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Liudmila Sarkisyan, chair of the Social-Democratic Party, has treated the arrest of four members of the pre-electoral staff of Levon Ter-Petrosyan located in the city of Talin as a provocation.

Today, the police of the capital of Azerbaijan has detained 14 activists of the "Dalga" (Wave) youth movement who tried to hold a memory action dedicated to Mamed Emin Rasulzade, founder of the Azerbaijani People's Republic (1918-1920) and dated to his 124th birthday.

The Human Rights Watch calls on the leaders of the European Union to pay a more thorough attention to the situation with democracy in Azerbaijan.

Today, lawyer Larissa Dorogova was not let to the investigatory isolation facility of the Kabardino-Balkaria's Department of the Federal Punishment Enforcement Service, where her client - one of participants of the events of October 13, 2005, whom she consults on defence of his rights in custody, is kept.

The Strasbourg Court has notified the "Voice of Beslan" Public Committee about receipt of the documents evidencing violations of the rights of those who suffered in the Beslan terror act.

Ella Kesaeva, co-chair of the "Voice of Beslan" Committee, has stated, after receiving a reply from the RF President to the Committee's letter asking to stop prosecution of the organization, the end of illusions in relation to Mr Putin.

Kakha Kukava, one of the leaders of the United Opposition, has informed that the Central Electoral Commission of Georgia refused to present to the Opposition complete video records of the voting process at the early presidential election in Georgia and plebiscite held on January 5.

The Prosecutor's Office of the city of Nalchik has sent replies to the widows of the militants who were killed in the attack on October 13, 2005, in which the actions of militiamen are treated as illegal.

The authorities and residents of Chechnya hope that the militaries will be brought to responsibility for shelling the village of Gekhi, Urus-Martan District of Chechnya, from long-range guns.

The verdict of the Maikop City Court in relation to student Victor Milkov, who placed on the Internet a video clip showing a murder scene of natives from Caucasus and Central Asia, was cancelled by the Criminal Panel of the Supreme Court of Adygea for "lenient penalty."

Five out of eight defendants in the case related to explosion in Moscow's Cherkizovo marketplace on August 21, 2006, where 11 persons were lost, have partially pled guilty.

Irakliy Okruashvili, former Minister of Defence of Georgia, has been released from custody under his advocates' guarantee.

The authorities of the Polish city of Olsztyn have agreed to provide social habitation to the Dzhabrailov family from Chechnya, which has lost their three daughters in the mountains, when attempting to illegally cross the Ukrainian-Polish border.

In his final annual message to the Congress, US President George Bush has noted the success of the election in Georgia and treated it among "the tremendous events in the history of freedom."

The oppositional candidates for the President of Georgia, who have lost the election on January 5, have put forward their 17 claims to the authorities in the form of an ultimatum, and appointed the deadline on February 15, threatening with mass protest actions.

The authorities of Azerbaijan will have to release all political prisoners and journalists. Should the demand of the PACE be ignored, the Council of Europe will announce the name of a new Special Rapporteur on the problem of political prisoners in Azerbaijan.

On January 26, some 50 persons were brought to the city's OVD on suspicion of participation in the mass disorders, which burst out in the centre of Nazran; of them, 19 were brought to administrative responsibility in the form of fines.

On January 30, the French Court will start considering the case of Irakliy Okruashvili, former Minister of Defence of Georgia, who is kept in a Paris prison.

In Azerbaijan, Sakit Zakhidov, journalist-satirist of the "Azadlyg" newspaper, who was convicted and now in prison, continues his protest hunger strike started on January 26.

The Supreme Court of Dagestan has started a trial on the case about the murder of Dagir Kachaev, imam in one of Makhachkala mosques, who was shot dead on February 22, 2007.