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The election commission intends to strictly abide by the Constitution and the law on elections of the president of the Chechen Republic while making preparations for and holding the election, the chairman of the election commission, Abdul-Kerim Arsakhanov, emphasized.

On May 30, for the first time over the last several years, the Grozny-Moscow train will make its run.

Vladimir Weissman of the International Helsinki Federation and Karina Moskalenko of the Moscow-based International Protection Center arrived in Nazran as experts in international law.

The press conference titled "Mikhail Trepashkin: Sentence with Particular Cynicism" will be held at the Independent Press Center in Moscow on May 24.

"We expect an unbiased, not pro-Georgian position from Russia. We wish the Abkhazian population well and are not going to evict them from their houses," the speaker of the Georgian parliament said.

The united Armenian opposition informs of the beginning of a new wave of detentions of its activists.

Ingush migration service officials have denied information that the premises of the temporary accommodation center for refugees Oskanovskiye Garages in the village of Ordzhonikidzevskaya are contaminated with chemicals.

Results of the monitoring of presidential and parliamentary elections in Chechnya conducted by the Moscow Helsinki Group with the support of the Caucasian Knot agency and the Memorial center form the basis of the book "Chechnya 2003: Political Process in Zazerkalye".

The workshop will be conducted within the framework of the Counteraction to Language of Hostility: the Civil Position of Russian NGOs and Media project.

A source at the Chechen interior ministry rated the reports that Shamil Basayev had taken responsibility for Akhmad Kadyrov's assassination as the rebels' propaganda move.

"We have reached an understanding that we deny the use of force in the future and will make common efforts not to allow any inciting actions and statements both in the security zone and against us," the Abkhazian foreign minister said.

A high-capacity landmine mounted on the roadside was set off when a car with GIBDD (State Inspection for Traffic Security) officers was passing by.

Suren Sureniants demands that all political prisoners be immediately released and other requirements of the resolution on Armenia adopted by the Council of Europe's Parliamentary Assembly on April 28 be fulfilled.

"The role of the Kmara movement in the recent developments in Adjaria is widely known. However, this organization gained popularity as early as November 2003, during the Rose Revolution in Georgia. There is not any information on more radical actions of Kmara activists on the territory of South Osetia so far," reads the commission's report.

The main purpose of the eight-day prolongation (7 to 14 May 2004) was to examine the treatment of persons detained in Ajara as well as conditions of detention in this part of Georgia.

A serious clash between Georgians and Armenians, which left 30 people injured, occurred in Tsalka on May 10.

The "Combine Your Rights with Life" action has started in Novocherkassk. Its organizers, the Don Women's Association, are convinced the action will help prompt young men to learn more about their rights and to fight for them.

Rashid Ozdoyev was detained by representatives of unidentified security agencies on March 11, 2004.

Members of the Federation of Human Rights Organizations of Azerbaijan met with the delegation of the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights of the Council of Europe's Parliamentary Assembly (PACE).

Before the sentence was pronounced, Mr Trepashkin had told journalists he was in the pessimistic mood. Asked whether he considered his case to be a political one, the former FSB colonel said, "Yes, absolutely."