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In the Dakhadaevskiy District of Dagestan, Magomed Aliev, head of local administration, started a politically-motivated skirmish with one of candidates for deputies of the regional assembly.

"There is no need to hold a meeting just for the sake of a meeting, it should be productive," president of Abkhazia S. Bagapsh has emphasized today at the press conference in Sukhumi speaking about his possible meeting with president of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili.

Sergey Katanandov, head of Karelia, does not exclude that in the course of investigation of the criminal cases, initiated on the outcomes of the events in the city of Kondopoga, new figures can appear.

Paata Davitaya, leader of the political movement "We Ourselves," has stated that many Georgians of the Galskiy District of Abkhazia are leaving their homes because of their unwillingness to take part in elections on March 4, and those who stay at home "will be forced to vote under the gunpoint."

The Council of Europe (CE), whose delegation has visited Chechnya these days, relates the violations of inmate detention conditions in the Republic with the deficit of judges.

Today, the Parliament of Chechnya has approved awarding Ramzan Kadyrov with the powers of the president of the Republic. Overall, 56 deputies of both Chambers has voted for this decision.

Georgia will welcome a sitting of the Mixed Control Commission (MCC) for settling the Georgian-Ossetian conflict in Tbilisi, should mutual understanding be reached by the parties at the Istanbul meeting.

The North-Caucasian Regional Military Court in Rostov-on-Don has finished today the interrogation of Captain Eduard Ulman, officer of the military reconnaissance, who is accused of murdering peaceful residents in Chechnya in January 2002.

President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin has made a decision to offer the candidature of Ramzan Kadyrov to the post of the president of Chechnya.

The participants of the international human rights conference that has opened today morning in the capital of Chechnya state that "serious topics" have been considered at the forum.

The overwhelming number of political movements in Armenia are planning their independent, outside any blocks, participation in the elections on May 12 to the National Assembly of Armenia, and some even intend to boycott the elections whatsoever.

At the international conference, now held in Grozny, Nurdi Nukhazhiev, Ombudsman for human rights in the Republic, has presented his report enumerating multiple facts of violation of human rights and freedoms in Chechnya in the course of armed actions.

Today, on February 28, 2007, the city of Grozny has hosted a sitting of the Committee for Security, Legal Order and Interaction with Power Agencies under the Parliament of Chechnya.

Today, several dozens of Chechens, who resettled to Azerbaijan after the start of military actions in Chechnya, have picketed the Baku office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).

Magomed Mutsolgov, head of the "Mashr" Association of Kidnapped Relatives (Ingushetia) has refused to take part in the international conference on human rights, which will open tomorrow, on March 1, in the city of Grozny, capital of Chechnya.