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The Moscow City Court has suspended the trial on the murder case of Paul Khlebnikov, editor-in-chief of the Russian version of the Forbes magazine because of disappearance of defendant Kazbek Dukuzov.

The European Court for Human Rights, acting on the basis of a complaint against Russia filed by 50 citizens of Kabardino-Balkaria, sent a so-called "communication" to the government of the Russian Federation (RF).

In 2006, special agencies of Russia managed to prevent an act of terrorism in Cherkessk (Karachayevo-Cherkessia), comparable by the scale with the attack of militants on Nalchik in 2005.

After 1999, an incessant mass outflow of people from mountain villages of Chechnya continues. However, life conditions for them in the plain are the heaviest.

The Lazarevskiy District Court of the city of Sochi, Krasnodar Territory, has postponed the start of hearing of the case of eight "OMON" officers, who arranged a pogrom in the "Druzhba" Sochi Children's Camp till 10:00 a.m. on March 20.

The information of the Georgian mass media about the artillery attack on the territory of the upper section of the Kodor Gorge with application of howitzers and "Grad" installations from the direction of the town of Tkvarcheli (Tkuarchal) has nothing to do with reality.

The Committee of the Council of Europe for Prevention of Torture has published another statement on Russia.

Alexander Chernogorov, governor of Stavropol Territory, has declared that for the sake of quietness and peace in the region he is ready to leave his post of the head of the Territory.

Last night, the Kodor Gorge was subject to air and artillery bombardment, the mass media of Georgia report.

Today, on March 12, the Administration of the Astrakhan Region has summed up the work in 2006 of the control headquarters for counteracting terror.

The Public Prosecutor's Office of North Ossetia is making complex audits of state bodies.

A criminal case has been initiated in Chechnya in relation to a commander of one of military units, for whose guilt, in the version of the investigation, two soldiers were wounded.

On the eve of election of the Mayor of Karachaevsk, the law enforcement bodies of Karachayevo-Cherkessia have organized a strengthened power order protection.

Another accident happened in Dagestan in connection with the forthcoming on March 11 elections to local bodies of power.

President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov has made several cadre reshufflings in his Republic.

The family of the former president of Chechnya Aslan Maskhadov, who was killed on March 8, 2005, has addressed "the leaders of world confessions and good-will people" with a request to call the Russian authorities to give out Maskhadov's body to his relatives for burial.

Merab Antadze, state minister of Georgia for conflict-settling, has stated that at the meeting in Geneva all the countries, save for Germany, have marked progress in fulfilment by the Georgian party of the UN Security Council's resolution on the Kodor Gorge situation.

On March 20-23, an official visit of Elmar Mamedyarov, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan, to the USA will take place.

The Committee for Defence of Journalists (CDJ) that is based in the USA is concerned of the threats made to Einullah Fatullaev, editor of the "Real Azerbaijan" newspaper.

A meeting of the presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan is possible right after the parliamentary elections; and co-chairs of the Minsk OSCE Group are highly interested in it.