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Deputy chair of the Azerbaijan Popular Front Party branch in Nakhchivan Gasan Aliyev explained his decision by the persecution of opposition activists in the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic.

These municipal elections will be the third in Karabakh after the declaration of independence.

Three terrorists, Akhmed Ismailov, Yusup Yunusov, and Valid Suleymanov, were sentenced to life imprisonment. They all were charged with a number of grave crimes, terrorism, murder and illegal use of arms.

Head of the Kabardino-Balkarian Organized Crime Unit Beslan Mukozhev told a briefing on June 2 that 380 followers of radical Islam were on the lists of the republican Interior Ministry.

Said-Emin Abubakarov together with his family has to stay with his relatives now in order to be in more safety.

Several deputies voiced the opinion that Georgia's highest legislative body should react to the recent developments in the Tskhinvali region.

Members of the International Working Group to Search for the Missing, Hostages and Prisoners of War in the Karabakh Conflict Zone arrived in Stepanakert on May 31.

Mr Slutsky gave the number of his mobile phone for further instructions. All the attempts made by the Memorial Human Rights Center to get in touch with Mr Slutsky using this number have failed so far.

Vakha Visayev is an adviser to the president of Chechnya. He holds Ph.D. (Russian Candidate of Science) in Economics.

The news programs in Osetian will be broadcast twice a day, Director General of Georgian National Television and Radio Company Zaza Shengelia told journalists.

Georgia's quota in the CIS Peacekeeping Force in the zone of the Georgian-Osetian conflict is 500 people. Only 150 Georgian peacekeepers are dislocated in the conflict zone now.

Six members of the Center for Democratic Development, which unites branches of the country's leading opposition parties in the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic, went on a hanger strike on May 31 to protest against the pressure put on the opposition by the police.

Relatives of people abducted by officers of federal security agencies gathered in the center of Grozny and broke into the building of the Chechen government at about 1 p.m. on June 2. However, the building was cleared soon after it and the people were dispersed.

The Georgian side promises that the rotation of the Georgian peacekeeping battalion will be conducted within two weeks and all units not related to the peacekeeping forces will be withdrawn. The sides will hold a press conference after the meeting.

Inhabitants of the tent camp Satsita hold that the illegal actions of migration service officials are one of the ways to put pressure on the refugees.

PACE rapporteurs on Chechnya, Andreas Gross and Rudolf Bindig, head the delegation.

"Nagorny Karabakh, Armenia and Azerbaijan rejected initial proposals presented by mediators because of different reasons," President of Nagorny Karabakh Arkady Gukasian said commenting on the results of the round table on the resolution of the Karabakh conflict that took place in Moscow in late May.

The chairperson of the Georgian parliamentary human rights commission, Elena Tevdoradze, is going to propose journalist Sozar Subeliani for the post of ombudsman.

According to refugees, migration service officials explain their denial to register them by a certain order received from Moscow.

A high-capacity explosive device mounted at the roadside went off when a column of federal forces, which consisted of one Ural truck and three armored vehicles, was passing by.