By empty (10/9/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)

Russian citizens who were due to leave Tbilisi for Moscow by Russian Emergency Situations Ministry aircraft are not leaving Tbilisi airport despite the cancellation of the flights. Some Russians said that they are ready to fly to Moscow by cargo aircraft, because they their Georgian visas had expired and they were without money. Earlier on Monday, the Georgian department of civil aviation received a request on the landing of two Russian Emergency Situations Ministry\'s planes: a passenger plane and a cargo aircraft, the department told Interfax.

By empty (10/8/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)

The head of the administration of the village of Eni-Kali in Chechnya\'s Kurchaloi district has been assassinated, a local law enforcement source told Interfax Sunday. Unidentified attackers also fired upon the building housing the local elections commission. Six communities in the Kurchaloi district and a number of others in the Nozhai-Yurt district are holding early elections of deputies to the Chechen People\'s Assembly on Sunday.

By empty (10/6/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)

Armenian Aram Vardanyan was elected in the municipal elections at the Tsukhrut village of Akhaltsikhi region of Georgia where Georgian Naira Samsonidze was alternative candidate. Vardanyan received 650 votes, whereas Samsonidze – about 120, A-Info agency reports. According to a source, the victory of the Armenian candidate is especially meaningful, since the Georgian candidate was supported not only by Georgian voters but also by representative of the ruling Georgian party United National Movement Aram Pogosov, who reportedly used his connections.