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Azerbaijan law enforcement agencies search for over 2 thousand people now.

Chairwoman of the Georgian parliamentary Committee on Human Rights and Civil Integration Elena Tevdoradze has denied reports that houses owned by local Greeks have been burnt in Georgia's Tsalksky district for the last two weeks.

In her interview with the Caucasian Knot correspondent, human rights activist Leyla Yunus stated that the country's authorities must draw attention to the fact that early marriages have become more frequent in Azerbaijan recently.

At about 9 p.m. on February 2, unknown people opened fire on the Niva car that Dagestani Deputy Interior Minister Magomed Omarov was in. The incident occurred in the center of Makhachkala.

Preliminary results of Georgian prime minister Zurab Zhvania's blood test confirm the version that he died from carbon monoxide poisoning, expert Irina Tandilashvili told journalists.

"It wasn't seen from Saakashvili's speech in Strasbourg that Georgia has new thinking now," said the Abkhazian speaker.

The OSCE monitoring group examining Azerbaijan's territory controlled by Nagorny Karabakh for the purpose of checking the implementation of the state settlement program continues its work.

Chechen law enforcement agencies are investigating an abduction of Aslan Maskhadov's closest relatives. Abductors have not been found, the whereabouts of the abducted people and their further destiny are not known.

Experts of the Rostov regional ministry of transportation and communication hold that the critical situation on the road is caused mainly by its technical condition.

On January 31, Russian mass media spread information about the death of Shamil Basayev referring to representatives of the Chechen diaspora in Azerbaijan.

"If the problem of political prisoners hasn't been solved in Azerbaijan by the April session of the Council of Europe's Parliamentary Assembly (PACE), the country can lose its mandate in this organization," stated PACE rapporteur on political prisoners in Azerbaijan Malcolm Bruce.

Relatives of Muslim Attayev, leader of the extremist jamaat (group) Yarmuk killed in Nalchik, have filed an application with the Kabardino-Balkarian prosecutor's office to give them the bodies of his two children that are allegedly hided by instructions of the republican interior minister, some sources say.

An OSCE fact-finding mission set off for Stepanakert on January 30 to collect facts about the creation of Armenian settlements in seven districts of Azerbaijan adjacent to Nagorny Karabakh and controlled by Armenia.

Officers of the Chechen presidential security service, not Russian soldiers were killed when cars were blown up near the village of Alkhan-Kala, Chechnya's Urus-Martan district.

The European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg has declared admissible an application lodged by an internally displaced person (IDP) from Chechnya living on the territory of Stavropol Region.

Chair of the Umid (Hope) party Igbal Agazade, who is imprisoned now, may be at the head of the party list of this opposition party in the forthcoming parliamentary elections in Azerbaijan.

"Efforts of the Council of Europe aimed at developing the South Caucasus, in particular establishing stability and long peace, are positive. Nevertheless, we think that the report by Mr Atkinson has some drawbacks on the whole, along with positive aspects," the spokesman for the Armenian Foreign Ministry said to journalists.

A rally was held in the capital of South Osetia, Tskhinval, in connection with Mikhail Saakashvili's recent speech in Strasbourg, in which he made a suggestion that South Osetia be granted a high degree of autonomy within Georgia.

The Caucasian Knot correspondent in Kabardino-Balkaria, who spent a whole day at the scene of a special operation to destroy a rebel group in Nalchik, is reporting details of the storm.

The trial against Sergey Lapin (better known under the nickname of Kadet), who is suspected of kidnapping Zelimkhan Murdalov in 2004, is underway.