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According to the statement made by the advocates of Farkhad Aliev, former Minister of Economic Development of Azerbaijan, if the authorities want their client to escape the fate of Patarkatsishvili, they should admit attending physicians to him.

The reason for a spontaneous rally held last night in Nazran was the detention on February 13 by employees of power agencies in the centre of Nazran of Magomed Evloev, a resident of Ekazhevo village, Nazran District of Ingushetia.

British policemen have promulgated the first results of the post mortem examination of Badri Patarkatsishvili's body. It was found out that the death of the Georgian businessman was a result of natural causes, runs their special statement.

The relatives of Yusup Chapanov, who was killed on February 1, 2008, in the centre of Nazran by employees of power agencies of the Russian Federation, express their discontent with the progress of investigating the murder.

In Yerevan, head of the election office of Levon Ter-Petrosyan, who is running for presidency in Armenia, was beaten.

The attacks on election offices of Serzh Sarkisyan, one of Armenian presidential candidates, committed on February 10 and 11, caused an investigation now underway within a criminal case initiated under point 1, part 2, Article 185 of the Criminal Code of the Republic Armenia.

The Department of the Federal Service of Court Marshals (FSCM) of the Pravoberezhny District of North Ossetia has stated that nobody from the "Voice of Beslan" Public Organization beat the judge and seven court marshals.

Representatives of Georgian oppositional parties agree that the murder version of Georgian businessman Badri Patarkatsishvili cannot be excluded.

The cause of a sudden death of the richest person in Georgia, former presidential candidate Badri Patarkatsishvili will be established by British experts.

On February 13, the Rostov Regional Court will consider the cassation complaint filed by the activist of "The Other Russia" Pavel Nagibin on violation of the right to freedom, freedom of movement and freedom of creativity.

Today at night, the office of the oppositional political faction "Our Georgia", headed by Valery Gelbakhiani, was plundered. Four computers containing data about the pre-election campaign and supporters of Patarkatsishvili were carried away.

The hearing of the case about beating Turks by former Russian troopers is postponed for a week, since Judge Sergey Bykov from the Leninskiy District Court of Krasnodar has satisfied the petition lodged by defendant Arthur Ruzavin.

Krasnodar human rights activists have launched a hotline telephone on the matters related to forthcoming elections. The territorial NGO "Civil Voice" was the initiator.

Today, the Independent Press Centre in Moscow has held presentation of the report prepared by the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" entitled: "Ingushetia 2007. Where Now?", presenting a review of the events that took place in the Republic in 2007 and containing recommendations to the authorities of the region and heads of power agencies on how to remedy the situation.

Leaflets have appeared in public places of Ingushetia, in which the militants are promising, as on March 1, to start killing drug dealers and owners of gambling dens and slot machine halls.

The Military Prosecutor's Office of the Combined Armed Forces in Northern Caucasus has initiated a criminal case under Article 293 of Russian Criminal Code ("Negligence") on the fact of artillery bombardment of Gekhi village, Urus-Martan District of Chechnya.

This week, proceeding will go on in Stavropol on the case of Lilia Leonova, a teacher of Kindergarten No. 78 "Alye Parusa", accused of sticking the mouth of one of fooling girls with adhesive tape.

On February 11, the Constitutional Court of Armenia rejected the claim of presidential candidate Levon Ter-Petrosyan, who demanded to recognize the obstacles that he has faced in his pre-election campaign to be insuperable.

The Federal Service of Court Marshals (FSCM) accuses three members of the "Voice of Beslan" Public Organization of beating seven court marshals and a judge.

The relatives of Yusup Chapanov, who was killed in the course of a special operation in Nazran on February 1 on suspicion of taking part in a number of terror acts in the territory of Ingushetia, are confident of his innocence and are going to strive for thorough investigation into this incident.