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NGO representatives gathered in the Nazran office of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) on December 16-17 to discuss the work of the ICRC in the Northern Caucasus, Russia, and other countries of the world.

Heads and representatives of local executive authorities intervened in the work of election commissions and prevented them from doing their duties, the US Embassy to Azerbaijan has announced in a press release.

An official delegation from Chechnya is expected to visit the Pankissi Gorge, Georgia on December 19.

The round table discussion titled "Terrorism in Films and TV Reports" was held at the Moscow House of Nationalities on December 16, political scientists, human rights activists, journalists, and cinematographers being participants in it.

In his exclusive interview with the Caucasian Knot correspondent, Andreas Gross, the member of the PACE Monitoring Committee and co-rapporteur on Azerbaijan, said that the aim of his present visit was to monitor municipal elections in Azerbaijan.

In the evening of December 3, a Russian combat helicopter launched several missiles at the village of Tevzen-Kale, Chechnya's Vedeno district. One of the missiles hit the house of the Suleymanov family.

The PACE will consider the question of political prisoners in Azerbaijan and the country's obligations to the Council of Europe during the spring session.

Today, one day before municipal elections in Azerbaijan, 400 members of the ruling Yeni Azerbaijan party have withdrawn their candidacies registered earlier for the participation in the municipal elections.

Special Rapporteur on violence against women of the UN Commission on Human Rights Yakin Erturk is expected to arrive in Chechnya within the next few days.

Some sources say that the arms seized during the attack in Kabardino-Balkaria have most likely been taken out to Chechnya.

The election campaign in the country was conducted normally for the most part, with the exception of one application about a violation, Azer Saryev, spokesman for the Azerbaijan Central Election Commission told the Caucasian Knot correspondent.

Avaz Zeinally, the publisher of the book and editor-in-chief of the Khural newspaper, gives evidence at the Azerbaijan State Security Ministry in the criminal case opened under the article "inciting national and religious hatred".

Earlier, at a session of the State Duma, Russian Prosecutor General Vladimir Kolesnikov suggested taking terrorists' relatives hostages.

US troops will enter the territory of Iran through Azerbaijan, Iraq and Georgia and complete the occupation of the country in two weeks, reported the Arabian newspaper Ash-Shark al-Avsat.

Criminals killed four officers who were on duty that night and set the building on fire after it. They seized 79 automatic rifles, 182 pistols, and ammunition.

"When they ask me who is responsible for the beginning of the war in 1994, I always give two names - Boris Yeltsin and Dzhokhar Dudayev. Both of them planned to gain victory," Edilbek Khasmagomadov, a Chechen historian and political scientist, said.

On December 10, the Vladikavkaz Institute of Management jointly with the North Osetian President's Human Rights Commission held a conference devoted to International Human Rights Day.

Deputy chairman of Russian muftis, human rights activist Ismail Khazrat Shengereev said that Moslems are often denied employment, their rights are often infringed upon in educational institutions.

Ingush families live in the Prigorodny district of the Republic of North Osetia - Alania now as before. The majority of them are settled in the camp for displaced persons Maisky, which is situated on the border with Ingushetia. It was created in 1994 under the instruction of Ruslan Aushev, who hold the post of president of Ingushetia at that time.

Presidential candidate Sergey Bagapsh announced the intention to enlarge powers of the Abkhazian vice president, the post of which will be held by Raul Khadzhimba in case of Bagapsh's victory.