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Last night an oppositionist was beaten in Tbilisi. Eka Beseliya, leader of the Party "Movement for United Georgia", has stated that the country's MIA fails to prevent violence and ensure safety of the participants of protest actions; accordingly, the Ministry "will receive adequate answer."

The Sovietskiy District Court of Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan, has obliged journalists of the newspaper "Novoe Delo" to pay out 12,000 roubles to Zaur Gaziev, journalist of the newspaper "Free Republic", who was dissatisfied with reviews on his articles and fairy tale.

The experts of the Ministry for Emergencies (MfE) of Russia from the Special-Purpose Centre named "Leader" have started their work in Chechnya and already cleared 1.5 ha of agricultural land of mines and all kinds of bombs; the land belongs to the state farm "Zarya" (Dawn) located near Grozny.

Relatives of Adam Aushev, 21, a resident of Surkhakhi village, Nazran District, killed on March 21 by employees of the Department of the FSB (DFSB) for Ingushetia, reject the DFSB's version about his armed resistance and insist on an extrajudicial execution of the young man.

Today, the European Court on Human Rights has announced its decisions on five cases related to violations of Chechen residents' rights. According to these decisions, the aggregate compensation awarded to the applicants on all five cases for their material and mental damage will make 549,700 euros.

Sochi journalist Anastasia Akopyan beaten with threats after she had interviewed Boris Nemtsov, a candidate for Sochi Mayor, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that she had not received any threats before the incident.

The company, which fails to pay salaries to the crew of the Russian ship "Artemida", now in the Krasnodar Territory at the ship-repair works in the city of Eysk, promised to settle, before April 26, the conflict with the seamen who have announced a hunger strike.

Marina Bottaeva, 20, a resident of Nalchik, addressed human rights organizations with an application that he was blackmailed by a law enforcer named Arsen Iritov, born in 1985, a relative of Naurbi Zhamborov, Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs.

Since September 1, 2009, North Ossetia will seriously toughen requirements to medical centres and dining rooms in educational establishments in order to improve children's nutrition and health control. Now, only about 20 percent of schoolchildren of the republic get proper meals.

Relatives of Ibragim and Dzhabrail Makhmudovs, former defendants in Anna Politkovskaya's murder case, have announced remuneration for any information connected with this crime.

Today, Saipi Mogushkov, 77, former head of the security at the Republic's Clinical Hospital of Ingushetia, who was wounded by unidentified persons in the evening on April 19, has died.

Today, the Moscow Garrison Military Court continued debates on the case of Vladimir Bukreev - the judge who sentenced Colonel Budanov, - now accused of bribe-taking. The state accuser demands 10 years of general regime colony for the defendant, while the defence complains of protracting the litigation.

The OSCE spokesman on freedom of mass media Miklos Harasti has welcomed liberation in Azerbaijan of three journalists from custody and called the authorities of the country to cancel criminal prosecution for defamation.

The Supreme Court of Ingushetia has recognized lawful the refusal to transfer the trial on the case of the death of Magomed Evloev, owner of the website "Ingushetia.Ru", from the republic to some other subject of the Russian Federation.

Members of human rights organizations of Kabardino-Balkaria and Karachaevo-Circassia have offered the authorities of Russia to announce amnesty by the Victory Day, including for the participants of events on October 13, 2005, in Nalchik.

The journalist who made a television clip for Boris Nemtsov, a candidate for Sochi Mayor, was attacked. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was told about it by Olga Shorina, press secretary of the Movement named "Solidarity".

On April 23, the Supreme Court of Kabardino-Balkaria will continue considering the case on events on October 13, 2005, in Nalchik. It is not excluded that the verdict will be passed at last, anticipated by the public for three and a half years already.

The Prosecutor's Office refused to provide any data to human rights activists about Yusup Zagirov, who was kidnapped in Dagestan on April 5 by unidentified power agents. On April 8 the Human Rights Centre "Memorial" was informed about this kidnapping by Yusup's brother Omar Zagirov.

A group of sappers of the Ministry for Emergencies (MfE) of Russia has arrived to Chechnya and started demining the rural territory in the vicinity of Grozny. They will have to examine about 50 hectares of arable land.

Since April 20, in the south of Chechnya, in the Itum-Kalin and Vedeno Districts, the counterterrorist operation (CTO) regime was announced. Some local observers believe that these could be power agents' response actions to the Kremlin's decision to cancel the CTO regime that had survived in Chechnya for more than nine years.