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On January 31, the Students-and-Youth Union "Sarkis Tkhruni" of the "Gnchak" Social-Democratic Party held a protest action in front of the building of the Russian embassy in Yerevan in connection with continuing murders of Armenian natives in Russia.

A draft resolution has been submitted to the House of Representatives of the US Congress, calling to recognize the genocide of Armenians, the Armenian Assembly of America has reported.

The Judges of the Constitutional Court of Chechnya have addressed the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation with a request to bring a bill to the RF State Duma stipulating an increase of monetary compensations to the citizens of the Republic who have become victims of political repressions.

The Preobrazhenskiy Court of Moscow has sentenced Moscow notary Fail Sadretdinov, one of the figurants in Khlebnikov's case, to nine years of imprisonment for a swindle with an apartment.

Today, the Presidium of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation (RF) has rejected the supervisory presentation of the State Office of Public Prosecutor, with which it tried to protest against the decision of the Judicial Board on Criminal Cases of the RF Supreme Court, which cancelled the verdict passed to two natives of Chechnya and their allies, who were sentenced by the Tver Regional Court for extortion with application of violence, robbery, kidnapping and possession of munitions.

The Ossetian militiamen who were wounded as a result of the attack on the post of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of South Ossetia are alive, although two of them are still in a grave condition.

In Moscow today the public hearings held by the "Expert Commission of Outstanding Lawyers" have continued; the conference has considered the issues of fighting terrorism and the problem of non-observance of human rights in Chechnya.

The Georgian party has again confirmed its readiness to take part in an informal meeting of the co-chairmen of the Joint Supervisory Commission (JSC) for settling the South Ossetian conflict, which is planned for the second decade of February.

At 10 a.m. on January 31, the Presidium of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation (RF) will consider the supervisory presentation of the State Office of Public Prosecutor, lodged in protest to the decision of the Judicial Board on Criminal Cases of the Russian Supreme Court, which cancelled the verdict in relation to two Chechnya natives and their helpers, convicted by the Tver Regional Court for extortion with application of violence, robbery, kidnapping and ammunition possession.

Human rights activists from the Autonomous Non-Commercial Organization (ANCO) "Novorossiysk Committee for Human Rights" assert that they are under pressure exerted on them by members of power agencies of the Krasnodar Territory.

Two servicemen of federal troops and one militant were killed in a skirmish in the mountainous Shatoj District of Chechnya.

On January 28, a meeting organized by the participants of the scandalously known "Russian March."

The Party "We Ourselves" has expressed its support to the refugees from Abkhazia, who have been deprived their jobs at night today, when the authorities have forbidden street traders and kiosk owners to trade near the "Gotseridze" underground station in the capital of Georgia.

Tortures, kidnappings, murders and various other violations of human rights continue in Chechnya. This is the topic of the report disseminated by the "Demos" Moscow Information-Analytical Centre.

The defendants in the case of blowing up the Grozny-Moscow train deny their guilt, Valery Prilepskiy, advocate of one of the case figurants, has reported.