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Today, the members of the All-Russia NGO "Voice of Beslan" have lodged another complaint of theirs to the European Court on Human Rights in Strasbourg the next complaint against the state on behalf of the new initiative group consisting of 71 persons, as Ella Kesaeva, head of the NGO, has reported.

Today, the political association named "Alliance for Georgia", headed by Irakliy Alasaniya, has declared a start of the public plebiscite towards resignation of President of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili. This was announced by Mr Alasaniya at a briefing in Tbilisi.

The General Prosecutor's Office has returned the case about the explosion of the "Neva-Express" Train for additional investigation. In the opinion of the Office, the investigation remained unfinished.

The authorities of Armenia find the Armenian part of the annual report on situation with human rights in the world presented on February 26 by the Department of State (DoS) of the USA unduly sharp and politically motivated.

The Centre of Islamic Medicine, opened on February 2, in Grozny, the capital of Chechnya, where patients with psycho-neurological diseases are treated by reading ayats from Koran and according to Sunnah of Prophet Mohammed, has already cured one thousand persons, as the Republic's Muftiyat reports.

The Committee for Natural Resources and Nature Preservations of the Volgograd Regional Administration has initiated its fifth annual action in defence of rare early-flowering herbs (cowslips or primroses) growing in the region.

After Nagorno-Karabakh leaders have spoken on local TV, the situation around the fall of the exchange rate of the national currency has calmed down a little: people stopped flapping about and crowds in shops have disappeared, as the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports from the region.

On March 8, Kabardino-Balkaria will mark the Memory Day of 1944 deportation victims among the Balkar nation. A mourning rally will be held in Nalchik, at the memorial to deportation victims.

In Armenia, prices on essential foodstuffs and the cost of US dollar went down. Ashot Shakhnazaryan, Chairman of the State Commission for Defence of Economic Competition, said at a briefing on March 6 that the situation in Armenian marketplaces has normalized.

The city of Stepanakert has presented a public flotation of the stock of the company named "ArtsakhGES" (Artsakh Hydraulic Power Plant). Thus, for the first time in Nagorno-Karabakh, an attempt was made to involve public in a large investment project.

In the village of Tsentaroy, known as the clannish settlement of Chechnya's President Ramzan Kadyrov, a copy of the "Heart of Chechnya" Mosque, erected last year in Grozny (capable to house 10,000 believers at a time, the largest in Europe) is now being built. The mosque in Tsentaroy will house about seven thousand believers.

Ruslan (Aslan) Khalilov, a native of Chechnya, who is named by separatists' websites as "repented Kadyrov's killer", has stated before a video camera that President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov had ordered to kill Magomed Ocherkhadzhi, a native of Chechnya, who lives in Norway, and instructed his people to come into contacts with the authorities of Norway with the aim to mislead them and discredit Norwegian Chechens.

Starting from today, March 5, issuance of Georgian visas to Russians has officially resumed through the Swiss diplomatic missions. However, the actual work with documents will begin on March 6 - today diplomats were engaged in solemn opening ceremony of the section of Georgia's interests at the embassy of Switzerland to Russia.

Today in Dagestan, in the city of Khasavyurt, an attempt was made on Ilmiamin Magomedov, head of the Khasavyurt ROVD (District Interior Department), was accomplished. The attackers managed to disappear.

Today, at 1:20 p.m. Moscow time, in Surkhakhi village, Nazran District of Ingushetia, an explosion happened, when sappers tried to neutralize a self-made bomb found in the roadside. Five employees of law enforcement bodies were killed.

The European Court on Human Rights in Strasbourg has found Russia guilty of the death of a resident of Chechnya in 2000 and has obliged the government to pay out 37,000 euros to his widow. The decision was made back on February 12, but officially announced only today.

The residents of the Imereti Valley in Sochi, whose houses turned out to be within the Olympic construction zone, are ready to apply to the European Court on Human Rights in defence of their rights to favourable environment, housing and a choice of place for residence.

The Novgorod Regional Court has extended the custody term for the residents of Ingushetia suspected of taking part in blowing up the "Neva-Express" train in August 2007.

The world economic crisis will tell negatively on Armenia, first of all, in such areas like reduction of money transfers and return to Armenia of a part of seasonal construction labour force from Russia. This was stated to journalists by Gagik Eganyan, head of the Migratory Service at the Ministry for Territorial Management of Armenia.

The murder of Magomed Albogachiev, former head of Ali-Yurt village, Ingushetia, differs from other murders of officials, from time to time committed in the Republic. This was stated by Magomed Mutsolgov, head of the human rights organization named "Mashr"