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Human rights defenders are concerned of detainment conditions in deportation camps of the Krasnodar Territory. The evidence of these facts is opening of a special page in the web-site of the International Historical-Enlightenment, Human Rights and Charitable Society "Memorial".

Today, the North-Caucasian Regional Military Court will continue the proceedings on the so-called "Ulman case" connected with murder of peaceful residents of Chechnya.

The Autonomous Non-Commercial Human Rights Organization (ANCO) "MASHR" has issued a report named "Lost Law: Violence without Borders," dedicated to violations of human rights in the Republic of Ingushetia.

They assert at law enforcement bodies of Chechnya that the three militants killed on February 15 in the Staropromyslovskiy District of Chechnya's capital were planning to execute a number of terrorist acts in Grozny.

The pre-election emotions, connected with the forthcoming on February 20 election of the Rector of the Dagestan State Pedagogical University (DSPU), have reached their peak in Dagestan.

Today, the town of Novoalexandrovsk (Stavropol Territory) has held the burial ceremony of Andrei Khanin, Ataman of Nizhnekubanskiy Cossack Branch of the Tersk Cossack Army, who died as a result of an attempt, which has caused nationalist-motivated public disturbances.

Residents of aul Khodz (Koshekhabl District of Adygea) have lost about 80 percent of their poultry.

The visit of Russian investigators to London on the death case of Alexander Litvinenko, former FSB (Federal Security Bureau of Russia) officer, is expected on the week to come.

Making comments on the messages that have appeared in mass media on actions planned in Stavropol with nationalist colouring in connection with the attempt on the Cossack Ataman, Alexander Serkov, Ataman of the Stavropol Cossack Society of the Tersk Cossack Army has noted that Cossacks are against such actions.

The Duma of the Volgograd Region has passed a bill brought in by the Office of Public Prosecutor of the Region, which establishes responsibility for adoption of illegal acts of law and infringement of the rights of citizens, wishing to get employed at the municipal service.

South Ossetia is planning to build its own gas pipeline, independently from Georgia. The statement was made on February 16 by Eduard Kokoity, president of South Ossetia.

On February 15, capital of Chechnya, the city of Grozny was the venue of an official presentation of a new EU project aimed to support the public health sphere and education in Chechnya and Ingushetia.

The journalists of North Ossetia who have initiated the public prosecutor's examination of the Internet-portal "Ingushetia.Ru" think that the statement of Zalina Markhieva, editor-in-chief of the web-site, "has nothing to do with reality."

Eduard Kokoity stated that he thinks it necessary to have a prompt renewal of the negotiating process within the framework of the Mixed Control Commission (MCC).

A break till March 5 has been announced in Rostov-on-Don by the North-Caucasian Regional Military Court in the case of internal troops officers Evgeniy Khudyakov and Sergey Arakcheev, accused of murdering Chechnya residents.

On Thursday, February 15, President Vladimir Putin declared a change of power in Chechnya: the president of the Republic Alu Alkhanov was decorated with an order and resigned, Ramzan Kadyrov was appointed to be acting president.

Boris Gryzlov, Chairman of the State Duma, has declared that in the closest future Russia will get an opportunity to address the International Court of the United Nations with the aim to solve the issue of deporting Ahmed Zakaev, now living in Great Britain, to the Russian justice.

The Moscow City Court has transferred to March 14 the selection of the board of jurors for considering the murder case of Paul Khlebnikov, editor of the Russian version of the Forbes magazine.

The Azerbaijani Milli Medzhlis (Parliament) is now drafting, with the aim to toughen the state control over the activities of missionary organizations, a new wording of the Law "On Freedom of Religion."

"Together with Mr. Jean-Mari Gennos, Special Representative of the UN Secretary General for Peacemaking Operations, the Friends have discussed the Georgian-Abkhazian peace process under the aegis of the United Nations, and the ways to promote the dialogue between the parties," the summarizing document runs.