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The opposition is seeking for reasons to evade the dialogue and must bear all responsibility for consequences of the frustration of negotiations, the leader of the faction Republican Party of Armenia said.

The Georgian-Abkhazian meeting to continue working out the guarantees of security and non-renewal of war is to take place in Sukhum.

Actions to commemorate the 140th anniversary of the end of the Caucasian War and the day of memory of its victims are to take place in Adygeya, Kabardino-Balkaria, Karachaevo-Cherkessia, and Krasnodar Territory on May 21.

Participants discussed the situation in Transcaucasia and Moscow's possible lose of allies; the change of power in Adjaria as a strategic loss; the development of the situation around Abkhazia and South Osetia threatening to destabilize the entire region.

Defense minister of the breakaway republic of Abkhazia Vyacheslav Arshba and head of the Gali district administration Yury Kvekveskiri visited some villages in Abkhazia's Gali district on May 16.

An explosive device was fastened to the bottom of an office car and went off when the woman was getting into it. Investigators believe Ms Gubina's professional activity may have become a reason for the assassination attempt.

"The world community must state with all due responsibility that the Chechen people will be eliminated within the next ten years if there will be no external interference," said Mart Helme.

"The scenario according to which the Georgian authorities managed to turn developments in Adjaria is not possible in South Osetia. The Georgian-Osetian conflict can be settled only on the basis of negotiations," the head of the South Osetian Security Council noted.

The meeting in Strasbourg is being held within the European Conference of Presidents of Parliaments.

It became known today, after the defendant entered his final plea. He said he considered himself to be not guilty and the trial against him was ordered by nature.

When moving to the new place, the refugees were promised that all arrears of foodstuff by the Russian Emergencies Ministry would be given to them and they would be rendered assistance in settling problems they had in getting compensations and some other ones.

Shamil Basayev's statement reads that the terrorist act at the Dinamo stadium was committed within the framework of the so called Retribution operation.

The houses usually consist of 3 or 4 rooms. The authorities buy it from local residents mainly in the villages of Barsuki, Pliyevo, Ordzhonikidzevskaya, and in the town of Karabulak.

The opposition will hold the next meeting on May 21 and will arrange a number of meetings in the regions before it.

The bodies reportedly had signs of cruel torture and numerous gunshot wounds. All the men were finished off by shots in the head.

The award ceremony for participants in the 5th All-Russian Historical Essay Competition for Senior School Students "A Man in History.

It is much more difficult to take Sukhumi under control again that it was in the case with Batumi since Abkhazia is almost de facto Russian territory with Russian passports and Russian rubles as a main currency.

Just two versions are considered to be the key ones in President Kadyrov's case. There is a third one though that says it was Russia's military that killed him.

Local residents have been staging a mass meeting in the village of Dyshni-Vedeno, Chechnya's Vedeno district, for several days. The action was caused by the abduction of 3 youths by officers of security agencies which occurred in the morning of May 13.

Adlan Khasanov died because fragments of the bomb that exploded at the Dinamo stadium hit him and not from a gunshot wound, a source at the Chechen Health Ministry told the Caucasian Knot correspondent.