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NGO members have held an action in Chechnya in memory of the human rights activists and journalists, who were assassinated or fell victim of extrajudicial executions, with participation of Liudmila Alekseeva, chair of the Moscow Helsinki Group (MHG). The action took place on August 30 in the Gudermes District of the republic, where Natalia Estemirova, a well-known human rights defender and employee of the HRC "Memorial", who was kidnapped and then murdered on July 15, is buried.

On the eve of the fifth anniversary of Beslan terror act, the members of the All-Russian Public Organization "Voice of Beslan" have addressed the parliamentarians of Northern Caucasus asking them to lobby the introduction of the status of a terror act victim before Russian President Dmitri Medvedev.

The consideration of the claim on defence of honour and dignity lodged by President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov against Oleg Orlov, leader of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", has been postponed till September 10. Mr Orlov said that before the start of today's hearing, he had submitted a petition asking to postpone the trial, and the judge accepted his arguments and re-appointed the consideration. He added to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that the reason was that he had no advocate.

As stated by Eka Beseliya, Secretary General of the Movement "For United Georgia", the opposition would announce its further tactics of its confrontation with President Mikhail Saakashvili in September.

As of 10:00 p.m. on August 29, the counterterrorist operation (CTO) regime in Karagach village, Prokhladnenskiy District of Kabardino-Balkaria, introduced on August 28, was cancelled, as reported by the operative headquarters of the republic.

On Monday, August 31, the Moscow GUVD (Chief Interior Department) will decide whether to open a criminal case against Oleg Orlov, head of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial". The request to initiate a criminal case against Mr Orlov was submitted by Andrei Krasnenkov, advocate of Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov.

It is not obviously possible to identify the body of the militant-suicide bomber, who committed the terror act in Nazran, as the explosion was "of very high power", as stated today by Rashid Nurgaliev, Minister of Internal Affairs of Russia. In his opinion, it is too early to assert that the terror act was made by Said Buryatskiy.

The REN TV Russian Channel finds the fine that was imposed by Georgia for its broadcasting in Abkhazia and South Ossetia, as the Channel is not broadcasting "in any of these three countries." This was reported by Anton Nazarov, head of the press service of the REN TV.

Fatima Tarasova, press secretary of the Islamic Committee of Russia (ICR), who was detained in the course of the rally of relatives of kidnapped persons on August 26 in the capital of Dagestan, told the "Caucasian Knot" about the circumstances of the incident.

As stated on August 28 by Tigran Davtyan, Minister of Finance of Armenia, 38.6 billion drams (about 102.6 million US dollars), or about 20 percent of the Russian credit have been already invested into the economy of Armenia.

Giorgiy Bokuchava, head of the transport administration of Georgia, making his comments today on the statements that Russian frontier guards will defend ships sailing to Abkhazia, has treated such actions as piracy.

The information about the death of Said Buryatskiy as a suicide bomber at the building of the Nazran GOVD is disinformation, Arcadiy Edelev, Deputy Interior Minister of Russia, believes.

On Friday, August 28, Elmira Suleimanova, Ombudsperson of Azerbaijan, had a meeting at the Baku pre-trial prison with young bloggers Emin Milli and Adnan Gadjizade, accused of hooliganism. According to Ms Suleimanova, she had applied to respective bodies on settling the case by amicable agreement of the parties, and this "issue remains in the focus."

On August 26, in Krasnoyarsk, in the Southern marketplace, a skirmish took place with participation of Azerbaijani natives. According to the militia, three persons received light wounds, one of them was hospitalized. Under informal information, one person was lost.

On August 27, the Leninskiy District Court of Rostov-on-Don started consideration of the case opened against a former militiaman, who knocked down by his car 11 persons standing at a bus stop.

The inspector who made a decision to force Magomed Evloev, an oppositionist and owner of the website "Ingushetia.Ru", to the police station on the day of his murder, on August 31, 2008, was ordered to keep silent and not to take any actions. This is stated in the explanatory note of Lieutenant of Justice Zhambulat Shankhoev, an inspector of the investigatory division at the Nazran OVD.

A selling exhibition of creations made by about 50 inmates of criminal-corrective establishments of Armenia, organized with the help of the "Foundation for Helping Convicts", acting under the Ministry of Justice, is on now in the Armenia capital.

The Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office (ICPO) of Russia reports that suicide bombers came up to a police squad in the centre of Chechen city of Shali and triggered their bombs. However, the MIA of Chechnya asserts that the militants blew themselves up in the course of a special operation aimed to detain them.

Zurab Marganiya, head of a frontier detachment of the Abkhazian State Security Service, has stated that the Abkhazian party has nothing to do with the incident in Zugdidi District.

As reported by the PR Group of the FSB Department for Dagestan, the counterterrorist operation (CTO) regime, introduced in the Primorskiy District of Makhachkala, has been cancelled with the end of special actions.