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The 2007 report of the US Department of State on situation with human rights fails to register any visible progress in Azerbaijan in this sphere. Moreover, in some aspects there is an obvious swing-back.

In the opinion of Sozar Subari, Ombudsman of Georgia, the authorities have illegally dismissed Nana Mgebrishvili - sister of disgraced ex-Minister of Defence of Georgia Irakliy Okruashvili - from her position at the Tbilisi Supervision Service.

Today, the Promyshlenny Court of North Ossetia has rejected the complaint lodged by the All-Russian Public Organization "Voice of Beslan" on recognition of the examinations of the bodies of the terror act victims to be illegal.

The Cossacks of the Stavropol Territory, who earlier refused to be Russian citizens, are now going to enforce that the investigation into Ataman Andrei Khanin's murder was continued.

On March 11, relatives and friends of David Sigua, who was kidnapped on February 3 this year from his own house in the city of Gall, blocked the entrance to the local United Nations Office.

At the Krasnodar first aid hospital, soldier Alexander Ivanov from Volgograd who fell victim of beating at the military unit, was amputated his damaged spleen.

In Moscow, a picket took place in defence of Mikhail Kriger, one of the leaders of the Anti-War Club (AWC), which stands against the strong-arm tactics of Russian authorities in Northern Caucasus.

Soldier Seitmagambetov who rode down a woman with his armoured troop-carrier (ATC) in North Ossetia has plead guilty, but the relatives of the casualty fear that he can any time refuse from his evidence.

Today, at shelling of a dwelling house, Rustam Magomedovich Mutsolgov, born in 1986, was killed in Troitskaya village in Ingushetia.

The opposition is holding information actions all over Tbilisi calling people to rally together by today's evening at the building of the Parliament of Georgia.

The Panel of the Supreme Court (SC) of Kabardino-Balkaria has considered the cassation petition lodged by the Prosecutor's Office of the city of Nalchik against the decision of the Nalchik City Court, passed on the application of citizen Madina Trunova, and satisfied it.

In Ingushetia, the organizers of the oppositional rally that was initially appointed on March 12 have postponed their action till April.

Two militaries at regular service in one of the units deployed in Kazachii Lagerya village, Oktiabrskiy District, Rostov Region, worked for six months at the fish shop of the Foreign Enterprise "Topchiy".

Today, three participants of the journalists' picket held in front of the Office of the Council of Europe in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, were detained by the police.

The explosion of a bus in Tolyatti on October 31, 2007, that killed eight persons was a result of careless handling a self-made explosive by suspect Evgeniy Vakhrushev.

The Moscow authorities have prohibited the picket in memory of Aslan Maskhadov, the second President of Chechnya and leader of separatists killed three years ago that was planned for March 13.

Cossacks of the Stavropol Regional Cossack Society held their extraordinary round (meeting) and dismissed Ataman Mikhail Serkov who had appealed to give up Russian citizenship in protest against poor investigation of the murder of Ataman Andrei Khanin and corruption in the Stavropol Territory.

The opposition of Armenia plans to hold a rally on March 21, immediately after removal of the state of emergency. In compliance with the current legislation, oppositionists are planning to notify the Mayoralty of Yerevan about the rally.

The Supreme Court of Kabardino-Balkaria has cancelled the verdict passed by the Elborus District Court in relation to two ROVD employees - M. Mashezov and M. Baichekuev, and sent the case to a new investigation.

The delegates of the extraordinary Congress of Ingush Nation, who represent the country's civil society, have addressed President Vladimir Putin and First Vice-Premier Dmitri Medvedev with a question: "Until when will Murat Zyazikov's clique of bureaucrats execute their arbitrariness in Ingushetia?"