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Journalists were told by Ovik Abramyan, Speaker of the Parliament, that the Armenian National Assembly would consider the amnesty issue at its extraordinary session on May 25. According to his story, this is the ninth amnesty campaign in the history of independent Armenia; and it will be completed before the 20th anniversary of Independence - on September 21.

Today Tbilisi has seen continuation of oppositional actions; and a new wave of them is scheduled for May 25. However, some Georgian MPs see "the hand of Moscow" in the events, while Russian Foreign Ministry accuses Saakashvili's regime of human rights violations.

In the evening of May, 22, about 30 people tried to organize a procession along Primorsky boulevard in Baku. In this way they wished to support arrested youth activists. The action was dispersed by the police, five persons were detained.

As reported by Manana Salukvadze, an activist of the People's Forum, in Batumi the police have dispersed a rally of supporters of the oppositional Forum with application of truncheons.

In Volgograd, 30 women, whose children have no places in kindergartens, have joined the three-day nationwide hunger strike in defence of children's right to free preschool education.

The Georgian Public Television has provided live broadcast to the oppositionists, who gathered today in Tbilisi with a demand of resignation of President Mikhail Saakashvili.

At the moment of receiving a bribe of 10,000 roubles, employees of the Department of Own Security of the GUVD (Chief Interior Department) of the Astrakhan Region detained a GIBDD (traffic police) inspector.

The capital of Kabardino-Balkaria hosted an almost a thousand-strong rally near the monument to victims of the Caucasian War, dedicated to the 147th anniversary of the end of the War.

Deputies of the oppositional "Heritage" Party are holding an action of civil protest in Yerevan with participation of ecologists and residents of adjacent areas. The aim of the action is to stop illegal, according to its participants, construction works in the capital and to restore green plantations.

On May 20, the Standing Commission on State and Legal Affairs of the National Assembly of Armenia passed a positive opinion on the proposal of President Serzh Sargsyan "On Declaring Amnesty".

Now in Georgia, inmates may contact their relatives through video conferencing. Since May 19, this service is available for juvenile offenders; and in the near future the innovation will be gradually introduced in other penal institutions.

On May 20, the Parliament of Georgia amended the Law "On Legal Status of Foreigners" and introduced a simplified visa regime for five countries. At entering Georgia for up to 360 days, visas are cancelled for citizens of Albania, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and Iraq.

Today, Moscow hosts an event dated to the 20th anniversary of the adoption by the Supreme Soviet of the Russian Federation of the Law No. 1107-1 "On Rehabilitation of Repressed Nations". The event is held by the Ingush public living in Moscow.