About 50 oppositionists held in Investigatory Isolation Ward 1 went on hunger strike last week, demanding that the authorities of the country meet recommendations by the OSCE on the non-admission of political persecution.

The information and analytical round table discussion "Mass Media in Stavropol Territory: Coverage of Interethnic Relations" took place at the Pyatigorsk Branch of the North Caucasian Academy of Public Service on November 27.

By human rights activists' preliminary estimate, the turnout did not reach even 1% of the displaced persons from Chechnya living in Ingushetia.

The Memorial Society kept and keeps on playing a noticeable part in the making of civil society in Russia.

The Pyatigorsk Garrison Court Martial pronounced sentence on the former head of the military hospital in Mozdok blown up by kamikaze terrorists.

NGO activists from Dagestan, Chechnya, Stavropol Territory, South and North Osetia discussed their plans of work for the next year, which includes human rights workshops and trainings for GRINGO Network in Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia, South and North Osetia.

According to preliminary information, the direct performers were three kamikaze women. Another woman is supposed to be an organizer, and the police are seeking for her now.

The statement by the Foreign Ministry of Nagorny Karabakh reads that official Baku has expanded a propaganda campaign, accusing the republic of drug trafficking and rendering assistance to international terrorists.

It happened last night, a source in the Georgian Interior Ministry informed.

Recent bomb attacks in southern Russia and Moscow display a flagrant disrespect for civilian life, Amnesty International said 9 December.

The statement reads: "The international human rights system, built over decades by governments themselves, has come under unprecedented strain ".

3 thousand Russian peacekeepers will stay in the zone of the conflict till one of the parties declares for the cessation of the peacekeeping operation.

Representatives of all the republican security agencies as well as activists of public organizations will form the commission, announced President of Chechnya Akhmad Kadyrov.

Moscow lawyer Ekaterina Bugayenko, who represented interests of the defendant, the Fund "School of Peace", in court on the initiative of the Independent Expert Legal Council, stated during a sitting of the court that the department of justice violated rights of the public association and Article 11 of the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, which ensures freedom of peaceful assembly and freedom of association.

"Purges" are conducted in Grozny, Gudermes, Argun, and other settlements by officers of the Chechen OMON (militia platoon for special purposes) and the republican department for struggle against organized crime, with a minimum of Russian soldiers' participation.

On December 11, it will be 9 years since the "restoration of constitutional order" began in Chechnya.

The Georgian-Abkhazian negotiation process was the main subject matter of the meeting between Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General in Georgia Heidi Tagliavini and Abkhazian Prime Minister Raul Khajimba and Abkhazian Foreign Minister Sergey Shamba.

Georgy Mshveniaradze, an activist of the non-government organization "Young Lawyers Association" detained by Adjarian law-enforcement agencies in Kobuleti on November 2, the day of parliamentary elections in Georgia, was released on December 7.

Refugees from Chechnya who temporary live in the villages of the Pankissi George, Georgia, did not take part in the elections for the Russian State Duma on December 7.

On December 11, all those who support this action are offered for 15 minutes to substitute the "memorial page" with a picture of a burning candle against the black background for home pages of their websites.