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The family from Chechnya, which had lost three daughters in Bieszczady mountains during their illegal crossing of the Ukrainian-Polish border, could not get the refugee's status in Poland, although it had been personally promised to them by Maria Kachinska, wife of the incumbent president of this country.

Today, the People's Party has held a rally near the building of the US Embassy in the capital of Georgia, having accused the USA of supporting the election falsifications.

Special actions conducted by militia in Dagestan and Ingushetia can go on till March.

In Dagestan the court has acquitted Arsen Dzhanbatyrov in exchange of him giving up. Prior to criminal prosecution Dzhanbatyrov was registered as kidnapped.

On January 19, an event was held at the office of Georgian Ombudsman under the motto "Journalists - Victims of Freedom of Speech" dedicated to the memory of Hrant Dink, editor-in-chief of the Armenian newspaper "Agos", published in Istanbul, who was killed in Turkey, and also in memory of Giorgiy Sanaya, Anna Politkovskaya and many other journalists who fell victim of their professional work.

The roundtable entitled "Environmental Problems in Construction of Olympic Objects in Sochi - Ways of Solution", to be held in the Red Valley (Krasnodar Territory), planned on January 23, will take place without local ecologists who were not invited.

The Public and Political Movement "Legitimate President 2008" is stating facts of illegal propaganda organized by the authorities of the Armenia and stirring up the atmosphere of fear in the country before the elections.

Today, the Tver Court of Moscow has rejected the complaint against announcement of search of Manana Aslamazyan, director of the "Internews".

The "Caucasus Times" News Agency has addressed the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Dagestan with a demand "to restrain those who exerts unreasonable and illegal pressure on journalists and the 'Free Republic' newspaper."

A meeting on trafficking problems was held in the office of the Ombudsman (People's Defender) of Georgia.

The international observation mission comprised of representatives of democratic institutes of the OSCE, Parliamentary Assembly of the European Council and European Parliament, Office for Defence of Human Rights and OSCE Parliamentary Assembly has published a report in connection with the presidential election in Georgia.

Today, President of Dagestan Mukhu Aliev has held an emergency meeting on the critical situation with electricity and heat supplies to residents of Makhachkala.

The resolution of the European Parliament on South Caucasus' unsettled conflicts, the Nagorno-Karabakh issue inclusive, states that the conflicts should be settled exclusively through peaceful negotiations.

Every fourth resident of the Russian Federation is convinced that Russian special agencies were involved in the resonant murders of journalist Anna Politkovskaya and ex-FSB officer Alexander Litvinenko.

Advocates Intigam Aliev and Annagi Gadzhibeili lodged a suit to the European Court for Human Rights against the Azerbaijani government.

The United Opposition of Georgia plans to hold a rally on the day of inauguration of Mikhail Saakashvili, January 20, and calls the public to come to the hippodrome.

In Krasnodar, Moscow and local human rights activists have discussed, in the course of the seminar "Public Control: Power and Society", organized by the Moscow "Demos" Centre, the civil supervision over the activities of law enforcement bodies.

The supervisory bodies, monopolists and the Municipal Unitary Enterprise (MUE) "City Electric Power Grid" should be responsible for absence of electric power in dwelling districts of Makhachkala.

Vitaly Kaloev, who was released in November 2007 from a Swiss prison, will be employed from Monday, January 21, at the civil service.

The Russian budget will have to allocate almost 110,000 euros because of the murder by "federals" of two Moscow residents in Ingushetia.