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Today, the European Court for Human Rights has passed decisions on three cases of four residents of Chechnya, where Russia has been found guilty of breaching several articles of the Convention on Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms.

Today, Levon Zurabyan, spokesman of the Nationwide Movement of Armenia, has demanded from the authorities to find those guilty of organizing the incident in the Severny Avenue of Yerevan on July 2, when several supporters of the opposition were beaten.

According to preliminary data of the explosive-technical examination that became known today, no traces of any explosive matter have been detected in the place of explosion of house No. 39 in Lesnaya Street located in the Blinovo micro-district of the Adler District of Sochi.

Today, Anatoly Malyshev, a resident of Tuapse, has held a solo picket opposite the building of the Krasnodar Territorial Court. He tried to draw the attention of the executive and judicial powers to the problem of the tenants who are evicted from the hostel located in Zvezdnaya Street.

In Northern Caucasus, the tactics of kidnapping of those suspected of links with the armed underground is replaced by the tactics of liquidating them during special operations. We get this conclusion after analyzing the kidnapping rate versus the casualties of special operations aimed to capture those announced to be militants or their aides.

On July 1, in Nalchik, the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria, Vladimir Arakelov, 54, a resident of Zelenograd, Moscow Region, died because the medical aid was not promptly rendered. Bella Arakelova, the victim's spouse, has informed the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent about the incident.

Today in the morning, an explosion took place Khasanya village located in the suburb of the city of Nalchik, the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria, as a result of which a militiaman and his children were wounded.

The explosion that took place today at 5:01 a.m. in Sochi killed a woman, born in 1941, and her grandson, born in 1993. 16 other victims applied for medical and psychological help. One woman had a hypertonic crisis.

On July 1, the first issue of the newspaper named "Vestnik Beslana" (Beslan Mercury) appeared, where the administration of local self-government of Beslan is the founder.

The inflow of petrodollars allows the authorities of Azerbaijan to suppress critical voices not only at home but even abroad, for example, in Europe. This was a conclusion made by a group of Azerbaijani human rights activists who observed the work of the PACE summer session in Strasbourg.

Nurdi Nukhazhiev, Ombudsman for the Chechen Republic, has reported that about 300 human remains have been found buried in the Grozny District of Chechnya, near the territory of a former asphalt plant.

Today, the city of Vladikavkaz, the capital of North Ossetia, has hosted a meeting of the leaders of Republic's mass media. During the roundtable on the topic "Role of Mass Media in North Ossetia. Problems and Prospects", the participants have discussed a number of issues, including those related to the freedom of speech, independence and efficiency of mass media in the Republic.

Ambassador of the USA Ann Dersey has called the authorities of Azerbaijan to strictly punish the persons guilty of violence against journalists.

On June 27, a press conference was held at the central library of Grozny, where the Human Rights Centre "Memorial" (HRC "Memorial") presented Part Four of the Violence Chronicle in Chechnya named "People Live Here", covering the period from July to September 2001.

The editorial board of "Novaya Gazeta", where the assassinated journalist Anna Politkovskaya worked as an observer, will demand "initiation of a criminal case on the fact of information leaks from the bowels of the State Office of Public Prosecutor."

Residents of the Gudermes District of Chechnya suspect that the militaries of the special-purpose battalion of the GRU (Main Intelligence Directorate of the Russian General Staff) "Vostok" (East) are destroying the tombs of their victims.

Today, the Nasiminskiy District Court of the capital of Azerbaijan, presided by Judge Shakhin Abdullaev, has continued the trial of Sergey Strekalin accused of inflicting a knife wound on March 13, 2008, to Agil Halil, a journalist of the "Azadlyg" (Freedom) newspaper.

Ella Kesaeva, co-chairperson of the All-Russian Public Organization "Voice of Beslan" from North Ossetia, was elected to co-chair the All-Russian Civil Congress (ARCC).

Relatives of Rashid Gazilaliev, who was killed in a special operation in Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan, assert that they offered to give out the person who was in the blocked apartment without fight, but militiamen had rejected the offer.

On June 27, the criminal case on three militiamen accused of extorting money from illegally detained minors was delivered to the court of the Prigorodny District of North Ossetia.