Around Russia CAZUS SUHUMU August 11, 2009 Julia Latynina There are actions that obviously lead to the result opposite the intentions of the person who committed them. Prochrevsky PR managers arranged a DDOS-Atak on the user of CYKHYMU, defending the Barking Point of view on the war of Russia and Georgia. And they dropped Facebook, Twitter and LJ. I do not know what exactly wrote to Cykhymu about the war in Georgia, because blogs still do not work. But this has no significance.

Firstly, it seems to me that it is really clear that this is connected with the elections. Secondly, it is clear that, judging by this statement, the Kremlin believes that the situation requires public intervention, and, therefore, in addition to this intervention, it may not go according to the scenario that would suit Moscow.

Statement by the Moscow Helsinki Group Reports of the death of our colleagues are becoming tragically commonplace. Today it became known about the murder of Zarema Sadulayeva and her husband Umar Dzhabrailov, activists of the non-governmental organization “Save the Generation”, who were kidnapped the day before in Grozny. They dedicated themselves to helping victims of the undeclared war, including disabled children affected by mines.

Process: Day 151st-Day 157th. This process week was not too different from the previous ones. The prosecutors, not at all embarrassed by the obvious inconsistencies, presented documents that they would like to give out for evidence. At the same time, the participants in the process still can only guess what this or that document is proved by. The judge with bribing frankness noted that he could not force prosecutors to explain why they represent a particular document.

Mikhail Zurabov will have to wait before leaving for Ukraine as the newly appointed Russian ambassador to this country (the procedure for Kiev’s approval of the candidacy was very delayed, but the agreement from President Viktor Yushchenko was finally received). President Dmitry Medvedev said menacingly in his next video message: “He will start work later.

The head of the Chechen youth non-governmental organization “Save the Generation” Zarema Sadulayeva and her husband Alik (Umar) Dzhabrailov were killed in Chechnya. Interfax reports this with reference to Alexander Cherkasov, a member of the board of the Memorial Human Rights Center. On August 10, Sadulaeva and her husband were kidnapped by unknown armed people.

In society Troubles on the roads of Russia August 11, 2009 Pavel Protsenko Over the past few weeks, President Medvedev has repeatedly turned to the topic of catastrophic accident rate on Russian roads. At the end of July, after a collision on the Rostov highway, a regular bus with a gas station, it was noticeable in the president’s speech how much he was hurt by what had happened. More than 20 dead in only one accident.