According to the US State Department statement circulated in Washington, the US also charged Basayev with having connections with the international terrorist organization "Al-Qaeda" and engineering terrorist acts in Moscow and Grozny.

The population took denudation of the foothills as a signal of forthcoming worsening of the situation.

The detained people picketed a building of the Central Election Commission striving for the registration of their party leader Rasul Guliyev as a candidate for the post of the country's president.

According to the words of the organization's chief Abdula Bachayev, the Bureau is under the legal assistance of the International Public Movement "Consolidation".

On August 7 a Turkish repatriate Khadzhi Bayram Bolat has been abducted from his house in Nalchik. Earlier Russian authorities tried to deport him beyond the bounds of the Caucasus.

It is planned to uncover teenage groups with unsocial orientation, including extremist orientation, as well as adults pushing minors for crime perpetration.

Expressing protest against despotism of Russian soldiers, inhabitants of Alkhazurovo completely blocked a motor road passing near the settlement and blocked movement along the federal route ?Rostov-Baku? for several hours.

Leading scientists of the republic, public men, well-known writers, school and institute teachers of Adygeya entered into the council.

Lithuania's State Security Department will crack down on the website ?Kavkaz-Center? if its activity is found to be in violation of the law.

In compliance with the government?s decision, one time pecuniary aid in sum of 100 thousand rubles for each of the dead and 14,2 thousand rubles for burial of each of the dead in the terrorist act will be granted to the families of the dead.

Aliyev standing for a president said he made his election platform within the line of the country?s president Geydar Aliyev, in particular, he does not see the necessity of changing Baku?s policy in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict settlement.

Head of the crew Viktor Tyurikov perished, Alexander Orlov and Yuri Potskevich were heavily injured and were taken to hospital, the Russian Defense Ministry reported.

?We have no objection to the idea of a trilateral meeting, however, we object to its conversion into goalless discussions. If there are concrete goals, we are ready to discuss them?, said the minister.

Festival conducting is combined with the days of celebration of a town?s jubilee and an anniversary of the liberation of Novorossiysk from fascist invaders.

The helicopter was shot down by a rocket launched from the land during an operation on landing troops in mountainous wood terrain. Three crew members were killed.

The column was fired on Thursday while the armored group was moving to the place of permanent disposition after convoying a column of federal forces to the administrative border with Chechnya.

The site contains no information on where the server which provides site functioning is situated and who it belongs to. At the same time it is mentioned that ?the activity of the site had been resumed due to the firm position of Lithuanian human rights activists, deputies of the Lithuanian Seym and the head of the Elnet company Rimantas Pasys?.

A stone monument, 6 meters in height, represents a young man confined within the ice mass.

The route was blocked as a sign of protest against actions of the Russian military.

Chechen politician and businessman Malik Saydulayev announced in Moscow that candidates for the post of the Chechen President want to unite in the election struggle against Akhmad Kadirov.