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Prime Minister of Turkey Redzhep Tayip Erdogan has refuted the news about the recall of the country's ambassador from Washington because of the issue of the genocide of Armenians.

Andrei Bachman, a political scientist and activist of antifascist movement of Volgograd, states that it is possible to eradicate violence in the armed forces by means of humanism.

The defence of Andrei Keilin, a resident of Karachaevo-Circassia, accused earlier of murdering two Stavropol students on June 3 this year, continues to demand compensation for illegal arrest of their client.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of South Ossetia informed that the Georgian party has made an attempt to kidnap a resident of the Republic of South Ossetia (RSO).

In the city of Volzhsk, Volgograd Region, mass detentions of Gipsies by militia continue.

Natalia Estemirova, an employee of the Human Rights Centre "Memorial" in Chechnya, the laureate of the first annual world award named after Anna Politkovskaya, is going to spend the award money on legal assistance to victims of tortures and faked criminal cases in Chechnya.

The "Mother's Law" human rights organization of soldiers' parents (Volgograd) makes comments on cancellation of delays from recruiting to the military service granted on family circumstances and future changes in the law "On Conscription and Military Service."

The International Conference "Russia - a Year after Anna Politkovskaya's Murder" is currently underway in Washington.

Today Turkey has recalled its ambassador from the USA. The motive was the passing a resolution by the Foreign Relations Committee of the House of the Congress on recognition of the fact of genocide in relations to Armenians in the epoch of the Ottoman Empire.

The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed about the meeting with French President Nicolas Sarkozy by Svetlana Gannushkina, member of the Board of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" and member of the Board on Human Rights under President of Russia, and Oleg Orlov, Chairman of the Board of the HRC "Memorial."

According to relatives of Albert Gorbakov who was killed last night, neither Albert nor his detained brothers Shamil and Kaloy had any explosives as of the moment of detention.

The consideration of the cassation complaint of Mikhail Trepashkin, ex-FSB officer, appointed for today at the Sverdlovsk Regional Court against the ruling on toughening his custody conditions has failed again.

In Azerbaijan, journalist Einullah Fatullaev has petitioned to summon Elmar Mamediarov, head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA).

Today in Moscow, the topics of the meeting of French President Nicolas Sarkozy with the activists of the Human Rights Centre "Memorial" were the freedom of speech and situation with human rights in Northern Caucasus.

Khanali Umakhanov, formerly accused of organizing the terror act in Kaspijsk (Dagestan) on May 9, 2002, has managed to adjudge five millions roubles from the government of Russia.