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On May 7, the court of the town of Rybinsk, Yaroslavl Region, found Andrei Novikov, author of the "Chechenpress" separatists' web site, guilty of public appeals to extremist activities (Part 1, Article 280, of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).

On May 5, 2007, in the Nazran District of Ingushetia, unknown persons in masks and camouflage uniform kidnapped Hussein Mutsolgov, 21, a resident of Surkhakhi village, and Zaurbek Evloev, 23.

Today's court session of the North-Caucasian Regional Military Court in Rostov-on-Don on the case of Khudyakov and Arakcheev, officers of Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, accused of murdering three peaceful residents of Chechnya, has interrogated one witness.

In Tbilisi, the law enforcement bodies of Georgia have arrested Tair Khubanov, and Teimuraz Aliev who are suspected of murdering Elmar Guseinov, editor-in-chief of the "Monitor" magazine.

Armenia's Jehovah's Witnesses have complained to Forum 18 News Service that 72 of their young men are now imprisoned for refusing both military service and the alternative service under military control, the highest number ever.

A radical reduction in the number of kidnappings and massive non-targeted utilization of federal funds are the basic tendencies of modern Checnya's development.

Under Ramzan Kadyrov's order a special commission has been formed in Chechnya that will be engaged in the issues of restoration of rights of the rehabilitated victims of political repressions.

Azerbaijan is not going to cooperate with "Reporters without Borders" and attaches no value to declarations made by this organization.

On May 4, 2007, while presenting his report for the second half of 2006 to the Committee for Human Rights and Civil Integration, Ombudsman Sozar Subari, "National Defender of Georgia," has named the state of the Georgian penitentiary system to be catastrophic and beyond the critical mark.

President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov has stated the inadmissibility of illegal investigatory methods, the attention to which was drawn by heads of law enforcement bodies and representatives of power agencies of the Republic.

Two young people, born in 1984 and 1986, have been kidnapped by armed unknown persons in Nazran, a source at the city's department of internal affairs has telephoned on Saturday.

Georgian citizens of Azerbaijan origin, like all other citizens of Georgia who live in Russia, cannot get employed and do not dare even to go out of their homes.

The European Court for Human Rights in Strasbourg has made its decision on the case "97 members of Gdlan congregations of Jehovah's Witnesses and four other persons versus Georgia."

A court in Azerbaijan jailed two independent journalists today over an article that said Islam was hampering economic and political progress.

On May 24, the court session on Ulman's case will announce the outcomes of the undertaken operative and search actions and discuss the destiny of Major Alexei Perelevskiy, the only defendant who did not disappear like the rest of them.

Russian human rights defenders will address the European Union (EU) with a request to openly discuss with Moscow the problems that are obvious in Russia, and to demand that it should observe its international obligations.

Heads of Chechen law enforcement bodies and power agencies structures have decided to ask Ramzan Kadyrov, Republic's leader, to initiate liquidation of the Operative-Search Bureau-2 (ORB-2) located in the capital of the Republic.

On Monday, May 7, the hearing will restart of the case of Evgeniy Khudyakov and Sergey Arakcheev, accused of murdering three Chechen residents.

Today, on May 3, Yuri Tomchak, Minister of Internal Affairs of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic, held a meeting with Mufti Anas Pshikhachov, Dean of Orthodox churches of Kabardino-Balkaria Valentin Bobylev and Chief Rabbi of Kabardino-Balkaria and Nalchik Levi Shabaev, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent informs.

In performance of the decision of the European Court for Human Rights, the government of Russia has transferred eight thousand euros to the personal account of Turkish citizen Hadj Bairam Bolat who had been earlier deported from Kabardino-Balkaria.