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On July 15 the government of Azerbaijan lodged an appeal to the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) against the decision on the case of journalist Einullah Fatullaev, who is serving his term in prison.

The three natives of Chechnya arrested in France are suspected of links with the person involved in terror acts in Moscow metro. As reported by western media, in the opinion of the French inspectors, the Chechens financed the terrorist arrested in Russia.

The White House honoured has marked the life and work of Natalia Estemirova, an employee of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", who was abducted and murdered one year ago, in the sphere of defence of human rights in Northern Caucasus, and reminded that the crime remains unsolved.

Situation in Ingushetia will stabilize, when Russian Constitution works properly in its territory. This is the opinion of Issa Kodzoev, one of the most famous Ingush writers, public figure and former Soviet dissident. Now, according to his version, none of the powers really operates in the republic.

The Amnesty International (AI) has launched a campaign in support of young bloggers Adnan Gadjizade and Emin Milli, convicted in Azerbaijan on forged charges, as human rights activists believe.

Lawyer Tukhuzhev from the Human Rights Centre "For Human Rights" finds the situation with defence of human rights in Kabardino-Balkaria to be catastrophic; according to his story, the Centre receives several complaints every month.

In the course of the 10th Petersburg Dialogue held in Yekaterinburg its participants noted that the inquiry of the murder was not persistent enough. They demanded that Russia's authorities do the utmost to solve the murder of Natalia Estemirova, an employee of the HRC "Memorial", and stop the criminal case against the head of the HRC "Memorial" Oleg Orlov.

President Dmitri Medvedev said, making comments on the information that the authorities of the Russian Federation were not to willing to solve the murder of Natalia Estemirova, an employee of the HRC "Memorial", that the executor of her murder had been precisely established.

The commemoration action was held in the Journalists' Mini-Park; the picket was not advertised and brought together, under organizers' estimates, some 100-150 persons.

Today at 11:00 a.m. Moscow time the Vorobiovy Gory in the Russian capital saw the start of the ethnographic expedition to Northern and Southern Caucasus and Kazakhstan, organized by the well-known Russian designer and blogger Artemiy Lebedev.

Today, one year after kidnapping and murder of Natalia Estemirova, an employee of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", a picket in Moscow brought together 50 persons. As reported by the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent, there are flowers and lit candles under Estemirova's portrait; and the names of human rights defenders who perished in recent years are written on the asphalt nearby - Magomed Evloev, Maksharip Aushev, Farid Babayev and Anna Politkovskaya.

According to Lord Frank Judd, former PACE's Rapporteur for Chechnya and a member of the British Parliamentary Human Rights Group (PHRG), believes that removal of the information blockade, improvement of social and economic life and organization of the negotiating process are prerequisites of solution of the problems of the Chechen Republic.

The Military Prosecutor's Office of the North-Caucasian Military District (NCMD) will check the media data that in February 2010 in the course of a special operation in Chechnya military servicemen of battalion "Sever" (North) opened fire on special fighters of the Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs who came from the city of Ufa.

On July 13, Per Eklund, head of the representative office of the European Union (EU) in Tbilisi, and Kakha Baindurashvili, Minister of Finance of Georgia, signed a document, according to which the EU would allocate 23 million euros to the needs of Georgian refugees.

The checks made by prosecutors of the Territory after the death of schoolchildren in the "Azov" summer camp revealed violations in 220 establishments, which render health-improvement and rest services to children.

The Mayoralty of the city of Kamyshin, Volgograd Region, reports that all the obligations of local authorities before Svetlana Schultz, who had addressed the Pope, and her family are fulfilled.

Dagestan becomes a dangerous place for civil activists and journalists, runs the statement of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" made in the context of threats addressed to Magomed Khanmagomedov, a special correspondent of the newspaper "Chernovik", who made his own inquiry into the special operation conducted in Derbent on June 16, 2010.

The republic's Ministry for Emergencies (MfE) reports about nine persons drowned from the start of this year's bathing season in local water bodies. The count of victims of abnormal is also on the rise.

Today, lawyer Makhach Guchuchaliev told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that the recent announcement by the National Antiterrorist Committee of Russia of the women detained in Dagestan - Madina Gadjieva, Zaira and Zalina Akaeva, Zalina Alieva and Fatima Nurmagomedova - to be terrorists-suicide bombers has nothing to do with reality.

The Volgograd-based newspaper "Gorodskie Vesti" (City News) announced a contest "Let's help our people with a good song!" to the best work about Anna Chapman, who was detained in the USA along with other nine suspected spies who worked for Russia. Local political scientists do not exclude that Chapman's surname will appear in the list of candidates for the State Duma in 2011.