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Today, the Independent Press Centre has hosted a press conference: "Investigation of Natalia Estemirova's murder: questions to investigation."

Today in Baku several youth organizations of Azerbaijan have held a protest action dated to the first anniversary of the arrest of the bloggers Adnan Gadjizade and Emin Milli.

General Sergey Kizyun, who suffered during the murder of the former State Duma Deputy Ruslan Yamadaev in September 2008, asserts that he has identified one of the defendants as Ruslan's killer by his eyes.

The struggle for the minds and the hearts, for a common system of values which could embrace North Caucasus and integrate it in Russia is a big and serious topic which should be started with telling the truth, with a wish to understand one another, says Ella Pamfilova, head of the council under the Russian President on facilitating the development of the institutions of civil society and human rights, chair of presidium of the all-Russia public movement "Civil Dignity".

Collection of signatures continues in Krasnodar Krai in support of Elvina Tsogoeva, 36, resident of North Ossetia, who killed a 19-year-old young man, thinking that he had raped her three-year-old daughter. Part of signatures have been sent to the Russian President.

A burnt car was found with the bodies of, possibly, two persons in the outskirts of Dagestan capital during the night of July 7.

The Chechen authorities intend to address the federal center with a request to increase the quotas for implementing the program of pulling down old and repair houses, and building new ones. Within Grozny alone, 843 houses are recognized to be in the state of emergency and hazardous for living. Grozny residents express dissatisfaction with the quality of construction works and report that the repair performed is often a facelift.

Nana Gagua who, together with her husband Malkhaz Gulashvili, is the owner and editor of the newspaper "Georgian Times" in Tbilisi, in her statement addressed to international organizations states that, due to opposition orientation of the newspaper, she, her husband and sons live under permanently extreme conditions.

Maxim Gvindzhia, minister of foreign affairs of Abkhazia, calls the statements by US State Secretary Hillary Clinton and representatives of Georgian authorities to the effect of occupation of Georgia by Russian troops as fantasy.

Zalina Kairova, leader of the initiative group ""Electrozinc" - what do we breath?", says that she and her supporters insist on implementing the court ruling on closing down the metallurgical works "Electrozinc" in Vladikavkaz, the North Ossetia capital, because its exhausts not only contaminate the atmosphere but also directly harm people's health.

In Azerbaijan, representatives of the regional and international democratic community condemn the court ruling with regard to journalist Einulla Fatullaev according to which he is given a new term of imprisonment.

The trial on the criminal suit on slander of Chechen president will probably take place in Autumn this year, states chairman of HRC "Memorial" Oleg Orlov after the interrogation held on July 6.

The action Day of Anger planned for July 7 in Rostov-on-Don is not going to be canceled because Vladimir Chub, the former governor of the region, refused material support and will be held despite the fact that the city authorities have failed to positively react to the notification about it. This has been reported to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent by Sergei Reznik, independent journalist and one of the action organizers.

A group of 12 Balkars from Kabardino-Balkaria intends to hold a hunger strike action in Moscow. This has been reported to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent by Muradin Rakhaev, the action organizer and former head of administration in the village of Bezengi.

Maksharip Khidriev, one of the persons involved in the case on derailing the "Neva Express" in 2007, born in Ingushetia, has appealed against the ruling of Valdai district court which refused to grant him conditional early relief (CER).

On July 5, the public organization "Sanhedrin of Balkar Nation" was issued a caution signed by Nalchik prosecutor on the inadmissibility of holding an unsanctioned meeting. This has been reported to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent by Bakhautdin Etezov, deputy chairman of the SBN.

The Federal Service on Supervision in the Area of Communications, Information Technologies and Mass Communication (Roscomnadzor) is going to notify Internet media, in which it considers comments of the users as extremist, by e-mail and give them one day to eliminate them.

Beating of lawyers in Dagestan continues; the problem of Nagorno-Karabakh gets into focus of world community; another terror act committed by a suicide bomber in Chechnya, - look these and other events in the review of the week from June 28 to July 4, 2010, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

Isakhan Ashurov, the lawyer of Einulla Fatullaev, chief editor of the newspaper "Realniy Azerbaijan", who has been sentenced to a new term, calls the court today's ruling "illegal and unfair" and states that the verdict will be appealed against in the court of appeal.

Today, charges have been laid to Oleg Orlov, Board chairman of the human rights center "Memorial", on slandering Chechen president Ramzan Kadyrov whom the human rights activist considers responsible for the murder in Grozny of Natalia Estemirova, employee of "Memorial", reports the HRC "Memorial".