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The court of Nalchik, the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria, refused to recognize illegal and unreasonable criminal investigation concerning Ruslan Nahushev, accused of terrorism propaganda, and terrorist activity

State Minister of Georgia George Haindrava announced at his press conference, that Georgia is ready to receive people deported from Meskhetia in 1944.

Some residents of Tyrnyauz city, Kabardino-Balkaria have received European Court notification that the court has started examining their case.

An interview with Larissa Dorogova, the lawyer who represents Muslim oppositionists in Kabardino-Balkaria.

A FSB officer tells about talks with the terrorists at the trial of Nurpashi Kulayev in North Ossetia.

School No 1 in Beslan was not a random choice as claimed by special agencies, victims insist.

A human rights activist who has applied to the European Court of Human Rights concerning abduction by police officers is on trial in Dagestan.

A statement by a leading human rights organisation concerning the recent attacks on human rights defenders in Russia.

The Human Rights Centre Memorial receives information that beating and torture are used in Chechnya against a relative of applicants to the European Court of Human Rights.

The Moscow Helsinki Group chair denies allegations of its being involved in espionage against Russia.

One police officer is killed and another one is wounded in the capital of Dagestan, Makhachkala.

Another resident of the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria, Zaur Pshigotyzhev, has gone missing, unofficial sources say.

Mr Rasul Kudayev, the former Guantanamo Bay prisoner, is found not to be in the White Swan prison in Piatigorsk, Stavropol territory.

Amnesty International regrets that President Putin has approved amendments to laws regulating NGO operation in Russia.

No witness comes to the Kulayev trial, including Ingush ex-president Ruslan Aushev and businessman Mikhail Gutseriyev.

There were around 25 killings and more than 200 assaults on an ethnic basis last year, says a human rights defender.

Six Russian military men are killed and five are wounded in Chechnya on 16-17 January, according to a France-Presse source.

Mr Kadyrov once said that those who refused to come back to Chechnya were "criminals and terrorists," Prague Watchdog reports.

There is information that he has some fingers and toes broken and his kidneys injured and that he is currently in a very grave condition.

Andrei Gagloyev, commander of the engineering troops of the 58th army, gives evidence at the Beslan attack case trial.