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Antiwar organizations have sent an appeal to the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation (RF) with a request to consider the issue of giving out the remains of Aslan Maskhadov, former president of Chechnya, to his family for burial.

The government of Georgia has developed new proposals on a full-scale political settlement of the conflict in South Ossetia, and today the Ministry for Conflict-Settling has delivered the proposals to all the parties engaged in the process.

It has became known to the correspondent of the "Caucasian Knot" from informed military sources, this April Baku will hold closed consultations on the issue of deployment in Azerbaijan of the American Antimissile Defence (AMD) system.

It has become known that the Office of Public Prosecutor of the Leningrad Regional Military Command has stopped "because of reconciliation of the parties" the criminal case against Hero of Russia Sulim Yamadaev, commander of the "Vostok" (East) battalion deployed in Chechnya, and his subordinates.

The Abkhazian leadership does not react to the "choral protest of democratic countries against democratic processes in Abkhazia."

In Abkhazia, on March 4, elections to parliament took place. 108 candidates ran for 35 places. In 17 out of 35 constituencies of Abkhazia repeated voting will take place.

The official Baku has declared that Azerbaijan did not receive any proposals on deployment of the elements of the Antimissile Defence (AMD) system in the territory of the country.

This is the last time in Kabardino-Balkaria when on March 8 the Balkarian people will mark the mourning day in remembrance of their deportation in 1943 from their homeland to Middle Asia.

Mr. Umarov remarks that "restricted funds hamper to pursue the desire of thousands young people who wish to take part in jihad."

Ramzan Kadyrov, recently approved by the Chechen Parliament of Chechnya as the head of the Republic, intends to strive for a new amnesty for participants of armed formations in Chechnya.

"On March 1, 2007, within the security zone, the so-called law enforcement bodies of Sukhumi regime opened fire at the group of local youth of Georgian and Abkhazian nationality," runs the statement of the Georgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The federal embassy to the South Federal District (SFD) and the government of North Ossetia are going to complete, in the peaceful and lawful way, the disbandment process of the spontaneous settlement of forced migrants near the Maiskiy settlement of the Prigorodny District of the Republic, where the victims of the 1992 Ossetian-Ingush conflict have lived for 13 years.

The Human Rights Society "Memorial" was nominated for the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize by a group of deputies of the European Parliament from six countries.

In the Dakhadaevskiy District of Dagestan, Magomed Aliev, head of local administration, started a politically-motivated skirmish with one of candidates for deputies of the regional assembly.

"There is no need to hold a meeting just for the sake of a meeting, it should be productive," president of Abkhazia S. Bagapsh has emphasized today at the press conference in Sukhumi speaking about his possible meeting with president of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili.

Sergey Katanandov, head of Karelia, does not exclude that in the course of investigation of the criminal cases, initiated on the outcomes of the events in the city of Kondopoga, new figures can appear.

Paata Davitaya, leader of the political movement "We Ourselves," has stated that many Georgians of the Galskiy District of Abkhazia are leaving their homes because of their unwillingness to take part in elections on March 4, and those who stay at home "will be forced to vote under the gunpoint."

The Council of Europe (CE), whose delegation has visited Chechnya these days, relates the violations of inmate detention conditions in the Republic with the deficit of judges.

Today, the Parliament of Chechnya has approved awarding Ramzan Kadyrov with the powers of the president of the Republic. Overall, 56 deputies of both Chambers has voted for this decision.

Georgia will welcome a sitting of the Mixed Control Commission (MCC) for settling the Georgian-Ossetian conflict in Tbilisi, should mutual understanding be reached by the parties at the Istanbul meeting.