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On December 26, 2006, the Prigorodny District of the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania (RNO-A) held a court session in the village of Oktiabrskoe on a civil suit of the administration of the Prigorodny District of the RNO-A and administration of the dwelling settlement Maiskiy of the RNO-A towards the residents of the refugees' settlement in Maiskiy (19 families).

Yuri Saveliev, a State Duma deputy and a member of the parliamentary commission for investigating the causes and circumstances of the act of terror in Beslan, has confirmed his readiness to deliver his alternative report on Beslan to the parliament of North Ossetia, should the deputies approve this decision.

US president George Bush has again offered Richard Hogland to the Senate as the would-be US ambassador to Armenia.

Representatives of Russian society have issued a joint statement condemning the murder in Turkey of Hrant Dink, editor-in-chief of the "Akos" Armenian newspaper.

While talking to the correspondent of the "Caucasian Knot," Mekhman Aliev, Director of the IA "Turan," has condemned the murder of Hrant Dink, editor-in-chief of an Armenian newspaper, and called it an anti-Turkey provocation.

Boris Berezovsky has explained to journalists, on what conditions he is ready to meet Russian inspectors in London to be interrogated on Litvinenko's case.

Azerbaijani human rights activists can apply their complaint to the Council of Europe in connection with deportation of Azerbaijani citizens from Russia.

On January 19 the State Duma of the Russian Federation voted 389 versus 26 for approval in the first reading of the bill initiated by the National Assembly of Dagestan that entitles the public prosecutor to go to court for recognition of information materials to be extremist not only at the location of the organization that has published such materials, but also at the place of detection and distribution of them.

Advocate Larissa Dorogova, a Bar member of Kabardino-Balkaria, who is representing the interests of the relatives of those perished during the events of October 13, 2005, in Nalchik, gave her comments in an interview to the correspondent of the "Caucasian Knot" on the situation with the decision on the "issue of giving out of the bodies."

Today, in the centre of Yerevan, in the Square named after Charles Aznavur, belonging to the "Moscow" movie theatre, an action was held in memory of Hrant Dink, a well-known public figure of Turkey, a journalist of the Armenian origin.

On January 19, at 3 p.m. local time, in front of the building of the editorial board of the Armenian weekly "Akos," published in Istanbul in the Turkish language, Hrant Dink, editor-in-chief of the edition and an Armenian by origin, was shot dead by three headshots.

The victims of the Beslan terror act who have addressed the parliament of North Ossetia with a request to hear at its sitting in the presence of the victims the alternative report of State Duma deputy Yuri Saveliev, hope that the conclusions of the report will be recognized by the investigation.

Because of Russia's enacting new migratory laws, which have restricted the right of foreigners to trade there, the OLC has declared: "We demand from Russian leaders to put an end to discrimination of our compatriots who live in their country, otherwise the OLC will undertake concrete steps to suspend the operation of the Russian embassy in Baku and to evict Russians from Azerbaijan."

Russia will have more difficulties to achieve a reconsideration of requests on extradition of the Russians who were granted asylum in Great Britain.

On December 10, Moscow hosted the Second All-Russian Congress in Defence of Human Rights. The Congress adopted a great package of resolutions: Solidarity and Cooperation (What can we oppose to the war in North Caucasus?).

The case files on the murder of Paul Khlebnikov, editor-in-chief of the Forbes Russian version, have arrived to the Moscow City Court for retrial.

The authorities of Russia have been found guilty of torturing the residents of Chechnya.

The victims of the terrorists' capture of Beslan school No. 1 (North Ossetia) have sent an open letter to the deputies of the parliament of the republic with a request to hold hearings of Yuri Saveliev, a member of the federal parliamentary commission for investigating the act of terror, who has prepared an alternative report.

The Kremlin has linked together the murders of journalist Anna Politkovskaya and ex-FSB officer Alexander Litvinenko.

On January 18, 2007, a press conference "A Year to Presidential Election: Terror Victims Want the Truth" was held at the Independent Press Centre in Moscow.