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The Pravoberezhny District Court of North Ossetia has stopped the cases on administrative offences against the members of the All-Russian NGO "Voice of Beslan" Emiliya Bzarova and Svetlana Margieva, as Ella Kesaeva, co-chair of the organization, has informed today.

On April 2, the Russian State Duma refused again to amend the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, as the National Assembly of Ingushetia offered back in 2005, and introduce punishments in the form of imprisonment for kidnappers of brides.

The number of hunger-strikers in Azerbaijan goes up: today, five new participants have joined the protest action.

Arshavir Bazinyan, a resident of the Armenian city of Razdan, a veteran of Karabakh war and wheel-chair invalid, is on hunger strike demanding to release his former commander Sasun Mikaelyan.

A picket against violations of human rights in Ingushetia has started today at 5:30 p.m. in Novopushkinskiy mini-park of Moscow.

Elena Tregubova, former journalist of the "Kommersant" newspaper, who accused Putin of the terror act in Dubrovka, received political asylum in Great Britain.

On March 26, 2008, inspector of the Chief Investigatory Department at the Prosecutor's Office released from custody under recognizance not to leave two residents of Ingushetia - Batyr Moshkhoev and Ahmed Izmailov, accused of organizing and participating in mass disorders in Nazran on January 26, 2008.

Starting from today, advocates have launched their hunger strike in Tbilisi near the office of the National Defender of Georgia in support of the hunger-striker Malkhaz Dzhangirashvili.

The FSB Department for Ingushetia suspects that the Chechen Committee for National Salvation is financed by foreign extremist organizations. For this reason, in August 2007, the FSBD initiated an off-schedule audit of the activities of the organization by the Department of "Rosregistratsia" for Ingushetia.

President of Abkhazia calls Secretary General of NATO and representatives of NATO member-states, to take into account the opinion of Abkhazia when considering at the summit in Bucharest the issue of Georgia's NATO membership.

On April 2, twenty-eight activists of Armenian opposition, now kept in custody, went on a hunger strike, and eight of them - a termless one, finding the charges against them to be forged.

On March 31, Arzu Abdullaeva, co-chair of the International Helsinki Civil Assembly, expressed her solidarity with journalists in Azerbaijan by joining their protest hunger strike.

The court of the city of Dimitrovgrad, Ulyanovsk Region, has again rejected to provide early-conditional release to former colonel Yuri Budanov, convicted for murdering a Chechen girl in 2000.

In Rostov-on-Don, the Pervomaiskiy District Court has rejected the complaint of the activist of "The Other Russia" Pavel Nagibin on his custody conditions at the KPZ of the Kirovskiy District Interior Department of Rostov-on-Don after his detention at the picket with a demand to register the federal list of candidates for deputies from "The Other Russia" coalition on November, 24, 2007.

The government of Armenia shall lift the restrictions imposed on the right to hold rallies, marches and demonstrations and stop bringing participants of peaceful actions to police stations. This is a topic of the statement disseminated by the Human Rights Watch.

On April 1, twenty detained activists of Armenian opposition declared that on April 2 they would start a hunger strike in protest against the charges presented to them. The oppositionists assert that their arrests were politically motivated and demand to stop the criminal cases initiated against them.

The local resident announced into search by law enforcement bodies of the Chechen Republic for kindling interethnic enmity and calls to dethrone power bodies is the militants' leader Doku Umarov.

In the opinion of Mark Franketti, an observer of British The Times newspaper, the fact that at construction of the objects for the Sochi-2014 Winter Olympic Games several hundreds families will lose their homes is casting a shadow on the preparation thereto.

In Armenia, detainee Suren Surenyants, who announced a hunger strike a week ago, feels bad. His friends try to convince the oppositionist to stop his hunger strike.

The Prosecutor's Office of the city of Tuapse (Krasnodar Territory) has rejected journalist Sergey Rozhkov's application to initiate a criminal case against the militiamen suspected of beating him.