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"Mr Saakashvili is right stating that the Russian military sides with the Osetians," the leader of Chechen separatists said and begged pardon for Chechen rebels' participation in the Georgian-Abkhazian war on the Abkhazian side.

Altogether there are seven candidates proposed by initiative groups and political organizations.

Chairman of the Nagorno-Karabakh Central Election Commission Sergey Davidian has noted in his interview with the Caucasian Knot correspondent that the second round of municipal elections in the Republic of Nagorny Karabakh was held on a high level.

Hajji Bayram Bolat, a Turkish citizen and ethnic Kabardinian deported in August 2003, arrived by air in Nalchik from Istanbul yesterday, August 23. His residential permit had been reinstated by a decision of a Nalchik court.

Dzhavashir Sadigov's lawyer says there is no evidence against his client.

Residents of Tskhinval bid farewell to two old men and their 15-year-old grandson.

Residents of Grozny evidence many civilians were killed by disorderly fire opened by officers of security agencies already after Mojaheds' retirement.

The religious community of the Juma Mosque rates developments in Iraq as the unexampled jeering at religious feelings of Moslems living all over the world.

The President of Ingushetia has announced he will not allow the privatization of Ingushneftegazprom, the largest industrial enterprise in the republic, indirectly refuting media reports about the delivery of the company's control stock to Soyuzobshchemashbank.

South Osetian Defense Minister Anatoly Barankevich does not rule out that only soldiers of Georgian official structures were withdrawn from South Osetia, groups consisting of militiamen and mercenaries remaining in Georgian villages.

Now the supply of gas to Azerbaijan and districts of Dagestan is resumed.

The last witness, Nofel Nagiev, refused to give evidence at first, lawyer Samed Panakhov told the Caucasian Knot correspondent. But at the urgent request of the court he told what happened with him on October 16, 2003.

The Azerbaijan Ministry of Transportation has asked the republican government to settle with the Turkish government a question concerning the detention of the "Fikret Amirov" ship and two aircrafts for the debts of the Ministry of Agriculture to Saka Korkmaz, a private Turkish company.

President of Ingushetia Murat Zyazikov met with representatives of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Magas on August 18 to discuss problems of internally displaced persons (IDPs) from Chechnya and North Osetia and prospects concerning the ICRC's help to the republic.

Chechen law enforcers believe panic rumors are being spread by rebels and their accomplices in order to destabilize the situation in the republic before and during the election of the Chechen president.

Minister for Special Affairs of the Republic of South Osetia Boris Chochiyev asked the American guests to bring the following questions to the attention of the US Congress: against whom does the US arm Georgia and what do 5 thousand gunmen from Georgia do in South Osetia?

Reports, confirmed by the press center of the Combined Peacekeeping Forces, claim there was a moment when Georgian positions near Eredvi were shelled by Georgian army units. Three people were killed as a result.

As reported by parliamentarian Guram Vakhtangishvili, the Osetian side violated the August 13 ceasefire agreement at 11 p.m. yesterday. The gun-fire came from the direction of the villages of Sarabuki and Kokhati.

$2,760 million were invested for the first six months of 2004 within the limits of three projects, including the Baku-Tbilisi-Jeikhan pipeline project, BP Azerbaijan President David Woodward told a press conference in Baku.

Only high-ranking officials of the government and ministries and officers of security agencies can use mobile phones until now.