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Andrei Keilin, a resident of Karachaevo-Circassia, who was earlier accused of murdering two students in Stavropol and kept for some time at the pre-trial detention facility (SIZO), has decided to sue law enforcement bodies and claim compensation of moral damage in the sum of 1 million roubles.

The yesterday's too lenient, in the opinion of the Chechen party, verdict to Lieutenant Colonel Korgun, guilty of murdering a woman-resident of the Shatoi District of Chechnya, can result in sharp worsening of relations between militaries and civil authorities, the "Kommersant" newspaper writes today.

Sergey Rozhkov, a journalist from the city of Tuapse, Krasnodar Territory, was detained at night of February 2 in the house of his relative, when he was preparing a lawful protest action. According to the journalist, he was handcuffed, beaten and thrown into the luggage compartment of the militia's "Zhiguli" car.

Military actions and special operations undertaken in the Caucasus with the aim to eliminate the threat of terror are inefficient in struggling against radicalism, but on the contrary, they strengthen it, asserts Ruslan Aushev, the first President of Ingushetia.

On February 7, 2008, the Khamovniki Court of Moscow ruled to cancel the conviction record from Anton Stepanenko, imam of the city of Pyatigorsk, under the verdict of the Pyatigorsk City Court of the Stavropol Territory of March 30, 2007.

Azamat Akhkubekov, one of those accused of attacking power agencies of Kabardino-Balkaria, has sent a petition to the chair of the court Mohamed Tashuev with a complaint against the treatment of defendants during convoying. If the complaint is not satisfied, Akhkubekov is going to refuse from taking part in the process.

On February 7, the Grozny Garrison Military Court sentenced Alexei Korgun, Lieutenant Colonel of Internal Troops of the Russian MIA, guilty of the death of a woman-resident of the Shatoy District of Chechnya, to three years of conditional imprisonment.

Sources in the Prosecutor's Office of Ingushetia refute the information that dozens of people detained on January 26 during mass disorders in Nazran are still under arrest.

On February 5, in North Ossetia, the public organization "Styr Nykhas" held a sitting with participation of the Committees "Voice of Beslan" and "Beslan Mothers", where a decision was passed to found the Board in charge of assessing of the investigation of the Beslan tragedy.

The Tonshaev Court of the Nizhni Novgorod Region has refused to apply the procedure of early conditional release to Boris Stomakhin, publicist of the website of Chechen separatists "Kavkaz-Centre" who was sentenced to 5 years of colony for kindling interethnic enmity and extremism.

In the Pushkin Square in the centre of Moscow, a picket was held in memory of the victims of the clean-up ("zachistka") conducted eight years ago in Novye Aldy settlement located in Grozny, the capital of Chechnya.

At the following session of preliminary hearings of the criminal case on the events of October 13 in Nalchik (Kabardino-Balkaria) appointed on February 20, defendant Kaziev is going to refuse from the services of advocate Sukhikh, T. V., appointed by the court.

Today, the public organization "Dagestan Mothers for Human Rights" and relatives of the people kidnapped in Makhachkala held a picket against kidnappings in the central square of the capital of the Republic.

For 24 hours already, Farkhad Aliev, former Minister of Economic Development of Azerbaijan, is at the Medical Establishment of the Penitentiary Systems. The diagnosis has not been formulated yet.

The Institute for Peace and Democracy is emphasizing the absurdity of litigation against Novruzali Mamedov, 67, a linguist, head of one of the divisions at the Institute of Linguistics of the Academy of Sciences, founder and editor-in-chief of the only newspaper in Azerbaijan in the Talysh language "Talyshi Sado", and Elman Guliev, executive secretary of the newspaper, accused of high treason.