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Tomorrow, on December 8, the website "Ingushetia.Ru" will restart its broadcasting in full scope, including reopening of the sections "Forum", "Guest Book" and "Announcements".

The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the jailing today of yet another journalist in Azerbaijan, making him the tenth currently behind bars in the country.

At the trial of Evgeniy Khudyakov and Sergey Arakcheev, accused of murdering peaceful residents of Chechnya, Dmitri Agranovskiy, one of Arakcheev's three advocates, has spoken at the parties' debate and asserted that the witnesses had testified under pressure.

Ivan Kirillov, 40, a citizen of Russia, asserts that he managed to run away from Georgian slavery. He was violently taken away to the Mestiyskiy District, Upper Svanetia, where he was forced to work during four years.

It became known yesterday that on December 5, on the second day after the rally in Nazran (Ingushetia), Svetlana Izotyeva, journalist of the weekly "Argumenty i Facty" was severely beaten.

The city court of Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia, has lifted the arrest on the property of the "Imedi" TV Company under the petition of the General Prosecutor's Office of Georgia.

The trial on liquidation of the public organization named "The Board of Elders of Balkar People", initiated by the public prosecutor of Kabardino-Balkaria, has been reappointed on December 11.

The Committee for Protection of Human Rights of the United Nations has made a number of remarks on inefficient protection of civil and political human rights in Georgia. They were stated during presentation of the Committee's conclusions on the 3rd Periodic Report on legal defence at the office of Sozar Subari, Ombudsman of Georgia.

In the Volgograd Region, prosecutor's inspections undertaken at five investigatory isolation facilities and eight premises that function as SIZOs have revealed numerous violations of the rights of suspects and defendants.

The Union of Right-Wing Forces Party in North Ossetia has stated that all the ballot papers were taken away to the districts of the Republic, and the votes were tabulated there, not at the Central Electoral Commission.

The authorities of the Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic of Azerbaijan have released Ilgar Nasibov, a reporter of Radio Liberty.

The Elborus District Court of Kabardino-Balkaria has sentenced employees of District Interior Unit M. Mashezov and M. Baichekuev, accused of tortures, to three years of imprisonment with serving the punishment at the general custody colony.

Relatives of Aishat Pogorova who was knocked down to death by an armoured troop-carrier of federal troops in the Prigorodny District of North Ossetia have stated that the Prosecutor's Office is reluctantly investigating the death of the woman.

The operation of the Internet site "Ingushetia.Ru" has been temporarily suspended. The owner of site Magomed Evloev has fulfilled his father's will and closed the website.

Today, the Supreme Court of North Ossetia has again postponed making decision on re-registration of the committee named "Voice of Beslan" - this time because of the absence of the new chairperson of the committee.

Representatives of the public of Ingushetia are going to visit Yakhya Evloev, father of Magomed Evloev, and ask him not to stop the web portal Ingushetia.Ru.

"Despite all doubtfulness of the voting outcomes (according to data disseminated by the Chechen Central Electoral Commission, the voter turnout was almost 100 percent, and 99 percent of the electorate have supported the "Yedinaya Rossiya"), the leaders of the branches of other Russian political parties in Chechnya will not dare to confront the "Yedinaya Rossiya"."

Over a hundred members of the Communist Parties of the Russian Federation have rallied in the Rodopy Boulevard of Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan, to protest against falsifications at the elections to the State Duma of the Russian Federation.

The tax audits held in the "Gala" TV Company and other steps of the authorities of Armenia against the Company have been provoked by electoral processes, in particular, by broadcasting of the Levon Ter-Petrosyan, the first President of Armenia.

In Azerbaijan, human rights activists do not exclude that a new pardon decree will be passed Azerbaijan and cover, in particular, the convicted journalists.