* Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov has signed a decree on additional measures aimed at improving the human rights situation in Chechnya, which envisages, among other things, the creation of local human rights councils by city and district administration heads. * Two Chechen teenagers were killed and two injured when an explosive device they found went off in the village of Staraya Sunzha on the outskirts of the Chechen capital of Grozny, RIA Novosti reports. * Constitutional amendments approved in the December 2 referendum in Chechnya will concern about 50 articles of the republic's supreme law, "Kavkazsky uzel" reports. * Faruk Khasukhanov, a senior Sharia authority in the Chechen exile government, has called for the creation of a joint commission that would tackle the rift between supporters of an independent Chechen state and advocates of a Caucasus Emirate, Chechenpress reports.
Calendar
* 7.12. - Leipzig (Germany): Conference on the Languages of the Caucasus, organized by Bernard Comrie (Max Planck Institute, Department of Linguistics) and Jasmine Dum-Tragut (University of Salzburg, Department... * 13.12. - Venice (Italy): "Legal remedies for human rights violations in the North-Caucasus Region" will be presented by rapporteur Dick Marty, Switzerland, and then discussed at a session of PACE's Committee... * 13.12. - Minsk (Belarus): Russian President Vladimir Putin will visit Belarus.
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