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Mother of Vadim Chugunov, a Russian trooper, who perished in the battle near Ulus-Kert in 2000, believes that the failure of the Russian party to pay her the due compensation for the death of her son in Chechnya is a violation of the provisions of the European Convention of Human Rights.

In Dubai (United Arab Emirates), the judge in charge of the case on the attempt on Hero of Russia Sulim Yamadaev, ex-commander of the "Vostok" special battalion, was dissatisfied with the proofs gathered by the prosecution party and found them insufficient. On these grounds, the defence advocates plan to move, at the court session on November 16, their petitions asking to release the defendants.

Today, the Sabail District Court of Baku, chaired by Araz Guseinov, terminated litigation on the case of young bloggers Emin Milli and Adnan Gadjizade, accused of hooliganism and inflicting bodily injuries. Representatives of the public are indignant with the verdict.

The Supreme Court of Dagestan has cancelled the decision of the Leninskiy Court of Makhachkala about return of the criminal case concerning the editor-in-chief and four journalists of the Dagestan weekly "Chernovik" (Blueprint) to the prosecutor's office because of violations when drawing up the indictment. This was reported by Biyakay Magomedov, lawyer of the edition.

Citizen of Georgia Nodar Nikoleishvili, who was forced to go on hunger strike in the militia reception centre of Archangelsk, because of "inhuman custody conditions and long term of detention at the centre", said to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that the DFMS (Department of the Federal Migration Service) for the Archangelsk Region was planning to exclude him from Russia to Belarus within five days.

The inquiry bodies have finished a complex psycho-psychiatric examination of the suspects of committing terror acts in Sochi, and, according to its conclusions, the defendants were quite responsible for their actions during the incriminated offences.

The ban for children and youth up to 18 years of age to stay in public places without accompanying adults from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m., legalized by the deputies of the National Assembly of Dagestan, has caused different reactions among the population of the republic.

The verdict to Abubakar Mezhiev, convicted for participation in the attack on the city of Budyonnovsk in 1995, was upheld, despite the mitigating circumstances. This is the opinion Aslambek Apaev, head of the committee in defence of forced migrants' rights and director of the international peacemaking centre "Peace. Ecology. Culture" founded several months ago in Crimea.

On November 12, in Moscow, at 5:30 p.m., in the Chistoprudny Boulevard, a solidarity picket with Oleg Orlov, Chairman of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", will start.

As reported by the United Army Grouping in Northern Caucasus, in October this year, in the course of the special operations conducted in the territory of the Chechen Republic, 35 members of the armed underground were liquidated, and 42 militants and their helper were detained. However, human rights activists are sure that power agents put also people who have nothing to do with the armed underground into the lists of their "trophies".

An employee of the Chechen militia will face justice on charges of complicity to a member of separatists' armed formations. The former militiaman is under a threat of several years in prison.

November 9 was to be the starting day of the trial in South Ossetia of four Georgian teenagers, detained by local power agents; however, the trial was uncertainly postponed.

Militia Major Alexei Dymovskiy, who told about corruption in law enforcement bodies of Novorossisk, arrived in Moscow in his car, as he was not let to go by air.

Residents of the city of Sochi express their concern of the plans to erect a 17-kilometre-long alternate of the existing Kurortny (Resort) Avenue. The new highway threatens to liquidate thousands of rarest vegetative exotics, bring unimaginable economic costs and create ecological hazard, as the experts say.

President of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Evkurov said about resolution of a number of resonant crimes committed in his republic. Among them, according to Mr Evkurov, the attempt on him, the terror act at the building of the ROVD (District Interior Unit) in Nazran and the murder of the Deputy Chair of the republic's Supreme Court.

The judicial panel for criminal cases of the Supreme Court has upheld the verdict of the Stavropol Territorial Court to Igor Sokolov and Abubakar Mezhiev, both aged 39, who took part in the attack on Budyonnovsk in 1995. They will serve their terms at the general regime colony, as the General Prosecutor's Office has reported.

Already former Militia Major Alexei Dymovskiy, who was dismissed for criticizing his Novorossisk colleagues and bosses, denied, at the press conference held in the Independent Press Centre, charges that his revelations had been prepaid by western NGOs.

Citizen of Georgia David Khubunaya, who is waiting for six weeks already for his exclusion from Russia at the special reception centre intended for minor offenders in the city of Archangelsk, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that his complaints against long custody had forced the local Prosecutor's Office to initiate a case.

Today, the Chegem District Court of Kabardino-Balkaria has announced the verdict of guilty to Aryubat Gemueva, doctor-paediatrician of the local district hospital, accused of non-rendering held to Aslan Kugotov, 13, who subsequently died.

The public statements of Militia Major Alexei Dymovskiy were backed up by NGOs funded from abroad, in particular, the US Agency for International Development (USAID). This was stated by a source from the Department of Internal Security (DIS) of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Russia.