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The Chechen side has allotted about 10 vehicles to deliver voters to the place of destination. The busses will drive from both places of refugees' compact residence and places of their living in private houses.

Chechen law enforcement agencies have no information on the implication of republican residents, killed in Tu-134 and Tu-154 plane explosions, in terrorist activity.

Musavat party leader Isa Gambar holds that the Azerbaijan authorities use the trial against opposition leaders, including Arifoglu, to keep society in awe.

In spite of the assertions of Election Commission officials, violations took place in the course of the election campaign nevertheless.

Chechens officially registered in Dagestan do not want to vote, and unregistered refugees do not have a vote at all.

"The situation has become less tense after the withdrawal of Georgian troops from the conflict zone," EU Special Representative for the South Caucasus Heikki Talvitie said and added the opposite party should do the same thing.

Having spent 43 hours under illegal arrest in an airport, Hajji Bayram Bolat was sent back to Istanbul. FSB officers explained it by "instructions from Moscow".

"The Azerbaijan authorities are moving in the wrong direction with respect of freedom of conscience and honoring its international obligations in this field," said Preeta B. Bansal, Chair of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF).

According to updated information from Moscow's Domodedovo airport, the two planes that crashed on Tuesday night near Tula and Rostov carried a total of 89 people.

"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.