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Dzhabbar Savalan, an activist of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), arrested by the Sumgait City Court, had confessed under police pressure, his advocate Asabali Mustafaev said.

The authorities of the Stavropol Territory say that the territorial law, which introduced a sort of "curfew" for children, is OK; and a system of measures was designed to promote it. Opponents of the law believe that it restricts human rights and indicate to the high corruption component that hampers to enforce it.

Head of the Kabardino-Balkaria Arsen Kanokov is ready to meet the rebels' parents who have turned to him asking for a meeting. Mr Kanokov told about it on February 7 at a sitting of the Public Chamber of the Republic.

Two Chechen militiamen, who, according to the investigation, threatened a waitress with firearms and resisted detention, were put in custody in the Rostov Region.

Native of Dagestan Ramazan Utarbiev who is in search as one of the participants of the mass scuffle in which Egor Sviridov, fan of the Moscow "Spartak", was killed issued a video message where he said he was ready to "surrender to the authorities" if he received guarantees of "fairness, justice and impartial investigation".

Responsibility for organizing the act of terror which carried away 36 lives with the use of a suicide bomber in the Moscow airport "Domodedovo" on January, 24, was taken by Dokku Umarov, leader of North-Caucasian gunmen.

Three militia officers got injured as a result of an explosion of an unidentified explosive device on the way of a militia car's following in Makhachkala.

The Trunovsky District Court of the Stavropol Territory has sentenced the female paediatrician, who made a wrong diagnosis to a girl of three, who died because of that, to one year of settlement colony, Gennady Sobolev, public prosecutor of the Trunovsky District, said today.

Indeed, remains of Magomed Evloev, a resident of Ingushetia, were found in the place of the terror act at the "Domodedovo"; however, the investigation has no sufficient grounds to believe that Evloev was the suicide bomber, said a source from law enforcement bodies of Ingushetia.

On February 7, the court of general jurisdiction of the Yerevan communities Centre and Nork-Marash, chaired by Judge Karine Petrosyan, partially satisfied the suit of three Armenian MPs against the newspaper "Aikakan Zhamanak" claiming compensation for publication of untrue information.

The Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", which had repeatedly received signals of gross violations of human rights by employees of the Kizilyurt ROVD (District Interior Division) of the Republic of Dagestan, has appealed to the General Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation, Prosecutor's Office of the Republic of Dagestan, Minister of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Dagestan and Ombudsman of the Republic of Dagestan with a request to check all the allegations of possible crimes committed against citizens.

The Greek ship owner company has promised the relatives of the sailors captured by Somali pirates that the men would be released at the end of February.

A note from an organization "Black Hawks - Anti-Wahabits" was found in Nalchik, near the house where the family of Astemir Mamishev who is in federal search for suspicion of involvement in a number of high-sounding murders in Kabardino-Balkaria lives.

It became known today about the death of Magomed Gamzatov, a resident of the village of Shamkhal, a Didoy by nationality, who in early January addressed the Parliament of Georgia for help in addressing the problems of Didoys - development of language, culture, and recognition of them to be a separate ethnic group.

As reported today by Yuri Popov, Acting Head of the Investigatory Department for the Rostov Region of the Russian Investigatory Committee, inspectors have appointed a medical examination with the aim to establish the exact cause of death of Maxim Sychov, a student of the Rostov State Construction University (RSCU), who died after being beaten by another student.