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"The villagers' wish to visit Sukhum is quite understandable, especially in the situation when residents of mountain villages are deprived of proper medical care and consumer goods," Chairman of the Abkhazian State Security Service Givi Agrba said.

The Public Examination institute launched the Power-Society-Media project in April 2004.

Residents of Osetian villages blocked roads leading to the Georgian villages and the population turned out to be in an economic blockade.

The South Osetian information agency Res claims that Georgian TV channels incorrectly cover the course of parliamentary elections and other developments in the breakaway republic.

"My dismissal is connected with a certain scenario of preparation for the presidential election to be held in autumn and with my attitude to it. I don't blend with this scenario," Gennady Gaguliya said.

US Ambassador John Ordway denied circulating rumors that great pressure was put on Armenia in the issue of handing over three districts of Azerbaijan controlled by Armenia.

Estimating the 10 years' activity of the CIS Peacekeeping Forces on the maintenance of peace in the zone of the Georgian-Abkhazian conflict, Commander Lieutenant-General Aleksandr Yevteev told the Caucasian Knot correspondent that conditions were being created so that refugees could safely return to the Gali district.

The Kabardino-Balkarian Human Rights Center gained a court victory, but the Department of the Russian Ministry of Justice in Kabardino-Balkaria appealed against the court decision in the Supreme Court of the Republic of Kabardino-Balkaria. The Supreme Court annulled the decision and sent the case for retrial.

"Though the return of South Osetia will require certain resources, much more resources will be spent to regain control over Abkhazia," said the Georgian Economy Minister.

The fight with the use of firearms and grenade launchers lasted for about forty minutes.

Some Russian NGOs have submitted proposals for a political settlement in Chechnya to the Administration of the Russian president and some COE officials.

Six residents of Chechnya accuse the Russian government of extrajudicial executions, torture and cruel and degrading treatment of their relatives, as well as property damage.

Four people were detained by police in Malgobek, Ingushetia, while sticking bills in which an Ingush lawmaker addressed the Russian president and criticized the Ingush one.

On June 21, ten years will pass since Russian peacekeeping forces were brought in the zone of the Georgian-Osetian conflict.

It is noted in a joint statement of the Coordinating Board that "the executive power is unable to make an impartial assessment of the situation that has arisen and to establish reasons for the contradictions between society and power that periodically appear."

Elena Kochiyeva and Bella Pliyeva, who participated in the action, said they had information that the Georgian side planned to use the road that is being constructed to transfer weapons, ammunition and heavy military equipment to Georgian villages situated north of Tskhinval.

The problem of IDPs is well hidden from the observers and press after the closure of tent camps in Ingushetia.

Said Tsentoroyev, the leader of the Chechen diaspora in Samara and an official of the Chechen Ministry for Nationalities, Press and External Relations, told journalists about it on June 17. Mr Tsentoroyev's cousin and two nephews are among five people detained in connection with the terror attack.

Sulim Yamadayev has announced the man who planted and set off the landmine has been destroyed.

Spokesmen for the Georgian Frontier Department stated that the ship had violated the international navigation rules. It was detained it the area of water of Georgia's Adjarian Autonomous Republic.