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Dmitri Sanakoev, alternative president of the Republic of South Ossetia, wants to enter the united Georgia in exchange for acquiring the status of a broad autonomy. He has declared it today at the 65th PA NATO Rous-Rout Workshop.

Khamad Umarov, 74, father of Doku Umarov, leader of Chechen separatists, was killed. According to one of militants' Internet web sites, Umarov's father was kidnapped back on May 5, 2005, by the employees of the "Oil Regiment" headed by Adam Demilkhanov.

The balance of forces in the OMON (Special Militia)-dissidents confrontation in Nizhni Novgorod on March 24 can be compared with the balance of forces during the battle of Persians with 300 Spartans.

The work of the Public Foundation "Educated Media" (assignee of the "Internews") is actually paralysed after the search of the premises of the organization.

The Human Rights Watch NGO has sent a letter to Giorgij Shavliashvili, Chair of the Tbilisi City Court, asking him to hold an open trial of the thirteen activists of the "Justice" Party and their supporters accused of a coup d'etat attempt in Georgia, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports with a reference to the office of the "Imedi" Party.

The "Nord-Ost" Organization demands excitation of a new criminal case on Dubrovka act of terror.

The policy of adults has poor consequences for the most vulnerable group - children. Chechnya lacks boarding schools for children with disabilities. It also has no special institutions, where parents could leave their children while at work. Lilia Yusupova, leader of the "Sozidanie" (Creation) NGO (City of Gudermes), said about it in her interview to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

The Public Prosecutor's Office of the Elborus District, Kabardino-Balkaria, has accused two workers of the District Interior Department (ROVD) - M. Baichekuev and M. Mashezov - of applying physical violence to detained minor residents of Neitrino village, Kabardino-Balkaria, Yusup Nakani and Ravil Nuraliev.

The Georgian Public Prosecutor's Office has detained three policemen suspected of beating Alexander Hositashvili, 36, who died on March 15.

Offices of international humanitarian organizations located in Naberezhnaya Street, Tagrim community, City of Nazran, Ingushetia, have closed.

About 90 percent of those who suffered from dispersals of the so-called "Disagreement Marches" in Moscow and Saint Petersburg are going to appeal against the actions of law enforcement bodies.

During the last 24 hours, employees of power agencies have found two hiding places with weapons and ammunition in Grozny and Urus-Martan District of Chechnya.

Mr. Bulatov and Mr. Dambegov, residents of Kabardino-Balkaria, who were tortured at the so-called "T-Centre," have appealed against their District Court's verdict.

Chechen residents treat the utterances of Dmitri Rogozin, Russian State Duma Deputy, that Captain Ulman and his two subordinates could have been kidnapped by Chechens as "complete ramble" and "fiction."

On April 12, the village named Vtoroe Otobaya, Galskiy District, Abkhazia, was attacked by fire.

The International Writers' Organization "Russian PEN-Centre" has expressed its serious concern of and protest against the force methods used by law enforcement bodies against the journalists who performed their professional duties during the actions of opposition in the streets of the Russian capital on April 14.

A complex work to improve custody conditions will be implemented in South Ossetia.

The next court session on the assassination case of Imam of the city of Kislovodsk (Stavropol Territory) will take place on April 23 at 11 a.m. in the premises of the Pyatigorsk City Court.

On April 16, the Supreme Court of the Republic Ingushetia started to consider the criminal case of 12 defendants accused of a terrorist attack on the Republic in June 2004.

Nurdi Nukhazhiev, Human Rights Ombudsman for the Chechen Republic, made a special statement concerning disappearance of a group of militaries from special troops of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Russian General Staff (known as "GRU") accused of murdering peaceful residents.