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According to the information of the "Novorossiysk Committee for Human Rights," on January 23, 2007, a meeting of human rights activists and students with their guests from Germany in Novorossiysk (Krasnodar Territory) was interrupted by representatives of law enforcement bodies who appeared in the number of 15 persons.

The Moscow City Court has sentenced the three persons accused on the case of acts of terror in Moscow metro in 2004 - at the "Rizhskaya" station and in the leg between the "Paveletskaya" and "Avtozavodskaya" stations to life imprisonment.

The Baku OSCE office and the OSCE Representative for the freedom of mass media have expressed their deep concern with the new facts of criminal prosecution of journalists in Azerbaijan.

"Anna Politkovskaya was a sharp critic of the authorities, and it is nice," president of Russia Vladimir Putin has declared today in the Kremlin.

The Experts' Commission of Outstanding lawyers, comprising Professor Mary Robinson, former commissioner for human rights and the first woman-president of the Republic of Ireland, Stephan Treshel, judge of the UN Criminal Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia, and China Jilani, judge of the Supreme court of Pakistan, has summed up two-day hearings on counterterrorism in Russia.

The Office of Public Prosecutor of the Krasnodar Territory has delivered to the court the criminal case on accusation of a group of "OMON" (Special Militia) officers of excess of official powers with application of violence in relation to a big group of peaceful citizens.

At midday on February 2, the Moscow City Court plans to start announcing of the verdict on the case on the acts of terror in Moscow metro, the correspondent of the "Caucasian Knot" was told by Igor Trunov, defendants' advocate.

The British police have delivered the case on Alexander Litvinenko's murder to the Office of Public Prosecutor.

On January 31, the Students-and-Youth Union "Sarkis Tkhruni" of the "Gnchak" Social-Democratic Party held a protest action in front of the building of the Russian embassy in Yerevan in connection with continuing murders of Armenian natives in Russia.

A draft resolution has been submitted to the House of Representatives of the US Congress, calling to recognize the genocide of Armenians, the Armenian Assembly of America has reported.

The Judges of the Constitutional Court of Chechnya have addressed the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation with a request to bring a bill to the RF State Duma stipulating an increase of monetary compensations to the citizens of the Republic who have become victims of political repressions.

The Preobrazhenskiy Court of Moscow has sentenced Moscow notary Fail Sadretdinov, one of the figurants in Khlebnikov's case, to nine years of imprisonment for a swindle with an apartment.

Today, the Presidium of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation (RF) has rejected the supervisory presentation of the State Office of Public Prosecutor, with which it tried to protest against the decision of the Judicial Board on Criminal Cases of the RF Supreme Court, which cancelled the verdict passed to two natives of Chechnya and their allies, who were sentenced by the Tver Regional Court for extortion with application of violence, robbery, kidnapping and possession of munitions.

The Ossetian militiamen who were wounded as a result of the attack on the post of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of South Ossetia are alive, although two of them are still in a grave condition.

In Moscow today the public hearings held by the "Expert Commission of Outstanding Lawyers" have continued; the conference has considered the issues of fighting terrorism and the problem of non-observance of human rights in Chechnya.

The Georgian party has again confirmed its readiness to take part in an informal meeting of the co-chairmen of the Joint Supervisory Commission (JSC) for settling the South Ossetian conflict, which is planned for the second decade of February.

At 10 a.m. on January 31, the Presidium of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation (RF) will consider the supervisory presentation of the State Office of Public Prosecutor, lodged in protest to the decision of the Judicial Board on Criminal Cases of the Russian Supreme Court, which cancelled the verdict in relation to two Chechnya natives and their helpers, convicted by the Tver Regional Court for extortion with application of violence, robbery, kidnapping and ammunition possession.

Human rights activists from the Autonomous Non-Commercial Organization (ANCO) "Novorossiysk Committee for Human Rights" assert that they are under pressure exerted on them by members of power agencies of the Krasnodar Territory.

Two servicemen of federal troops and one militant were killed in a skirmish in the mountainous Shatoj District of Chechnya.

On January 28, a meeting organized by the participants of the scandalously known "Russian March."