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In early September it will be known, whether the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" will resume its activities in the territory of the Chechen Republic. This human rights organization suspended its operations in Chechnya after kidnapping and murder on July 15 of Natalia Estemirova, an employee of the "Memorial".

Today, a group of activists of the Ecological Watch for Northern Caucasus from Sochi, Krasnodar, Maikop and Nizhni Novgorod have started their radical action to defend the law at construction of the combined highway Adler-Krasnaya Polyana.

Magomed Khazbiev, leader of the Ingush opposition, said that since President of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Evkurov has resumed performing his duties, there is no reason to hold the congress.

The European Union (EU) has condemned the act of terrorism accomplished on August 17 in Nazran (Ingushetia), as a result of which 20 persons were lost and 138 more suffered. This statement was made by Sweden, current chair of the EU.

The Ministry for National Security (MNS) of Azerbaijan is now identifying the persons, who gave their votes for the participants from Armenia at the musical competition "Eurovision-2009".

In Dagestan, a criminal case has been opened against the well-known lawyer Sapiyat Magomedova, accused by inspectors of the Prosecutor's Office of Khasavyurt of insulting them with swear words.

On August 17, 2009, in the Volgograd Region, the court sentenced a group of eight persons who attacked a Gipsy camp in April 2006 in the city of Volzhskiy. Two persons were killed in that attack. The defendants were sentenced to imprisonment for the terms from 4.5 to 11 years.

In Dagestan, today at 10:05 a.m., near the city marketplace in Kizilyurt, a bomb was triggered. As a result of the explosion four persons, two of them being militiamen, were wounded.

The law enforcement bodies of the Chechen Republic now know the name of a suspected killer of five persons in Pervomaiskoe village, Grozny District, committed at night of August 17. Probably, he was an acquaintance of one of the members of Kalinichenko family. This was stated by a source of the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent in the MIA. According to his story, a briefing on the suspected gunman has already been disseminated among all the law enforcement units.

In Ingushetia, ruins after the explosion on August 17 in Nazran are still cleared away. Vakha Chapanov, head of the Ingush Information Agency "Maximum", said to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that the fate of several persons remains unknown.

Today, at the sitting of the antiterrorist commission of Makhachkala, chaired by City Mayor Said Amirov, officials gave their estimates of the current operative situation in the context of recent frequent attacks on militia posts and encroachments on law enforcers. According to the Mayor, the situation is hard.

A number of well-known international human rights organizations have decided to send their representatives to Azerbaijan to the forthcoming litigation against young bloggers and activists Adnan Gadjizade and Emin Milli.

The Ecological Watch for Northern Caucasus is going to stop felling at the construction of the combined highway Adler-Krasnaya Polyana (Red Meadow). Andrei Rudomakha, coordinator of the Ecological Watch for Northern Caucasus said that now ecologists plan to lodge applications to law enforcement bodies. Then the "greens" want to stop the tree felling, which is underway there, according to ecology activists, with their own bodies.

On August 17, the letter of Beslan mothers, which the members of the all-Russian NGO "Voice of Beslan" could not hand over to Dmitri Medvedev in North Ossetia, was sent to President's administration in Moscow. In the document, relatives of the victims of the terror act in Beslan ask the country leader to receive them and discuss the course of investigation of the terror act and the law on the status of the victims of terror acts.

The advocates of Anna Politkovskaya's family have appealed at the Supreme Court of Russia against the decision of the court to return the murder case of the observer of the "Novaya Gazeta" back to the public prosecutor. This was announced today by advocate Anna Stavitskaya, who represents the interests of the journalist's children.

Five years on from the Beslan hostage drama, the security situation in the North Caucasus is deteriorating. The website of BBC Russian - bbcrussian.com - has teamed up with the web publication, "Caucasian Knot" (kavkaz-uzel.ru) to launch a major editorial initiative, engaging online audiences in a discussion about key issues faced by people in the North Caucasus.

Ruslan Alkhanov, Minister of Internal Affairs of the republic has reported that a Russian-speaking family was killed in Pervomaiskaya village of Chechnya, but did not say, when the crime had been committed.

The militants who participated in the attack on President of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Evkurov have been revealed; and at present they are not alive. This was reported today in an interview to journalists by Mr Evkurov himself.

Ahmed Zakaev, former emissary of Chechen separatists, now living in Great Britain, in future can return to Russia, as the forthcoming congress of the Chechen people will suggest Russian law enforcers to give up his prosecution; this was stated by Dukvakha Abdurakhmanov, speaker of the parliament of Chechnya.

Today in Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan, a powerful bomb was triggered on the way of a militia's UAZ van. According to preliminary information, one militiaman was killed and three others were hospitalized with wounds; one is in a grave condition.