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Today Head of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Evkurov appointed a new Minister of Finance of the republic. It is Magomed-Bashir Aushev aged 44.

During a session of PACE President of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili accused Russia of “imperial ambitions”. In their turn, the delegation of the Russian Federation suggested the Assembly to investigate violations of human rights in Georgia during the period of Mikhail Saakashvili’s presidency.

State Duma adopted in the first reading a draft law allowing the regions to determine the order of election of the governors independently.

Upon the results of a discussion in Strasbourg PACE adopted a resolution today in which it spoke for the presence of Monitoring mission of EU in the zone of the conflict between Russia and Georgia that took place in August of 2008.

A report of international human rights organization Freedom House “Freedom in the World-2012” in which South Ossetia was leveled among the category of “restricted states” and got a low rating did not undergo pointed criticism from the authorities of South Ossetia.

Head of Kabardino-Balkaria Arsen Kanokov ordered to withdraw his order on rent of an armoured VIP-car for the government of the region, a source in the republican Administration reported.

Today ex-Head of the Department of Constitutional security of the Ministry of Interior Affairs of Georgia Levan Kardava was released on bail of 30 thousand lari (about 18 thousand dollars).

The Georgian opposition party "United National Movement" (UNM) has announced its intention to hold a large-scale rally on April 19 in central Tbilisi with a demand "not to change the pro-Western policy of the state."

The Mayoralty of the capital of Armenia has rejected the application submitted by Armen Martirosyan, a representative of the leader of the "Heritage" Party Raffi Ovannisyan, on holding rallies on February 23-25 in Freedom Square.

The decision of the Basmanny Court of Moscow to arrest the Georgia's MP Givi Targamadze in absentia has been directed to the police in order to organize his international search, said Vladimir Markin, the spokesman of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF).

The criminal case initiated on disappearance in North Ossetia of Akhmed Buzurtanov, a coach of the Ingush Sports Club "Kaloy", is not investigated, relatives of the missing person assert.

In front of the office of the observation mission of the ODIHR/OSCE in Yerevan, a collision occurred between the police and supporters of Raffi Ovannisyan, an ex-candidate at the presidential election in Armenia, the leader of the oppositional "Heritage" Party.

The former Minister of Sports and Youth of Georgia Lado Vardzelashvili has been detained under the murder case of Davy Siradze, the head of the Department for Youth Matters of the above Ministry.

An opposition rally was held in Yerevan, in Freedom Square, where Raffi Ovannisyan, an ex-presidential candidate and the current leader of the "Heritage" Party, called the audience to fight to the end for their rights and for return of "stolen votes at the election."

As reported by the Ingush Security Council, power agents of Ingushetia killed two suspected militants in the territory of the district adjacent to the border with Chechnya; both casualties have been identified.

The Chechen MPs have approved amendments to the Republic's Law "On the Order of Submitting Notifications about Holding Meetings, Rallies, Demonstrations, Marches and Pickets".

Today, on February 22, the majority of the Tbilisi Sakrebulo (City Assembly), made up by the members of the "United National Movement" (UNM) Party, has addressed the General Public Prosecutor and the Minister of Finance of Georgia with a demand to stop appointing interrogations of Deputies on the days, when they have their sessions.

The criminal case against Ruslan Meiriev, the former Minister of Internal Affairs of Ingushetia, and Ali Yandiev, the former head of the Nazran ROVD (District Interior Division), accused of negligence, will be considered by the Magas District Court without jury. This decision was made by the Supreme Court (SC) of Ingushetia.

On February 19, the Baku Court of Appeal chaired by Judge Ilgar Damirov considered the appeal filed by the newspaper "Azadlyg" and its correspondent Ramin Deko against the decision of the first instance court with regard to lawsuits filed by Kyabira Mamedova, the owner of the shopping centre "Bina".

In the next two or three days, 12 students from Syria expected to arrive till February 20 will arrive in Nalchik. This was reported by Djatkar Samir, the leader of the Syrian national groups at the Kabardino-Balkarian State University (KBSU).