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"Go to your villages!" declared Khozhbaudi Estamirov, head of Staropromyslovski district administration of the capital of Chechnya, to the residents of the temporary shelter for refugees (TS) located at 289, Derzhavin Street in Grozny.

On June 3-4, 2006, a two-day seminar "Counteracting violations in North Caucasus" was held, which was organized by the regional human rights organization "Chechen Committee of National Salvation" headed by Ruslan Badalov, with the financial support of the European Commission office in the RF.

On May 29, 30 and 31, employees of the "Memorial" human rights centre examined and made video and photo records of vacant buildings in the Chechen capital where prior to May 27 the RF MIA Operational Group in October district of Grozny had been dislocated, and previously the Temporary department of internal affairs (TDIA) of the district, reports Dmitri Grushkin, employee of the "Memorial" HRC to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

The hunger strike of the "Independent Azerbaijan" university (IAU) students in which about 60 persons take part has been lasting for 5 days.

Upon the instruction of Khozhbaudi Estamirov, head of Staropromyslovski district administration of the capital of Chechnya, 47 families of forced migrants are to be moved out from the TS at 289, Derzhavin Street located on the territory of the former kindergarten.

Gudrat Gasanguliev, member of the Azeri delegation who has taken part in the spring session of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly in Paris, reports to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that a document on the situation in South Azerbaijan has been submitted to the political committee of the NATO PA.

"Echo Moskvy" radio reports that a soldier of regular military service from Karachaevo-Cherkessia has died in one of the military units of Stavropol Territory.

As the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent has been informed at the Baku office of the Movement for National Emergence of Southern Azerbaijan (MNESA), mass arrests of participants in the actions of protest continue in South Azerbaijan.

Starting from today and in the course of the coming ten months, an action is to be held in Armenia devoted to the problems of children's rights.

In order "not to impede the investigation or aggravate the situation" in Volgograd, Governor Nikolai Maksiuta has temporarily prohibited all marches and meetings in the city.

" To acquit... owing to the innocence of the defendant of committing the crime... The material evidence, i.e. RGN grenade (without a fuse), shall be destroyed upon the ruling coming into force, " runs the court ruling passed on May 18 by Khasavyurt town court (Dagestan) on the criminal case of human rights activist O. Boliev.

As the "Caucasian Knot" already reported earlier, yesterday Osman Boliev accused of illegal acquisition, storage and carrying of fire-arms, received the full text of the ruling of Khasavyurt town court in Dagestan, passed on May 18.

A prosecutor's office check in penitentiary institutions and pre-trial prisons of Volgograd region has demonstrated that, until the interference of the prosecutor's office, the administration of pre-trial prisons did not abide by the legislative requirements to subject the accused and suspected juveniles to medical examination and fluorography and laboratory tests.

The international scientific and practical conference "Public Relations and Human Rights in the South of Russia: Background, Modern Times and Perspectives" was opened on May 30 in Volgograd at 10 a.m. in the congress hall of the scientific council of Volgograd state university (VolSU).

The state of health of Ali Insanov, ex-Minister of Health of Azerbaijan who is under arrest, has sharply deteriorated today.

Yesterday, on May 28, Andreas Gross and Andres Herkel, co-rapporteurs of the PACE Monitoring Committee, had a press-conference upon the results of their two-day visit to Azerbaijan.

Marat Kulakhmetov, commander of Combined Peacekeeping Forces (CPKF), states that "the Georgian party has set free 41 Ossetians.

Sozar Subari, Georgian ombudsman, intends to meet with the Ossetians from the Tzkhinvali region arrested by the Georgian police on May 27.

Mikhail Mindzayev, South Ossetia Minister of Internal Affairs, has disclosed to the "Caucasian Knot" the names of the two Russian citizens who are currently held as hostages by the Georgian power authorities.

According to the press-service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of South Ossetia, two Ossetian hostages have been released.