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Human rights activists have collected 250 signatures to the petition addressed to the leadership of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) with a demand to make every effort to investigate the murder of Natalia Estemirova, an employee of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial".

On Wednesday, July 16, two Ukrainian border guards were heavily wounded on the Rostov section of the Ukrainian-Russian border.

Investigating authorities of the Karachay-Cherkessian Republic (KChR) have announced the names of two residents of the republic, wanted on suspicion of murdering Mukhamed Kunizhev, a Deputy of the Republic's National Assembly.

A resident of Pyatigorsk, accused of a sexual assault against a minor, was on a hunger strike in SIZO (pre-trial prison) of the city of Cherkessk for 11 days. His protest action was announced on July 2 after he attempted to commit suicide right at the Supreme Court of Karachay-Cherkessia, where his criminal case was considered.

A number of human rights activists and politicians have sent an appeal to Gennady Kornienko, Director of the Federal Penitentiary Service (known as FSIN) of the Russian Federation about inadmissibility of baiting of the Krasnodar ecologist Evgeny Vitishko in Colony-Settlement No. 2 of the Tambov Region.

Five years after the murder of Natalia Estemirova, an employee of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", an action "Flowers for Natalia" was held in Moscow, organized by activists of the human rights organization Amnesty International (AI).

In Azerbaijan, the arrest of journalist Rauf Mirkadirov, accused of treason, has been extended by other four months. This decision was made by the Nasimi District Court of Baku in satisfaction of the petition lodged by the General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) of Azerbaijan.

The advocates of the dismissed Makhachkala Mayor Said Amirov and his nephew Yusup Djaparov, convicted on charges of planning a terror act, have filed a complaint against the verdict, said Vladimir Postanyuk, the head of the defence group.

Three residents of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic are accused of involvement in a criminal grouping engaged in cashing the maternity capital in North Ossetia and KBR, the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) has reported.

The Moscow City Court (MCC) has completed the judicial investigation into the murder of Yegor Scherbakov, a resident of the Moscow district of Biryulyovo; the parties' debates are scheduled for July 21.

As reported by the Investigating Department (ID) for Chechnya of the ICRF, two residents of the village of Katar-Yurt, Achkhoy-Martan District of Chechnya, are suspected of aiding members of illegal armed formations (IAFs).

Exactly five years have expired since the kidnapping and death in Chechnya in 2009 of Natalya Estemirova, an employee of the Grozny representative office of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial".

As reported by the Investigating Department (ID) for the Krasnodar Territory of the ICRF, the participants of the conflict, during which Rasul Gadjimagomedov, a native of Dagestan and a member of the Russian youth boxing national team, was mortally wounded, have been identified.