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Parliamentarians of the Chechen Republic ask Anatoly Serdyukov, Russian Minister of Defence, to disband the "Vostok" (East) special purpose battalion, or to replace its commander Sulim Yamadaev.

The US State Department has reiterated that it does not recognize Nagorno-Karabakh to be an independent state, but will continue its efforts towards peaceful settlement of the conflict.

Einullah Fatullaev, editor-in-chief of the "Real Azerbaijan" newspaper, will remain in prison's dungeon till April 20.

In Armenia, the broadcasting of the oppositional GALA TV Company is stopped. On April 16, the court marshals dismantled its broadcasting equipment - they performed the decision of the Cassation Court of Armenia.

The Investigatory Department of the Investigatory Committee under the Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation for Dagestan has failed to find any crime elements in the actions of Rizvan Rizvanov, the founder of the newspaper "Nastoyascheye Vremya" (Present Time), and decided not to open a criminal case against him.

April 15 was the deadline for submitting operation reports by all the non-commercial organizations, with no exceptions. Human rights activist believe that Russia can launch mass closing of NCOs.

Representatives of human rights and public organizations of Chechnya demand to make accountable the special-purpose battalion of the GRU named "Vostok" (East), which took part in the conflict with the guards of Ramzan Kadyrov, President of Chechnya that burst out in Gudermes.

In the memorandum published on April 15, the committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe for observance of human rights in Northern Caucasus has recognized the situation with human rights in the region to be "very disturbing".

The demand of the Council of Europe concerning political prisoners in Armenia remains unchanged: people shall not be imprisoned for their political convictions.

At the rally that is planned in Ingushetia in May the opposition will demand to return the first President of Ingushetia Ruslan Aushev back as the Republic's President.

Colonel Seiran Shakhsuvaryan, press secretary of the Ministry of Defence of Armenia, has rejected the information that the newly appointed Minister of Defence General-Colonel Seiran Oganyan had taken part in massacres of the Azerbaijani peaceful population in 1992 and was announced into search by the Interpol.

Tbilisi treats the Russian initiatives to set up legal relations with Abkhazia and South Ossetia as a desire to infringe the sovereignty of Georgia.

In the opinion of the Estonian journalist and media expert Ainar Russar, the most important journalistic problem in Georgia is that the authorities, same as the opposition, do not understand that the freedom of speech is one of fundamental public values.

Arshavir Bazinyan, a wheelchair invalid, a Karabakh war veteran and a former fighter of the "Sasun" detachment, which was commanded by Sasun Mikaelyan, now arrested Deputy of the National Assembly of Armenia, who suspended his hunger strike two days ago, has announced its continuation today.

Seiran Oganyan, the new Minister of Defence of Armenia, is searched by Azerbaijan as especially dangerous criminal and was declared into search by the Interpol in connection with the genocide of Azerbaijanis in Khodzhaly.

On April 14 at 9:50 p.m. in the Ochakov Highway in Moscow, the body of certain Kurdubov, 43, a resident of Karagach village, Prokhladnenskiy District of Kabardino-Balkaria, was found with numerous knife wounds.

The municipal newspaper named "Elista Panorama" was forced to print its circulation outside Kalmykia. The reason of the refusal to print the newspaper in the Republic, according to representatives of the mayoralty of Elista, was the indebtedness of the edition before the unique printing house in Kalmykia.

The discussion of the report on the presidential election in Armenia presented by John Prescott, head of the PACE's monitoring group, to the spring session of the PACE was accompanied by critical and strong comments of some of the Deputies.

Today, the photo of the supposed murderer of Anna Politkovskaya, journalist of the "Novaya Gazeta" was published; apparently, this is Rustam Makhmudov, 34, a native of the Achkhoy-Martan District of Chechnya.

The report on Armenian presidential election on February 19 and post-election processes, presented on April 14 to the spring session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), states that the presidential election in Armenia passed basically in compliance with the standards of the Council of Europe.