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Appointment of Vladimir Shamanov, a former commander of one of military groupings in Chechnya, to the post of Deputy Minister of Defence of Russia has caused an extremely negative reaction among representatives of Chechen human rights organizations.

The United Nations are phasing out their humanitarian projects in Northern Caucasus, since they do not consider Chechnya, Ingushetia and other Russian Republics to be a disaster zone any longer.

On Thursday, at the trial held at the North-Caucasian District Military Court, the state prosecution demanded 20 and 18 years of imprisonment for the two officers of the Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs accused of murdering peaceful Chechens.

William Bowring, a British human rights activist, who stood for the interests of the residents of Chechnya at the European Court, has been turned out of Russia.

The fight announced by the head of Chechnya on moral degradation of the youth, has resulted in the fact that in higher schools, specialized secondary and ordinary schools women and girls are forbidden to attend lessons with their heads uncovered with headscarves.

The Chechen community of Azerbaijan asserts that Russian special agencies are guilty of murdering Imran Gaziev, the community leader.

The Moscow City Court has rejected the complaints lodged by advocates of the brothers Tamerlan and Ibragim Makhmudovs and Magomed Demelkhanov who asked to release the three convicts in the murder case of Anna Politkovskaya.

Terrorists have received over one and a half million US dollars for destabilization of the situation in Northern Caucasus before the forthcoming parliamentary elections, and the law enforcement bodies failed to block the channels of funding the militants.

On November 15, the European Court for Human Rights (ECfHR) satisfied three complaints lodged by Chechen residents and found Russia guilty of violent disappearances, extrajudicial executions and illegal capture and destruction of private property in Chechnya.

Polish journalist Marcin Mamon has made a video story about the problems of children in post-war Chechnya based on a family with six Chechen children, living alone in the building of a ruined factory.

The European Court for Human Rights has recognized Russian authorities guilty of the murder of Aslanbek Kukaev, a militiaman of the Staropromyslovskiy ROVD of the capital of Chechnya.

According to the Republic's law enforcement bodies, since January 2007, a total of 336 participants of armed formations have been detained in the territory of Chechnya.

The Chechen residents arrested in Moscow in May who, according to the investigators, have to do with the car loaded with explosives and left near the "Profsoyuznaya" metro station, may be accused of preparing an attempt on Ramzan Kadyrov's life.

Two militiamen of a permanent unit at the railway station in Mineralnye Vody, Stavropol krai, have been detained. They were extorting money from servicemen going to Chechnya and back.

The Russian MIA department on SFD reports that 32 terrorist acts have been registered in the southern regions of Russia during 9 months of the current year.