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The newspaper of Russian Armenians 'Erkramas,' acting on behalf of its readers, is calling on the leaders of Armenia to reject signing the treaty that infringes the interests of the Armenian nation.

In May 2007, Anna Zunder-Plazman, an employee of the Amnesty International human rights organization, visited Georgia to gather information on application of violence to citizens by law enforcement bodies and on situation with women in Georgian villages.

On May 30, a mourning meeting was held in Makhachkala to mark one year's anniversary of the shooting of the meeting, where the protesters had demanded resignation of Kerimkhan Abasov, head of the municipal formation "Dokuzparinskiy District."

353 inmates of Rustavi Colony No. 2 kept under strict and general custody regimes applied to the power authorities and OSCE Representative Office in Georgia with a complaint against intolerable custody conditions.

The victims of the Beslan terror act are going to appeal against the court judgement to amnesty the former heads of local militia accused of negligence that entailed the school capture.

28 Ingush refugees have started a hunger strike at the building of the Council of Federation, Amir Bekbuzarov, Chairman of the Committee for the Matters of Forced Migrants from the Republic Northern Ossetia-Alania, reports.

The Court for Heavy Crimes has started the proceedings on the case of Farkhad Aliev, former Minister for Economic Development of Azerbaijan, and 18 other persons, including his brother Rafik Aliev, former president of the Azpetrol oil company.

Lawyer Oksana Suprunova who defended the interests of a group of Bataisk Chernobyl liquidators at the Strasbourg Court told that the European Court for Human Rights had concluded that the cancellation of the lower court instance's ruling in favour of Chernobyl liquidators by the supervisory instance was a breach of the human right for a fair trial.

Tonight the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent had a meeting in the "Yuzhnaya" mosque with the parishioners - victims of the incident on March 30, 2007.

Today, the last issue of the "Baky Khabar" newspaper has appeared in Azerbaijan: its publication will be suspended for indefinite time, said editor-in-chief Aidyn Guliev.

For the second time today, the victims have disrupted the announcement by the court of its judgement on the amnesty petition filed by three militiamen accused of negligence in the case of Beslan terror act. They were indignant at the judge's double attempt to announce the judgement in the absence of the defendants.

Currently, Georgia hosts a joint working group of the Chechen government and the FMS (Federal Migration Service) of Russia involved in resolving the problems related to homecoming of forced migrants from the Chechen Republic who had left their homes with the start of the "counterterrorist operation."

Natalia Estemirova, an employee of the Chechen Branch of the Human Rights Centre "Memorial," has stated that the cases when employees of power agencies, while imitating their fight against militants, are goofing on innocent people in Chechnya are "as many as one wishes."

The Corriere della Sera newspaper has retold the manifesto of the Moscow Human Rights Society "Memorial," with which the Society presents itself to the Oslo Jury - the "Memorial" has been nominated for this year's Nobel Peace Prize.

The investigators deny the nationalist character of the massacres of "Caucasians" in Moscow, allegedly accomplished by two students from the Russian capital.

The North-Caucasian Regional Military Court has made a decision to go on with proceedings despite the absence of three out of the four defendants - Eduard Ulman, Vladimir Voevodin and Alexander Kalaganskiy (only defendant Alexei Perelevskiy is present in the courtroom).

On June 6, the Sverdlovsk Regional Court will consider the cassation appeal against the decision of the Tagilstroj District Court of the city of Nizhni Tagil of March 9, 2007, according to which the custody regime for Mikhail Trepashkin, a political prisoner serving his term at the Correction Colony (IK-13), was toughened (transfer from settlement-colony into general regime colony).

The Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation (RF) has made a decision to consider, with participation of representatives of the parties, the appeal of the parents of the militants who died on October 13, 2005, in Nalchik.

Anna Politkovskaya's colleagues from the "Novaya Gazeta" have progressed a lot in their investigation and found it necessary to tell the story. "We have identified the customers of the murder," Vyacheslav Izmailov, a former officer of the Russian Army, now a journalist of the newspaper engaged in the investigation, says.

A scandalous case about crimes committed on motives of national hatred is investigated by the Public Prosecutor's Office of the South-West District of Moscow: a young skinhead has confessed of murdering 37 persons, including Caucasian natives.