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Brothers Isa and Musa of Sulim Yamadaev, former commander of the "Vostok" special battalion, will be brought by force, under respective court statements, to the city of Gudermes for interrogation under the case about disappearance in 2004 of soldier Alikhan Khaladov.

The railway traffic in direction of Zugdidi interrupted today at night by a series of explosions is restored. During the whole night repair and sapper works went on at Zugdidi railway station.

It seemed in 2007 that the count of violent disappearances in Chechnya went down, but, nevertheless, neither in 2008 nor in 2009 they did not stop, but, according to some unofficial sources, these figures continue to grow. This is the topic of the memorandum addressed by the independent human rights organization Amnesty International (AI) to Russian President Dmitri Medvedev.

Azerbaijan has drafted a bill of amendments to the Law "On Nongovernmental Associations (Foundations)", which caused serious criticism by representatives of the civil society. In the opinion of the public, adoption of the amendments will be a serious blow on democracy in the country.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of North Ossetia reports that today a man who threatened to blow up a grenade was detained.

The Prosecutor's Office of the Astrakhan Region has established that the Mosque located in the Pobedy Street in Astrakhan is making use, when appealing Moslems to prayer at 4 a.m. and 11 p.m., of sound-amplifying equipment, which breaks the right of people to comfortable night rest.

Judge of the Tersk District Court of Kabardino-Balkaria has announced a rebuke to advocate Mukharbi Kardanov for his presenting information to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent about a criminal case considered by this court. The figurant in the case is Askerbiy Khambazarov, a senior operative officer of the Criminal Investigation Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic, accused under three articles of the Russian Criminal Code.

The Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office (ICPO) of the Russian Federation has stated that involvement of former Russian Army colonel Yuri Budanov in disappearances of residents of Chechnya in 2000 was not confirmed. Budanov has evidenced that he could not physically be present at the block-post, where a group of local residents had disappeared without any traces.

President of Russia Dmitri Medvedev has stated, at the sitting of the Security Council of the Russian Federation held on June 9 in Makhachkala, that the low efficiency of the authorities in some republics of Northern Caucasus is accompanied by the loss of trust in the authorities and loss of their respect by the population.

Akop Sanasaryan, chairman of the Greens, stated on June 8 that among Armenian most topical environmental problems are the continued build-up of the coast of Lake Sevan and catastrophic reduction of fish stocks in the Lake.

In Chechnya, under decision of the head of the local Ministry for Emergencies (MfE), all the fire-fighting forces of Grozny are now involved in searching a boy of 7, who, probably, got drowned in Sunzha River on June 4, and another boy of 5, who got drowned on May 30. This was reported by Timur Taisumov, official representative of Russian MfE for Chechnya.

Russian human rights activists express their indignation with political prosecutions in Armenia and demand that the authorities of the country immediately release Arshaluis Akopyan, a representative of the Helsinki Association.

Alik Le, leader of the public organization "Union of Imereti Residents", believes that previous "Olympstroy" bosses tried solving their problems separately from the interests of Sochi residents. According to his story, Taimuraz Bolloev, the new head of this state corporation, has no time for getting into his mission - he should start acting, and his first step should be to start dialogue with the population.

Suspects of today morning's murder of Aza Gazgireyeva, Deputy Chair of the Supreme Court of Ingushetia, are established, as reported by President of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Evkurov.

On June 8, several dozens of Georgian journalists and members of NGOs held a protest action at the building of the National Commission for Communications with a demand to ensure the freedom of mass media.

Yuri Budanov, who served his term for murdering a Chechen girl, and released in the end of 2008, was interrogated as a suspect under a new criminal case. The ex-colonel is suspected of involvement to murdering three residents of Chechnya.

The Islamic armed underground groupings of Dagestan are a serious danger; and the state should fight them; however even a greater danger is in the clannish lifestyle traditional for the republic, when groups of clans fight for power. This is the topic of the statement made by the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" in the context of the recent murder in Makhachkala of Adilgerei Magomedtagirov, Minister of Internal Affairs of Dagestan.

Today in Ingushetia, on the "Kavkaz" Federal Highway, in the area of municipal district Gamurdievo of the city of Nazran, unidentified persons shelled a column of sappers from grenade launchers. A soldier was slightly wounded.

So far, there is no reliable data confirming the death of Doku Umarov, leader of Chechen separatists, who declared himself in 2007 to be the commander of Caucasian mujahads. However, observers do not exclude that the authorities plan to announce Umarov's liquidation by the forthcoming holidays. According to Aslambek Apaev, an expert of the Moscow Helsinki Group for Northern Caucasus, if Umarov was really killed, the fact will be disclosed only by June 12, the Day of Russia.

Relatives of the brothers Isa and Musa Yamadaev, who were summoned by investigatory bodies to the North-Ossetian city of Mozdok for interrogation on the case about disappearance of one of the soldiers of the recently disbanded special-purpose GRU battalion "Vostok", are afraid for their life.