11.   Also in Moscow, police Tuesday prevented several dozen mothers of Russian soldiers from marching on the Kremlin carrying banners calling for an end to the intervention in Chechnya.

12.   Carrying banners and posters, the protesters shouted slogans condemning the interim government installed after prime minister Benazir Bhutto and her government were dismissed last month.

13.   Several thousand Azeris converged on Azadlig Square in Baku, carrying banners and portraits in support of Aliyev.

14.   The crowd, many of them of elderly, paraded through central Moscow carrying red communist banners and placards criticizing President Boris Yeltsin.

15.   The members of the Society of Karabakh War Veterans gathered in Azadlig Square in central Baku carrying banners demanding aid for veterans.