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On July 30, the Octiabrskiy district court in Grozny started a re-trial of the case of senior lieutenant Sergey Lapin, former officer of Nizhnevartovsk district internal affairs department (radio call sign "Cadet"), charged with torturing Zelimkhan Murdalov, resident of the Chechen capital.

Krasnodar garrison military tribunal has passed sentences to two soldiers on the case of non-statutory relations in Krasnodar region.

The South Osetia authorities accuse Georgian MIA officers of killing Felix Ghaghiyev, resident of South Osetia, who died in hospital after beating.

Today, the St-Petersburg jury court has passed a verdict on the case of murder of Timur Kacharava, student and anti-fascist, and assault on his friend Maxim Zghibay in November 2005.

The prosecutor's office of Kabardino-Balkaria has responded to the request of Kabardino-Balkarian public human rights center on the issue of a search conducted in the house of Ruslan Karabashev, resident of Nalchik, and his registration as a supporter of radical Islam.

Today, a second medical examination of arrested journalist Mushfig Guseinov has been conducted at Baillovski pre-trial prison.

Faramaz Allakhverdiev, journalist of the "Nota Bene" newspaper arrested in Azerbaijan, has been on a hunger strike for ten days already.

Mass media report that the Ombudsman on human rights in the Chechen Republic has been allocated 47 million rubles for searching missing persons. This information is absolutely far-fetched, states Ombudsman Nurdi Nukhazhiev.

Five new haemodialysis installations have been delivered to the republican hospital in Nazran. In order to get this, patients had to give up food and treatment for two days.

A poll among internet users in the SFD shows that about 40 percent of the respondents gave bribes at entering universities.

Many of the Russian militaries who conducted today a special operation in Ali-Yurt village of the Nazran District of Ingushetia, were in the state of alcoholic intoxication, behaved rudely, offended old men, women and children, and threatened them with murder.

The Prosecutor's Office has stopped investigation of the criminal case initiated on March 30, 2005, on crime attributes stipulated by Articles 129 (slander) and 130 (insult) of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.

In the city-resort of Kislovodsk (Stavropol Territory), a picket started on July 13 against actions of local authorities, which was to end on August 13, has been suspended.

On July 27, at about 10:30 p.m., unknown persons shelled from automatic weapons and grenade launchers the building of the FSB Unit in the city of Magas, the capital of Ingushetia.

The Spiritual Administration of Moslems (SAM) of Dagestan is convinced that the organizers of the murder of churchman Kuramagomed Ramazanov were Wahhabites, who "for a long time consider representatives of the official clergy to be lawful military targets."

Today, funeral has passed in Chirkej village of Kurmagomed Ramazanov, deputy mufti of the Spiritual Department of Moslems of Dagestan, and his brother, who died during yesterday's terror act.

On July 30, the Court of the Nizhniy Novgorod Region will consider the claim of the Regional Prosecutor's Office on liquidation of the "Pravo-Zaschita" (Human Rights Defence) newspaper.

According to the information from Lachin Lachinov, Chairman of the Independent Non-Commercial Organization "Nash Kavkaz" (Our Caucasus), contract recruits from Dagestan are not allowed to do their service.

The members of the "Beslan Mothers" committee of victims have lodged a petition to Nikolai Patrushev, FSB Director, asking to declassify the archives of the events on September 1-3 in Beslan and present the materials to the investigatory group.

Yesterday, the International Federation of Human Rights (FIDH) and the World Organization Against Torture (OMCT) presented their annual report on situation with human rights activists in 90 countries of the world.