Human rights activists have condemned the actions of power agents of Ingushetia under a simulated evacuation from the Republic's Clinical Hospital in Nazran. The training alert was announced there on August 21; however, at first, only law enforcement bodies knew about it, while ordinary people took the mess for the reality and were strongly frightened.

On August 21, the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Ingushetia announced that an unknown person had called the city militia unit and said that a woman-suicide bomber had penetrated into the territory of the hospital aiming to commit a terror act there. The building of the hospital was cordoned, and all the people inside - about two hundred in total - were evacuated and gathered in the yard.

By her appearance and behaviour, the visitor to the ...

Experts of some Chechen NGOs stick to the opinion that relatives and family members of the two suicide bombers, who blew themselves in the afternoon on August 21 in Grozny killing four employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Chechnya and a young woman, are under threat of punitive and repressive measures.

"I'm afraid that relatives of Batalov and Saltakhanov (surnames of suicide bombers, - comment of the "Caucasian Knot") can face very serious problems, since power agencies are already openly using the principle of collective responsibility in relation to militants' relatives," said the leader of one of local NGOs.

After a suicide bomber blew himself up in the end of July in Grozny, his mother's house was burnt down; and the mother and several close relatives of that guy disappeared," said the source of the "Caucasian Knot". 

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In Astrakhan, a magistrate judge of the Kirov District has recognized local resident Nadiya Fokina guilty of hooliganism and sentenced her to a fine of 500 roubles; on August 17, she criticized Alexander Zhilkin, Governor of the Astrakhan Region, in the presence of Russian President Dmitri Medvedev, when the former demonstrated a repaired embankment to the latter.

According to her story, Ms Fokina asked the Governor not to make "pokazukha" (window dressing). According to militiamen, Nadiya Fokina, having seen Russian President and Governor of the Astrakhan Region, started loudly crying out curses. "She spoke obvious obscene words, we can say, she attempted on President," the local UVD (Interior Department) asserts.

The "Kommersant" writes that UVD officials managed to prove at the court that the woman had swore hard in the presence of the head of the state, thus, breaking the public order. 

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