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Rebels under the command of Rasul Makasharipov have been killing policemen, judges and prosecutors in Dagestan since 2002. The number of their victims has already reached 30 people.

Chechen law enforcers are checking information about the happening and searching for the people who went away in a car together with Said Husein Deniyev, said an officer of the Chechen Interior Ministry.

Head of the Information Center of the Council of NGOs Taisa Isayeva thinks that yesterday's incident showed the lack of professionalism of Ingush special services.

"It's time for all democratic forces to unite and put an end to authoritarianism in Azerbaijan," said chair of the Azerbaijan Popular Front Party Ali Kerimli.

68,225 people, or 90.1%, voted for Sergey Bagapsh, and 3,467 people, or 4.5%, did for Yakub Lakoba.

They will assure the safety of people in the villages of Ganmukhuri and Khurcha in Georgia's Zugdidi district, announced Georgian Prime Minister Zurab Zhvania.

In his interview with the Caucasian Knot correspondent, chairman of the Azerbaijan Committee Against Torture Elchin Bekhbudov said that 7 deaths from torture were registered in Azerbaijan in 2004.

Spokesman for the Azerbaijan Foreign Ministry Metin Mirza told the Caucasian Knot correspondent that there were no changes in positions of the sides but there was some approach.

The publication of one of the main newspapers of the Azerbaijan opposition, Yeni Musavat, was resumed on January 10. It happened due to "the latest financial means", announced editors of the newspaper.

The European Court of Human Rights is considering a claim of Viktoria Sypchenko, a resident of the town of Bataysk, Rostov Region. Earlier, she was put on probation for three years under the article "Fraud". Viktoria was pregnant, nevertheless she was under arrest in the course of investigation.

"The time given for the preparation and holding of the election sufficed only for continuation of the chosen tactics ? to come to power by all means, but not for the holding of the fair election of the head of state," leaders of some Abkhazian parties and non-governmental organizations announced in a joint statement.

The Chechen Interior Ministry asserts that there was no abduction of Aslan Maskhadov's relatives. The republican law enforcement agencies know nothing about it anyhow.

The state of Alan Parastayev, director of the Center for Humanitarian Initiatives and Studies beaten by officers of the South Osetian Interior Ministry, has improved.

For the same period of time, 293 locals were found dead on the territory of Chechnya.

The Kabardino-Balkarian Interior Ministry refused accreditation to Fatima Tlisova saying bluntly that the reason for it lay in her position as a journalist. In Karachaevo-Cherkessia, an attempt was made to accuse her of illegal receiving a pension and institute criminal proceedings against her.