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The community of Gyumri, the second-largest city of Armenia, as well as people from other cities and villages of the country, are raising money to pay the penalty awarded to the Gyumri-based GALA TV Company by the Administrative Court.

The European Court for Human Rights has found the guilt of the authorities of Russia of violent disappearance of two brothers Azievs in 2000 in Chechnya.

The hunger strike held by the opposition will continue till the parliamentary elections in Georgia. Georgiy Gachechiladze, leader of the Party "Greens to Georgia" told about it to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

On March 19, the Military Prosecutor's Office of North Ossetia continued the hearing of the case of soldier Darkhan Seitmagambetov who knocked a woman down to death in November 2007 when he was driving his ATC-80 (Armoured Troop Carrier).

At the preliminary hearing of the criminal case initiated in relation to the attack on the city of Nalchik, the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria, the defendants and their advocates expressed doubts of the objectivity of the jury.

The website of the Ren-TV Channel has placed a reaction to the request of Ingush MPs to stop broadcasting of the Channel in the territory of the Republic.

In the Stavropol Territory, a criminal case has been initiated against a teacher of secondary school No. 2 of the village of Aleksandrovskoye under the article on driving to suicide of a 9th form pupil.

Sources from the Election Office of Levon Ter-Petrosyan assert that 12 activists of Armenian opposition have been exposed to tortures at the penitentiary establishments of Yerevan.

In Krasnodar, a sergeant suspected of beating soldier Alexander Ivanov, was placed on March 18 into the temporary insulation facility.

Today, representatives of the OSCE Mission and engineers from the United Nations Mission have arrived to Tskhinvali for preparation to implementation of one of the projects. According to the news item of the Georgian TV Company "Rustavi-2", the work of the members of international organizations was disrupted by the KGB of South Ossetia.

The Nalchik City Court has rejected the complaint of advocate Larissa Dorogova claiming to recognize illegitimate the actions of the employees of the Nalchik SIZO in Kabardino-Balkaria who refused to let her in to her client Zaur Tokhov for rendering legal assistance to him.

The NGO Board under the Ombudsman and the Public Chamber of Chechnya ask Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov to investigate the activities of Ahmed Khasambekov who headed the ORB-2 (Operations and Search Bureau) in 2000-2007.

Well-known workers of culture have joined the appeal of the participants of the movement against the war in Northern Caucasus to Patriarch Alexis II with an appeal to assist in handing the remains of Aslan Maskhadov, second President of Chechnya and leader of separatists, out to his relatives.

On March 18, President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliev signed a Decree to pardon 59 prisoners. The convicted journalists and well-known political prisoners are not in the list.

The ban on mass events has found the force of a law in Armenia until the end of the criminal case on the disorders in Yerevan at night on March 1 and early on March 2.

The "Echo Moskvy" Radio has reported that the Russian Supreme Court has rejected the suit on closing the "Ingushetia.Ru" website, accused by the Prosecutor's Office of Ingushetia of publishing materials directed at excitation of national hatred and enmity in the society.

After having dismissed Andrei Melamedov, editor-in-chief of the paper, Rizvan Rizvanov, founder of the "Nastoyascheye Vremya" (Present Time) newspaper, now makes attempts to get rid of others unwanted employees.

For the first time the citizens of Azerbaijan will be able to study the cases in proceedings and decisions of the European Court for Human Rights in the Azerbaijani language.

The RF Council of Federation cannot stop broadcasting of the Ren-TV in the territory of Ingushetia, as it was demanded today by Republic's MPs.

The "Gazeta.Ru" reports that today the Judicial Panel on Civil Cases of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation has satisfied the cassation of the Board of Elders of the Balkar People and cancelled the decision of the Kabardino-Balkarian SC to ban the activity of the Board, having ruled to send the case to re-consideration.