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The participants of the roundtable, held at the Public Human Rights Centre of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic believe that the restriction of juries is related to the particular criminal case, which considers the events on October 13, 2005, in Kabardino-Balkaria.

The Olympic construction sites in Sochi are in awful condition, as Yuri Trutnev, head of the Ministry for Natural Resources and Environment Protection ("Minprirody"), stated at the sitting of the Federal Technical Inspection Committee ("Rostekhnadzor") on Friday, March 6.

The Gamblers' Association of the Southern Federal District (SFD) of Russia asks to postpone the deadline for closing their gambling facilities located outside particular areas from July 1, 2009, till the end of 2012 under the motive that the so-called "Azov-City" is not ready yet.

The explosion in Ingushetia on March 5, which killed bomb technicians and sappers from the FSB and militia, could be a sort of preparation of a huge terror act, and its aim, most likely, was to liquidate the best bomb technicians and sappers of the Republic, as law enforcement bodies assert.

During the visit of Adzharia's delegation to Azerbaijan, a preliminary agreement was reached to launch a direct flight Baku-Batumi by the start of the resort season.

The meeting on March 5 of Eduard Kokoity, President of South Ossetia, with the refugees living in North Ossetia, failed to meet their expectations. After his two-hour speech, President answered only seven questions of the audience.

Today, the members of the All-Russia NGO "Voice of Beslan" have lodged another complaint of theirs to the European Court on Human Rights in Strasbourg the next complaint against the state on behalf of the new initiative group consisting of 71 persons, as Ella Kesaeva, head of the NGO, has reported.

Today, the political association named "Alliance for Georgia", headed by Irakliy Alasaniya, has declared a start of the public plebiscite towards resignation of President of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili. This was announced by Mr Alasaniya at a briefing in Tbilisi.

The main mission of the Journalists' Press Club "Asparez" is to defend the right to the freedom of speech.

The General Prosecutor's Office has returned the case about the explosion of the "Neva-Express" Train for additional investigation. In the opinion of the Office, the investigation remained unfinished.

The authorities of Armenia find the Armenian part of the annual report on situation with human rights in the world presented on February 26 by the Department of State (DoS) of the USA unduly sharp and politically motivated.

The Centre of Islamic Medicine, opened on February 2, in Grozny, the capital of Chechnya, where patients with psycho-neurological diseases are treated by reading ayats from Koran and according to Sunnah of Prophet Mohammed, has already cured one thousand persons, as the Republic's Muftiyat reports.

After Nagorno-Karabakh leaders have spoken on local TV, the situation around the fall of the exchange rate of the national currency has calmed down a little: people stopped flapping about and crowds in shops have disappeared, as the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports from the region.

On March 8, Kabardino-Balkaria will mark the Memory Day of 1944 deportation victims among the Balkar nation. A mourning rally will be held in Nalchik, at the memorial to deportation victims.