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For the past day Chechen separatists exploded three landmines in Chechnya.

17-year old Elsa Katsayeva was taken just from her house and driven in an unknown direction by the Russian soldiers on four armored cars with board numbers painted over.

Its founders are specialists of the regional charitable fund ?A Mother and a Child?, the winners of the competition of NGO?s social projects that was held by the city administration.

In July one year passed since the institution of ombudsman had been established in the Stavropol region. On July 25, 2002 the State Duma of the Stavropol region appointed A. Selyukov Commissioner for Human Rights in the region.

By now the ministry of labor and social development is just in the center of program realization.

The organizers of the festival are the Don State Public Library, State Television and Radio Company ?Don-TR?, the editors of the television journal ?The Northern Caucasus?.

In accordance with the decision of the Government of the Russian Federation, a family residing in Chechnya will get a compensation in sum of 350 thousand rubles, a family residing in the other Russian regions ? in sum of about 120 thousand rubles.

He informed journalists about it after his return from Geneva where a meeting of the Group of Friends of the Secretary-General of the United Nations had taken place.

A meeting between representatives of the human rights organization ?Sintar? and the Society for the Russian-Chechen Friendship took place on July 29, 2003. The situation with Chechen refugee camps in Ingushetia was in the center of the discussion.

A group of Georgian peacekeeping military includes 34 fighters of special assignment forces, 20 army medics, and 15 engineers.

President of Russia Vladimir Putin ordered to provide all necessary help to the victims and families of the dead.

The work of the Center is supported by the Open Society Institute and the information and analytical agency ?Caucasian Knot?.

The heads of the parliaments of the Caucasian Four countries - Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia, and Russia has proceeded today to the discussion of regional security problems.

Specialists has been tasked to check what physical injuries Y. Budanov received in the period from 1995 to 2000 and determine what influence they could have on the health of the accused.

From today the acsses to the site of Chechen separatists "Kavkaz - Center", which was located on the server of the Estonian firm "Starman", has been closed.

According to the assurance of the Azerbaijan Ministry of Health, a strict quarantine regime was established at the airport "Bina" and Baku's railway station.

The Monitoring Group of the Human Rights Organizations does not recognize Eldar Zeynalov?s standpoint. At the same time, the Monitoring Groups calls the public to avoid any kind of violence against the organization, headed by Eldar Zeynalov.

On April 25, 2003 the regular action of protest against the visits of the Human Rights Center of Azerbaijan (HRCA) to Armenia and Nagorny Karabah was held in front of the office of this organization.

The Court did not answer on Monday the first three of 24 claims to the Moscow City Government for moral and material damage compensation to the sum of 4 million dollars.

A large crowd of about 40 women from the New Azerbaijan Party is smashing Arif and Leyla Yunusovs? office. They have already broken the panes, pelted the walls with eggs. They are trying to rush inside, breaking the doors.