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Colonel Yuri Budanov, former commander of Armored Regiment No. 160, convicted for the murder of Elza Kungaeva, a Chechen girl, "continues serving his punishment at Strict Custody Corrective Colony No. 3 in the town of Dimitrovgrad, the Ulyanovsk Region."

In Vladikavkaz, capital of North Ossetia, the employees of law enforcement bodies are searching the Office of the British Institute for War and Peace Reporting (IWPR).

Hero of Russia Sulim Yamadaev, commander of the "Vostok" special battalion deployed in Chechnya, has become a suspect of self-will and inflicting medium-gravity bodily injuries.

The employees of the "Novaya Gazeta" newspaper who are running a journalists' investigation of the murder of their colleagues Anna Politkovskaya are considering not only "the Chechen trace" and involvement in the crime of the current acting president of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov.

Ramzan Kadyrov, now acting president of Chechnya, has again stated at the press conference in Grozny that he has no presidential ambitions.

The Presnenskiy Court of Moscow has refused to collect from the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation the sum of 123 million roubles in favour of a group of residents of the Borozdinovskaya residents.

Human rights defenders are concerned of detainment conditions in deportation camps of the Krasnodar Territory. The evidence of these facts is opening of a special page in the web-site of the International Historical-Enlightenment, Human Rights and Charitable Society "Memorial".

Today, the North-Caucasian Regional Military Court will continue the proceedings on the so-called "Ulman case" connected with murder of peaceful residents of Chechnya.

The Autonomous Non-Commercial Human Rights Organization (ANCO) "MASHR" has issued a report named "Lost Law: Violence without Borders," dedicated to violations of human rights in the Republic of Ingushetia.

They assert at law enforcement bodies of Chechnya that the three militants killed on February 15 in the Staropromyslovskiy District of Chechnya's capital were planning to execute a number of terrorist acts in Grozny.

The pre-election emotions, connected with the forthcoming on February 20 election of the Rector of the Dagestan State Pedagogical University (DSPU), have reached their peak in Dagestan.

Today, the town of Novoalexandrovsk (Stavropol Territory) has held the burial ceremony of Andrei Khanin, Ataman of Nizhnekubanskiy Cossack Branch of the Tersk Cossack Army, who died as a result of an attempt, which has caused nationalist-motivated public disturbances.

Residents of aul Khodz (Koshekhabl District of Adygea) have lost about 80 percent of their poultry.

The visit of Russian investigators to London on the death case of Alexander Litvinenko, former FSB (Federal Security Bureau of Russia) officer, is expected on the week to come.

Making comments on the messages that have appeared in mass media on actions planned in Stavropol with nationalist colouring in connection with the attempt on the Cossack Ataman, Alexander Serkov, Ataman of the Stavropol Cossack Society of the Tersk Cossack Army has noted that Cossacks are against such actions.

The Duma of the Volgograd Region has passed a bill brought in by the Office of Public Prosecutor of the Region, which establishes responsibility for adoption of illegal acts of law and infringement of the rights of citizens, wishing to get employed at the municipal service.

South Ossetia is planning to build its own gas pipeline, independently from Georgia. The statement was made on February 16 by Eduard Kokoity, president of South Ossetia.

On February 15, capital of Chechnya, the city of Grozny was the venue of an official presentation of a new EU project aimed to support the public health sphere and education in Chechnya and Ingushetia.

The journalists of North Ossetia who have initiated the public prosecutor's examination of the Internet-portal "Ingushetia.Ru" think that the statement of Zalina Markhieva, editor-in-chief of the web-site, "has nothing to do with reality."

Eduard Kokoity stated that he thinks it necessary to have a prompt renewal of the negotiating process within the framework of the Mixed Control Commission (MCC).