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The three Georgian students released in Abkhazia are going to file a complaint to the European Court for Human Rights and to protest against their detention.

At the court session on the case of Beslan ROVD (District Interior Unit) commanders (North Ossetia), the defendants have lodged a petition that the amnesty should be applied to them, as to the militiamen who operated inside a zone of counterterrorist operation.

Today, the European Court for Human Rights (ECtHR) has blamed Russia for disappearance and murder of a young man from Chechnya, the "Legal Initiative for Russia," organization representing the interests of the victim's relatives, has stated today.

At its today's session, the Parliament of Georgia has passed a decision to create a temporary administrative unit in South Ossetia.

Today was the final day of the International Scientific and Practical Conference "Modern Russian Society: Actual Problems of Fighting Crime," held in Nalchik, capital of Kabardino-Balkaria, on the basis of the Nalchik Branch of the Krasnodar University of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia.

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.