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July 15, 2010 20:00

• 50 persons came to Estemirova's commemoration picket

  Today, one year after kidnapping and murder of Natalia Estemirova, an employee of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", a picket in Moscow brought together 50 persons. As reported by the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent, there are flowers and lit candles under Estemirova's portrait; and the names of human rights defenders who perished in recent years are written on the asphalt nearby - Magomed Evloev, Maksharip Aushev, Farid Babayev and Anna Politkovskaya.

July 15, 2010 18:00

• Lord Frank Judd: Chechnya remains in informational isolation

  According to Lord Frank Judd, former PACE's Rapporteur for Chechnya and a member of the British Parliamentary Human Rights Group (PHRG), believes that removal of the information blockade, improvement of social and economic life and organization of the negotiating process are prerequisites of solution of the problems of the Chechen Republic.

July 15, 2010 18:00

• NCMD Military Prosecutor's Office investigates treachery of "Sever" battalion fighters

  The Military Prosecutor's Office of the North-Caucasian Military District (NCMD) will check the media data that in February 2010 in the course of a special operation in Chechnya military servicemen of battalion "Sever" (North) opened fire on special fighters of the Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs who came from the city of Ufa.

July 14, 2010 23:50

• EU gives Georgia 23 million euros for refugees' needs

  On July 13, Per Eklund, head of the representative office of the European Union (EU) in Tbilisi, and Kakha Baindurashvili, Minister of Finance of Georgia, signed a document, according to which the EU would allocate 23 million euros to the needs of Georgian refugees.

July 14, 2010 23:40

• In Krasnodar Territory, prosecutors reveal mass violations in children's establishments

  The checks made by prosecutors of the Territory after the death of schoolchildren in the "Azov" summer camp revealed violations in 220 establishments, which render health-improvement and rest services to children.

July 14, 2010 23:20

• Obligations before Svetlana Schultz are fulfilled, Kamyshin Mayoralty asserts

  The Mayoralty of the city of Kamyshin, Volgograd Region, reports that all the obligations of local authorities before Svetlana Schultz, who had addressed the Pope, and her family are fulfilled.

July 14, 2010 23:10

• HRC "Memorial": authorities of Dagestan should stop persecuting journalists and rights defenders

  Dagestan becomes a dangerous place for civil activists and journalists, runs the statement of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" made in the context of threats addressed to Magomed Khanmagomedov, a special correspondent of the newspaper "Chernovik", who made his own inquiry into the special operation conducted in Derbent on June 16, 2010.

July 14, 2010 23:00

• Three children drowned in Chechnya from start of bathing season

  The republic's Ministry for Emergencies (MfE) reports about nine persons drowned from the start of this year's bathing season in local water bodies. The count of victims of abnormal is also on the rise.

July 14, 2010 22:00

• In Dagestan, advocate of female suicide bombers states their innocence

  Today, lawyer Makhach Guchuchaliev told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that the recent announcement by the National Antiterrorist Committee of Russia of the women detained in Dagestan - Madina Gadjieva, Zaira and Zalina Akaeva, Zalina Alieva and Fatima Nurmagomedova - to be terrorists-suicide bombers has nothing to do with reality.

July 14, 2010 21:00

• Volgograd: Anna Chapman, accused of espionage in USA, is song heroine and potential political figure

  The Volgograd-based newspaper "Gorodskie Vesti" (City News) announced a contest "Let's help our people with a good song!" to the best work about Anna Chapman, who was detained in the USA along with other nine suspected spies who worked for Russia. Local political scientists do not exclude that Chapman's surname will appear in the list of candidates for the State Duma in 2011.

July 14, 2010 20:00

• Over 7000 subscriptions in Tsogoeva's support gained in Krasnodar Territory

  On July 13, the Krasnodar Territory finished signing-in in support of Elvina Tsogoeva, 36, a mother with many children and a resident of the Prigorodny District of North Ossetia, who killed a guy of 19, thinking that he had raped her three-year-old daughter. During 13 days of the action 7200 subscriptions were gained.

July 14, 2010 19:00

• Forbidden names to appear in Azerbaijan

  This year the country will compile a list of permitted, non-recommended and forbidden names.

July 14, 2010 18:00

• Krasnodar: rights defenders against "propaganda of unisex love" on TV

  Since July 12, human rights activists are gaining subscriptions under petition against appearance on the TV channel "New Kuban Television" (NKT) of reports, which advertise, in their opinion, unisex love and intimate services.

July 13, 2010 23:20

• Court finds natives of Dagestan who made word "Kavkaz" out of their comrades-in-arms guilty

  In the Baltic Fleet, the garrison court of the city of Baltiysk has convicted seven natives of Dagestan, regular servicemen, who "wrote" the word "Kavkaz" by bodies of their comrades-in-arms.

July 13, 2010 23:00

• SQBJ refused to open case against ex-head of military court of Grozny

  Today, the Supreme Qualification Board of Judges (SQBJ) refused to give consent to initiation of a criminal case against Alexander Kuznetsov, former chairman of the Grozny Garrison Military Court, accused of forgery, making illegal decision and causing damage.

July 13, 2010 23:00

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of July 5-11

  Trial on Ruslan Yamadaev's murder begins; members of the OSCE Minsk Group (MG) visit the Caucasus; rights defender Orlov is officially accused of slandering Chechen President; Ingush Imams rise ransoms for murder and bride kidnapping, - look these and other events in the review of the week of July 5-11, 2010, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

July 13, 2010 22:20

• In Dagestan, girls announced suicide bombers by power agents left home after prohibition to wear hijabs

  Today, Bege Akaev, a resident of Novokayakent village, Kayakent District, said that his daughter - Zaira, 20, and Zalina, 15, announced by the National Antiterrorist Centre of Russia to be potential suicide bombers, left home six months ago because of domestic conflicts.

July 13, 2010 22:00

• Funds are not enough to erect in Moscow prototype of Memorial of Glory demolished in Kutaisi

  Erection of a monument in Moscow instead of the Memorial of Glory blown up in Kutaisi may face certain difficulties. As of July 12, 7 million roubles were raised for the purpose, which is, as noted by Valery Vinogradov, Deputy Mayor of Moscow, obviously not enough. It is planned to start construction already in the end of July and to open the memorial on December 19 - one year after the monument was blown up in Kutaisi, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

July 13, 2010 21:20

• Georgia: Tsotne Gamsakhurdia is ready to plead guilty

  Tsotne, son of the first president of Georgia Zviad Gamsakhurdia, who is serving his term on the charge of a deliberate murder attempt, is ready to admit the charges live on TV. This was stated on July 12 by his advocate Keti Bekauri.

July 13, 2010 21:00

• In Dagestan, journalist is threatened for an article about murders of Derbent residents

  As announced on July 12 by the Investigatory Department (ID) for Dagestan of the Russian ICPO, an investigation is underway in this republic under the earlier opened criminal case on the fact of dissemination on June 16 of a video clip showing alleged militiamen executing alleged militants in Derbent.