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President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov and the leader of militants of Northern Caucasus Doku Umarov are in the 2009 list of 500 most influential Moslems of the world compiled by the Prince Al-Valid ben Talyalya American Centre of Moslem-Christian Understanding (ACMCU) at the Georgetown University.

At the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), Russia has lost another case to relatives of five residents of Chechnya kidnapped in 2003. Under the decision of the Court, the victims should get in total 215,000 euros of compensation.

In the afternoon on November 23, the Chechen capital hosted a many-thousand-strong protest action, where participants demanded prompt measures to demine the territory of the republic.

Starting Monday, November 23, schoolchildren of Chechnya will go to additional vacations in the context of possible swine flu epidemic. The pupils' forced rest will last for at least ten days.

Activists of ten NGOs from different regions of Russia have announced establishment of the Public Commission on Chechnya, which will have its main tasks in defending victims of torture and inhuman treatment and bringing those guilty of rough violations of human rights or of failure to take the necessary measures to prevent such violations and punish for them to responsibility.

The gunmen who are now hunting in Moscow for Isa Yamadaev - one of the three still alive brothers - were promised a generous reward. Isa's close relatives are sure of that and say that his appeal to Dmitri Medvedev was caused not so much by his fear for his own life, but by his desire to draw Russian President's attention to what really happens today in the Chechen Republic.

Within the last year, Russia saw stronger pressure on those who defend human rights in Chechnya and in Northern Caucasus as a whole; therefore, the European Union should present "unambiguous demands to Russia to take particular steps towards stronger defence of human rights in Northern Caucasus." This is stated in the address of human rights activists to the government of Sweden, the chair-country of the EU, and the European Union as a whole, dated to the "Russia-EU" Summit in Stockholm.

European leaders should use the November 18-19 Stockholm Summit to voice out their concern of deteriorated situation with human rights in Russia and call Moscow to its actual improvement. This was stated by the international Human Rights Watch (HRW) organization, which noted that lately in Russia at least five civil activists were killed, and others faced pressure.

Disfavoured Major Dymovskiy reports threats against him and continues exposing militia bosses; during the week, conflict in the Caucasus took away dozens of lives, - look up these and other events in the review of the week of November 2-8 in the Caucasian regions prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

The Court of Dubai has postponed the next hearing on the murder case of Hero of Russia Sulim Yamadaev, ex-commander of the "Vostok" GRU special battalion, for a month. The delay was explained by the need to summon additional witnesses.