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Representatives of the Union of Abkhazian Volunteers of Kabardino-Balkaria and youth organizations of the Adyga Khase public movement from Adygeya and Karachaevo-Cherkessia have arrived in Abkhazia.

Osetian peacekeepers stopped the escort at a post and demanded that the journalists leave the territory of South Osetia.

"There are no grounds to announce that a large terrorist attack was prevented in the center of Grozny or that rebels tried to blow up the Gosstroy building," the Interior Ministry's duty officer said.

A criminal waited for his victim in the deserted building of a hostel situated not far from Garri Ayba's house and took a shot from there, according to preliminary information.

The man most likely died from cruel torture. His body had many knife wounds, his fingers and toes were cut off, and his both arms were broken.

There was a media discussion in Adygeya and Krasnodar Region in which Tatyana Rudakova was called a woman who had been in prison twice.

At the suggestion of the leader of the Moscow Osetian community, Mr Torchinov, the decision was made to hold the meeting on Pushkinskaya Square.

Ombudsmen from Russia, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia, and representatives of international and non-governmental organizations are taking part in it.

Official Tbilisi has made no protest concerning the June 7 visit of President of North Osetia - Alania Aleksandr Dzasokhov to South Osetia so far, though this visit was not approved by the Georgian leadership.

South Osetian non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have addressed an open letter to Head of the OSCE Mission in Georgia Ambassador Roy Reeve.

Tukhan Elsayev, a 42-year-old resident of Chechnya, is accused of complicity in the March 1999 kidnapping of Gennady Shpigun, the Russian Interior Ministry's envoy in Chechnya.

Unknown people in masks abducted two Georgian engineering specialists, Avtandil Biblaya and Abessalom Dzhabua, near the village of Rechkhi in the Gali district of Abkhazia in the morning of June 8.

As of June 8, only 3-4 tents remained in the last of the largest tent camps for Chechen refugees Satsita situated in the village of Ordzhonikidzevskaya, Ingushetia's Sunzha district.

Both the men had reportedly been abducted by unknown people in military uniforms and masks near the central market of Grozny the day before.

The candidacy of David Darchiashvili, a Georgian political scientist, has been chosen for this post.