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In the Krasnodar Territory, they are now investigating the fact of cutting out a section of the relic forest in the territory of the wildlife reserve "Bolshoi Utrish" (city-resort of Anapa). However, ecologists fear that no efficient measures will be applied to those guilty.

Boris Salmaksov, head of the Chief Investigatory Department of the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Prosecutor's Office for the SFD, has reported today that in Kabardino-Balkaria the murder of nine hunters and huntsmen has been solved, the accused criminals have been announced into federal search.

The Chief Investigatory Department at the Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation for the South Federal District has indicted the two detainees suspected of blowing up the Pyatigorsk-Stavropol bus committed in the city of Nevinnomyssk.

On December 25, at a press conference of representatives of the united opposition on the topic of political terror, Koba Davitashvili, leader of the Party of the People, accused the authorities of "telephone terrorism" and gave Mikhail Saakashvili three days to disclose his agents.

Today, the Yasamal District Court of the capital of Azerbaijan has refused to change the freedom restriction measure - the arrest - to Ganimat Zakhidov, editor-in-chief of the "Azadlyg" newspaper.

The Moskovskiy District Court of the city of Kazan has reappointed the consideration of the complaint of two militia officers against the decision to stop the criminal case against journalist Natalia Petrova who is known for her reports from "hot points" of the Caucasus, and her parents on January 21, 2008.

Georgiy Targamadze, director of political programmes of the Tbilisi-based "Imedi" TV Company, which resumed its broadcasting on December 12, has stated today that the Company is temporarily stopped.

Human rights activist Ilgar Ibragimoglu, leader of the "Dzhuma" religious community in Azerbaijan and Chairman of the Centre in Defence of Freedom of Conscience and Religion (DEVAMM), has narrated in his interview about the activities of his community and the problems confronted by the parishioners of his mosque.

The Service of State Security of Abkhazia has stated that evidences of the people, who had been subjected to forced labour for some years in Georgia, should become a weighty proof for international organizations of the fact that slavery is flourishing in the territory of this country.

The human rights website The Caucasus Times, which was attacked by hackers on December 22, will be able to restore about 80 percent of the information, which was considered lost.

The DEVAMM has issued an appeal to the leadership of Azerbaijan, stating that the law draft "On Education", now brought for consideration to Milli Medjlis, derogates from the right of the believers.

The relatives of the militants who fell victim in Nalchik on October 13, 2005, have lodged a petition to with a demand to bring Alexei Savrulin, head of the investigatory group of the RF's General Prosecutor's Office for the SFD, and Nikolai Shepel, former Deputy General Public Prosecutor for the SFD, to criminal responsibility.

For two years already, the Prosecutor's Office of the Kikvidzenskiy District, Volgograd Region, is trying to put things in order at the Macheshanskiy boarding house for aged people and invalids. The latest inspection has shown that the rights of the people who are living in the boarding house are still violently broken.

A preparatory session on the case of Ganimat Zakhidov, editor-in-chief of the "Azadlyg" newspaper who was arrested in Azerbaijan, is planned for December 26.

On December 23, a total of 57,898 applications from residents of Ingushetia have already been gathered who reject their participation in elections on December 2. But according to the official data of the Electoral Commission of Ingushetia, over 98 percent of enlisted voters took part in the voting on December 2.

Six skinheads were presented charges of attacking two Dagestan residents in an electric train in a Moscow suburb, as a result of which one of the victims died.

In Ingushetia, uncle of Rakhim Amriev, a boy of six murdered on November 9, 2007, in Chemulga village by members of power agencies, was fired from his post after a telephone call from the prosecutor's office.

The organizing committee of the nationwide rally informs about preparation of a new mass national protest action against corruption and arbitrariness of the authorities, and against violations of human rights in Ingushetia.

The Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe has expressed its concern with the situation in the area of freedom of mass media in Armenia.

The massive migration of young people from Chechnya to European has acquired a scale of a real national disaster.