On November 20, unknown men killed two non-departmental security guards near the oil well at the 57th sector of Grozny's Oktyabrsky district. The purpose of the criminals was to take the guards' guns.

A so called "purge" was conducted in the village of Ilyinovskaya, the Grozny district, on November 16. Two young people were detained as a result of it.

Head of the Azerbaijan President's administration department for foreign relations Novruz Mamedov announced it.

Abkhazian Prime Minster Raul Khadzhimba has stated that the republic intends to maintain its self-proclaimed independence.

Wives of Azerbaijan opposition leaders arrested in connection with the October 15-16 events in Baku are going on hunger strike on December 1.

On November 28, Khatin Salimkhanova, 45, poured kerosene over herself and made an attempt to commit self-immolation in front of the presidential palace.

Unidentified attackers have fired at a school building where a polling station is located in the Chechen settlement of Mesker-Yurt, the Shali district. The attack was committed last Thursday, the Russian Interior Ministry's press centre in the North Caucasus informed on Saturday.

This meeting is designed by the Coordinating Board, the Public Expert Migration Council under the Main Interior Department of Stavropol Territory as a part of the informational and explanatory work among forced migrants living on the territory of the Caucasian Mineralnye Vody.

No one international observer has declared intention to visit the republic during the elections, reported an informed source in Moscow.

Today the Azerbaijan National Agency for Mine Action does not have enough resources to clear such areas, noted executive director of the organization.

On November 28, OSCE officers held a regular monitoring of the Mardakertsky sector of the contact line between Azerbaijan and Nagorno-Karabakh armed forces.

On November 27, the direction of Bailovsky Investigatory Isolation Ward 1 did not allow Lawyer Samed Panakhov to see his client - Yeni Musavat Newspaper Editor-in-Chief Rauf Arifoglu, who has been kept under arrest there for over a month being charged with organization of mass riots.

Malcolm Bruce, Chairperson of the PACE Sub-Committee on Penal Law and Criminology, will meet representatives of Azerbaijan governing bodies and non-government human rights organizations.

Commander of the Joint Group of Forces in the North Caucasus Valery Baranov disclosed it.

The Interchurch Peace Council is going to appoint a permanent representative to the "Helsinki Initiative - 92" committee of Nagorny Karabakh.

Earlier the Russian Foreign Minister stated Russia has recognized the independence and territorial integrity of Georgia and does recognize it now. "It is Russia's position of principle, and there have been no changes in it," stressed Mr. Ivanov.

Idris Kadyrov, 50, was brutally killed in the Vedeno district of Chechnya. He was an agent of Aslan Zavgayev, a candidate for the State Duma in Chechnya's single-mandate constituency.

The President of Russia put forward a proposal to the Federation Council to extend the time of presence of the Russian contingent that is a part of the CIS Peacekeeping Forces in the Georgian-Abkhazian conflict zone.

The Fair Elections non-government organization expresses indignation about the fire on the flat of Lyuba Eliashvili, an Iberiya TV Company journalist and television presenter, and demands that appropriate bodies immediately react to this fact.

The explosion damaged the Ural truck of the Shali police carrying officers from Altai Territory, who were on detachment in the North Caucasus.