration service officials have denied information that the premises of the temporary accommodation center for refugees Oskanovskiye Garages in the village of Ordzhonikidzevskaya are contaminated with chemicals.

Results of the monitoring of presidential and parliamentary elections in Chechnya conducted by the Moscow Helsinki Group with the support of the Caucasian Knot agency and the Memorial center form the basis of the book "Chechnya 2003: Political Process in Zazerkalye".

The workshop will be conducted within the framework of the Counteraction to Language of Hostility: the Civil Position of Russian NGOs and Media project.

A source at the Chechen interior ministry rated the reports that Shamil Basayev had taken responsibility for Akhmad Kadyrov's assassination as the rebels' propaganda move.

"We have reached an understanding that we deny the use of force in the future and will make common efforts not to allow any inciting actions and statements both in the security zone and against us," the Abkhazian foreign minister said.