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The military use the tactics of contactless elimination of the extremists. The latter are under ceaseless artillery and mortar gunfire and air strikes.

The model presented by sculptor Alan Karnayev was chosen to be the best one. This model represents a man and a sweet - a killed soldier and his immortal sole.

The conference "Ethnic and Social Problems in North Caucasus in Present Context" has been held at the Nevinnomyssk branch of the Stavropol Basic Medical College.

Elmira Suleymanova reported she has received 4500 complaints from the citizens in 2003. A little more than a half of them came within her authority as the ombudswoman and was taken for consideration.

The Azerbaijan Parliament regarded the decision of the Swiss Parliament as "appropriation of the role of a judge and intervention in internal affairs of the other state."

Azerbaijan Foreign Minister Vilayat Guliyev stated that official Baku and specifically his department intend to activate efforts aiming at attaining a final solution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.

A large group of separatists was routed in Chechnya. Turkish, Algerian and German citizens were among its members. 17 separatists were killed as a result of a short combat.

When being stopped by police officers at the town exit, the kidnappers showed regional operations headquarters passes.

On December 11, there was a skirmish in a many-storied building on Ordjonikidze Street in Malgobek. An accidental passer-by, Bekkhan B. Kartoyev, 1953, was killed as a result.

Correspondents of ORT and NTV TV companies and of the Trud, Krasnaya Zvezda and Izvestiya newspapers are in the delegation. Representatives of Sukhumi authorities arrange special press-conferences for them.

The heads of law-enforcement agencies demanded that the members of the Organizational Committee cancel the Congress. Their demand had the nature of an ultimatum as they threatened they would institute criminal proceedings against all the organizers if they disobeyed.

Russian servicemen abducted Khavazhi Shamayev, a 33-year-old resident of the Samashki village, and took him away from his own house in the direction of the district center of Achkhoy-Martan.

The released man had severe injuries and several fractured ribs, which is evidence that he had been subjected to savage beatings for all that time.

Having searched the house and not having found the man they needed, the gunmen savagely beat the 80-year-old woman.

Burdjanadze informed she suggested that the Abkhazian leaders come to Sukhumi to prepare a new stage in the relations between Georgia and Abkhazia. "The Abkhazian side, like the South Osetian one, did not take this step," she stressed.