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The militants' attack on Tsa-Vedeno, when three persons fell victim, is a result of negligence and criminally poor attitude of the heads of the power agencies to their duties, Nurdi Nukhazhiev, Chechen Ombudsman, said.

Because of the fact that on August 2 the Supreme Court (SC) of North Ossetia upheld the legality of applying amnesty to the three commanders of the Pravoberezhny District Interior Department (ROVD), quite willfully a legal precedent has been created, the "Novaya Gazeta" is writing today.

A total of eighteen persons have disappeared in North Ossetia during the recent two years, five of them - during the last two months.

A special operation continues in the Vedeno District of the Chechen Republic aimed to search the militants who made an attack on the Tsa-Vedeno village, as a result of which several persons were lost.

Oleg Zhidkov, deputy head of the National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC), informed on August 3 that among the persons who used the amnesty announced by the State Duma for militants in Chechnya there were relatives of militants' leaders and three women trained to be suicide-bombers.

The Georgian Conservative Party requests an answer from the Prosecutor-General's Office on the case of Amiran Robakidze.

The Leninskiy District Court of the city of Stavropol has extended by one month more Andrei Keilin's custody, due to expire on August 6.

Today, leaders of seven oppositional parties have signed - near Tbilisi Ortachal Prison No. 5 - a unified memorandum on the penitentiary system.

The court decision on paying out 500,000 roubles as compensation for illegal keeping Dmitri Medkov, a resident of the Stavropol Territory, in mental hospital on a charge of murdering his own sister will be appealed against by him to the Stavropol Territorial Court.

A criminal case has been initiated in Stavropol against the district militia officer from the Promyshlenny District Department of Interior, who had severely beaten a suspect.

Ekaterina Sokiryanskaya, an employee of the representative office of the Human Rights Centre "Memorial" in Ingushetia, speaks on the subject of kidnappings in Dagestan.

The Judicial Collegium of the Supreme Court of North Ossetia has rejected the complaint of the victims against amnestying of the militiamen accused of negligence that had entailed the act of terror in Beslan.

A resident of Kabardino-Balkaria Rasul Kudaev, who is kept at the investigatory detention facility (SIZO) of the Chief Department for Enforcement of Punishments of the Russian Federation for the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) on accusation of taking part in the attack on KBR's law enforcement bodies on October 13, 2005, is sick with infectious hepatitis.

On August 1, President of Dagestan Mukhu Aliev held a meeting on the problem of kidnappings that are frequent in the Republic. The meeting was attended by heads of the Republic's law enforcement bodies and representatives of human rights and public organizations.

On July 30, the Octiabrskiy district court in Grozny started a re-trial of the case of senior lieutenant Sergey Lapin, former officer of Nizhnevartovsk district internal affairs department (radio call sign "Cadet"), charged with torturing Zelimkhan Murdalov, resident of the Chechen capital.