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In Grozny, employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) and Ministry for Emergencies (MfE) are searching a boy of five who disappeared on May 30 under unclear circumstances. It is supposed that the boy could get drowned in Sunzha River.

A sitting of the North Caucasus Moslems Coordination Council is due to be held one these days to take a decision on the possible exclusion of the Egyptian capital from the coming Middle East tour of the North Caucasus spiritual leaders. This has been announced by Ismail-Khadji Berdiyev, chair of the Clerical Department of Moslems in Karachai-Cherkess and Stavropol krai.

The Russian students, mostly from the Caucuses, detained in Egypt were questioned on the subject of their participation in extremist groups, said Asvad Harikhanov, one of the arrested students and the resident of Chechnya speaking today to the Caucasion Knot correspondent.

A Chechen woman, mother of four children, committed a self-immolation act in Spain in protest against eviction from a free-of-charge apartment of the Red Cross.

Elena Maglevannaya, a journalist and human rights defender from Volgograd has applied for political asylum in Finland.

In the southeast of Chechnya, in the foothill Shali District, a militia officer perished attempting to detain unknown persons. Another militiaman was wounded. Two suspected militants, already identified, were liquidated.

Sappers of the "Leader" Special-Purpose Centre (SPC) of the Ministry for Emergencies (MfE) of Russia, who arrived to Chechnya in mid-April to clear the territory of one of state farms from mines, shells and other explosive matter, have finished their work in Chechnya and take a break till autumn.

The Human Rights Watch (HRW) asserts that Vladimir Shamanov, the newly appointed Commander of Russia's Airborne Troops, should be sued under the case on massacres of peaceful residents of Chechnya.

A resident of the Itum-Kalin District of Chechnya was wounded by an explosion of a grenade-launcher round. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was told about it by a source from the Chechnya's MIA. The incident happened in the high-mountainous village of Tazbichi. The victim was hospitalized with plural fragmental wounds.

The Russian Federation has again lost at the European Court on Human Rights (ECtHR) in Strasbourg; this time on three cases initiated by residents of Chechnya who accused Russia's authorities of disappearance and murder of their relatives.

By appointing General-Lieutenant Vladimir Shamanov, former commander of one of military formations in Chechnya, to be the Chief Commander of Airborne Forces (known as "VDV") of Russia's Ministry of Defence the country's leadership have demonstrated to the whole world that they encourage the people who were notable for special cruelty when commanding troops in Chechnya. Aslambek Apaev, expert of the Moscow Helsinki Group for Northern Caucasus, said about it to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

Military inspectors are clearing the circumstances of shelling Benoy village, Vedeno District, committed by federal troops from long-range artillery back at night on May 4, but still very poorly covered. On May 26, this issue was discussed by Chechen Parliament.