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Most leaders of the opposition party "Armenian National Movement" (ANM) have been arrested in Armenia. Out of 25 members of the party board, only three persons are out of prison.

In Dagestan, director general of the "Nastoyascheye Vremya" (Present time) newspaper, has prohibited the publication of the issue in which journalists placed the materials on violation of the freedom of speech by the founders.

Yesterday on March 13, on the fifth day of hunger strike of the Georgian United Opposition which is being held in front of the parliament building in Tbilisi, five of its members were brought to the hospital within the day.

Yesterday, on the night of March 13, two unknown persons attacked Agyl Khalilov, correspondent of the opposition newspaper "Azadlyg" in Azerbaijan, near his house and inflicted knife wounds on him.

Mikhail Kriger, one of the leaders of the Anti-war Club (AWC) protesting against the RF oppression policy in the North Caucasus, is sentenced to pay a fine of one thousand rubles.

No temporary residence points for forced migrants (TRP) have remained on the territory of the Chechen Republic. From now on, the TRPs are officially referred to as the "dormitories" and those who live in them - as the "persons who need to improve their living conditions".

Representatives of the human rights organization MAShR have stated that Mr Mutsolgov, who was killed yesterday, on March 12, in the course of a counterterrorist operation, for 7 months already was not their employee.

The 2007 report of the US Department of State on situation with human rights fails to register any visible progress in Azerbaijan in this sphere. Moreover, in some aspects there is an obvious swing-back.

In the opinion of Sozar Subari, Ombudsman of Georgia, the authorities have illegally dismissed Nana Mgebrishvili - sister of disgraced ex-Minister of Defence of Georgia Irakliy Okruashvili - from her position at the Tbilisi Supervision Service.

Today, the Promyshlenny Court of North Ossetia has rejected the complaint lodged by the All-Russian Public Organization "Voice of Beslan" on recognition of the examinations of the bodies of the terror act victims to be illegal.

The Cossacks of the Stavropol Territory, who earlier refused to be Russian citizens, are now going to enforce that the investigation into Ataman Andrei Khanin's murder was continued.

On March 11, relatives and friends of David Sigua, who was kidnapped on February 3 this year from his own house in the city of Gall, blocked the entrance to the local United Nations Office.

At the Krasnodar first aid hospital, soldier Alexander Ivanov from Volgograd who fell victim of beating at the military unit, was amputated his damaged spleen.

In Moscow, a picket took place in defence of Mikhail Kriger, one of the leaders of the Anti-War Club (AWC), which stands against the strong-arm tactics of Russian authorities in Northern Caucasus.

Soldier Seitmagambetov who rode down a woman with his armoured troop-carrier (ATC) in North Ossetia has plead guilty, but the relatives of the casualty fear that he can any time refuse from his evidence.

Today, at shelling of a dwelling house, Rustam Magomedovich Mutsolgov, born in 1986, was killed in Troitskaya village in Ingushetia.

The opposition is holding information actions all over Tbilisi calling people to rally together by today's evening at the building of the Parliament of Georgia.

The Panel of the Supreme Court (SC) of Kabardino-Balkaria has considered the cassation petition lodged by the Prosecutor's Office of the city of Nalchik against the decision of the Nalchik City Court, passed on the application of citizen Madina Trunova, and satisfied it.

In Ingushetia, the organizers of the oppositional rally that was initially appointed on March 12 have postponed their action till April.

Two militaries at regular service in one of the units deployed in Kazachii Lagerya village, Oktiabrskiy District, Rostov Region, worked for six months at the fish shop of the Foreign Enterprise "Topchiy".