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From today's morning, Ella Kesaeva and other members of the "Voice of Beslan" Committee are standing at the building of the Supreme Court of North Ossetia - they are not let inside, and the supervisory complaint has been accepted by nobody so far.

The Georgian government resorted to excessive force on November 7 when it violently dispersed demonstrators here in the country's capital and raided the private Imedi television station, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today.

Within the period from April 26, 1992, till December 15, 2007, a total of 983 applications were lodged to the European Court for Human Rights versus this country.

The Human Rights Centre "Memorial" informs that during special operation in Grozny, the capital of Chechnya, people found themselves in the role of hostages in the situation, when an intensive skirmish burst out between the parties.

Today, the Malaya Vishera District Court has satisfied the petition of the prosecutor's office to arrest Salanbek Dzagiev, a resident of Ingushetia, suspected of involvement in blowing up the "Neva-Express" train.

The editorial board of the independent political newspaper "Chechen Society", published in Chechnya, was forced to leave its office in the building of the House of Press in Grozny.

In the capital of Dagestan, the believers have launched a campaign in support of Said Nursi, a well-known Turkish theologian and philosopher, whose works have been declared to be extremist literature.

Tatiana Karpova, head of the "Nord-Ost" public organization, has stated that the words of Nikolai Patrushev, Director of the FSB, who gave his comments on the act at the Dubrovka Theatrical Centre in Moscow, cannot be true.

The today's session of the Monitoring Committee of the PACE in Paris has discussed the issue of appointing Special Rapporteur on political prisoners in Azerbaijan.

Rena Zakhidova, wife of Mirza Sakit, a journalist of the "Azadlyg" newspaper, has sent a letter to the Minister of Justice of Azerbaijan with a demand to put her husband into the medical establishment of the Ministry of Justice.

In the capital of Chechnya, the residents of the house, which was stormed in the course of a special operation held by power agents at night of December 16, say that they were not taken out of the building during the storm.

Today, the Appeal Court has held a preliminary session on the complaint of Einullah Fatullaev, convicted editor-in-chief of the "Real Azerbaijan" newspaper.

One of the two suspects of involvement in blowing up the "Neva-Express" train on August 13, who were detained yesterday in Ingushetia, was released; the other was deported from the Republic for performance of investigatory actions.

The events in Georgia on November 7, 2007, have contributed to the fact that the state with democracy in the country is now assessed also by the status of mass media.

Vatican is going to hold various humanitarian actions in Abkhazia and render assistance to the most vulnerable layers of the population of the Republic.

The Gimry village of the Untsukulskiy District, Dagestan, is still completely blocked; on December 16, a special operation was launched here with participation of more than 1000 employees of power agencies, united militia detachments attracted from adjacent regions.

The second suspect of participating in the explosion of the route bus "Pyatigorsk-Stavropol" at the bus station of the city of Nevinnomyssk; now, the investigation undertakes the necessary actions.

A group of representatives of Azerbaijani mass media has sent a letter to Terry Davis, Secretary General of the Council of Europe with a story about heavy working environment for journalists in Azerbaijan.

Another suit has been lodged against the "Hural" newspaper to the Narimanovskiy District Court by Akif Mamedov, chairman of the Joint-Stock Company (JSC) "Kurort" (Resort).

The explosion in Tskhinval, as a result of which one person was lost and two more wounded, has been qualified by law enforcement bodies of South Ossetia as a terror act.