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The GYLA and other human rights advocacy organizations protest against the ruling adopted by the CEC on August 25, which defines the principles of coverage of the election process by the state and private mass media.

The Committee of the Russian Communist Party in the Rostov region says that people are displeased with the fact that this year they have been deprived of their privileges for housing and public utilities payments for the second time already.

A city resident addressed officials of the Novocherkassk Department for Struggle against Organized Crime. She said that her daughter was in the Arabian Emirates where she was forced to work as a prostitute. They started to check this information and found out that the girl managed to go abroad under the patronage of an Azerbaijan citizen.

The last OSCE monitoring was foiled by shooting on August 19.

Over 300 thousand people fled from Azerbaijan to Armenia during the Karabah conflict in 1988-1991. Many of them still have no permanent residence.

"A doctor who had taken on the responsibilities of the hospital head three weeks before the explosion can not be responsible for what happened", reads the statement.

A meeting of protest against the ammoniac terminal of the corporation "TogliattiAzot" and the port "Zhelezny Rog" will take place in the center of Taman on August 31.

This was reported by the head of the Interior Department of the Krasnodar region Sergey Kucheruk after the meeting of the Regional Security Council.

At about noon on August 25, 2003, Russian servicemen seized identity cards of two members of the Human Rights Center "Memorial" during the inspection of motor transport at the block-post "Kavkaz-1".

"We'll soon slay all of your men here and your women will have to marry us for nobody is left here", said the servicemen.

Another meeting of the Regional Pardon Commission took place.

This was disclosed by Chechnya's Central Election Commission Secretary Ela Vakhitov on Wednesday.

Acting top prosecutor of Dagestan Magomed Abdulkhalikov told it at a news conference.

On August 26, members of the Karabah non-government human rights organization "Center of Civil Initiatives" (CCI) visited the Reformatory and Labor Institution of the Interior Ministry of the Nogorno-Karabah Republic (NKR). They handed 150 books over to the Institution's administration.

The opposition and experts qualify this resolution of the Central Election Commission as a limitation of freedom of mass media and political activity.