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"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.

During the picket, one can obtain recent information about developments in Chechnya, sign appeals to the Supreme Commander-in-Chief and to the prosecutor's office concerning the Ulman Case, and sign a letter in support of people suffered from the actions of the Russian Defense Ministry's special operations unit.

One of the abducted men said Kadyrov's people had accused him of giving help to rebels and tortured him trying to force a confession.

Boris Chochiyev reminded Georgy Khaindrava that the population of Georgian villages that are not under the jurisdiction of the Republic of South Osetia owed the South Osetian budget 12 million rubles for electric power.

Opposition leaders announced during a meeting on June 16 they would not publish the date of the next meeting beforehand in order not to give authorities the opportunity to get ready to this action "in their own way".