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The picket "For Riga without Dudaev", which was planned by activists of the Party "For Human Rights in United Latvia" (FHRUL) on August 25 at the building of the Riga City Duma, was dispersed by municipal police soon after some two dozens of local residents grouped around the picketers. Its organizers are going to sue the police and the mayoralty.

On August 28 in Moscow four militiamen were detained on suspicion of kidnapping. These employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) have recently returned from Chechnya, and took their psychological rehabilitation. This was reported by Oleg Mitvol, now one of Moscow prefects.

The Investigatory Department of the ICPO (Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office of Russia) for the Chechen Republic has initiated a criminal case against former major of the MIA of the Komi Republic Mikhail Evseyev, suspected of beating peaceful residents of Chechnya during his official voyage to the republic in 2004, a source from the Department has reported.

Isa, one of the brothers of Sulim Yamadaev, ex-commander of the "Vostok" battalion, who was killed in Dubai, has declared today that his reconciliation with President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov was a good-will gesture by Kadyrov, not based on any preconditions.

The resident of the Grozny District of Chechnya, a relative of the owner of the house, where militant Khamzat Shemilev was killed on August 21, was kidnapped by power agents and kept in custody for about 24 hours. They demanded him "to confess" that he was Shemilev's helper; otherwise they threatened to kill him and announce that he was a terrorist-suicide bomber. This was reported by the head of one of local human rights NGOs.

On August 25, President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov, together with Deputy of the Russian State Duma Adam Delimkhanov, visited the commemoration ceremony in the Yamadaevs house in Gudermes. As local observers believe, Kadyrov's and Delimkhanov's presence at the mourning ceremony in the house of the Yamadaev clan indicates the final reconciliation of the parties in conflict.

The federal centre should put an end to the campaign unleashed in Chechnya, where women are forced to observe Islamic instructions of clothes. This was the topic of the statement of the international Human Rights Watch (HRW), which arrived to the office of the "Caucasian Knot".

Recently, four young women from the Sunzha District of Chechnya left their homes and joined the ranks of the armed underground.

In the evening on August 23, in the Zavodskoy District of Grozny, the capital of Chechnya, unknown persons kidnapped a young girl. Eyewitnesses say that the reason of abduction was the girl's light dress. The militia has no data about the incident.

The Austrian Office of Public Prosecutor has presented a charge to three natives of Chechnya, suspected of murdering – in January 2009 in Vienna – Umar Israilov, a former security of Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov.

The former commander of the "Vostok" battalion, Hero of Russia Sulim Yamadaev was buried today in Dubai, as reported by his brother Isa Yamadaev. Sulim's commemoration is held in the city of Gudermes.

Thirty persons suffered in terror act in the resort city of Pyatigorsk, Stavropol Territory; terrorist-suicide bomber blows himself up in North-Ossetian-Ingush border, kills a militiaman and wounds three more persons; armed underground of Northern Caucasus loses several of its notable leaders, – look these and other news items in the review of the main events in the Caucasus on August 16-22, 2010, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

Today, the family of Sulim Yamadaev, Hero of Russia and ex-commander of the "Vostok" (East) battalion, decided to switch off his life-supporting equipment, as a result of which Sulim died. This was announced by his brother – Isa Yamadaev.

On August 10 or 11, on their way from Brest (Belarus) to Moscow, two natives of Northern Caucasus who live in Belgium – Ramzan Makhauri and Islam Borchashvili – disappeared. This was reported by the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial".