About 300 strikers demand that their six-month wages are paid off.

We call your attention to some extracts from the leaflet "Is Power Superior to Law? Or Distressing Results of the Human Rights Action (from September 30 to November 30)" by participants of the protest action on Svoboda Square in Vladikavkaz.

"Despite the genocide in the Chechen Republic, which has been perpetrated for more that four years, the Russian authorities mislead the international community by pursuing the policy aimed at the legitimation of violence and terror in the zone of this bloody conflict," reads the statement.

The refugees' representatives hold that "the topography institute has not been functioning for several years already but the building of the institute is quit suitable for living in it."

Earlier President of Chechnya Akhmad Kadyrov, former commander-in-chief of the federal forces in the North Caucasus Gennady Troshev, as well as leaders of the Rodina election bloc promised to pay out a reward for Shamil Basayev's capture.

The action "Caucasus Against Terrorism" took place in Vladikavkaz on November 27. Trade unions, woman, youth, sport and veteran organizations of North Osetia, Kabardino-Balkaria, Stavropol Territory and Ingushetia took part in it.

Observers say that Mikhail Saakashvili, the candidate of the National Movement and Burdjanadze-Democrats blocs, and former presidential representative in Imereti (West Georgia) Teimuraz Shashiashvili have the highest chances to win the election.

OKL Deputy Chairman Barat Imani addressed such a statement to the picketers gathered in front of the British embassy in Baku on November 28.

The elections in Azerbaijan did more than not contribute to strengthening stability, they became one of the biggest problems for Azerbaijan, Andreas Gross, a member of the PACE Monitoring Committee, stated in his interview with Deutsche Welle Radio.

On November 26, a reconnaissance party went uphill from the settlement of Chinnakh, Chechnya's Itum-Kali district, to the Zumsoy village. Locals inform that the Russian servicemen rushed into the houses and behaved aggressively provoking a stampede.

The student essay competition "Human Rights in Modern World" is annually conducted within the framework of the UN Human Rights Education in Russia Project.

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.

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

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.