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Militiamen have detained four natives of the Chechen Republic - residents of the city of Zelenokumsk, Stavropol Territory, who probably instigated a conflict with local youth with use of traumatic pistols and firearms.

The expert commission of the Academic Council of the History Department of the Moscow State University (MSU), which comprises historians from several universities, recognized the higher school textbook on Russian history, written by MSU Professors Alexander Vdovin and Alexander Barsenkov, which aroused criticism because of the data about Chechens placed in it, as "inappropriate."

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) made a decision on the murder of four young residents of Chechnya in 2000.

The today's session at the Khamovniki Court of Moscow, considering the criminal case against Oleg Orlov, head of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" in connection with his statements about responsibility of Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov for the murder of Natalia Estemirova began more than half an hour later, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports, because the judge had been considering another case.

On November, 23, in Shelkovskoy district of Chechnya, drug policemen detained an employee of fire-prevention service of the Ministry of Emergency Situations who is suspected of illegal drug storage.

At the republic's shopping centre "Berkat" in Grozny, employees of the Centre of Spiritual and Moral Education and Development held an action with an appeal to fair trade. Traders in the marketplace were given letters; and sermons were read on the issue of fair trade.

An armed attack upon the servicemen of a unit of federal military forces took place tonight in Urus-Martan foothill district of Chechnya. One of the servicemen got wounded in his head. Security officials are currently in search of the attackers.

By November 22, practically all the regions of Russia's South, as well as the rest of the country, opened reception offices of Russian President Dmitri Medvedev. The only exception is the Chechen Republic, where the building, appointed for the reception office, has not been repaired yet.

A military range located to Kurs district of Stavropol region where an active process of utilization of ammunition has been going on latterly causes serious problems for the residents of Nadterechny and Naur districts of Chechen Republic. Residents of these districts have already submitted the respective statement to the authorities of the republic. A delegation of the republican Parliament has visited these districts to familiarize with the situation.

A resident of Grozny died on November, 22, from a heart attack after a quarrel with the personnel of State Traffic Safety Inspectorate who ordered the elderly man to remove the tinting from his car glasses immediately. This news came from a non-governmental organization UNO (Union of Non-governmental Organizations) of Chechen Republic.

European Court of Human Rights has put two questions to the Russian Federation on the case of Zara Murtazaliyeva, native of Chechnya sentenced to 8,5 years of custody and serving her penalty in a prison camp of Mordovia, concerning observation of clause 6 of the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms. This news was reported by Kirill Koroteyev, Zara Murtazaliyeva's attorney.

A resident of Grozny, father of one of the participants of the armed clash, which burst out at night on November 14 in the Staropromyslovskiy District of Grozny, where a Chechen militia officer was shot dead, was captured by militiamen and kept in custody for about 24 hours.

This year, at the international documentary film festival in the Netherlands, the right to present her best ten films was granted to Finnish film director Pirjo Khonkassalo. She brought to the festival a film about the war in Chechnya, where heroes are members of the Gataev Chechen family.

The Vienna Court, which is hearing the murder case of Umar Israilov, a former bodyguard of President of Chechnya, assassinated in Austria, wants to interrogate the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov by means of a videoconference.