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Today at 11:00 a.m. Moscow time the Vorobiovy Gory in the Russian capital saw the start of the ethnographic expedition to Northern and Southern Caucasus and Kazakhstan, organized by the well-known Russian designer and blogger Artemiy Lebedev.

Today, one year after kidnapping and murder of Natalia Estemirova, an employee of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", a picket in Moscow brought together 50 persons. As reported by the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent, there are flowers and lit candles under Estemirova's portrait; and the names of human rights defenders who perished in recent years are written on the asphalt nearby - Magomed Evloev, Maksharip Aushev, Farid Babayev and Anna Politkovskaya.

According to Lord Frank Judd, former PACE's Rapporteur for Chechnya and a member of the British Parliamentary Human Rights Group (PHRG), believes that removal of the information blockade, improvement of social and economic life and organization of the negotiating process are prerequisites of solution of the problems of the Chechen Republic.

The Military Prosecutor's Office of the North-Caucasian Military District (NCMD) will check the media data that in February 2010 in the course of a special operation in Chechnya military servicemen of battalion "Sever" (North) opened fire on special fighters of the Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs who came from the city of Ufa.

On July 13, Per Eklund, head of the representative office of the European Union (EU) in Tbilisi, and Kakha Baindurashvili, Minister of Finance of Georgia, signed a document, according to which the EU would allocate 23 million euros to the needs of Georgian refugees.

The checks made by prosecutors of the Territory after the death of schoolchildren in the "Azov" summer camp revealed violations in 220 establishments, which render health-improvement and rest services to children.

The Mayoralty of the city of Kamyshin, Volgograd Region, reports that all the obligations of local authorities before Svetlana Schultz, who had addressed the Pope, and her family are fulfilled.

Dagestan becomes a dangerous place for civil activists and journalists, runs the statement of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" made in the context of threats addressed to Magomed Khanmagomedov, a special correspondent of the newspaper "Chernovik", who made his own inquiry into the special operation conducted in Derbent on June 16, 2010.

The republic's Ministry for Emergencies (MfE) reports about nine persons drowned from the start of this year's bathing season in local water bodies. The count of victims of abnormal is also on the rise.

Today, lawyer Makhach Guchuchaliev told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that the recent announcement by the National Antiterrorist Committee of Russia of the women detained in Dagestan - Madina Gadjieva, Zaira and Zalina Akaeva, Zalina Alieva and Fatima Nurmagomedova - to be terrorists-suicide bombers has nothing to do with reality.

The Volgograd-based newspaper "Gorodskie Vesti" (City News) announced a contest "Let's help our people with a good song!" to the best work about Anna Chapman, who was detained in the USA along with other nine suspected spies who worked for Russia. Local political scientists do not exclude that Chapman's surname will appear in the list of candidates for the State Duma in 2011.

On July 13, the Krasnodar Territory finished signing-in in support of Elvina Tsogoeva, 36, a mother with many children and a resident of the Prigorodny District of North Ossetia, who killed a guy of 19, thinking that he had raped her three-year-old daughter. During 13 days of the action 7200 subscriptions were gained.

This year the country will compile a list of permitted, non-recommended and forbidden names.

Since July 12, human rights activists are gaining subscriptions under petition against appearance on the TV channel "New Kuban Television" (NKT) of reports, which advertise, in their opinion, unisex love and intimate services.

In the Baltic Fleet, the garrison court of the city of Baltiysk has convicted seven natives of Dagestan, regular servicemen, who "wrote" the word "Kavkaz" by bodies of their comrades-in-arms.

Today, the Supreme Qualification Board of Judges (SQBJ) refused to give consent to initiation of a criminal case against Alexander Kuznetsov, former chairman of the Grozny Garrison Military Court, accused of forgery, making illegal decision and causing damage.

Today, Bege Akaev, a resident of Novokayakent village, Kayakent District, said that his daughter - Zaira, 20, and Zalina, 15, announced by the National Antiterrorist Centre of Russia to be potential suicide bombers, left home six months ago because of domestic conflicts.

Erection of a monument in Moscow instead of the Memorial of Glory blown up in Kutaisi may face certain difficulties. As of July 12, 7 million roubles were raised for the purpose, which is, as noted by Valery Vinogradov, Deputy Mayor of Moscow, obviously not enough. It is planned to start construction already in the end of July and to open the memorial on December 19 - one year after the monument was blown up in Kutaisi, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

Tsotne, son of the first president of Georgia Zviad Gamsakhurdia, who is serving his term on the charge of a deliberate murder attempt, is ready to admit the charges live on TV. This was stated on July 12 by his advocate Keti Bekauri.

As announced on July 12 by the Investigatory Department (ID) for Dagestan of the Russian ICPO, an investigation is underway in this republic under the earlier opened criminal case on the fact of dissemination on June 16 of a video clip showing alleged militiamen executing alleged militants in Derbent.