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According to the Marine Rescue Centre of Novorossisk, they found bodies of four, not of seven, out of the eleven seamen from the Bulgarian dry-cargo ship "Vanessa" that has sunk today in the Kerch Strait.

A collection of documents and materials entitled "State Security Bodies and Society. 1920-1992" is published in Kabardino-Balkaria.

Nina Boldyreva, Children Ombudsperson for the Volgograd Region, thinks that violations of the rights of orphans in children's homes will continue until the very principle of organizing such establishments is changed.

The responsiveness of the Georgian party to recommendations of the Observation Mission of the Office of Democratic Institutes and Human Rights of the OSCE for elections in Georgia will ultimately allow holding fair elections in this country, Mission Head Diter Boden states.

The monitoring of the forthcoming elections in Georgia will be conducted by more than 1000 foreigners - representatives of the OSCE, EU (European Union), Council of Europe, CIS, as well as from countries of Europe, America and Asia.

Representatives of the non-government sector of Georgia have submitted reports on violations in the course of pre-election campaign at the press-conference held at the joint media center.

An incomplete list of pardoned journalists has brought about a statement of certain human rights activists on their withdrawal from the Working Group on Political Prisoners.

In connection with the act of pardon published on December 28 by Ilkham Aliev, more than 100 prisoners have been released from prisons today. There are mass media representatives among them: Samir Sadagatoglu, Rafik Tagi, Yashar Agazade, Rovshan Kiabirli and Faramaz Allakhverdiev.

A many-thousand people action of protest of the united people's movement headed by the united opposition in the capital of Georgia is over. The meeting organizers have stated that the aim of the action is to demand that the authorities should refrain from election falsification.

Yesterday, on December 28, the Azeri parliament adopted in the first reading the draft law "On Education". However, despite this fact, Milli Medzhlis has failed to withdraw from the draft law the provision prohibiting the wearing of headscarves at educational establishments.

A meeting of protest is going on in Makhachkala against power failure.

The Prosecutor's Office of the Republic of Dagestan has approved the indictment on the criminal case in relation to Nukh Nukhov, former candidate to the position of the head of the administration of the Dakhadaev District.

Ilyas Timishev, a resident of Kabardino-Balkaria, has applied to the Zamoskvoretskiy Court of Moscow with a demand to recognize the actions of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation of setting up block-posts in Northern Caucasus to be illegal.

For the fourth day already, at the Paris airport, 150 applicants for refuge from Chechnya stay in the conditions not fit for residence of such a large group of people for so long.

More than three thousand land plots can be alienated in the Krasnodar Territory for building the objects of the future Olympiad-2014 in Sochi.

A criminal case has been initiated in the Volgograd Region against director of the State Educational Establishment "Rudnyanskiy Children's Home" on the facts of his sexual harassment of minor pupils of the establishment.

28 Chechens have been detained in Poland in the Warsaw-Vienna "Polonia" international express train; they tried to illegally cross the Czech border.

Today at night unknown persons have thrown stones over the house of Ovadiya Isakov, Rabbi of the city of Derbent. In the context of recent frequent attacks on representatives of the Jewish community of Dagestan, the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia has published a special statement.

The Russian PEN-Centre, the Russian branch of the PEN-Club writers' international human rights organization have petitioned about early conditional release of Boris Stomakhin, a publicist of the "Kavkaz-Centre" Chechen separatists' website.

The North-Caucasian Regional Military Court has found officers of Internal Troops Sergey Arakcheev and Evgeniy Khudyakov guilty of murdering three persons, residents of Chechnya.