In his interview to one of Georgian TV channels Bregadze spoke "about false programs of the US Armenian lobby directed to accomplish an upheaval so that local Armenians could come to power in the country".

The presidential contender motivated his demand with the fact that many of the OMON (militia platoon for special purposes) officers had taken part in a counter-terrorist operation on the territory of Chechnya, that is why they were prejudiced against the Caucasian people.

On August 7 the media reported presidential contenders in the republic made a "coalition against Kadirov" intending to put up a united front and to support in the second round of the election, if it is held, a contender alternative to today's head of Chechnya.

Arjan Erkel looks healthy in the video; he speaks Russian and asks for ransom for his captors. The spokeswoman of "Doctors Without Borders" Marieke van Zalk confirmed the receipt of the videotape, but underlined all reports on its contents were "speculations".

Sayid-Akhmed Arsakhanov taught physics at a local secondary school.

The body of a 30-year old Czech citizen Kraus Martin, who had permanently resided in Prague, was found on the river bank in the village Chirkata in the Gumbet district of the republic.

Survived hospital staff insists on immediate release of Artur Arakelyan, an arrested head of the hospital facing a charge of negligence.

"One could no longer stop this process", the president said.

Chechen refugees from the tent camp "Bart" in Ingushetia are afraid of eviction. Their anxiety is caused by threats to liquidate a part of the camp coming from officials of the Ingush Union "Avtodor".

The Stavropol Regional Public Organization "All-Russian Society of Nature Conservation" is summing up the days of protection from ecological danger that took place at the end of March - the beginning of June.

Membership in the European Union and NATO is what Georgia's foreign policy is aimed at. President Eduard Shevardnadze made a statement to this effect on the national television on Friday night.

The military do not preclude a chance that separatists will break through into Chechnya. A recommendation was issued for local residents of border villages against going to surrounding forests.

Such data were given by the responsible secretary of the Union of Russian Committees of Soldiers' Mothers Valentina Melnikova.

Foreign diplomats accredited in Georgia, as well as representatives of opposition parties attended the presentation of Nino Burdjanadze's election platform.

According to the US State Department statement circulated in Washington, the US also charged Basayev with having connections with the international terrorist organization "Al-Qaeda" and engineering terrorist acts in Moscow and Grozny.

The population took denudation of the foothills as a signal of forthcoming worsening of the situation.

The detained people picketed a building of the Central Election Commission striving for the registration of their party leader Rasul Guliyev as a candidate for the post of the country's president.

According to the words of the organization's chief Abdula Bachayev, the Bureau is under the legal assistance of the International Public Movement "Consolidation".

On August 7 a Turkish repatriate Khadzhi Bayram Bolat has been abducted from his house in Nalchik. Earlier Russian authorities tried to deport him beyond the bounds of the Caucasus.

It is planned to uncover teenage groups with unsocial orientation, including extremist orientation, as well as adults pushing minors for crime perpetration.