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He underlined the approaches of the US and Russia to the conflict settlement were similar; they are based on the principles of peaceful adjustment and territorial integrity of Georgia.

In the morning of August 15 Russian soldiers blocked several streets in the village of Samashki in the Achkhoy-Martan region to hold the next "cleanups".

People of Chechnya express special concern of the fact that cases have become more frequent when officials of Russian special services come to the funeral and demand from relatives of the dead man to tell the cause of the death.

"Kadirov`s security service seized our passports and then compiled lists using our personal statistics," said Zulfiya Zaurbekova.

According to the words of Rasim Abbasov, he testified on the preparation of violent power usurpation having yielded to threats and moral pressure.

"We are sure, that it is in the interests of Russian democracy to put an end to the antidemocratic actions of Krasnodar authorities against the widely known and high-performance human rights Fund "School of Peace", reads the statement.

On August 13 the PPS (patrol and sentry service) post "Orpheus", located on the administrative border of North Osetia with Ingushetia not far from the village of Kurtag, was fired from an antitank rocket launcher. Two shots were made from the direction of the neighboring republic from a forest belt.

The main department of justice of the Krasnodar territory tries to liquidate the Novorossiysk Fund "School of Peace" through court. The cause is that the organization has only one founding member, the other two left it in 1999-2000. The department of justice was notified about it, but at that time it did not object to the Fund's work.

Chris Yanovsky, a representative of the UN department on refugees, informed that 200 refugees had been turned out by force from the tent camp "Bella" in Ingushetia the other day.

Neither deputy, nor chairman of the Chechen regional branch of the United Russia Party Ruslan Yamadayev, who was in the car too, has suffered.

The analysis of recently declassified CIA documents evidences an official, though confidential recognition of the fact that Nagorny Karabah is a historical part of Armenia.

A press-conference will be held at the Institute of Press Development (Tverskoy Bulvar, 20) at 11:00 on August 19, 2003.

The procession was held within the framework of the exhibition that is opened in the Exhibition Hall of the Dagestan Republican Library. The exhibition is timed to the sad date: a year ago, on August 12, 2002, Arjan Erkel was kidnapped. His whereabouts is still unknown.

The police acted rather hard, batoning one and all regardless of age and sex of the oppositionists.

"One in no circumstances should forget the war between Azerbaijan and Armenia goes on", declared Safar Abiyev.

According to the words of the local branch chairman of the "Memorial" Vladimir Shnidtke, about 14:00 two men rushed into the society's quarters, one of them wearing a mask; they call themselves representatives of the society for Colonel Budanov's protection and announced that they needed a central computer with information.

More than fifty participants gathered for a round-table discussion "Public Organizations in Krasnodar region: Persecution Continues", which took place in Krasnodar; they discussed a situation arisen around the Novorossiysk Fund "School of Peace".

Chechen people were abducted by officers of Russian power structures; their whereabouts and further fate has not been ascertained yet.

In her last interview to the Rolling Stone magazine the Hollywood star said it was in her nearest plans to visit refugee camps on the border with Chechnya and acquaint herself with situation in the Northern Caucasus.

According to information of local residents, on August 11, 2003 Russian military men shoot down a car with 4 people in it in the village of Aldi (Zavodskoy District of Grozny).