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Residents from different districts of the republic started arriving at Tsentoroy, the ancestral village of the Kadyrov family, in the morning of June 10.

Over 20 representatives of Chechen human rights organizations and pubic movements attended the conference.

Vagarshak Arutyunian was arrested on the night of April 12-13, when interior troops used force to disperse a demonstration on Bagramian Avenue in Yerevan.

The leader of the Public Court human rights group, Valery Krasnobrizhev, was arrested in the prosecutor's office of Krasnodar's Central District on June 5.

Approximately 100 protesters gathered on the square in front of the building of the regional administration.

Chechen law enforcement agencies claim the detainees, a 28-year-old and a 22-year-old men, have already made a confession. But the interior ministry has flatly refused to impart names of the alleged murderers of Akhmat Kadyrov.

As reported by inhabitants of the temporary accommodation center Rassvet, migration service officials told them the camp would be closed beginning from June 10.

President of the breakaway republic of South Osetia Eduard Kokoity has arrived in Moscow to deliver an official address about South Osetia's joining the Russian Federation to the Russian president and the Federal Assembly.

The overwhelming majority of Chechen refugees who have settled in Georgia's Pankisi Gorge are reluctant to return to Chechnya because they fear for their safety.

Many people in the republic hold Ramzan Kadyrov openly declared that families and relatives of the Chechens fighting in the mountains would be destroyed.

The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) has presented its Annual Democracy Award to the leaders of Russia's most outstanding non-governmental groups that are working to advance and preserve democracy in Russia.

Garri Ayba underwent an operation in the Sukhum town hospital, but he died several hours later.

Lawyer Adam Edilov and doctor Sultan Aiskhanov filed their applications with the Chechen election commission on June 9 asking to register them as candidates for the Chechen presidency.

Organizers of the action explain that the people were forced to take such a step by mass arbitrary detentions of Chechens on the basis of nationality which security agencies of the town of Samara practice.

The oppositionists are dissatisfied with the fact that the Baku city administration does not allow them to hold protest actions.

Abducted Said Seriyev is a disabled man of the first group. He lost both arms in a landmine explosion while stacking hay last year.

Marat Zaynalabidov was external manager at the Electroapparat defense company situated in Rostov Region.

Residents of the Krtsanisi village insist that the land on which the oil pipeline is being constructed has belonged to them long since and demand that the title to this lend be given to them.

The state of released Avtandil Biblaya and Omekh Chitanava is satisfactory. However the destiny of the third abducted man, Abesalom Dzhabua, remains unknown.

Representatives of the Union of Abkhazian Volunteers of Kabardino-Balkaria and youth organizations of the Adyga Khase public movement from Adygeya and Karachaevo-Cherkessia have arrived in Abkhazia.