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The Dagestani Prosecutor's Office has finished an investigation into the criminal case against Colonel Imamudin Temirbulatov and Major Ayvar Akhmedov. The investigators' version is that they are involved in abductions of people in Dagestan.

Timur Aliyev, editor of the independent newspaper Chechen Society, was summoned to the Organized Crime Unit of the Ingush Interior Ministry in the morning today.

"The Former Political Prisoners for Human Rights non-governmental organization (NGO) often lays strictures on authorities. That is why it is not included in the group of NGOs chosen by the president to form the council," Nana Kakabadze, the leader of this NGO, stated.

The editors of the Caucasian Knot have got information spread by the Information and Analytical Center of the President of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria.

Two unknown people attacked Eynulla Fatullayev, a reporter for the Monitor weekly yesterday, July 26.

There are 22 thousand Armenians in Iraq, 15 thousands of them living in Baghdad. There are 9 Armenian churches with large estates in Iraq. None of them has suffered.

A terrorist act in Chechnya left three people dead, the head of the Samashki village administration, Khizir Aldamov, being among them.

Chechnya's electoral commission has disqualified one candidate for president of Chechnya for what it has not disqualified the supposed protege of the Kremlin.

A first group of Meskhetian Turks living in the Krasnodar territory, Russia, has left for the US.

Reporters Without Borders call on Azerbaijan's authorities for releasing Rauf Arifoglu, editor-in-chief of Yeni Musavat newspaper.

Reporters Without Borders believe the abduction of the editor-in-chief of Azerbaijani-based Baki Habar newspaper an action against freedom of speech.

S. Ossetia's Foreign Ministry says the possible denunciation of the Dagomys Agreement means a return to war.

Three Georgian NGO representatives were detained in S. Ossetia for coming there without prior adjustment with the pertinent agencies.

Four strangers abducted and beat Aidyn Guliev, editor-in-chief of a newspaper, which other journalists believe "contracted for" by the government.

A Social Democratic Party leader accuses the OSCE Minsk Group of inability to facilitate the solution of the Nagorno-Karabakh problem.

The OSCE Mission to Tskhinvali is criticized for its "pro-Georgian position" and failure to provide objective information to the OSCE.

The International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights calls the OSCE for considering facts of manipulation of election results in Armenia, Azerbaijan and Chechnya.

The republican electoral commission has started registration of candidates for the office of president of Chechnya this afternoon.

The parliament of Abkhazia has scheduled the presidential election in the republic for October 3, 2004.

Eldar Zeinalov, director of Azerbaijan's human rights center AIHMM, speaks about new lists of political prisoners, overlooked previously.