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The commission on CER (conditional early relief) has decided to apply this measure to the oppositional activist Aram Baregamyan. Today, the respective documents have been sent to the penitentiary institutions "Razdan", where Baregamyan is serving his sentence.

According to the latest examination data, Dokku Umarov's wife, a doctor and a few close associates of the leader of "Imarat Kavkaz" were identified among those killed in bombardment of the militants' camp in Ingushetia.

On March, 31, an Ingush web-site "Voice of Ingushetia" underwent a DDOS-attack. It was rather powerful and the server is unable to cope with the great number of requests, administration of the web-site reports.

The participants of the meeting which passed off on March, 31, in Volgograd represented different parties and movements. Their main slogans were: "Putin must be discharged!" and "Ban "United Russia!". As for the activists' opinions concerning resignation of Roman Grebennikov, Mayor of the city, there were both unacceptance of Governor Anatoly Brovko's decision of discharging Head of Municipality and approval of this action.

Today, on March 31, Azerbaijani marks its Genocide Day in memory of the victims of the events 93 years ago, when armed forces of the Armenian nationalist party "Dashnaktsutyun", supported by the Bolshevik leadership of the Baku Soviet, headed by Stepan Shaumyan, committed mass murders and massacre of the peaceful Azerbaijani population.

As reported today by Alkhas Amirkhanov, Senior Assistant of the Head of the Investigatory Department of the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) for Dagestan, this morning in Makhachkala a Chechen policeman was shot dead by an unidentified person.

Today, the capital of North Ossetia has hosted a picket in defence of constitutional rights of the residents of Beslan, who demand an objective investigation of the terror act on September 1, 2004, and effective justice and social protection.

Ruslan Atavov, Director of the "Simpeks" Company, who was searched as a terrorists' helper, was shot dead during a special operation in Makhachkala on January 13.

The Lithuanian mass media have released documents from the case of Egle Kusaite, who had been allegedly recruited by Apti and Aishat Magmadov, natives of Chechnya living in Russia, for committing a terror acts in Russia. According to the documents, the Lithuanian State Security Service (VSD) was the first to appeal to the Russian Federal Security Bureau (FSB) with a request for cooperation on this case. Arvidas Anushauskas, chairman of the Seym Committee for National Security and Defence (NSDC) argues that he knows nothing about cooperation of the Lithuanian and Russian intelligence services.

On March 22, at the only secondary school in the village of Novosasetli, Khasavyurt District of Dagestan, doctors of some medical commission conducted examination of children and, after putting disappointing diagnoses, suggested that parents buy corsets for their children for 500 roubles each; and many parents did it. However, as it turned out, neither the Ministry of Public Health of Dagestan nor the Ministry of Education know nothing about this commission.

On March 29, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ruled on the case "Esmukhambetov et al versus Russia" (Application No. 23445/03) that Russia is responsible for human deaths during the military operation in Chechnya in 1999.

A forty-day-long action "Against abortion!" organized by the Georgian public organization "For Life" is held in Tbilisi, in front of the Parliament of Georgia.

The Georgian Commission on Conditional Early Relief (CER) has considered 40 CER applications from prisoners and decided to satisfy 35 of them.

During a special operation law enforcement bodies in Ingushetia identified the body of Yusup Buzurtanov, personal physician of the leader of Chechen gunmen Dokku Umarov among the killed. There was also a woman among them.

In the duration of the week from March, 21, till March, 27, no less than seven people were killed, four wounded and one person kidnapped in armed confrontations in Northern Caucasus. These are figures from "Caucasian Knot's" calculation based on its own materials and other open sources.

Investigative bodies of Ingushetia are investigating a high-profile corruption case, its figurant is Inna Malsagova, ex-Minister of Public Health of the republic who is suspected of grave abuse of authority in process of procurement of medical equipment.

The republic has held a literary contest among students of philological departments dedicated to the local head Ramzan Kadyrov. In the coming days it will be summed up, and the winners will be rewarded.

Today at 1 p.m. the Magistrate Court of Precinct No. 4 of the Sovietskiy District of Astrakhan was to hold another session on the case of journalist Oleg Teplischev, accused of beating Deputy from the "Edinaya Rossiya" (United Russia) Party Rifkat Shabanov. However, the session was postponed because the defendant was hospitalized.

One of the men shot dead this morning in the Sunzha District of Ingushetia has been identified, according to power agents, as Ibragim Syroev, an active member of the underground. Also, power agents have reported that the casualties had bomb-triggering devices on them.