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Convicts of the 11th correctional facility in Baku stopped their protest action this night as the prison was stormed.

In the time of Aslan Maskhadov's presidency, Makhmut Magomadov was one of the deputies of the Chechen prosecutor general and headed a special group which investigated cases connected with kidnappings.

Irakli Alasania, chairman of the Abkhazian government in exile, has been appointed envoy for the Georgian-Abkhazian negotiations by Mikhail Saakashvili's order today.

A press conference devoted to the prosecution of the Pravo-Zashchita newspaper was held at the Moscow Independent Press Center on February 14.

According to preliminary data, the death of Zurab Zhvania was a tragic accident.

The authorities may take such a step to avoid revolutionary scenarios.

Chechen First Deputy Prime Minister Ramzan Kadyrov has announced he is going to sue human rights activists slandering him.

The inauguration of Sergey Bagapsh, new Abkhazian president elect, was held in Sukhum on February 12.

According to Foreign Minister of Nagorny Karabakh Armen Melikian, foreign experts registered 5 thousand Armenians settled in the regions of Azerbaijan adjacent to Nagorny Karabakh.

An attempt to set legal and democratic values above security issues was made for the first time in the modern history of Nagorny Karabakh.

On February 7, the International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights (IHF) and the Human Rights Center Memorial presented statistic and correspondents' information on the violations in Chechnya committed in 2004 and told about a new aspect of the crisis – Chechenization of the conflict.

People living at 6th Magistralnaya Street in Makhachkala whose houses were damaged in the 15 January assault against rebels have staged a rally in the Dagestani capital today.

The information about Shamil Basayev's alleged death is being checked now, a Chechen police source told the Caucasian Knot correspondent.

Azerbaijan law enforcement agencies search for over 2 thousand people now.

Chairwoman of the Georgian parliamentary Committee on Human Rights and Civil Integration Elena Tevdoradze has denied reports that houses owned by local Greeks have been burnt in Georgia's Tsalksky district for the last two weeks.

In her interview with the Caucasian Knot correspondent, human rights activist Leyla Yunus stated that the country's authorities must draw attention to the fact that early marriages have become more frequent in Azerbaijan recently.

At about 9 p.m. on February 2, unknown people opened fire on the Niva car that Dagestani Deputy Interior Minister Magomed Omarov was in. The incident occurred in the center of Makhachkala.

Preliminary results of Georgian prime minister Zurab Zhvania's blood test confirm the version that he died from carbon monoxide poisoning, expert Irina Tandilashvili told journalists.

"It wasn't seen from Saakashvili's speech in Strasbourg that Georgia has new thinking now," said the Abkhazian speaker.

The OSCE monitoring group examining Azerbaijan's territory controlled by Nagorny Karabakh for the purpose of checking the implementation of the state settlement program continues its work.