The award ceremony took place on December 10, International Human Rights Day, in the Andrey Sakharov Public Center.

Seven separatists were killed in the Tsuntinsky district of Dagestan in the morning on Tuesday, announced head of the North Caucasian frontier department of the Russian Federal Security Service Lieutenant-General Nikolay Lesinsky.

MP candidates, election commission members of different levels, observers, and activists of public organizations were participants in the discussion.

Chechen separatists who captured a hospital in the village of Shauri in the Tsuntinsky district of Dagestan have divided into three or four groups, which are moving away in the direction of Chechnya and Georgia.

In conformity with the agreement reached in Ochamchira on November 17, the Georgian party had to produce information on Abkhazians who remain missing after the 1992-1993 Patriotic War.

The action was held within the framework of the "Strengthening Democracy in the South Caucasus through Freedom of Expression" Project implemented by the Article 19 international organization.

The Yeni Musavat newspaper expresses regret that the opposition in Azerbaijan is splintered today and will not be able to stand against the signing of the defeatist peace treaty.

Locals report that the village of Dzumsoy, which numbered 40 houses, was razed to the ground by Russian soldiers several days ago.

The ex-president of Azerbaijan died at the age of 80 on Friday December 12 in the clinic in Cleveland, the U.S., where he had been receiving treatment for heart and kidney problems since August 6.

According to some versions, the rebels occupied one of the Dagestani villages. According to other data, the group of rebels was detected when they were trying to flee to Georgia.

Several days ago, the police found a depot with 84 unguided antitank missiles apparently left by Chechen guerillas in a forest near the village of Khalatsani.

Last week two cultural events took place in the center of Prague dedicated to Caucasians who either still live in their homeland under disturbing conditions, or left to seek shelter in the Czech Republic.

On December 11, Russian mass media published information that the Georgian Security Ministry's special unit had entered the village of Megvrikisi in South Osetia.

On December 7, the day of the Russian State Duma elections, Yunus V. Yakubov, 1948, was killed in Gudermes. He was an observer for the Chechen regional branch of the United Russia Party.

As head of the State Security Committee of the Republic of South Osetia Colonel Oleg Alborov declared, the fact that a special unit of Georgian Security Ministry troops entered the Georgian-Abkhazian conflict zone on December 11 is true.

At the monument to the founders of the city, they mounted a stand informing of human rights abuses in Russia.

The commission on women's, family and youth affairs has been created under the State Council of the Chechen Republic. The well-known teacher Napsat Yusupova is at the head of it.

According to one of the organizers, Vladimir Weissman of the International Helsinki Federation (IHF), the goal was to teach the proper way of writing applications to be filed with the European Court of Human Rights, the UN Human Rights Committee and other international bodies.

Members of the Nesehnuti public organization and the regional branch of Amnesty International organized a rally in front of the Russian Consulate in Czechia's second largest town of Brno on Thursday, December 11, to protest the arbitrary enforced actions taken against Chechen refugees in Ingushetia.

Reporters Without Borders calls on Ilham Aliev to change direction in his government's policies toward the news media and to carry out reforms that would facilitate the development of a free and independent press.