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The first court session on the case of attempt on Sulim Yamadayev, Hero of Russia, ex-commander of GRU special-purpose battalion "Vostok", committed on March 28 this year in the United Arab Emirates, is to be held in the criminal court of Dubai on August 31. Makhdi Lorniya, personal groom of Ramzan Kadyrov, citizen of Iran, and resident of Tadzhikistan Maksudzhon Ismatov will be tried.

Today, Moscow's military district court has dismissed the petition of relatives of Anna Politkovskaya to return the case of murder of the journalist to the prosecutor' s office.

The new process of Georgian militarization has acquired a more intensive rate than before its intrusion into South Ossetia in August 2008. This is said in the statement of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Abkhazia disseminated today in connection with the anniversary of the Georgian aggression against South Ossetia.

On August 5, court bailiffs evicted nine families of refugees from a dormitory in Malgobek, Ingushetia, in which they had lived. No reasons for such forced eviction are known.

Representatives of power authorities in Chechnya have used threats to prohibit the editor of Urus-Martan district newspaper "Marsho" the printing of critical articles about the deceased patriarch Alexi II and South Ossetia president Eduard Kokoity. This has been relayed to the Human rights center "Memorial" by Said Khozhaliyev, the newspaper chief editor.

Roza Malsagova, chief editor of the site "Ingishetia. Org", who has been living in Paris from 2008, says that she resigns in connection with threats coming from militants to her address.

One of the most terrible provocations by the Georgian armed forces in the last-year conflict in South Ossetia was the fact when a Georgian fighter Su-25 with painted identification marks of Russian Air Force shot at the column of refugees driving from Tskhinval, and on the following day the same fighter shot at the column of Russian soldiers, stated colonel-general Anatoli Nogovitsin, deputy-chief of General Headquarters of the RF Armed Forces.

Agasif Shakiroglu, head of youth coalition "Khadaf", released from custody by the decision of the court of appeal, was called to the army in the evening of the same day.

As reported by Alexander Bastrykin, Chairman of Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office (ICPO), Russian inspectors found a plan of operation aimed at poisoning the system of water supply in Tskhinvali in August 2008.

On August 4, the Moscow-based Press Centre of the RIA "Novosti" hosted a roundtable on the topic: "First anniversary of the start of barbarous aggression against peaceful people of South Ossetia".

Magomed Archakov, a resident of Ingushetia, detained by law enforcement bodies on July 2 on suspicion of hiding a militant, has been released from custody under recognizance not to leave.

The killer, who attempted on Isa Yamadaev, a brother of Sulim Yamadaev, ex-commander of the "Vostok" battalion, on July 28 in Moscow, was armed with a silent pistol - firearm of special units of the GRU (Russian Military Intelligence) and FSB (Federal Security Bureau).

Residents of the settlement named Vishnevaya Balka, Krasnooktiabrskiy District of Volgograd, are taking their free-of-charge medical examination in the mobile medical centre. The aim of the study is to reveal the hazardous effect of emissions of the castor factory on human health.

Real customers and organizers of the murder of the employee of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" Natalia Estemirova will be never not just punished but even named, as some friends and colleagues of the perished human rights defender in Chechnya believe.

On August 5, the Human Rights Committee of the United Nations promulgated a document about the situation with human rights in Azerbaijan, passed on the outcomes of the discussion at the 96th Session on July 13-31 in Geneva of the third periodic report on Azerbaijan.

Five days ago, in the city of Argun, the house that belonged to the family of suicide bomber Rustam Mukhadiev, who had blown up himself in central Grozny near the building of the theatre-concert hall, was burnt down. Local residents say that the action was carried out by employees of power agencies of Chechnya.

The inhabitants of three five-storey apartment blocks located on the Geidar Aliev Avenue in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, were offered to leave their flats before September 1 and move to new flats in the Narimanov District of the capital.

After studying the changes of the Russian antiterrorist legislation made in recent years, the International Federation of Human Rights (FIDH) has concluded that the toughening measures mastered in the Caucasus were then transferred to the rest of Russia. This was stated by FIDH expert Ann Lyo Ueru, who is specializing on Russia, in particular, on antiterrorist methods within the conflict in Chechnya.

Georgiy Tugushi, 32, elected the new Ombudsman of Georgia at an extraordinary session of parliament on July 31, pans to preserve in his work many of the priorities fixed by his predecessor Sozar Subari. At the same time, in his opinion, every time has its challenges and moves its priorities, therefore, Mr Tugushi puts the refugees' problems into the forefront.

On August 4, at the Supreme Court of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), at the trial on the events of October 13, 2005, an anonymous witness hidden under pseudonym "Seliverstov, Gerasim Lukich", an employee of the OMSN (special militia unit) of the KBR's Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), gave his evidences.