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Valery Brinikh, head of the Maikop City Public Organization of the All-Russia Wildlife Protection Society and a member of the Board of the Ecological Watch for North Caucasus, has expressed this opinion in his interview to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

Deputy Samed Seidov, head of Azerbaijani delegation to the PACE, declared that today at the debates in PACE's Democratic Group on the topic of anti-Semitism, Azerbaijan was mentioned as a good example of tolerance in relation to Jews.

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.

On June 22 late at night in the vicinity of the Slavyanskaya Square in the centre of Moscow mass collisions burst out between the members of nationalist and fascist groupings and Caucasian natives.

The Armenian population of Samtskhe-Dzhavakhetia is convinced that social and economic problems of the region stem basically from discriminative policy of Georgian authorities.

The authorities of Russia are planning, under pretext of getting ready for possible 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, large-scale construction projects in the immediate proximity to the borders of a World Heritage Object - the "West Caucasus" reserve.

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

It has become known to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that officers of law enforcement bodies are exerting pressure on the widows of the militants who perished in Kabardino-Balkaria.

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.

The "Caucasian Knot" Internet Edition has become a laureate of the prestigious international journalistic Prize named after Gerd Bucerius.

The advocates of the parents of the militants-casualties of the October 13, 2005, events in Kabardino-Balkaria should present, before July 24, to the European Court for Human Rights their objections to the answers of the Russian Government.

The action of forced resettlement of the residents of the Maiskiy refugees' camp conducted yesterday by employees of power agencies of North Ossetia caused a wide resonance in Ingushetia.

The Parliament and the Ministry on Refugees' Matters of Georgia have jointly developed a bill aimed to bring the Muslim Meskhetians who were evicted in the 1940s to various Asian countries back home.

In Moscow, during the today's meeting of the oppositional coalition "The Other Russia" safety will be ensured by more than two thousand militiamen, a spokesman of Moscow's GUVD (Chief Interior Department) has told today.

The Volgograd human rights NGOs, with support of M. A. Tarantsov, Ombudsman for the Volgograd Region, held a round table "On Enforcement of Citizens' Right for Judicial Defence in the Volgograd Region."

Yesterday, it became known in Kabardino-Balkaria that the bodies of the militants who perished during the events on October 13-14, 2005, had been cremated right a year ago.

The investigation into the criminal case of the militants' attack on the city of Nalchik, the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria, in October 2005 is over. The fact was declared today to the Parliament of Kabardino-Balkaria by Ivan Sydoruk, Deputy Prosecutor General of Russia for the South Federal District.

The Leninskiy District Court of Vladikavkaz (North Ossetia), having considered today the complaint of the victims who challenged the refusal of the Public Prosecutor's Office to initiate criminal cases against the members of the operative headquarters in charge of rescuing the hostages in Beslan on September 1-3, 2004, has confirmed the legality of the Office's position.

Dmitri Sanakoev, administration head of the temporary territorial unit, has told journalists today that "the Edisi-Tskhinval water line failure in the Kekhvi-Tamarasheni section was liquidated yesterday: the pipe has been repaired, and now the water supply can be restored."