All-Russian conference on Cossack affairs to open in Kaliningrad

KALININGRAD, August 6 (Itar-Tass) - A two-day national conference will
open in Russia's westernmost enclave of Kaliningrad on Thursday to discuss
the state of the Cossack movement in Russia. Delegations from almost 70
Russian regions, representatives of the Russian president's envoys in the
North-Western and the Siberian Federal Districts, federal ministries and
agencies, Russian Cossack societies will participate in the forum to be
chaired by Maxim Travnikov, the deputy minister for regional development.
Travnikov is also the head of a permanent commission that attracts
the Cossacks to participation in national projects and state target
programs set up under the Council for the affairs of the Cossacks under
the Russian president.
It's not accidental that Kaliningrad has been chosen as the venue for
the Cossack forum. The Cossack movement in the Kaliningrad region is one
of the most dynamic in Russia. The Cossacks have accumulated vast
experience in state service and the patriotic upbringing of youth.
The delegates will consider social and political aspects of the
Cossack movement, methodological approaches of the bodies of state power
to the establishment and development of the Cossack movement and
principles of interaction of state power bodies and Cossack societies.
Practical classes on how to organize interaction of Cossack societies
with the Russian Emergencies Ministry in the protection of nature and
environment and interaction of Cossack societies with territorial branches
of the federal bodies of state power will be held on the forum's sidelines.
A groundbreaking ceremony will be held at a place where a monument to
the Cossack unity is going to be built.

.Over 3,300 Russians from South Ossetia sue Georgian leadership.

MOSCOW, August 6 (Itar-Tass) - More than three thousand Russians
living in South Ossetia, wounded Russian servicemen and the relatives of
the dead have filed a lawsuit against the Georgian leadership, including
President Mikhail Saakashvili, to the European Court of Human Rights,
Rossiyskaya Gazeta writes in an article titled "Saakashvili is Being
Summoned to Court" on Thursday. More than 3,300 applications have been
submitted to the Court's secretariat. The Court accepted the first seven
complaints as a priority.
idden under the 1980 Geneva Convention.
Russian Emergencies Ministry experts removed 3,078 mines and
ammunition, including two 500-kilogarm-air bombs, in the populated areas
of Khetagurovo and Dzhava, which had been shelled, bombed and invaded by
the Georgian army.

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