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Chechen natives are suspected of trying to lynch the policeman who collided with their compatriot's car; the road accident occurred in the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug (KhMAO), investigators have informed.

Ramzan Kadyrov did not avoid meeting his critics during his trip to Turkey, Akhmed Dudaev, the Chechen Minister for Press, has stated in response to accusations against of the head of the republic of cowardice.

About six hundred inmates have organized riots at the maximum security penal colony in North Ossetia because a conflict with the colony administration, sources have reported.

Today, the village of Yeraskh and the nearby military positions have been shelled from the Azerbaijani direction, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Armenia reports.

Law enforcers who arrived at the Moscow office of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) “Memorial”* after a report on an attempt to disrupt the screening, used force against employees of the HRC’s office and spectators and unreasonably kept them in the building for several hours, the NGO reported.

A brother of blogger Khasan Khalitov, living in Turkey, used harsh words to condemn him for criticizing the authorities of Chechnya.

Veterans of the Karabakh war and family members of the killed soldiers and officers are offered by the Azerbaijani authorities the low-paid jobs as builders and waiters, and owners of cars and land plots are refused to be recognized as unemployed, participants of the combat actions in Nagorno-Karabakh complain.

This morning, the Azerbaijani armed forces have shelled a Karabakh military ambulance, no one was injured, the Ministry of Defence of the unrecognized republic reports. The Azerbaijani side claims that the ambulance was used for provocation.

In his video message addressed to Akhmed Dudaev, the Minister of the Press of Chechnya, Khasan Khalitov, a blogger living in Turkey, has announced his location and invited his opponent to meet. Earlier, Minister Dudaev reproached members of the Chechen Diaspora in Turkey for evading a meeting.

The events of the "Promised Caucasus" Festival in Derbent have revealed the culture of mountain Jews in the context of other cultures with which it is intertwined, said Anatoly Golubovsky, the Culture Advisor to the President of the Russian Jewish Congress. Old-timers know and remember the contribution of the Jewish community to the city culture, Robert Ilishaev, the head of the local Jewish community, has stated.

The large-scale rally held by supporters of Mikheil (Mikhail) Saakashvili, a former president of Georgia, has become a serious argument of the "United National Movement" (UNM) Party in favour of its intentions, the political analysts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe.

Azerbaijani militaries have attacked the positions of the Karabakh Army near the village of Nor Shen; six servicemen were seriously wounded, the Nagorno-Karabakh Ombudsperson has informed.

An Azerbaijani military serviceman was killed by a sniper's shot made from the responsibility area of Russian peacemakers in Karabakh. The Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) has treated the incident as a terror act.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ordered Azerbaijani authorities to pay 24,900 euros to the Resource Centre for Democracy and Human Rights, as well as to its head, Asabali Mustafaev, for an unjustified blocking of bank accounts and a ban on leaving the country.

Magomed Tseretilov tried to secure the defence of Chechen authorities in his conflict with his ex-wife over his children, but in the end, after a talk with Chechen law enforcers and court marshals, he handed the children over to Nina Tseretilova, a resident of Dagestan.

A group of young people burst into the office of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial"*, when a film about the journalist Gareth Jones was screened there.

The European Court of Human Rights communicated the complaints filed by relatives of killed Dagestani journalists Akhmednabi Akhmednabiev and Khadjimurad Kamalov and combined the two cases into one proceeding.

The FSB reports that 14 people suspected of financing Syrian militants were detained in seven regions of Russia, including Dagestan.

An unofficial visit of Ramzan Kadyrov to Turkey may be connected with his attempt to influence the situation with the detention of natives of Chechnya in a case on espionage, political analyst Alexei Malashenko suggests. Ramzan Kadyrov travelled to Turkey in connection with criticism from opponents, Caucasian expert Ruslan Kutaev objects.

In Azerbaijan, a court found Rovshan Guseinov, an activist of the “Musavat” Party, guilty of disobeying the police, and sentenced him to 25 days of arrest. Colleagues of Rovshan Guseinov called his arrest the persecution for his active civic position.