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Nazim Guliev, editor of the newspaper "Ideal", has been sentenced today by the Nasiminskiy Court of the capital of Azerbaijan to 2.5 years of imprisonment for slander and insult.

Broadcasting of the oppositional TV Channel "Imedi" that had earlier belonged to businessman Badri Patarkatsishvili was stopped in Georgia. The operation could be watched live on air: special police fighters rushed into the studio - and the broadcasting stopped.

On Wednesday, as a result of the clashes in Rustaveli Avenue and Riket Square in Tbilisi between special police units and the opposition 360 persons were injured.

At the press conference in the capital of Azerbaijan on November 5, Daniel Fried, US Deputy State Secretary, speaking on the situation in the sphere of journalism, has repeated the thesis on inadmissibility of arresting journalists for their published articles.

Operative officers of the Tax Service of Armenia have beaten journalists and broken TV cameras in the studio of the "Gala" TV Channel in the city of Gyumri.

The Observatory, an international human rights organization, has expressed its protest against illegal detention and expulsion from Russia of Anna-Mari Gelen, an activist of the human rights NGO Pax Christi International, who is known for her work on the problems of Chechnya.

Residents of Chechnya believe that the statement of the leader of separatists Doku Umarov about creation of the "Caucasian Emirate" has no real grounds and is beneficial for the authorities of Russia.

The Promyshlenny District Court of the city of Stavropol has started debates of the parties on the criminal case in relation to inspector of the unit for minors' matters of the Promyshlenny District's Interior Department, accused of committing a crime under Article 285 of the Russian Criminal Code (abuse of ex-officio full powers).

Fatimat Tekaeva, Rasul Kudaev's mother, believes that placing her son into the sweat box was undertaken with the aim not to let him survive till the trial.

In the opinion of Archil Gegeshidze, an expert of the Georgian Foundation of Strategic and International Studies, the November 4 interview of President of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili failed to meet the expectations of the people who heard nothing new.

On November 9, the Supreme Court of Adygea will consider not only the issue of zoning of the Sochi National Park, but also the extent, to which "the national judiciary mechanism has got rusty."

In the opinion of the experts, the reforms of the judicial system of Georgia gave no expected result, and this is one of the recent heaviest failures of the authorities.

On November 4th, the National Unity Day, the so-called "Russian Marches" were held in a dozen of Russian cities, bringing together from several hundreds to several thousands of participants.

According to one of the versions, the militants who murdered hunters in the forest near Lechinkai village on November 4 could be involved in the attack on power agencies of Kabardino-Balkaria in October 2005.

Aram Gambaryan, Executive Director of the Committee "Ay Data" (Armenian Issue) in America, is confident that the US Administration of the USA "has conceded to Turkish blackmail" in the issue of recognition of the genocide against Armenians, in order not to endanger its primary strategic interests.

Nurdi Nukhazhiev, Ombudsman in Chechnya, held a meeting with the heads of power agencies of Dagestan and Chechnya and discussed with them the facts of extortion on the roads.

Svetlana Alisultanova, the new Ombudsperson of Dagestan, has criticized the activity of the "touring human rights activists" who work in the territory of Dagestan, and has stated that there are no kidnappings in the Republic.

In Azerbaijan journalists have made a decision to hold an all-national meeting on December 10 in protest against illegal arrests of journalists and pressure on the free press.

The sitting of the United National Board of the opposition, which comprises the leaders of the ten major oppositional political organizations, has moved a demand that Mikhail Saakashvili should resign from the post of President of Georgia.

In Dagestan, a diversion grouping has been neutralized, who prepared an attempt on the employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and religious figures.