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Georgia has placed responsibility for death of two Georgian policemen on the authorities of self-proclaimed Republic of South Ossetia. This is the topic of the statement issued by the Office of the State Minister of Georgia.

Georgia is ready to become a reliable partner in transporting Turkmen gas to the world markets through the South Caucasian corridor.

Chechen authorities continue searching the militants who managed to disappear yesterday after armed collision with the servicemen of the Ministry of Defence.

On March 23, Vladimir Putin, president of the Russian Federation, met Mukhu Aliev, president of Dagestan, in his Novo-Ogaryovo residence to discuss the economic situation in Dagestan.

The kidnapping of Ingush president Murat Zyazikov's close relative accomplished yesterday in the Barsuki Municipal District of Nazran has provoked a broad public resonance and indignation among the authorities and public of the Republic.

"The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of the Russian Federation is positively estimating the outcomes of the meeting of the co-chairmen of the Mixed Control Commission (MCC) in Istanbul and welcomes the readiness of the parties to go on with the negotiations on settling the Georgian-Ossetian conflict within the MCC format," runs the Russian MFA's statement.

After liquidation of Vakhtang Aliev's grouping in Karachaevo-Cherkessia, many adherents of extremism "have sobered up, and the armed terrorist underground has come to naught."

General Sergey Chaban, Commander of the of the CIS Collective Peacemaking Forces (CIS CPMFs) in the Georgian conflict zone, has confirmed the information about the visit today of the upper section of the Kodor Gorge of the Joint Group instructed to reveal the facts of violations of the Moscow Agreement on Ceasefire and Separation of Troops dated May 14, 1994.

Today, at about midday, in Ingushetia, near his house, when coming out of the mosque, Ursukhan Zyazikov, uncle of the president of the Republic, was kidnapped in the village of Barsuki.

Robert Menar, Secretary General of the international human rights organization "Reporters without Borders," has called the US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to draw attention of her colleague Elmar Mamedyarov to a heavy situation in the area of freedoms of speech and mass media in Azerbaijan.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Dagestan has informed today that Ruslan Bashaev, commander of an illegal armed formation of the Central Front of Chechnya, was killed today in the town of Khasavyurt.

Debates of the parties have taken place in the City Court of Kondopoga on Sergey Mozgalyov and Yuri Pliev's criminal case; these defendants were the instigators of the fight at the "Chaika" (Seagull) restaurant.

On March 19, a commission comprising representatives of the administration of Leninskiy District and employees of the Leninskiy "ROVD" (Interior Department) arrived to the Temporary Accommodation Centre (TAC) located in Malgobek Street of the city of Grozny, capital of Chechnya.

Azerbaijan has offered European Union a sort of an "energy friendship" through bypassing Russia: to purchase gas directly in Turkmenia, not from "Gazprom," and to transport it through the these-days commissioned South Caucasian gas pipeline (Baku-Tbilisi-Erzurum) and the perspective trans-Caspian one.

A joint investigatory group will conduct an additional investigation into the incident in the upper section of the Kodor Gorge connected with the shelling on the night of March 12.

In the morning of March 21, the workers of the "Peresvet" Private Security Company (PSC) who are the Cossacks of the Mineralovodskiy Unit of the Tersk Army arrived to the city of Kislovodsk (Stavropol Territory) to take guard of the building of the local sewing factory.

President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov has declared that the issue of signing a powers delimitative treaty between Russia and Chechnya is no longer actual.

Former opposition candidates to parliament deputies - Emma Hodzha, Vitaly Gabniya, Almasbei Kchach, Daur Achugba and Marina Bartsyts - are going to lodge complaints to the Supreme Court of Abkhazia.

The jurymen have passed an accusatory verdict on the criminal case related to blowing up of the Grozny-Moscow train committed on June 12, 2005.

The "Artsakh" Democratic Party that has a majority in the Parliament of Nagorny Karabakh has started consultations on nominating or supporting a candidate to the position of the president.