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Ashot Gulyan said it was inadmissible for Azerbaijan to politicize the humanitarian problems, and in particular, the problem of the search of the missing.

The aim of the program is to enlighten people of their election rights, inform the audience about the candidates and their election platforms.

Chechen Security Council Secretary Rudnik Dudayev reported in the phone conversation.

Six public (non-party) organizations of the Stavropol region became initiators of the association establishment. The founders find their main purpose in exercising control of the election process in the region. Such organizations successfully function in 30 regions of Russia.

More than 80 delegates from Jordan, Syria, Turkey, Israel, the US, the Netherlands, France, Great Britain - countries where Adyg diasporas live compactly, as well as delegations from Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Krasnodar Territory and republics of the Northern Caucasus arrived.

"We are still seriously concerned about the abductions. Law enforcement agencies have not been doing enough to prevent and solve these crimes," announced Chechnya's First Deputy Prime Minister Movsar Khamidov.

The Eni Musavat newspaper with a reference to the Turkish web-site Avrasiya.turk.com informs that some power circles of Azerbaijan are trying to form illegal armed units to get rid of several opposition leaders.

As Lawyer Lyudmila Trunova said, a complaint was made after the rejection of the Tverskoy Court to answer 24 claims for the compensation of moral damage.

On August 14, 2003 there was a meeting of the Chairman of the Spiritual Administration of Moslems of the Republic of Karelia Mufti Visam Ali Bardvil with the chairman of the Commission on Human Rights in Karelia Marat Tarasov, which was devoted to the events that had taken place on August 2, 3, 4, 2003 in the town of Kondopoga. Then so-called troopers attacked people of non-Slavic appearance working on the markets of the city.

Representatives of the region's government, bodies of local authorities, ministries, committees, military and patriotic public organizations, mass media, cultural and educational institutions from all over the Stavropol region assembled to share experience, problems and their solutions.

The Territorial Election Commission of Stavropol has prepared the Appeal to Leaders of Mass Media Organizations.

The results of the monitoring will be systematically delivered to the Council of Europe and other international organizations.

The Spiritual Administration of Moslems of the Republic of Karelia sent letters to the prosecutor of the republic Vladimir Panasenko and Interior Minister Dmitry Mikhaylov on the matter of the deportation of Russian citizens of the Chechen nationality beyond the Karelian bounds.

On August 12 the Chairman of the International United Committee of Refugees from Chechnya Shirvani Gunayev was released in the village Sleptsovskaya in the Sunzhensky region of Ingushetia.

A group of Abkhazian customs officials rushed in the house of the Tsulaias and captured 32-year old Merab Tsulaia, as well as a guest staying in the house; the name of the latter remains unknown.

Interior Minister Boris Gryzlov has reported to Vladimir Putin that the situation in the Chechen Republic remained under control, a regional operations stuff under Russian Deputy Interior Minister functioned.

On August 7 Khadzhi Bayram Bolat, an ethnic Adyg being a citizen of Turkey now, was deported from Nalchik to Istanbul by force; on August 15 a press-conference was held on the initiative of the regional branch of the Russian Public Movement "For Human Rights" in Kabardino-Balkaria and the Committee for Defense of Khadzhi Bolat's Rights created the day before.

The Tbilisi underground came to a standstill, and several dozen thousands of passengers were stranded in metro trains; metro workers made strenuous efforts to evacuate them to the surface.

Republican Election Commission Chairman Safar Geryukov noted that the date for the run-off will be set once the final results of the first round are available.

Ivan Pomeshchkenko, an acting head of the Department for Migration Affairs of Ingushetia, accused Chechen human rights activist Ruslan Badalov of bribing several refugees.