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In early September it will be known, whether the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" will resume its activities in the territory of the Chechen Republic. This human rights organization suspended its operations in Chechnya after kidnapping and murder on July 15 of Natalia Estemirova, an employee of the "Memorial".

Magomed Khazbiev, leader of the Ingush opposition, said that since President of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Evkurov has resumed performing his duties, there is no reason to hold the congress.

The European Union (EU) has condemned the act of terrorism accomplished on August 17 in Nazran (Ingushetia), as a result of which 20 persons were lost and 138 more suffered. This statement was made by Sweden, current chair of the EU.

The Ministry for National Security (MNS) of Azerbaijan is now identifying the persons, who gave their votes for the participants from Armenia at the musical competition "Eurovision-2009".

In Dagestan, a criminal case has been opened against the well-known lawyer Sapiyat Magomedova, accused by inspectors of the Prosecutor's Office of Khasavyurt of insulting them with swear words.

On August 17, 2009, in the Volgograd Region, the court sentenced a group of eight persons who attacked a Gipsy camp in April 2006 in the city of Volzhskiy. Two persons were killed in that attack. The defendants were sentenced to imprisonment for the terms from 4.5 to 11 years.

In Dagestan, today at 10:05 a.m., near the city marketplace in Kizilyurt, a bomb was triggered. As a result of the explosion four persons, two of them being militiamen, were wounded.

The law enforcement bodies of the Chechen Republic now know the name of a suspected killer of five persons in Pervomaiskoe village, Grozny District, committed at night of August 17. Probably, he was an acquaintance of one of the members of Kalinichenko family. This was stated by a source of the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent in the MIA. According to his story, a briefing on the suspected gunman has already been disseminated among all the law enforcement units.

In Ingushetia, ruins after the explosion on August 17 in Nazran are still cleared away. Vakha Chapanov, head of the Ingush Information Agency "Maximum", said to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that the fate of several persons remains unknown.

Today, at the sitting of the antiterrorist commission of Makhachkala, chaired by City Mayor Said Amirov, officials gave their estimates of the current operative situation in the context of recent frequent attacks on militia posts and encroachments on law enforcers. According to the Mayor, the situation is hard.

A number of well-known international human rights organizations have decided to send their representatives to Azerbaijan to the forthcoming litigation against young bloggers and activists Adnan Gadjizade and Emin Milli.