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The participants of the conference "The rights of Moslem minorities and threats of Islam extremism" held yesterday in Vladikavkaz, Northern Ossetia, have made a reconnaissance trip to Ingushetia.

Anzor Maskhadov, the son of Aslan Maskhadov, the diseased president of the unrecognized Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, has left Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, for Germany.

The Moscow city court recognized as legitimate the issue of a sanction for arresting Fail Sadretdinov, Moscow notary acquitted on the case of murder of Paul Khlebnikov, chief editor of the Forbes magazine Russian version.

The first interrogation of Osman Boliev, leader of the human rights organization "Romashka," in relation to the new criminal case initiated against him, fixed for today at the internal affairs unit of Khasavyurt (Dagestan) has not taken place.

Today, the students of the "Independent Azerbaijan" university, who are on hunger strike, have formed a committee to defend their rights.

Residents of Roshni-Chu village in Urus-Martan district, Chechnya, ask international human rights organizations for assistance in setting free their fellow-villager.

More than 20 professors and lecturers were forced out of Tbilisi state university building by Georgian police on Tuesday night.

Yarali Ramazanov, judge of Khasavyurt town court of Dagestan, has confirmed today to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that yesterday, June 19, he had to sign his resignation under the pressure of Anvar Magomedov, chairman of the Supreme Court of Dagestan.

The deadline fixed by the hunger strikers at the "Independent Azerbaijan" university to the Ministry of Education for resolving the issue of restoring their status of students expires today.

On June 20, Georgiy Kheviashvili, the Georgian Minister on Refugees and Resettlement, and Navid Hussein, representative of the UN High Commissar on Refugees in Georgia, visited the Pankisi Gorge (Eastern Georgia).

On June 19, a meeting of local residents protesting against the arbitrariness of Sapiyulla Karachaev, head of the administration of Kumtoraklin district, Dagestan, took place in Korkmaskala, the district centre.

The international working team on searching for missing hostages and prisoners of war has made a regular visit to Stepanakert (Nagorny Karabakh).

The first interrogation of Osman Boliev, head of "Romashka" human rights organization, fixed for today at the internal affairs department of Khasavyurt (Dagestan) in relation with the new criminal case initiated against him has not taken place.

On Friday June 16, more than three hundred residents of Sergen-Yurt village in Shalinsk district of Chechnya held a meeting which lasted several hours, with a demand to set free their detained fellow-villagers.

The "Caucasian Knot" editorial office has received an open letter from representatives of human rights organization, devoted to the investigation of circumstances of the tragedy in Beslan.

In the course of the picket of the Popular Front Party activists in front of the Iranian embassy, more than ten participants were arrested and one put to hospital. This was contained in the report of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA) sent to the "Caucasian Knot".

The "Civil Assistance" committee and the "Memorial" human rights centre express their deep concern about the situation of Zaurbek Talkhigov who serves 8.5 years of prison for an attempt to set free the hostages from the Theatre Centre on Dubrovka in October 2002.

The fact that P. Siradjov, an emigrant from Azerbaijan held in the American Guantanamo prison, will be sent not to his home country but to Holland has been reported on June 14 by human rights activist Elchin Bekhbudov.

More than 100 residents of Zelenchuk district, Karachaevo-Cherkessia, who are dissatisfied with the construction of a system of Zelenchuk hydroelectric stations, have blocked traffic today on the highway in the vicinity of the village Hussa-Kardonik.

Aslan Bezrukov, a well-known public figure and entrepreneur in Adygea, was released on bail yesterday on June 14 from the pre-trial prison.