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Unknown gunmen broke into the house on Vyborgskaya street, 5, and forced 28-year old Isa Abayev out threatening him with sub-machine guns, reported the ministry.

As it was reported in the regional operations staff for control of the antiterrorist operation in the Northern Caucasus, a radio-controlled self-made explosive assembly containing 800 grams of trotyl was found by federal forces on Mayakovsky Street.

6 corpses in all, as the witnesses say, with marks of cruel tortures were found in the communal grave.

Almost one year passed since the coordinator of the mission of the International Humanitarian organization ?Doctors Without Borders? in Dagestan Arjan Erkel had been kidnapped in Makhachkala on August 12, 2002.

The man who fell a victim to an extrajudicial death penalty executed by the Russian soldiers was not identified.

A competitive commission functions to choose television presenters for the new program. The art director of the Dagestani television announcer department Galina Dulieva is a head of the commission.

Local residents say their relationships with neighbors (Osetins) considerably improved after the agreement of friendship and cooperation between Ingushetia and North Osetia had been signed.

9 people are released from investigation wards because of the amnesty. 127 people who were already condemned and stay prisoned now also fall under the amnesty.

On August 4 representatives of many Chechen human rights organizations met at the ?round table? to discuss questions of human rights observance in Chechnya in the pre-election period.

?The investigation is conducted by the regional prosecutor's office. It is early to speak of the complicity of concrete persons in this crime?, Chechen Deputy Prosecutor Said Pashayev announced.

As it was announced in the information and propaganda department of the Armenian defense ministry, soldiers were killed on Wednesday when they were fired by unknown persons with automatic rifles.

The goal of the program is to stimulate by means of press representatives processes of peace and prosperity establishment in the Southern Caucasus, and especially the processes of changing negative stereotypes that shaped among Armenians, Georgians, and Azerbaijanians towards each other.

The Summer University is organized by the British non-government organization ?Sources of Reconciliation?, which implements a program in the region on problems of transformation of the Georgian-Abkhazian conflict and civil society development.

North Osetia customs officials decided to transfer one-day pay of the customs personnel on the account of the families of those who died and suffered in the terrorist attack in Mozdok.

The seminar was conducted by the American non-government organization ?Night Fellow? by the initiative of the Tskhinvli office of the OSCE mission.

?Chechnya is a part of Russia, and there is a civil war there now. It is being spread into other regions of the country and already reached Moscow?, stated the businessman.

Today representatives of the Youth Movement ?Kmara? organized actions of protest against the deal between the ?Unified Energy System of Russia? (RAO UESR) and the American company AES.

On August 4 Ibragimov Arbi Sultanovich, a citizen of Urus-Martan, requested help in the search of his brother Ibragimov Zaur Sultanovich detained in September 2000.

The head of the Achkhoy-Martan region administration Ali Dalnayev has reported today that Elsa Katsayeva, a schoolgirl from the 10-th form of the Samashki secondary school, abducted by unknown people on Saturday night has been set free.

On August 5 information appeared that the third suspect was detained in the case on the act of terrorism committed in Mozdok on August 1.