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Basically, the presidential election in Armenia has passed according to international standards, although further improvement of democratic election processes is a must, the European observers think.

After processing of 100% of ballot papers, it became clear that Serzh Sarkisyan, prime minister and chairman of the Republican Party of Armenia, has won 52.86% of the votes, as reported by Garegin Azaryan, Chairman of the CEC of Armenia.

The supporters of the Armenian presidential candidate Levon Ter-Petrosyan are resolute not to admit the presidency of Serzh Sarkisyan.

According to the exit polls conducted by the "Alliance" civil initiative group, Levon Ter-Petrosyan was in the lead at the election. According to the exit polls held by the Populus British Company under the order of the Public TV of Armenia, Serzh Sarkisyan was in the lead with a high gap.

On February 15, Grozny, the capital of Chechnya, hosted the first sitting of the City Public Council founded with the aim to assist in ensuring human rights.

The preliminary hearing that was due on February 20 on the criminal case on the events of October 13, 2005, in Nalchik has been transferred to March 5.

The murders of two residents of Kabardino-Balkaria committed in Moscow within the latest week are the hot topic in the Republic. The KBR's community is concerned with what happens in the capital of the country.

The verdict to Victor Milkov, who was sentenced to one year of imprisonment for placing a video showing execution of citizens of Tajikistan and Dagestan on the Internet, was appealed against by his advocates at the Supreme Court of Adygea.

Prime minister of Armenia Serzh Sarkisyan has won the first round of presidential election. According to exit polls, his main rival Levon Ter-Petrosyan has gathered 17.04% of voters.

Arman Musinyan, press-secretary of the electoral office of Levon Ter-Petrosyan, has stated that the presidential election is passing in Armenia with a huge number of violations and falsifications.

The "Voice of Beslan" All-Russian Organization believes that the initiative to initiate criminal cases against the Committee belongs to the Prosecutor's Office of North Ossetia.

Larissa Dorogova, a lawyer of the Kabardino-Balkarian Bar, has lodged a complaint that she was not admitted to her defendant to O. Zharikov, Public Prosecutor of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR).

According to Semyon Vainshtok, head of the "Olympstroy" State Corporation, realization of the construction programs of Olympic objects in Sochi demands to make changes in the law on specially protected natural territories and in the statement on ensuring the operation of the Sochi State Natural Reserve.

The participants of an extraordinary sitting of the UN Security Council failed to make a decision on recognition of independence of Kosovo, the precedent of which is hunted by Abkhazia and South Ossetia.

Mamuka Areshidze, an expert and head of the NGO "Centre of Strategic Researches of the Caucasus", believes that Badri Patarkatsishvili could have fallen victim of the struggle for the Free Economic Zone (FEZ).

The initiative group created after arrest of Maksharip Aushev has appointed a rally on March 4 at the Memorial to Victims of Repressions in Nazran.

Members of the "Voice of Beslan" Committee are going to visit the Investigatory Committee of North Ossetia and ask why a criminal case was initiated against the Committee.

The Islamic Party of Azerbaijan has made a statement in connection with publication of caricatures on Prophet Mohammed in Danish newspapers.

In Ingushetia, actions of civil disobedience have been postponed till February 19 against the promise of the authorities to release the first six persons arrested during the events on January 26.

On February 15, Valery Bolov, one of the defendants in the case about the attack to Nalchik on October 13, 2005, died in Kabardino-Balkaria from liver cirrhosis.