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A criminal case has been initiated in Chechnya in relation to a commander of one of military units, for whose guilt, in the version of the investigation, two soldiers were wounded.

On the eve of election of the Mayor of Karachaevsk, the law enforcement bodies of Karachayevo-Cherkessia have organized a strengthened power order protection.

Another accident happened in Dagestan in connection with the forthcoming on March 11 elections to local bodies of power.

President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov has made several cadre reshufflings in his Republic.

The family of the former president of Chechnya Aslan Maskhadov, who was killed on March 8, 2005, has addressed "the leaders of world confessions and good-will people" with a request to call the Russian authorities to give out Maskhadov's body to his relatives for burial.

Merab Antadze, state minister of Georgia for conflict-settling, has stated that at the meeting in Geneva all the countries, save for Germany, have marked progress in fulfilment by the Georgian party of the UN Security Council's resolution on the Kodor Gorge situation.

On March 20-23, an official visit of Elmar Mamedyarov, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan, to the USA will take place.

The Committee for Defence of Journalists (CDJ) that is based in the USA is concerned of the threats made to Einullah Fatullaev, editor of the "Real Azerbaijan" newspaper.

A meeting of the presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan is possible right after the parliamentary elections; and co-chairs of the Minsk OSCE Group are highly interested in it.

The avian flu virus detected about three weeks ago in the Krasnogvardeiskiy District of Adygea contains the N1 component, which is dangerous for humans.

On March 3, in Algeria, a bus was exploded of Russian Company "Strojtransgaz" with Russian specialists in it. Consequently, four persons died, three of them were Algerians. The North-African branch of "Al-Qaeda" took responsibility for the explosion, committed in protest against the actions of Russian authorities in Chechnya.

In the Novopushkinskiy Public Garden of Moscow, Andrei Nalyotov, one of the organizers of a picket in memory of Aslan Maskhadov, former president of Chechnya, and against the war there, which is being held right now, has been detained.

The Lefortovo District Court of Moscow has rejected a claim lodged by the Human Rights Foundation "Mother's Rights" on behalf of the parents of Alexander Makmatov, a soldier killed on the border of North Ossetia and Ingushetia.

Levan Nikoleishvili, deputy minister of defence of Georgia, has stated that Georgia does not conduct any negotiations about deployment of the American anti-missile defence (AMD) system in its territory. According to him, Americans did not address with this sort of request to the Georgian party.

On the initiative of the Stepanakert NGO Resource Centre, an educational program was launched in the city of Shushi (Nagorny Karabakh), within the framework of which the first lecture was given on the topic "Present State of Settling the Karabakh Conflict."

Two years ago, on March 8, 2005, it became known about the death of Aslan Maskhadov, former Colonel of the Soviet Army, former Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ichkeria, who was elected in January 1997 the president of the self-proclaimed Chechen Republic of Ichkeria (ChRI).

The search of Arsamakov brothers who disappeared a month ago in the mountainous Shatoi District of Chechnya together with their driver has brought no results so far.

The Central Electoral Commission (CEC) of Abkhazia has registered 18 Parliament deputies, and in 16 constituencies the second election round will be held in a fortnight.

Today, Boris Chochiev, vice-premier of South Ossetian government, has called new proposals of the Georgian government "unacceptable" and assured that South Ossetia is drafting its own peaceful proposals.

Muslim Khuchiev, head of the regional branch of the party "Spravedlivaya Rossiya" (Rightful Russia), has been appointed the new mayor of Grozny.