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The court of the city of Dimitrovgrad, Ulyanovsk Region, has again rejected to provide early-conditional release to former colonel Yuri Budanov, convicted for murdering a Chechen girl in 2000.

In Rostov-on-Don, the Pervomaiskiy District Court has rejected the complaint of the activist of "The Other Russia" Pavel Nagibin on his custody conditions at the KPZ of the Kirovskiy District Interior Department of Rostov-on-Don after his detention at the picket with a demand to register the federal list of candidates for deputies from "The Other Russia" coalition on November, 24, 2007.

The government of Armenia shall lift the restrictions imposed on the right to hold rallies, marches and demonstrations and stop bringing participants of peaceful actions to police stations. This is a topic of the statement disseminated by the Human Rights Watch.

On April 1, twenty detained activists of Armenian opposition declared that on April 2 they would start a hunger strike in protest against the charges presented to them. The oppositionists assert that their arrests were politically motivated and demand to stop the criminal cases initiated against them.

The local resident announced into search by law enforcement bodies of the Chechen Republic for kindling interethnic enmity and calls to dethrone power bodies is the militants' leader Doku Umarov.

In the opinion of Mark Franketti, an observer of British The Times newspaper, the fact that at construction of the objects for the Sochi-2014 Winter Olympic Games several hundreds families will lose their homes is casting a shadow on the preparation thereto.

In Armenia, detainee Suren Surenyants, who announced a hunger strike a week ago, feels bad. His friends try to convince the oppositionist to stop his hunger strike.

The Prosecutor's Office of the city of Tuapse (Krasnodar Territory) has rejected journalist Sergey Rozhkov's application to initiate a criminal case against the militiamen suspected of beating him.

Power agents of Chechnya refuse to tell anything about the person searched on suspicion of disseminating via the Internet of extremist appeals.

On April 11, the Moscow City Court will consider the suit on recognition of the "Ingushetia.Ru" Internet website to be extremist one and on stopping its activities.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Tajikistan rejects any assumptions about possible contractual nature of the murder of Ilyas Shurpaev, a correspondent of Channel One of Russian TV.

The Pravoberezhny Court of North Ossetia has invalidated the protocol on administrative offence in relation to Ella Kesaeva, leader of the All-Russian Public Organization "Voice of Beslan", accused of beating a judge and court marshals.

US Ambassador to Azerbaijan Ms Ann Dears, who visited yesterday, on March 28, the family of the editor-in-chief of the "Azadlyg" newspaper Ganimat Zakhid, called the authorities of Azerbaijan to release all the arrested journalists.

In the city of Maralik, Shirak Region of Armenia, signatures are gathered under the petition in defence of Arutyun Urityan, head of the city election office of Levon Ter-Petrosyan, who was convicted to 7 years of imprisonment on charges of hampering elections and beating an election agent of Serzh Sarkisyan.

The searches underway in Tajikistan with the aim to find the suspects of murdering the journalist of Channel One Ilyas Shurpaev gave an unexpected result. Three persons are already figurants in the case.

Gyulnara Rustamova, chair of the committee "Dagestan Mothers for Human Rights" has told today to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that her organization has faced new problems caused by the refusal of local advocates to render legal aid to arrested citizens.

Ombudsman of Georgia Sozar Subari has stated this fact at the presentation of his report "Anatomy of Human Rights Violations in Georgia".

On March 28 the Pravoberezhny Court of North Ossetia held hearing on accusation of Ella Kesaeva, leader of the All-Russian Public Organization "Voice of Beslan", of beating a judge and court marshals. Ms Kesaeva asked the court to nullify the protocol on the offence and close the case, but the court rejected her petition.

On March 26, the body of a citizen of Azerbaijan, aged 33, was found in the Krasnogvardeiskiy District of St-Petersburg.

Judge of the Tbilisi City Court Georgiy Shavliashvili has sentenced in absentia Irakliy Okruashvili, former Minister of Defence of Georgia, to 11 years of imprisonment.