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The health of ex-FSB officer Mikhail Trepashkin, who is serving his four-year punishment for disclosure of state secrets, has seriously aggravated recently.

In Azerbaijan, publicist Rafik Tagi and editor of the "Sanat" (Culture) newspaper Samir Sadatoglu were sent to the strict custody colony for serving their punishments.

Esko Repo, head of the Department for Refugees of the Authority on Foreigners' Matters of Finland, has stated: "Before the end of June this year, a total of 75 Russian citizens arrived to Finland and applied for granting political asylum. There are Chechens among them."

The Chechen society asks the Russian Prosecutor-General's Office to audit the activities of the Military Prosecutor's Office of the United Military Grouping in Northern Caucasus.

Today, the Supreme Court (SC) of Kabardino-Balkaria has continued the judicial investigation at the trial of the commanders of the Malgobek District Interior Department (ROVD) of Ingushetia, accused of negligence that entailed the terror act in Beslan.

At the session of the North-Caucasian Regional Military Court on the case of two officers (Evgeniy Khudyakov and Sergey Arakcheev), accused of murdering peaceful Chechens, the defendants' advocates have petitioned about sending the case to the Military Prosecutor's Office for additional investigation.

Workers of the Military Counterintelligence Service and Department for Fighting Economic Crime (UBEP) of the Chief Interior Administration of Moscow (GUVD) have detained several swindlers who tried to receive under forged documents the so-called "combat" bonuses in the sum of 71 million roubles instead of 71 persons who fought in Northern Caucasus.

Every year, up to one thousand persons die in Chechnya from different types of oncology diseases. In the opinion of physicians, for lack of a specialized clinic in Chechnya, it is practically impossible to detect oncology patients at early disease phases, thus depriving them of any chance to survive.

The authorities of the Stavropol Territory interfere into the activities of the protest movement and hinder the needy people to receive help.

The Petersburg Court has sentenced four defendants in the murder case of student-antifascist Timur Kacharava to imprisonment from 2 to 12 years.

The law enforcement bodies of Ingushetia are checking the facts of beating by federal servicemen of local residents in the course of a special operation in one of Ingush villages near the border with North Ossetia.

The militants' attack on Tsa-Vedeno, when three persons fell victim, is a result of negligence and criminally poor attitude of the heads of the power agencies to their duties, Nurdi Nukhazhiev, Chechen Ombudsman, said.

Hackers have cracked the web site of the oppositional Party of National Front of Azerbaijan (PNFA) and placed photos and addresses of representatives of sexual minorities in the place of the web site.

Dr Laurent Vinatier, a French researcher from the Paris Institute of Political Studies, gave the interview on Chechen-Russian relations to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

Members of the Labour Party have filed a complaint against Georgian authorities to the European Court for Human Rights. The subject of the claim was installation of collective electricity meters.