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The office of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" in Grozny was approached by Magomed Edilov, 51, a local resident and a friend of a resident of the Moscow Region, who perished in a special operation in Chechnya. Mr Edilov complained of being harassed by FSB agents.

The European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg fined Russia to a sum of 160 thousand euros for disappearance and death of residents of Chechnya Movsar and Movladi Nasukhanovs and Magomed Dudarov in 2002.

Despite declarations about solving the terror act in the "Domodedovo" Airport, investigatory bodies continue searching those involved; Dokku Umarov promises dozens of suicide bombers for Russia; eleven years later, rights defenders demand to investigate the tragedy in Novye Aldy, riots in Egypt force Azerbaijan to evacuate plenty of its citizens, - look these and other events in the review of the week of January 31-February 6, 2011, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

The Presnya Court of Moscow has extended till May 11 the custody of the two persons accused of murdering Yuri Volkov, a fan of the "Spartak" Football Club.

Stratfor Analytic center integrating the veterans of CIA has issued an analytical note in which it did not rule out that Dokku Umarov, one of the gunmen's leaders, had taken the responsibility for terror in Domodedovo in order to raise his rating among the members of armed underground.

According to latest data, this morning in downtown Grozny, a gas cylinder blew up in one of the shopping kiosks situated near the bus stop, leading to the "Minutka" Square. The saleswoman who worked in the kiosk was slightly injured. The version of a terror act is completely rejected by the Chechen law enforcement bodies.

According to several eyewitnesses of the incident, at night of February, 7, in Lenin district of Grozny two young men were beaten up and taken to an unknown place by members of the top brass. Law enforcement bodies avoid providing any comments on the matter.

As a result of another blast that happened in the evening in the Oktiabrskiy District of the Chechen capital, three OMON (special-purpose militia) fighters were wounded. In total, three explosions that occurred in Grozny within 24 hours wounded five persons.

On February 23, Stockholm will host a rally of Chechen (Vainakh) refugees, organized by the Swedish-Chechen Committee (Johan Lagerfelt) and dedicated to the 67th anniversary of deportation of Chechens and Ingushes. According to the organizers, they were pushed to hold the action by the recent situation, associated with the attitude in Scandinavian countries to refugees from Chechnya.

Two Chechen militiamen, who, according to the investigation, threatened a waitress with firearms and resisted detention, were put in custody in the Rostov Region.

Responsibility for organizing the act of terror which carried away 36 lives with the use of a suicide bomber in the Moscow airport "Domodedovo" on January, 24, was taken by Dokku Umarov, leader of North-Caucasian gunmen.

As stated by the above bodies, most of them were children of migrants from Central Asian countries.

Today is exactly 11 years after Russian power agents conducted a special operation in the village of Novye Aldy, Chechnya, where at least 56 civilians were murdered.

The Vilnius officials responsible for tutorship did not allow the consul of the Russian Federation, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Chechnya and the delegation that arrived with them to visit the children, whose guardian is Malik Gataev.

The court session on the criminal case initiated against Oleg Orlov, head of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", in connection with his statements about the responsibility of the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov for the murder of Natalia Estemirova was reappointed on March 3.