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The Preobrazhenskiy Court of Moscow has sentenced Moscow notary Fail Sadretdinov, one of the figurants in Khlebnikov's case, to nine years of imprisonment for a swindle with an apartment.

Today, the Presidium of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation (RF) has rejected the supervisory presentation of the State Office of Public Prosecutor, with which it tried to protest against the decision of the Judicial Board on Criminal Cases of the RF Supreme Court, which cancelled the verdict passed to two natives of Chechnya and their allies, who were sentenced by the Tver Regional Court for extortion with application of violence, robbery, kidnapping and possession of munitions.

The Ossetian militiamen who were wounded as a result of the attack on the post of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of South Ossetia are alive, although two of them are still in a grave condition.

In Moscow today the public hearings held by the "Expert Commission of Outstanding Lawyers" have continued; the conference has considered the issues of fighting terrorism and the problem of non-observance of human rights in Chechnya.

The Georgian party has again confirmed its readiness to take part in an informal meeting of the co-chairmen of the Joint Supervisory Commission (JSC) for settling the South Ossetian conflict, which is planned for the second decade of February.

At 10 a.m. on January 31, the Presidium of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation (RF) will consider the supervisory presentation of the State Office of Public Prosecutor, lodged in protest to the decision of the Judicial Board on Criminal Cases of the Russian Supreme Court, which cancelled the verdict in relation to two Chechnya natives and their helpers, convicted by the Tver Regional Court for extortion with application of violence, robbery, kidnapping and ammunition possession.

Human rights activists from the Autonomous Non-Commercial Organization (ANCO) "Novorossiysk Committee for Human Rights" assert that they are under pressure exerted on them by members of power agencies of the Krasnodar Territory.

Two servicemen of federal troops and one militant were killed in a skirmish in the mountainous Shatoj District of Chechnya.

On January 28, a meeting organized by the participants of the scandalously known "Russian March."

The Party "We Ourselves" has expressed its support to the refugees from Abkhazia, who have been deprived their jobs at night today, when the authorities have forbidden street traders and kiosk owners to trade near the "Gotseridze" underground station in the capital of Georgia.

Tortures, kidnappings, murders and various other violations of human rights continue in Chechnya. This is the topic of the report disseminated by the "Demos" Moscow Information-Analytical Centre.

The defendants in the case of blowing up the Grozny-Moscow train deny their guilt, Valery Prilepskiy, advocate of one of the case figurants, has reported.

Azerbaijan has founded the Committee in defence of the rights of Samir Sadagatoglu, editor-in-chief of the "Sanat" newspaper.

The British authorities have reported that the murder of Alexander Litvinenko, ex-FSB officer, may be regarded cleared.

Today, it is one year from the date of murder of Sandro Girgvliani, a servant of the Bank of Georgia.

Today in the afternoon (about 1:30 p.m. Moscow time), Ms. Chabieva, Malika Mikhailovna, born in 1969, a refugee from Chechnya, was kidnapped by unknown armed persons in masks from the Temporary Residence Centre (TRC), located in the village of Sleptsovskaya, Republic of Ingushetia, in the territory of "Mekhstroj."

In the city of Volzhsk, Volgograd Region, Gypsies have been arrested on a mass basis since January 24.

On Friday, the North-Caucasian Regional Military Court continued interrogation of prosecution witnesses in the case of two officers of Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federations accused of murdering peaceful residents in Chechnya.

Zurab Muzoshvili, a Georgian citizen, whom the authorities had intended to deport home, died in the reception-distribution centre of the city of Saratov, the Rustavi 2 TV Channel reported on Friday.

The 2006 report on violations of human rights in the Krasnodar Territory evidences a growth of pressure on civil activists and continuation of ethnic discrimination.