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The chairperson of the Georgian parliamentary human rights commission, Elena Tevdoradze, is going to propose journalist Sozar Subeliani for the post of ombudsman.

According to refugees, migration service officials explain their denial to register them by a certain order received from Moscow.

A high-capacity explosive device mounted at the roadside went off when a column of federal forces, which consisted of one Ural truck and three armored vehicles, was passing by.

"In case Armenia and Azerbaijan sign a peace treaty, Russia's authority in the region will come to naught," said Vafa Guluzade, the former adviser to the president of Azerbaijan.

The administration explained the refusal by the fact that criminal cases had been opened in connection with meetings held by the opposition before.

According to official information, Zelimkhan Kadyrov died from a heart attack.

The Osetian population living in the area has been deprived of the chance to get living essentials for several days already," reads a report by the Committee on Information and Press of the breakaway republic of South Osetia.

Activists of the United Russia party branch in Chechnya assert 27 thousand signatures in support of Ruslan Yamadayev have already been collected in the republic.

The Georgian leadership has in fact imposed an economic blockade on South Osetia depriving it of the possibility to convey transit loads. At the same time, some remove Osetian villages situated in the Gori district are blockaded since police posts do not allow to convey essential foodstuff there, taking away even mineral water, cereals, and flour.

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees was absolutely right to deny refugee status to two Armenian turncoats who had arrived in Baku. This is an opinion of Svetlana Gannushkina, a board member of the Human Rights Center Memorial.

The Supreme Court of the Chechen Republic adjourned the pronouncement of the sentence to three residents of the republic who are accused of the terrorist attack on the Government House on December 27, 2002.

By information of Amnesty International, 27 people who do not want to go to the army are still imprisoned and another 5 are waiting for their sentence.

The Georgian president pointed out that political dialogue would certainly be established with the leadership of the breakaway republic.

It is known that First Deputy Head of the Russian Federal Migration Service Major-General Igor Yunash signed the order on May 25 according to which the tent camp for Chechen refuges Satsita, situated on the outskirts of the village of Ordzhonikidzevskaya in Ingushetia, must be liquidated on June 1, 2004. Satsita inhabitants got to know about this document on May 29.

Co-chairmen of the International Working Group to Search for the Missing, Hostages and Prisoners of War in the Karabakh Conflict Zone stated that it was inadmissible to politicize humanitarian problems.