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Abas Abasov, one of the suspects of organizing the murder of Farid Babaev, leader of the Dagestan Regional Branch of the "Yabloko" Party, was freed under recognizance not to leave.

The conflict around the "Vostok" (East) special-purpose battalion, which is commanded by the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Russian General Staff (the so-called "GRU"), continues to escalate. The investigation now possesses new information about possible involvement of special fighters in one more crime.

The parents of the students who came to Stavropol from Chechnya and Ingushetia to get their education are concerned with frequent murders "of Caucasus-origin nationals" committed in this city and want to take their children away.

A court in the Astrakhan Region has appointed three years of conditional imprisonment to the doctor who had refused to provide free-of-charge hospitalization to a seven-year-old boy with a compound arm fracture; with the result that later surgeons had to amputate the arm.

Today, the Ulyanovsk Regional Court has upheld the decision of the City Court of Dimitrovgrad to reject to apply the early conditional release to former colonel Yuri Budanov who is serving his ten years' term for murdering Elza Kungaeva, a resident of Chechnya.

Valery Giorgobiani, a candidate for majority deputy in the Tsager Constituency of Georgia from the party in power United National Movement, has refused to take part in the elections after his compromising audio record was made public.

Zaurbek Bolataev, a resident of the city of Beslan (North Ossetia), has addressed human rights organizations of the country for help because of criminal prosecution of his son Nikolai Bolataev, a student of the Novosibirsk Higher Military Command School.

On May 1, an event to commemorate victims of Holocaust was held in Tbilisi in the Georgian Ombudsman's office.

Today, the jury of the Moscow city court has passed a guilty verdict on the case of an explosion at Moscow's Cherkizovo market in August 2006.

Irina Sarishvili plans to bring the suit of Giorgadze supporters to the Supreme Court of Georgia and, in parallel, to the European Court for Human Rights. This has become known after the Tbilisi Court of Appeal failed to satisfy the claim lodged by supporters of Igor Giorgadze, ex-Minister for Security of Georgia and leader of the "Justice" opposition party.

The RIA "Novosti" has reported today, with reference to the Investigatory Committee at the Russian Prosecutor's Office, that four residents of the city of Akhtubinsk (Astrakhan Regions), accused of setting up an extremist community, were arrested for propaganda of anti-Semitism.

The Chechen Ministry of Internal Affairs asserts that Yamadaev brothers' participation in kidnapping and subsequent murdering Yusup and Yunus Arsamakovs has been evidenced by a former fighter of the "Vostok" (East) special battalion.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Chechen Republic is accusing Selim Bimurzaev, a militants' commander from the village of Eshilkhatoy, of shelling the representative of Chechen Ombudsman in the Vedeno District and murdering two girls.

The Chechnya's Department of the Federal Service for Punishment Enforcement has refuted the information that inmates of the Corrective Colony in Chernokozovo are on hunger strike.

The investigation of the case about bus explosion in Tolyatti is over. Evgeniy Vakhrushev, who is considered to be the organizer of the explosion, was found mentally sick, and the explosion was accidental.