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Within the last year, Russia saw stronger pressure on those who defend human rights in Chechnya and in Northern Caucasus as a whole; therefore, the European Union should present "unambiguous demands to Russia to take particular steps towards stronger defence of human rights in Northern Caucasus." This is stated in the address of human rights activists to the government of Sweden, the chair-country of the EU, and the European Union as a whole, dated to the "Russia-EU" Summit in Stockholm.

In the city of Volzhskiy, Volgograd Region, militia major, captain and lieutenant were detained on suspicion of trying to plant drugs and money on the woman-figurant of a criminal case.

In the Kaliningrad Region, a prosecutor's check has established that a group of sailors recruited from Dagestan had repeatedly hazed their younger colleagues recruited to the Baltic Fleet in spring of 2009.

Ibragim Mankiev, a native of Ingushetia, who was kidnapped in Egypt, was in fact detained by local special agencies as a suspect of links with Wahhabites.

The son of the head of administration of the city of Buinaksk Magomedshamil Shakhbanov, who was kidnapped on November 17, is now at large. Five suspects of the crime are detained. This was reported by a source in law enforcement bodies of Dagestan.

European leaders should use the November 18-19 Stockholm Summit to voice out their concern of deteriorated situation with human rights in Russia and call Moscow to its actual improvement. This was stated by the international Human Rights Watch (HRW) organization, which noted that lately in Russia at least five civil activists were killed, and others faced pressure.

Today, the United Information Centre (UIC) of the law enforcement bodies of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) has reported about prevention of a terror act at the Aushiger Hydroelectric Power Plant (HPP) located in the Cherek District of the republic.

The city of Kaspiisk (Dagestan) has held a mourning rally in memory of victims of the terror act, committed in the city on November 16, 1996. On that day a multi-storey apartment house was blown up, where frontier guards and their families lived. In total, 68 persons were lost.

Disfavoured Major Dymovskiy reports threats against him and continues exposing militia bosses; during the week, conflict in the Caucasus took away dozens of lives, - look up these and other events in the review of the week of November 2-8 in the Caucasian regions prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

The Court of Dubai has postponed the next hearing on the murder case of Hero of Russia Sulim Yamadaev, ex-commander of the "Vostok" GRU special battalion, for a month. The delay was explained by the need to summon additional witnesses.

The statement, made by Vagif Sadygov, deputy minister of foreign affairs of Azerbaijan, runs that the comments of the diplomatic missions of Norway and Germany on the cases of young bloggers Gadjizade and Milli convicted in Baku were regarded by the Azerbaijani party as unreasonable and mismatching the level of current relations of these countries with Azerbaijan, and as attempts to interfere in home affairs of Azerbaijan.

The former head of the criminal investigation division of the district OVD (Interior Unit) and his subordinate have been sentenced to three years of imprisonment. According to the investigation, in December 2008 the convicts severely beat a man.

Today in Moscow militiamen have detained Dmitri Steshin, a correspondent of the politics division of the "Komsomolskaya Pravda", who investigated the murder of advocate Stanislav Markelov and journalists Anastasia Baburova. This was reported by a journalist's friend.

Today, the court of Dubai will consider possible release from custody of Makhdi Lorniya, a citizen of Iran and personal horseman of the President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov, and Maksudzhon Ismatov, a native of Tajikistan, accused of organizing the attempt on Sulim Yamadaev on March 28 this year in the United Arab Emirates. In the opinion of relatives of the ex-commander of the "Vostok" special battalion of the Russian GRU, this decision, can result in suspects' flight to Chechnya, which will mean a factual end of the process.

Today, the session of the Supreme Court of Kabardino-Balkaria on the case about the attack on Nalchik in October 2005 was cancelled because of absence of advocate Timur Lakunov. Last week, for the same reason out of three scheduled sessions only one was held.