By empty (8/21/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)

Russian President Vladimir Putin said at a working meeting with Chechnya\'s President Alu Alkhanov, Prime Minister Sergei Abramov and Deputy Prime Minister Ramzan Kadyrov that he will sign a decree to set the parliamentary elections in the republic for November 27, 2005. The meeting took place at the Bocharov Ruchei residence in the Black Sea resort of Sochi on Sunday. \"The political situation and social life in the republic today allows us to suggest that you set the date for the elections,\" Alkhanov said.

By empty (8/21/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)

Power cuts to Tbilisi and virtually to all districts in eastern Georgia were caused by a breakdown on a high-voltage power transmission line. According to preliminary data, the transmission line was snapped by gale winds, a thunderstorm and a lightning, which put out of action a section of the power transmission line. Initially, electricity was not supplied to strategic projects in Tbilisi and other cities in Eastern Georgia.

By empty (8/20/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)

The Uzbek Prosecutor General\'s Office on Saturday denied a report that one of the four men who fled to Kyrgyzstan after May\'s riots in the Uzbek city of Andizhan but have later come back to Uzbekistan died under torture. All four \"are charged with direct participation in the attacks on the buildings of the regional administration and law and order [agencies] and on a military base, with killing hostages and civilians, and with hijacking cars,\" Svetlana Artykova, spokeswoman for the office, told Interfax. She said the four former refugees were currently in preventive detention.