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A radical reduction in the number of kidnappings and massive non-targeted utilization of federal funds are the basic tendencies of modern Checnya's development.

Under Ramzan Kadyrov's order a special commission has been formed in Chechnya that will be engaged in the issues of restoration of rights of the rehabilitated victims of political repressions.

Azerbaijan is not going to cooperate with "Reporters without Borders" and attaches no value to declarations made by this organization.

On May 4, 2007, while presenting his report for the second half of 2006 to the Committee for Human Rights and Civil Integration, Ombudsman Sozar Subari, "National Defender of Georgia," has named the state of the Georgian penitentiary system to be catastrophic and beyond the critical mark.

President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov has stated the inadmissibility of illegal investigatory methods, the attention to which was drawn by heads of law enforcement bodies and representatives of power agencies of the Republic.

Two young people, born in 1984 and 1986, have been kidnapped by armed unknown persons in Nazran, a source at the city's department of internal affairs has telephoned on Saturday.

Georgian citizens of Azerbaijan origin, like all other citizens of Georgia who live in Russia, cannot get employed and do not dare even to go out of their homes.

The European Court for Human Rights in Strasbourg has made its decision on the case "97 members of Gdlan congregations of Jehovah's Witnesses and four other persons versus Georgia."

A court in Azerbaijan jailed two independent journalists today over an article that said Islam was hampering economic and political progress.

On May 24, the court session on Ulman's case will announce the outcomes of the undertaken operative and search actions and discuss the destiny of Major Alexei Perelevskiy, the only defendant who did not disappear like the rest of them.

Russian human rights defenders will address the European Union (EU) with a request to openly discuss with Moscow the problems that are obvious in Russia, and to demand that it should observe its international obligations.

Heads of Chechen law enforcement bodies and power agencies structures have decided to ask Ramzan Kadyrov, Republic's leader, to initiate liquidation of the Operative-Search Bureau-2 (ORB-2) located in the capital of the Republic.

On Monday, May 7, the hearing will restart of the case of Evgeniy Khudyakov and Sergey Arakcheev, accused of murdering three Chechen residents.

Today, on May 3, Yuri Tomchak, Minister of Internal Affairs of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic, held a meeting with Mufti Anas Pshikhachov, Dean of Orthodox churches of Kabardino-Balkaria Valentin Bobylev and Chief Rabbi of Kabardino-Balkaria and Nalchik Levi Shabaev, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent informs.

In performance of the decision of the European Court for Human Rights, the government of Russia has transferred eight thousand euros to the personal account of Turkish citizen Hadj Bairam Bolat who had been earlier deported from Kabardino-Balkaria.

Today, after their meeting with the Chairman of the Supreme Court (SC) of North Ossetia, the women of Beslan left the North Ossetian SC building. Ms. Anneta Gadieva, co-chair of the "Beslan Mothers" Committee, has reported the news by telephone.

"The attack on 'Yuzhnaya' (Southern) mosque located in the outskirt of the capital of Dagestan committed at the end of March was caused by internal showdowns (conflicts) among the people engaged in servicing the mosque," Enver Kisriev, an employee of the Centre for Civilization and Regional Researches of the Russian Academy of Sciences, asserts.

Today, the Moscow City Court has postponed consideration of the complaints lodged by the defence and accusation on the verdict to Boris Stomakhin, author of the "Kavkaz-Center" web site of Chechen separatists.

Georgia is ready to take serious steps to have the three Georgian students seized by Abkhazian separatists on March 1 in Shamgona village of the Zugdidi District released, Dmitri Kitoshvili, parliamentary secretary of the President of Georgia, has declared today on behalf of the latter.

The Freedom House Human Rights Organization has made public its report on the freedom of mass media worldwide. In the rating by the level of mass media freedom Russia has shared position No. 164 with Azerbaijan, still ahead of Brunei, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Swaziland.