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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.

After cancelling of the state of emergency in Armenia, 68 persons have been brought to administrative responsibility in the form of fines for participation in non-authorized rallies, marches and protest actions.

The Pravoberezhny Court of North Ossetia is still holding session on charges against Ella Kesaeva, leader of the Public Organization "Voice of Beslan", of an administrative offence, but the members of the organization are not admitted into the courtroom.

The editorial board of the "Novaya Gazeta" (New Newspaper) thinks that today's statement of the State Prosecution that the investigation has established and announced into search the killer of Anna Politkovskaya, the paper's observer, has no news.

Today in Azerbaijan, three inmates of the Correctional Labour Colony (CLC) No. 1 have started a hunger-strike with a demand to free all political prisoners.

The Department of the Federal Service of Court Marshals for the Krasnodar Territory refutes the information about beating Anatoly Malyshev who tried to burn himself in protest against his family's compulsory eviction from the hostel.

Sergey Obukhov, Deputy of the State Duma (faction of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation - CPRF), has directed some 20 requests to the Russian Public Prosecutor Yuri Chaika. He has indicated that that at presidential election on March 2 in the Krasnodar Territory, a total of 63,649 additional votes were ascribed to Dmitri Medvedev.

Within the latest six months, the Islamic Committee of Russia has received two complaints from relatives of the prisoners kept at the Federal State Institution Corrective Colony (CC) No. 11 located in the Stavropol Territory, where the colony administration was accused of illegal actions.

Svetlana Alisultanova, Ombudswoman in Dagestan, notes to a significant decrease in the number of kidnappings in the Republic. She has made this statement today at the 20th session of the National Assembly of Dagestan of the fourth convocation.

Today, the sitting of the Pravoberezhny Court of North Ossetia to consider the administrative charge against the All-Russian Public Organization "Voice of Beslan" did not take place. Ella Kesaeva, the leader of the organization, has challenged the composition of the court.

The natives of Chechnya, who were arrested in May 2007 in Moscow and who have, in the opinion of the investigation, relation to the car stuffed with explosive left near the "Profsoyuznaya" Metro Station, and accused of preparing an attempt on Ramzan Kadyrov, are still kept in custody without presentation of charges.

Employees of the criminal search have managed to establish the murderers of Ilyas Shurpaev, a journalist of Channel One. According to the investigation, the aim of the murder was robbery.

Today, for more than one hour, starting from 6 p.m. local time, members of law enforcement bodies of Armenia detained and took to police stations about 40 persons out of those who rallied in the Severny Avenue in Yerevan.

There are suspicions that a young man was kidnapped in the Barsuki municipal unit of Ingushetia.

Journalist Einullah Fatullaev, who is kept in Colony No. 12, started his hunger strike with a demand to release other journalists arrested in Azerbaijan.

In Dagestan, militia captain Ruslan Rasulov has addressed his application to the Investigatory Department of the Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation for the Republic of Dagestan on violation of his observer's rights during the presidential election on March 2. The application also states falsification of the election outcomes at one of the polling stations of Makhachkala.

In the capital of North Ossetia, the driver of an Armoured Troop Carrier (ATC) accused of driving down Aishat Pogorova has been sentenced to two years of imprisonment in a colony-settlement.

Yesterday, on March 25, journalist of Channel One Ilyas Shurpaev, who was killed in Moscow on March 21, was buried in Makhachkala. About a thousand persons took part in the mourning ceremony.

Relatives of Madina Ausheva who was killed by Russian power agents on February 28, 2008, as a result of a special operation in Nazran suburb, assert that her body handed out to relatives was without internal organs.

Yesterday, on March 24, the Union of Journalists of Dagestan held a mourning rally dedicated to the memory of Ilyas Shurpaev and Gaji Abashilov.