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On June 18, 2007, 38 life inmates started a hunger strike in the Gobustan prison to draw the authorities' attention to their status. This is the fifth mass hunger strike in the Gobustan prison since 1999.

Today in the morning, in the city of Nalchik, Ruslan Odizhev, who had been announced into search, and certain Tengizov were killed. According to the materials of the investigation, during the events of October 13, 2005, Ruslan Odizhev commanded the group of militants that made an attack on the OMON base of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic.

Today, the Judicial Panel of the Stavropol Territorial Court, having considered the cassation petition lodged by Andrei Keilin, 20, a resident of Cherkessk, detained on suspicion of participation in the murder of two Stavropol students, that requested to change his freedom restriction measure (release from custody), has rejected the petition.

Now, two years after the clean-up ("zachistka") in Borozdinovskaya village of Chechnya, the identified organizers of the tragedy remain unpunished, while the truth is concealed from the victims - their requests and petitions remain unanswered.

Chechen Ombudsman Nurdi Nukhazhiev has stated that the Office of Public Prosecutor is putting pressure on representatives of the victims in Ulman's case thinking that they have kidnapped and are detaining the convicted special fighters announced into search.

On June 22 late at night in the vicinity of the Slavyanskaya Square in the centre of Moscow mass collisions burst out between the members of nationalist and fascist groupings and Caucasian natives.

It has become known to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that officers of law enforcement bodies are exerting pressure on the widows of the militants who perished in Kabardino-Balkaria.

The European Court for Human Rights has found Russia guilty of murders and tortures of Chechen residents. Today in Strasbourg, the RF (Russian Federation) authorities lost the case "Bitieva and Kh. versus Russia." The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed about it at the Human Rights Centre "Memorial," whose lawyers represented the applicants' interests at the European Court.

The advocates of the parents of the militants-casualties of the October 13, 2005, events in Kabardino-Balkaria should present, before July 24, to the European Court for Human Rights their objections to the answers of the Russian Government.

The investigation into the criminal case of the militants' attack on the city of Nalchik, the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria, in October 2005 is over. The fact was declared today to the Parliament of Kabardino-Balkaria by Ivan Sydoruk, Deputy Prosecutor General of Russia for the South Federal District.

The Leninskiy District Court of Vladikavkaz (North Ossetia), having considered today the complaint of the victims who challenged the refusal of the Public Prosecutor's Office to initiate criminal cases against the members of the operative headquarters in charge of rescuing the hostages in Beslan on September 1-3, 2004, has confirmed the legality of the Office's position.

Over one thousand persons took part in the non-sanctioned meeting that has started today in Stavropol at the building of the Territory's Government. The meeting was provoked by the murder on June 3 in the Territory's capital of two students - Dmitri Blokhin and Pavel Chadin (today at midday they were buried in the cities of Stavropol and Blagodarny).

The kidnapping problem in the territory of Chechnya is still unresolved, although the number of this sort of crimes has essentially decreased in comparison with the first years of the "counterterrorist operation."

Valentin Gefter, Director General of the Institute for Human Rights and a Board Member of the International Society "Memorial," has summed up intermediate outcomes of the work of the Public Commission for investigating the circumstances of explosions of apartment blocks in Moscow and Volgodonsk and exercises in Ryazan in 1999.

The Public Prosecutor's Office of the Leninskiy District of Stavropol has initiated a criminal case on the fact of murdering two students in the city of Stavropol.