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A film festival dedicated to the life of refugees in modern Russia has been completed. Employees of the "Civil Assistance" Committee showed the few visitors of the Moscow club "Gerry Rubin" a number of films shot by young film directors together with some human rights organizations.

Starting from the end of 2005, the Human Rights Centre "Demos" is implementing its inter-regional project "Drawing Public Attention to the Chechen Conflict from Viewpoint of Social Adaptation and Veterans' Professional Activities." On June 28, 2007, the results of almost two years of work were presented at the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial".

Now, two years after the clean-up ("zachistka") in Borozdinovskaya village of Chechnya, the identified organizers of the tragedy remain unpunished, while the truth is concealed from the victims - their requests and petitions remain unanswered.

Chechen Ombudsman Nurdi Nukhazhiev has stated that the Office of Public Prosecutor is putting pressure on representatives of the victims in Ulman's case thinking that they have kidnapped and are detaining the convicted special fighters announced into search.

The administration of the Oktiabrskiy District and power agencies of Chechnya have commenced compulsory eviction of forced migrants out of their homes.

The European Court for Human Rights has found Russia guilty of murders and tortures of Chechen residents. Today in Strasbourg, the RF (Russian Federation) authorities lost the case "Bitieva and Kh. versus Russia." The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed about it at the Human Rights Centre "Memorial," whose lawyers represented the applicants' interests at the European Court.

The Arbitration Court of the Nizhniy Novgorod Region has found unjustified the tax claims to the Society of Russian-Chechen Friendship (ORChD) in the sum of 120,000 roubles.

On Saturday, June 9, at midday GMT an international action will be held for giving out the body of President of Chechnya Aslan Maskhadov, assassinated by Russian special agencies, to his family. Simultaneous manifestations will take place in the capitals of Russia, Poland, Sweden, in cities of Austria, Norway, Germany, Denmark and other European countries.

The workers engaged in construction and restoration works in Grozny, the capital of Chechnya, are actually not protected by the law. The result is a high level of traumatism and even deaths of people at construction sites.

On May 30 a meeting was held in the city of Gudermes of President Ramzan Kadyrov with representatives of the Republic's NGOs. During the event, the region's leader criticized the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial."

The kidnapping problem in the territory of Chechnya is still unresolved, although the number of this sort of crimes has essentially decreased in comparison with the first years of the "counterterrorist operation."

Currently, Georgia hosts a joint working group of the Chechen government and the FMS (Federal Migration Service) of Russia involved in resolving the problems related to homecoming of forced migrants from the Chechen Republic who had left their homes with the start of the "counterterrorist operation."

Natalia Estemirova, an employee of the Chechen Branch of the Human Rights Centre "Memorial," has stated that the cases when employees of power agencies, while imitating their fight against militants, are goofing on innocent people in Chechnya are "as many as one wishes."

The North-Caucasian Regional Military Court has made a decision to go on with proceedings despite the absence of three out of the four defendants - Eduard Ulman, Vladimir Voevodin and Alexander Kalaganskiy (only defendant Alexei Perelevskiy is present in the courtroom).

The proceedings on Ulman's case continued in Rostov-on-Don. Only one of the four defendants - Alexei Perelevskiy - has appeared at the courtroom.