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Today, the Supreme Court of Karelia has prolonged by 3 months, till October 29, 2008, the custody term for the persons accused on the case of Kondopoga disorders.

Zurab Tsechoev, an employee of the human rights Autonomous Independent Organization (AIO) "Mashr", who was kidnapped today in the morning, was beaten and accused of placing lists with addresses of employees of local law enforcement bodies in the website "Ingushetia.Ru", the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed by Timur Akiev, head of the HRC "Memorial" office in the city of Nazran.

The prosecutor's office of the city of Volgodonsk (Rostov Region) has sent a criminal case to the City Court opened against Anton Sh., 20, accused of sending SMS-messages with appeals to kill Russians.

On July 24, the Moscow City Court held a preliminary hearing on the case of "Ryno-Skachevskiy grouping", accused of nationalism-motivated murders and attacks, including on Caucasian natives. According to Anna Usachova, head of the press service of Moscow City Court, the trial will pass with participation of jurymen.

The Prosecutor's Office of Chechnya has delivered a criminal case to the court against three Chechen militiamen accused of illegal detention and beating of their colleague from interior forces - an employee of the Republic's OMON (Special Militia Unit).

Today at a court session, Masrurdzhon Yatimov, accused of murdering Russian journalist Ilyas Shurpaev, a native of Dagestan, has admitted his guilt of robbery and deliberate destruction of property, but not of murder.

Today, the Supreme Court of Karelia has announced the indictment on the criminal case about the fight in the Karelian city of Kondopoga on August 30, 2006, which resulted in mass disorders. The defendants, natives of Chechnya and Dagestan, refused to plead guilty.

In the first 6 months of 2008, the Prosecutor's Office of the Rostov Region revealed and registered 2109 crimes not registered before. Out of the total number of such crimes, in 953 cases initiation of criminal cases was unreasonably rejected.

The law enforcement bodies of Ingushetia are investigating an incident in the city of Karabulak, where at night on July 22 unidentified persons got into the territory of the LLC "RIPSU" and shot dead point-blank the workers who were in the glass shop premise. Idris Izmailov, 21, and Karen Arutyunyan, born in 1979, perished.

A powerful man-made explosive, detected today in the morning in Makhachkala near the building of the Federal Exchequer of Russia for Dagestan was neutralized by blowing up.

Today, the Supreme Court (SC) of Karelia has begun a trial on the criminal case about the fight in the city of Kondopoga on August 30, 2006, which grew into mass disorders.

Today, the Supreme Court of Dagestan in Makhachkala has started a trial on murder of Farid Babaev, chairman of the Dagestan regional branch of the "Yabloko" Party, committed eight months ago - on November 21, 2007.

Writer Nikolai Paizullaev, who on May 23 at press conference in Moscow accused Ramzan Kadyrov of his own kidnapping, and of kidnapping of his wife and daughter, has stated that he was acting under the effect of psychotropic substances and by command of one of Yamadaev brothers.

During the recent three days, six activists of the movement in defence of the rights of South Azerbaijanis have been detained in Iran.

In the village of Sagopshi, Malgobek District of Ingushetia, on July 19, an antiterrorist operation was held. According to law enforcement bodies, the militants who planned terror acts hid in the village.