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According to vice speaker of the Azerbaijan parliament Ziyafet Askerov, the Azerbaijan opposition receives financial resources from abroad and prepares to repeat the Georgian and Ukraine scenarios in the country.

"I don't see another way of resolving this problem," US Ambassador to Azerbaijan Reno Harnish said.

Following the developments in Abkhazia, Russia imposed serious restrictions on the admission regime on the border with Abkhazia along the Psou River.

Chechen law enforcement agencies have not confirmed reports that close relatives of Aslan Maskadov, president of the unrecognized Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, were taken hostages.

Some 8 thousand children tramp in Azerbaijan, official sources say. Approximately 20% of them are children who arrived in Azerbaijan from Russia.

Special services know Alikhan Saduyev, whose nickname is Dodi, as one of the organizers of a series of terror attacks in Chechnya and Ingushetia, including the explosions at the buildings of the Chechen Government House and the FSB Department in Ingushetia.

Sergey Bagapsh and Raul Khadzhimba have come to the agreement that they will participate in a new presidential election in Abkhazia as members of one team: Bagapsh as a presidential candidate, and Khadzhimba as a candidate for the post of vice president.

"South Osetia's aspiration to be prepared to repulse the enemy's attacks is quite explicable under conditions when the militarist policy in Georgia becomes more and more evident," said South Osetian Minister for Special Affairs Boris Chochiyev.

"Foreign oil companies don't stop violating Azerbaijan laws and labor rights of its citizens," chairwoman of the Committee to Protect Oil Industry Workers Mirvari Gakhramanly said to the Caucasian Knot correspondent.

The Abkhazian president's press service claims that the forthcoming ceremony of taking an oath by Sergey Bagapsh as a president elect is illegal.

A court in Nazran declared the journalist to be guilty of violating the regime of foreign citizens' stay on the territory of the Russian Federation.

Sergey Bagapsh, the candidate for the Abkhazian presidency, has declared against the expert examination of materials related to the presidential election in Abkhazia by Russian lawyers.

Members of the opposition Musavat party hold there is nothing illegal in the fact that several young people from Azerbaijan decided to support the Ukrainians in their struggle for "freedom and democracy".

The troops were brought in Karachaevo-Cherkessia when riots and mass rallies with appeals to overthrow the power and a storm of the Government House of Karachaevo-Cherkessia took place in the republic.

Lawyer Iskhak Kuchukov addressed a letter to the members of the congress of judges that began in Moscow today, the Caucasian Knot correspondent was told in the Kabardino-Balkarian Human Rights Center.

On November 29, the leader of the Azerbaijan opposition party Musavat, Isa Gambar, made a speech at the meeting held by the opposition in the center of Kiev and expressed solidarity with the people participating in the action.

The 16-year-old resident of Ingushetia detained on suspicion of pandering terrorists who captured a school in the town of Beslan is being held in a temporary detention isolator in Vladikavkaz.

"We consider the possibility to receive legal aid from all lawyers able to represent citizens of the Azerbaijan Republic to be the citizens' fundamental right," Ambassador Maurizio Pavesi said.

"On October 28, the panel of judges for common pleas of the Supreme Court determined to recognize as grounded the Central Election Commission's decision concerning the protocol on the election results under which Bagapsh was elected Abkhazian president," reads Rauf Korua's document.

The court sentenced the commander of the Armenian aircraft to 24 years' imprisonment, the other pilots were sentenced to 14 years' imprisonment.