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Chief of the president's staff section to work with law-enforcement agencies Fuad Alekserov told journalists about it.

Abkhazian Minister of Defense Vyacheslav Eshba commented on the statement by chief of the Georgian coastguard service David Gulua that his department was going to impose a blockade on the Abkhazian area of water. The minister said such statements have been heard for 10 years.

Azerbaijan's government has unleashed a massive crackdown on the political opposition in the wake of the fraudulent October presidential election, Human Rights Watch said in a new report released on January 23.

On January 22, about two hundred refugees from the Satsita tent camp, which is near the village of Sleptsovskaya, rallied in protest against the closure of refugee camps in Ingushetia scheduled for March 1.

Reporters Without Borders urged French President Jacques Chirac to raise the case of a prominent jailed editor to try to obtain his release, during an official visit by President of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliev, on 22-23 January.

"Officials of Russian security agencies have been giving the same numbers of "active bandits" for four years. It means the only thing for me: at such a pace the "counterterrorist operation" here will last for tens of years," says an activist of the Human Rights Center "Memorial" in Grozny.

The Caucasian Knot own correspondent in South Osetia conducted an interview with Dmitry Medoyev, a political scientist, member of the Institute of History and Archeology of the Republic of North Osetia - Alania and former foreign minister of South Osetia.

Abdul-Khakim Sultygov's dismissal as Russian president's human rights representative in Chechnya "has nothing to do with protection of human rights and freedoms in Chechnya", said Anna Politkovskaya, a Novaya Gazeta correspondent.

On January 21, the first case was registered in the Satsita camp when a refugee illegally taken off the books was reinstated in the Ingush migration service's lists.

The President of Ingushetia said that the federal authorities and the leadership of Ingushetia and Chechnya would jointly solve the problem of displaced persons who stay on the Ingush territory.

The press conference "Mother of a Hostage Killed in "Nord-Ost" Sues Investigative Bodies for Inaction" will take place at the Independent Press Center on January 26.

Russian president Vladimir Putin gave his loyal Chechen boss full control over human rights in the region Wednesday in a move aimed at improving stability there ahead of a re-election bid.

The letter of the Committee of Soldier's Mothers of Astrakhan Region.

Yashar Jafarli denied the statement by the Interior Ministry and Prosecutor General's Office that the released people had admitted their guilt and asked the head of the state to set them free.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed an appropriate order, reports the president's press service.

An APC with servicemen rammed a Volga car on the Rostov-Baku federal route in the village of Gikhi.

The North Caucasian forum on migration "Ways and Methods of Cooperation and Coordination in the Work of State Structures, NGOs and International Humanitarian Organizations That Solve Problems of Refugees and IDPs in the Region" opened in Nalchik on January 21.

Local ecologists and human rights activists believe the authorities started to prosecute Konstantinidi in response to the fact that with his legal assistance, citizens of Novorossiysk gained an unprecedented court victory over Kaspiysk Pipeline Consortium (KTK).

The United Nations believes that the principle of sanctuary as such is seriously compromised if refugees are forced to move out without being provided with another place to live.

Russian Deputy Interior Minister Colonel-General Aleksandr Chekalin reported it.