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Patrol and sentry service officers Movsar Idrisov, Magomed Daudov and OMON (militia platoon for special purposes) officer Umar Shovkhalov were arrested on suspicion of the commitment of grave crimes in Grozny.

Four citizens - residents of the settlements Kavkazsky, Mednogorsky, Kardonikskaya and Pregradnaya - appealed to the Supreme Court of the Republic against the results of the first round of the presidential election in Karachaevo-Cherkessia.

The family of two adults and three children was denied asylum in Sweden in the beginning of this month. After that it was decided to deport the family to Azerbaijan.

A round table meeting will take place within the limits of the club's work on August 27; its topic is "Alternative Civil Service in Krasnodar Region. 30 Days Before Conscription".

According to preliminary information, the preparation for the action was foiled when the militia made a raid upon the camp of the "Rainbow Keepers" near Azov last weekend, detained several activists and forced them to sign an obligation not to take radical steps.

A program "Country Library as an Informational and Educational Center of the Local Community - Creation of the Development Model" will be presented during the Forum.

On August 21, 2003 in the Ordzhonikidzevskaya village of the Sunzhensky region of Ingushetia Russian soldiers killed one and drove in an unknown direction four men from Chechnya.

The Tacis project "Social and Economic Integration of Poorly Protected Groups of Forced Migrants in Stavropol Territory" is being carried out in the Stavropol region.

The refugees who tried to give the actress the right idea of what was really happening in the camps of forced migrants could not approach Jolie for they were repulsed by the guard of 30 choice members of special units.

The Public Prosecutor's office instituted proceedings on the fact of the explosions in Krasnodar.

"The people whose land is occupied ought not to spend so much time on celebrations," reads the statement of the Youth Council.

The CEC member Azer Tagiev alleged that the free air limit granted to the candidates by the national television companies was increased from 3 hours to 6 hours per week.

Yesterday Filandrov met Abkhazian Foreign Minister Sergey Shamba. He told about a project concerning freedom of speech and conflict settlement. In his turn, Sergey Shamba emphasized the importance of this project for Abkhazia.

On August 24, Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie, the Goodwill Ambassador to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, ended her visit to Russia.

At the headquarters of the United Forces in the Northern Caucasus, they do not exclude that it was Basayev who planned the recently launched attempt to seize the village of Avtury which is situated on one of the main routes from the mountains to the plains of Chechnya.

The principal version is terrorism. At the same time the regional State Department of Internal Affairs did not exclude the version of hooliganism and considered it possible that mentally unstable people, supposedly former participants of military actions, were connected with the explosions.

Relatives of Elza Kungayeva, who was savagely murdered by Colonel Yuri Budanov in 2000, have left Russia. As journalist Anna Politkovskaya said, the Kungayev family has left to "one European country" forever.

"Local and federal authorities in Ingushetia must immediately cease any attempts to coerce these refugees into returning to what continues to be an unsafe environment," Amnesty International urges.

As the head of the Department for Migration and Refugees under the republican government Gagik Eganian informed in his interview on Tuesday, this decision was made by the Armenian government on Wednesday.

Ruslan Badalov, a chairman of the Regional Public Movement "Chechen National Rescue Committee" told the correspondent about it on Saturday.