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"Heidi Tagliavini emphasized the important role of the Russian peacekeeping force in the cause of keeping peace in the zone of the conflict," CIS Peacekeeping Forces press secretary Sergey Isayev said to journalists.

The Outset of the Russian-Vainakh Relations

The criminal case, which saw the book by Alexander Litvinenko and Yuri Felshtinsky "Blowing Up Russia: Terror from Within" (in Russian titled simply "FSB Blows Up Russia") withdrawn from circulation, is being conducted by the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB).

Before her meeting with the Abkhazian leadership, Heidi Tagliavini met with new Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili. He expressed readiness to continue the dialogue with Abkhazia, she said.

The Krasnodar Territorial Court declared admissible an appeal against the decision by the Anapa City Court on the deportation of two Turks-Meskhetians from the Russian Federation.

...and in the Middle Ages

For the first time, Soma Radio, Sukhum, has launched a series of programs devoted to social issues. The project is being implemented with the help of the British NGO Conciliation Resources.

They were arrested last week in the suburbs of Lyons, France.

Some 20 refugees from Abkhazia seized the building of Tbilisi's sanitary service on the nights of January 12-13. The refugees said they would stay inside the building until Georgia's authorities helped them return to Abkhazia.

The Stavropol police have freed a 14-year-old kidnapped girl, whom the bandits have been holding locked up for fourteen days. A source at the Information Office of the Stavropol Territorial Interior Department informed that the bandits had wanted to get a ransom of half a million rubles for her release.

The new Chechen parliament will consist of two chambers: the Council of the Republic and the National Assembly; each will have 61 deputies.

The Vainakh Tribes in Ancient Times

<b>An Essay On the History of the Vainakh People</b>. On the origin of the Vainakhs

<b>Geography of the Land of Vainakhs</b>

Vladimir Kazimirov notes in his article that despite the fact that a long-standing standstill in the resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict have been explained by the inconvenience of the pre-election climate in Armenia and Azerbaijan for the last years, no ray of hope can be seen after the elections too.