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The "Caucasus Times" News Agency has addressed the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Dagestan with a demand "to restrain those who exerts unreasonable and illegal pressure on journalists and the 'Free Republic' newspaper."

A meeting on trafficking problems was held in the office of the Ombudsman (People's Defender) of Georgia.

The international observation mission comprised of representatives of democratic institutes of the OSCE, Parliamentary Assembly of the European Council and European Parliament, Office for Defence of Human Rights and OSCE Parliamentary Assembly has published a report in connection with the presidential election in Georgia.

Today, President of Dagestan Mukhu Aliev has held an emergency meeting on the critical situation with electricity and heat supplies to residents of Makhachkala.

The resolution of the European Parliament on South Caucasus' unsettled conflicts, the Nagorno-Karabakh issue inclusive, states that the conflicts should be settled exclusively through peaceful negotiations.

Every fourth resident of the Russian Federation is convinced that Russian special agencies were involved in the resonant murders of journalist Anna Politkovskaya and ex-FSB officer Alexander Litvinenko.

Advocates Intigam Aliev and Annagi Gadzhibeili lodged a suit to the European Court for Human Rights against the Azerbaijani government.

The United Opposition of Georgia plans to hold a rally on the day of inauguration of Mikhail Saakashvili, January 20, and calls the public to come to the hippodrome.

In Krasnodar, Moscow and local human rights activists have discussed, in the course of the seminar "Public Control: Power and Society", organized by the Moscow "Demos" Centre, the civil supervision over the activities of law enforcement bodies.

The supervisory bodies, monopolists and the Municipal Unitary Enterprise (MUE) "City Electric Power Grid" should be responsible for absence of electric power in dwelling districts of Makhachkala.

Vitaly Kaloev, who was released in November 2007 from a Swiss prison, will be employed from Monday, January 21, at the civil service.

The Russian budget will have to allocate almost 110,000 euros because of the murder by "federals" of two Moscow residents in Ingushetia.

The European Court for Human Rights has passed two more decisions against Azerbaijan.

The inmates of the pre-trial isolation facility of the city of Nalchik, defendants in the criminal case on the attack on power agencies of Kabardino-Balkaria on October 13, 2005, complain of their custody conditions.

The Tonshaevskiy District Court of the Nizhniy Novgorod Region will consider a possibility of a conditional early release of Boris Stomakhin, publicist of the Chechen separatists' website named "Kavkaz-Centre", who was sentenced to 5 years of colony for kindling interethnic enmity and extremism.

Because of absence of electricity in Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan, medical and social establishments have to use power generators, and residents are buying candles and pocket lanterns.

Leila Yunus, Director of the Institute of Peace and Democracy, has reported that the Ministry of Justice of Azerbaijan gives no reaction whatsoever to numerous appeals of inmates' relatives about offences committed at the Corrective-Labour Colony No. 1.

The Tbilisi City Court has rejected the claims of oppositional parties who demanded to annul the final protocol of the CEC of Georgia on January 5 election because of mass-scale falsifications.

The "Beslan Mothers" Committee has treated the judicial persecution of the "Voice of Beslan" Public Organization as "revolting" and "immoral".

Relatives of the murdered militant Adam Askhabov cannot take away his body from employees of law enforcement bodies of Chechnya for burial.