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At the meeting at the ICPO, the CPJ experts were told that the Committee is involved in all the above mentioned 19 murder cases of Russian journalists; inspectors are ready to reconsider some of them, for example, the murder case of Magomed Evloev, owner of the website "Ingushetia.Ru".

Today, the Moscow City Court has sentenced three skinheads to 8-21 years in prison after finding them guilty of several murders committed in Volgograd and Moscow in 2007-2009, as well as of organizing a series of explosions in public places.

Yunus Rabadanov, a resident of the city of Izberbash, said today that local law enforcers tried to kidnap him, and wounded him and an occasional passer-by Murad Radjabov.

Specialists from the "Leader" Centre for High Risk Rescue Operations of the Ministry for Emergencies (MfE) of Russia continue their work in the territory of the state farm "Zarya" in the Grozny District of Chechnya. In the near future the sappers hope to de-mine around ten hectares of agricultural lands of this state farms.

Vyacheslav Lebedev, Chairman of the Supreme Court, said that the litigation initiated by the Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov against Oleg Orlov, head of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", was a mistake. This was stated by Kati Marton, a member of the board of the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), after meeting with Mr Lebedev.

On October, 5, Manvel Saribekian, Armenian soldier detained on September, 11, in Azerbaijan committed a suicide, the Ministry of Defense of Azerbaijan reports. People in Armenia do not believe in the suicide version.

Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) in New York has announced the names of the laureates of International Free press award, 2010. Nadira Isayeva, editor-in-chief of Dagestani weekly "Chernovik" was named among them. This prize is awarded for bravery displayed by journalists and publishers while carrying out their professional duties.

During the meeting held in Tuapse on October, 3, militia officers detained Roman Krylov, animal-defending activist, for using a black and green flag.

On October, 5, law enforcement bodies in Georgia detained the leaders of an importer company "Trans-Cargo" and the personnel of shopping centers "Kidobani" and "Passage", their total number comes to about 170 people. The mass detention was reported by Investigation service of the Ministry of finance of the country.

The Observatory for Protection of Human Rights Defenders has released its Annual Report for 2010 "Adamant in Protest". The report, partially translated into Russian, covers the struggle for human rights around the world throughout the year. Its essential part is on the former Soviet Union countries, including Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia and Russia.

Law enforcement agencies of Belarus have detained a supposed telephone terrorist, who reported about a bomb aboard the Moscow-Grozny aircraft.

The terrorist who had planted a bomb, which was triggered on May 1 in the hippodrome in the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria, was killed on August 28 in Nalchik as a result of a special operation, said Vladimir Markin, spokesman of the Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office (ICPO) of the Russian Federation.

The Italian Company "Gierre" has begun building, near the Karakhach Pass, Shirak Region, Armenia's second wind farm; the power will make 90 MW. This was reported by Armen Movsisyan, Minister of Energy and Natural Resources of Armenia.

The person assassinated today during a special operation in Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan, was identified as Erlan Yusupov, born in 1987, who was involved in a series of killings of law enforcement officials. This was stated by the Information Centre of the National Anti-Terrorist Committee (NAC).

Today, members of the initiative group "Electrozink. What do we breathe in?" active in the website "Odnoklassniki.ru" held a picket near the building of the local "Rospotrebnadzor" (Russian Federal Agency for Consumer Supervision) against the amicable agreement of the Agency with the "Electrozink" factory. The picket was also recalled a strong emission of hazardous substances by the factory right one year ago.

An anonymous letter was placed on one of Ingush websites published an anonymous letter, stating a threat to the life of Magomed Mutsolgov, head of the Ingush human rights organization "Mashr" from President of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Evkurov. Kaloi Akhilgov, Mr Evkurov's press secretary, treated the letter as "a raving." Mutsolgov himself says that he does not believe in reality of the threats, but does not rule out possible provocations against him and Evkurov.

Two women fell down from the ropeway in the resort village of Dombay in Karachai-Circassia. One of them died, the other was seriously injured. The accident happened on October 2, and on October 4 it became known that one of the tourists - Olga Lyubimova, 40, a resident of the city of Elektrostal, Moscow Region, died from received traumas.

In the evening on October 4, two militiamen were injured when attacked by unidentified persons in the Kirov District of Makhachkala, said a source from local law enforcement bodies.

The death of Georgian luger (sleigh racer) Nodar Kumaritashvili on the Olympic track in Whistler on the eve of the opening ceremony of Winter Olympics-2010 in Canada was a result of a tragic accident. This is the conclusion of the inspector dealing with the case.

From now on abduction of girls and women for marriage in Chechen Republic is prohibited. Abduction of a bride will now be equated with kidnapping and all those guilty will be not only fined but also punished in accordance with the legislation of the country.