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Today, in Nazran (Ingushetia), where a mass rally of oppositionists and their supporters was dispersed, two correspondents of "Echo Moskvy" Radio (Vladimir Varfolomeyev and Roman Plyusov), one of Radio Liberty (Danila Galperovich) and one of "Novaya Gazeta" (Olga Bobrova) were detained.

Residents of 12 subjects of the Russian Federation have addressed the International Olympic Committee with a request not to allow erection of Olympic objects in the Grushevy Ridge and within buffer zone of the Caucasian Reserve. The appeal was signed by 6,074 persons.

Jurymen have completely acquitted the defendants in the murder case of Arthur Sardaryan, 19, a native of Armenia, who was killed in a Moscow suburb on the motive of nationalist hostility.

The authorities of Armenia demand an immediate investigation into the murder of Armenian student Vladimir Karamdzhan, who was attacked by a mob of unidentified teenagers in Moscow and later died from received knife wounds.

The Kabardino-Balkarian Public Human Rights Centre has started its Internet website at zapravakbr.com.

The announcement of a part of Ingushetian territory to be zone of counterterrorist operation is aimed to hamper the rally of the opposition planned for January 26 in Nazran - this is the opinion of human rights activists.

Court of Tbilisi has seized the property of the "Imedi" TV Company, where businessman Badri Patarkatsishvili is the founder, and which had planned to restart broadcasting since January 28.

Commanders of Sochi OMON deny the guilt of their subordinates of beating in summer 2006 young men in the territory of children's summer camp "Druzhba".

On January 23, the Greenpeace delegation handed over to the headquarters of the International Olympic Committee in Lausanne lists with 5,000 signatures of the Russians who demand to transfer the Sochi Olympic sleigh-bobsleigh track to another place.

The European Court for Human Rights has passed 11 decisions against Azerbaijan, however, the legal community of the country possesses no official information on whether the Azerbaijani government fulfils these decisions or not.

For several days in a row, tax services of Azerbaijan are examining the publishing house "Chap Evi" (House of Press).

Today, the Supreme Court of North Ossetia has obliged the Pravoberezhny Court of the city of Beslan to consider the suit of the "Voice of Beslan" Public Organization claiming to appoint pensions to the parents of the children-victims of the terror act.

On the eve of the rally of the opposition against corruption, kidnappings and unlawful executions, planned for January 26, two Ingushetian Internet providers - the Closed Joint-Stock Company "ITT" and the Limited Liability Company "Telecom" - have received orders today to stop the service of connecting their clients to the Internet.

The report of the European Court for Human Rights published on January 23 notes that last year the Court revealed 175 facts of human rights violations in Russia.

The Russian Ministry of Transportation has announced that the principal causes of vessels' destruction in the Kerch Strait in November 2007 were complicated weather conditions and poor control over navigation safety.

In Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan, today starting from 5 p.m., local residents have blocked traffic along the Imam Shamil Avenue in protest against electricity cut-offs.

Tina Khidasheli, one of the leaders of the Republican Party of Georgia and representative of the United Opposition, believes that in reality the OSCE's estimates of the election was critical enough, but because of tendentious presenting the Georgian television this criticism was somehow lost.

The International Human Rights Watch Organization has expressed its anxiety with the pressure exerted on the "Voice of Beslan" Organization, in whose materials the Prosecutor's Office of Ingushetia has revealed extremist information.

On January 22, over two hundred Dagestanians-contract soldiers from the military units deployed in Khankala held a picket in Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan, in protest against their nationality-motivated dismissals.

According to today's information of Svetlana Gorbakova, senior assistant to the head of the investigatory department for Ingushetia of the Investigatory Committee under the Russian General Prosecutor's Office, the explosive that blew up in a car on January 22 in Nazran (Ingushetia) was intended for the rally to be held on January 26.