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The European Court for Human Rights has passed two more decisions against Azerbaijan.

The inmates of the pre-trial isolation facility of the city of Nalchik, defendants in the criminal case on the attack on power agencies of Kabardino-Balkaria on October 13, 2005, complain of their custody conditions.

The Tonshaevskiy District Court of the Nizhniy Novgorod Region will consider a possibility of a conditional early release of Boris Stomakhin, publicist of the Chechen separatists' website named "Kavkaz-Centre", who was sentenced to 5 years of colony for kindling interethnic enmity and extremism.

Because of absence of electricity in Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan, medical and social establishments have to use power generators, and residents are buying candles and pocket lanterns.

Leila Yunus, Director of the Institute of Peace and Democracy, has reported that the Ministry of Justice of Azerbaijan gives no reaction whatsoever to numerous appeals of inmates' relatives about offences committed at the Corrective-Labour Colony No. 1.

The Tbilisi City Court has rejected the claims of oppositional parties who demanded to annul the final protocol of the CEC of Georgia on January 5 election because of mass-scale falsifications.

The "Beslan Mothers" Committee has treated the judicial persecution of the "Voice of Beslan" Public Organization as "revolting" and "immoral".

Relatives of the murdered militant Adam Askhabov cannot take away his body from employees of law enforcement bodies of Chechnya for burial.

In the opinion of Oleg Orlov, Chairman of the Board of the HRC "Memorial", the initiative of the prosecutor's office to liquidate the branch of the British "Peacekeeping and Social Development Centre" in Chechnya is "politically-coloured".

At this date, the Human Rights Centre "Memorial" has no information about tortures and rough violations of custody regulations in relation of the inmates of Colony No. 2 located in Chernokozovo settlement of Chechnya, but is going to check the information of this sort.

While making his comments on the reasons of the explosion of the apartment block in the city of Zheleznovodsk, Alexander Kolupaev, head of the South Regional Centre of the Ministry of Emergencies of the Russian Federation, has emphasized that the accident has nothing to do with a terror act, and what happened in Zheleznovodsk is just a household disaster.

Representatives of the office of the Ombudsman in the Chechen Republic, who have visited Colony No. 2 located in the settlement of Chernokozovo, the Naur District of the Republic, found no confirmation of the data about tortures and beatings of the prisoners who are kept in this corrective establishment.

A protest action of the United Opposition of Georgia has been launched in Tbilisi, in front of the Public Television building; the participants demand to hold the second round of early presidential election in the country.

The Prosecutor's Office of the Chechen Republic demands to liquidate the branch of the organization "Peacekeeping and Social Development Centre", located in Grozny.

In the cities of Volgograd and Volzhsk militiamen commit mass detentions of Gipsy nationals.

On January 15, a search was conducted and goods were confiscated from one of private shops in the capital of Dagestan. The owner of the shop regards that the actions of power agents were explained by his belonging to the followers of the Turkish philosopher and theologian Said Nursi.

Today, the Nazran Court of Ingushetia has passed a decision to transfer the hearing on the case of recognition of the materials published by the "Voice of Beslan" to be extremist ones to North Ossetia in spite of the fact that the Acting Public Prosecutor of Ingushetia had insisted that the trial should take place in Nazran.

The Paris airport Roissie-Charles de Gaulle is overwhelmed by applicants for political asylum from Chechnya. The refugees are in the conditions unfit for long stay of people.

The number of casualties of the explosion of utility gas in the five-storey apartment block in Lenina Street in Zheleznovodsk has reached six persons.

Despite the assurances of the officials about restoration of electricity and heat supplies in Makhachkala, many hospitals and kindergartens of the capital of Dagestan continue to survive without heating.