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Many people fell victims to the terrorist act. President of Chechnya Akhmad Kadyrov and Chairman of the State Council of Chechnya Husein Isayev died in the explosion; Commander of the Joint Group of Forces in the North Caucasus Colonel-General Valery Baranov received severe injuries.

Agvan Ovsepian denied the reference in the PACE resolution concerning the arrest of journalists and stated there were no journalists among the arrested people.

The ancient capital of Karabakh, Shushi, served as an important weapon emplacement for Azerbaijan forces in the years of the Karabakh conflict of 1991-1994.

The only demand they made is that the United Nations should give them the opportunity to leave for the third countries.

Approximately 40 supporters of the Justice bloc and the National Unity party were subjected to administrative arrest and fined from 2 to 6 May.

The third round of political consultations "power-opposition", arranged on the initiative of chairman of the Armenian National Assembly Artur Bagdasarian, was held in the Armenian parliament on May 6.

The humanitarian organization Catholic Relief Services (CRS) presented its Raising Public Awareness of the Equality of Sexes project at the International Press Center on May 5.

In its statement, the organization raises concern about the violence used against journalists during opposition meetings.

The regional headquarters on the counter-terrorist operation in the North Caucasus reported it today.

Sergey Lavrov said that "the approaches to these republics [Abkhazia, South Osetia] were coordinated long ago, there are interaction mechanisms concerning all questions both in Tskhinvali and Sukhumi."

Prosecutor General of Azerbaijan Zakir Garalov has promised that the trial will be fair and open.

The editors of the Caucasian Knot agency presented five students from Chechnya and Ingushetia with special prizes. Altogether 150 essays from Chechnya were submitted to the competition this year.

Amnesty International (AI), one of the world's largest human rights organizations, expressed its concern for the safety, and fear of further detention and torture of more than 80 relatives of Dr Omar Khambiev in Chechnya. We call your attention to AI's press release on this case.

The decision made by members of the Supreme Council was the last since the decree of the president of Georgia concerning the establishment of provisional direct presidential rule in the autonomous republic comes into force already today, May 7.

Only the leaders of the organization are empowered to issue a statement on its self-liquidation, representatives of the Revival party said.