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Nurdi Nukhazhiev, Ombudsman in Chechnya, believes that the investigatory actions on the fact of bombardment on October 29, 1999, of a column of refugees on the highway Petropavlovskaya - Goryacheistochnenskaya village, and detection of a mass burial are being held improperly.

Representatives of nongovernmental and human rights organizations of Armenia are happy with their meeting with Thomas Hammarberg, High Commissioner of the Council of Europe for Human Rights.

Starting today, the oppositional Nationwide Movement will bag subscriptions for sending the case of Robert Kocharyan, the second president of Armenia, to the International Criminal Court in The Hague.

Umakhan Udamanov, father of the Dagestanian, whose execution was filmed and placed in the Internet, has informed today that the Moscow inspector advised Umakhan Udamanov to undertake a search of the criminals and the body of his son.

Mikail Ezhiev, a well-known public figure of Chechnya and the Chairman of the Republic's Human Rights Centre, has refuted the information about his appointment to the position of the head of the Public Council under the administration of the city of Grozny.

On July 13, Thomas Hammarberg, High Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe, will come for his three-day working visit to Yerevan. He wants to assess the progress made in investigating the March 1-2 events in Yerevan.

Speaking at the international summit named "Yalta European Strategy" and held in the Crimea, President of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili called to development of the Black Sea cooperation.

Javier Solana, EU Foreign and Defence Policy High Commissioner, has shared the opinion of the authorities of Georgia concerning the flights of Russian war crafts over South Ossetia.

Kabardino-Balkaria is holding celebrations dedicated to defeat of Crimeans in the valley of River Malka on Mount Kanzhal plateau.

The international organization in defence of the press named "Reporters without Borders" has again criticized the trial on the case concerning the attack on Agil Halil, a journalist of the "Azadlyg" newspaper, having called the trial to be a farce.

The Caucasus Institute in Yerevan has hosted a roundtable on the topic "Armenia in Middle-East Space: Globalization of Infrastructures". Arabist David Ovannisyan, Professor of the Yerevan State University and former Armenian ambassador to Syria, shared his opinion on the topic of debate.

Having opposed his small Georgia to great Russia, Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili won expected sympathies in the West. This conclusion was made by the participants of the roundtable organized by the Abkhazian TV, namely, political scientists Liana Kvarcheliya and Arda Inal-Ipa, and Abkhazian MP Garik Samanba.

The managers of the company named AGC Flat Glass Europe, which will build a sheet glass factory in the Rostov Region near the city of Azov, has assured the city administration that it is interested to hire local people to the enterprise.

The order issued by Andranik Mirzoyan, head of the Special Investigatory Service of the Republic of Armenia, and sent to Prosecutor of maraz (region) Vayots Dzor, instructing him to prosecute supporters of Levon Ter-Petrosyan after opposition rallies is a violation of the country's Code of Criminal Procedure.

The Arbitration Court of the city of Essentuki has ascertained that the decision of the Arbitration Court of the Republic of Dagestan on the claim lodged by the Republic's Ministry for Property is legally competent and shall remain without changes, therefore, the Charitable Women's Hospital shall "abandon the illegally occupied premises" in the centre of Makhachkala.

Today, activists of the "Musavat" Party made an attempt to hold a picket in front of Baku Mayoralty with a demand to ensure the freedom of assembly. However, strengthened police units have stopped the protesters from getting close to the Mayoralty building.

On July 10, the criminal case about explosion of a passenger bus in the city of Nevinnomyssk, Stavropol Territory, as a result of which 27 persons suffered, has been sent to the Stavropol Territorial Court.

The authorities of the USA are disappointed with too long investigation into the murder of the editor-in-chief of the Russian version of the Forbes Magazine Paul Khlebnikov and call on the Russian government to speed up the process.

The authorities of Abkhazia assert that high-ranking officials of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Georgia organized the terror act in the city of Gali on July 6, where four persons fell victim.

The West is interested not so much in the progress of democracy in Azerbaijan, but rather in Azerbaijani oil. Experts made this conclusion, while assessing the Azerbaijan's role in international relations during the pre-election period, and in democracy issues.