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The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia is doing its best to evacuate six Georgian sailors from Libya, Nicoloz Vashakidze, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Georgia, reported.

A young writer who had not long before submitted an anti-defamation lawsuit against Khozhbaudi Borkhajiev, Chairman of the Journalist League of Chechnya, was beaten up in the center of Moscow. He was taken to oral surgery unit of the municipal hospital No 36 with grave traumas.

A nine-year-old resident of the village of Orta, Agdam district, was killed as a result of violation of cease-fire regime at the border of Armenia and Azerbaijan.

Today, the "Women's Resource Centre" has held in Yerevan, the capital of Armenia, an action aimed to acquaint the public with the notion of "feminism".

A new structure of the Representative National Assembly "Shepitsulebi" (Those who gave oath) was set up with the mission to curb human rights violations by the authorities.

About 30 complaints were sent to the commission for consideration of citizens' complaints about violations of their rights and freedoms by law enforcement agents, which was created under the People's Assembly of the Karachay-Cherkessian Republic (KChR). The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was told about it by Kharshim Tekeev, chairman of the commission.

Azerbaijani police continue detaining users of social networks in the context of the mass anti-government action named the "Great People's Day", scheduled by the members of the group set up on the Facebook under the same name.

On March 4-6, Warsaw hosted a conference of journalists from different countries, who work in the genre of investigative journalism. Among other things they discussed the situation in Northern Caucasus, including the murder of human rights advocate Natalia Estemirova committed in 2009.

Georgia is in the fifth place in the world in terms of police corruption, while three percent of the polled citizens of the country said that they gave bribes last year to officials of state institutions. These are the results of the international non-governmental organization (NGO) "Transparency International".

Boris Evloev, a resident of the village of Nesterovskaya, Sunzha District of Ingushetia, who had stated that his daughter Khava Tangieva lost her child and became unable to have children in future because of doctors' negligence, is now stating injustice of judicial and investigatory bodies. Without any success he demands a DNA assay, supposing that the child could be substituted at the maternity hospital.

As announced today by Yuri Boichenko, head of the press service of the General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) of Ukraine, this country has given out Vladimir Alexeev, a Russian citizen and one of the suspects of committing the mass murder in the village of Kuschevskaya, Krasnodar Territory.

Today the Finnish police have questioned Pastor Juha Molari, who had openly criticized the work of the website "Kavkaz-Centre", which is supporting the activities of Caucasian separatists.

A series of piquets in defense of Evgeny Vitishko, activist of "Ecologic Watch in Northern Caucasus" and "Yabloko" party, passed off in Krasnodar. Suren Gazaryan, Vitishko's colleague in "Ecologic Watch" and the party, was the organizer of the piquets.

In Nalchik, the capital of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), at the Memorial to victims of repressions of the Balkar people, a memorial rally took place, attended by about three hundred persons. During the event, calls were pronounced to start collecting signatures under petition in favour of self-determination of the Balkar nation.

A group in Kabardino-Balkaria calling itself "Black hawks" and positioning itself as an anti-Wahabiite one gave a warning to Asker Japuev, emir of Kabardino-Balkar gunmen, concerning possible actions of armed underground against the residents of the republic. "Black hawks" state that they have already exposed the gunmen's accomplices and threaten with punishment to those who extort money from entrepreneurs.

A technical failure was acknowledged as the cause of a crash of an airliner belonging to Iranian company Caspian Airline which was flying from Tehran to Yerevan on July, 15, 2009.

Last night there was an explosion near a shop in Buinaksk, there are no victims or injured ones, a representative of the Ministry of Interior Affairs of Dagestan reported. The bomb was stuffed with damage agents in form of bolts and screw nuts.

On March 5, Alaif Gasanov and Elchin Namazov, advocates of Bakhtiyar Gadjiev, 28, who was arrested on Friday, March 4, could meet their client in SIZO (pre-trial prison) No. 2 of the city of Gyandzha. They believe the arrest of Gadjiev, who is under threat of up to two years in prison, to be a political order.

A group of Volgograd scientists headed by Rector of the Volgograd Medical University (VMU) received the Prize of the Russian Government for development of a new drug named "Asparkam-L".

Yesterday, on March 6, Suren Gazaryan, a member of the Board of the "Ecological Watch for Northern Caucasus", was released from the IVS (temporary detention facility) of the Tuapse UVD (Interior Department) after 7 days of administrative arrest. He refuted the earlier information that he had applied for political asylum in Germany.