In this special about gender and power attention is being paid to the imprisonment of two human rights defenders in Usbekiztan: Gulbakhor Turaeva and journalist Umida Niyazova. Ruta Pels writes about the pre-election is Estonia. Elected women, just as men, do not always keep their promises. The candidacy of Gordana Chomich is viewed as one of the most possible candidate for the prime minister's position in Serbia. In January 2007, Supreme Rada rejected the draft amendments providing equal rights and opportunities to women and men in the elections process. Some of male politicians explained this fact as saying that the male parliament is afraid of competition with female politicians. In an interview with probably the only gender issues lobby Oksana Belozir, elected member of the Supreme Rada, deputy head of pro-presidential Our Ukraine fraction, ex-minister of culture of Ukraine explains. Gender misbalance negatively influences the atmosphere in the Armenian parliament. In the past, there were only 4 women in the Armenian parliament, which is 3% percent of the total parliament members. Presently, the percent of women parliamentarians is 5.3%. The problem in the Georgian parliament is that competent and professional women make men feel uneasy. Domestic violence in Turkmenistan is generally explained by combination of circumstances. Police is unwilling to investigate the domestic violence cases, and social centers or domestic violence centers could play an important role, but there are no such organizations in Turkmenistan.