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As of 11:30 p.m. local time, the rally in the centre of Yerevan continues, despite the state of emergency introduced by President of Armenia, according to official information, because of disorders in the capital.

The Chairman-in-Office of the OSCE, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Finland Ilkka Kanerva has condemned the use of force against peaceful demonstrators in Yerevan, the capital of Armenia.

On February 29, in Makhachkala, well-known Dagestan journalist and publicist Zaur Gaziev was beaten by unknown persons.

Advocate Onise Meboniya asserts that the visit to Georgia of Louise Arbor, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, had an absolutely formal character and brought no essential results.

On February 28, the court continued the proceeding on the claim of the Regional Public Movement "Chechen Committee of National Salvation" against the Department of the Federal Registration Service for the Republic of Ingushetia.

The relatives of Batyr Moshkhoev, who was arrested on charges of taking part in mass disorders in Nazran on January 26, assert that the young man had nothing to do with the above events and is kept behind the bars without a slightest reason.

Today in Makhachkala, journalists of the "Chernovik" (Blueprint) newspaper held a picket against voluntary actions of the UBOP employees who have launched a series of targeted audits of non-state mass media.

In the context of recent attacks on natives of Kabardino-Balkaria in Moscow, public organizations and political parties of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic sent a letter to President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin.

On February 26, the Iranian authorities stopped the service in memory of the victims of Khodzhaly tragedy in the Teheran mosque "Nur".

The outcomes of the action "I did not vote!", held in Ingushetia by the initiative group as an act of disagreement with the official results of elections to State Duma on December 2, 2007, have not been delivered to the court.

Today, in Nagorno-Karabakh, the Centre of Civil Initiatives has convoked a roundtable on the problem of social rehabilitation of former prisoners of war and hostages, where it was decided to create their public organization, which could lobby the rights of this social group.

Georgia has reached an essential progress in the sphere of defence of human rights, for example, by having ratified the basic human rights conventions, in particular, the Protocol on the struggle against torture.

The today's explosion in the Dmenisi Unit of the Tskhinval District Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of South Ossetia can be related to the forthcoming election of the president of Russia.

The Supreme Court of the Republic of Dagestan has acquitted Sultan Arslangereev, who was accused of murdering Dagir Kachaev, Imam of the mosque, on February 22, 2007, in Makhachkala.

On February 27, the Nazran District Court, Ingushetia started litigation on the claim of the Regional Public Movement "Chechen Committee of National Salvation" against the Department of the Federal Registration Service for the Republic of Ingushetia.

The Institute for War and Peace Reporting (IWPR) works in Northern Caucasus in strict conformity with the Russian legislation, thinks Professor Vladimir Gevorkov, Merited Lawyer of the Russian Federation, President of the Bar of the Stavropol Territory on the Caucasian Mineral Waters and Doctor of Jurisprudence.

Negotiations with the authorities are possible only provided the presidential election on February 19 were recognized failed and new election announced in Armenia.

The state cannot bear illegal rallies in Armenia for a long time. President of Armenia Robert Kocharyan said in his interview to the managers of the leading broadcasting companies, which took place late at night on February 26.

Alan Tskhurbaev, editor of the Institute for War and Peace Reporting (IWPR) for Northern Caucasus told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent about the political pretext of confiscation of equipment from the IWPR's office for Northern Caucasus.

Despite improvements in the sphere of human rights, Chechnya still faces the problem of missing people and impunity for crimes against peaceful citizens.