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On September 18 in Moscow, the Independent Press Centre held a roundtable "Obligations of the State before Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) and the Way the State Observes Them."

The situation in the Ingush city of Nazran, where on September 19 clashes burst out between the residents of Ingushetia who rallied to a spontaneous protest meeting and the militia, is now more stable.

The exact whereabouts and fate of Vagap Tutakov, a former deputy of the Parliament of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria (ChRI), who was kidnapped by unknown persons on September 10, are still not established.

Eduard Kokoity, President of the Republic of South Ossetia, has stated: "The attempt to hold the so-called 'Peace March' has completely failed."

The St-Petersburg anarchists Andrei Kalyonov and Denis Zelenyuk gave recognizance not to leave; and their criminal prosecution in relation to blowing up the "Neva-Express" train has been stopped.

The number of the participants of the spontaneous meeting, held today in Ingushetia with a demand to release the two local residents kidnapped yesterday, is permanently increasing, and by 2 p.m. it has reached some 700-800 persons.

Today, Igor Tkachov, Public Prosecutor of Dagestan, has stated that the burial of Rappani Khalilov and Nabi Nabiev, murdered in the course of a special operation, will take place without giving out the bodies to relatives.

Andrei Keilin, accused of murdering two students on June 3 in Stavropol and released from custody on September 16, was put under moral pressure.

The Supreme Court of Azerbaijan has passed a decision to cancel the 2004 decisions of the Nasiminskiy and Appeal Courts on the claims of Sardar Dzhalaloglu, leader of the Democratic Party.

The activities of the Russian Open Joint Stock Company (RAO) "EES Rossii" and realization of the plans of the LUKOIL Company will inevitably bring to ruin the Volga-Akhtuba floodplain, concludes V. A. Sagalaev, Doctor of Biology.

At the process on the criminal case about the fight in the city of Kondopoga that had provoked mass disorders, the advocates of Chechen defendants have again demanded to return the case back to the prosecutor's office.

22 former miners from Maiskiy settlement in the Rostov Region have announced a dry hunger strike.

The prosecutor's office has re-arrested Khasan Didigov, a suspect of blowing up the "Neva-Express" train who was released today, as his advocate Murad Yunusov has reported.

Over 130 refugees from Borozdinovskaya village, who live in the "Nadezhda" (Hope) tent camp, have started their resettlement to the Kizlyar District Dagestan, where they had been allotted land estates for individual housing construction.

According to the statement of Vyacheslav Shanshin, head of the FSB Department for Dagestan, "liquidation of Rappani Khalilov was a logic end of a complex of operative actions accomplished under direction of the Federal Security Bureau (FSB) of Russia."

Today at about 6:40 p.m., a special operation was undertaken in Khasavyurt (Dagestan) with the aim to detain and liquidate members of Askhab Bidaev's armed formation. One militiaman and a civilian woman were killed in the skirmish.

Georgiy Kheviashvili, Minister for Refugees' Matters and Accommodation of Georgia, held a meeting on September 16 with Kastrio Islami, Rapporteur of the Monitoring Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE).

In the course of an operation conducted in Grozny, the capital of Chechnya, Rustam Vichigov, an associate of Doku Umarov, one of the leaders of Chechen militants, was killed.

On September 16, Andrei Keilin, who was in custody on suspicion of murdering students Dmitri Blakhin and Pavel Chadin on June 3 in Stavropol, has been released.

Making his comments on the present situation in the negotiating process aimed to settle the Karabakh conflict, political scientist Agasi Enokyan, Director of the Armenian Centre for Political and International Studies, has informed journalists about the deadlock in the negotiating process.