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The event marking the 4th anniversary of the murder of the observer of the "Novaya Gazeta" was held in Chistoprudny Boulevard in Moscow.

As stated by Georgian Prime Minister Nikoloz Gilauri, his country will not vote for Russia's accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO), unless Russia allows Georgian customs officers to work in Abkhazia and South Ossetia.

The Gori District Court has imposed a fine of 400 laris on Joni Nanetashvili, director general of "Trialeti" TV Company, for resisting patrol policemen.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled that Russia shall pay out around 350,000 euros on the claims lodged by relatives of those Chechens who had disappeared or were tortured.

Chechen refugees who arrive in Europe come across a number of problems often connected with specific features of European laws and in such situations they are most of all afraid of deportation to Russia. Therefore by holding an action of protest on October, 6, in Strasbourg these people wished to draw public attention to their problems, Helena Gabrelyan, journalist of French radio RFI said to a reporter of "Caucasian Knot".

A car with a corpse of an unknown man, arms and grenades in the cabin was found at 23:50, October, 6, in the village of Plievo in Ingushetia, a source in law enforcement agencies of the region reported.

A women's meeting of protest in front of the house of the Government in Grozny on October, 4, was dispersed with the help of the firemen of Ministry of Emergency situations (MES), a representative of one of the local non-governmental organizations reported. He said that a group of women was protesting against frauds with the mothers' capital.

Chechen field commanders publicly renounced their oath to Dokku Umarov and selected a new leader for themselves. This has become Husein Gakaev.

The interim commission of the parliament of Georgia set up to study the circumstances of the death of Zviad Gamsakhurdia, first president of Georgian, is waiting for photo materials from the Russian Prosecutor's Office of the examination, which was held in Rostov-on-Don in 2007.

As reported by Vladimir Markin, spokesman of the Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office (ICPO) of the Russian Federation, new suspects have now been established in the murder case of Anna Politkovskaya, a reporter of the "Novaya Gazeta", and international requests have been sent on legal aid to a number of European countries.

As reported today by the territorial department of the "Rospotrebnadzor", all the preventive and anti-epidemiological measures have been completed in the Beloglinskiy District of the Krasnodar Territory, where after September 19, cases of anthrax (Siberian plague) in animals were revealed in one of the farms.

The large-scale actions aimed to find members of the armed underground unleashed in late September in the foothill and mountain regions of Chechnya continue, but so far, despite involvement of huge forces, they gave no feasible results.

Georgia gets used to revised Constitution; election race in SFD regions becomes more complicated; instability in south of Russia brings people out to rallies of protest against terrorism and violations of human rights, - look these and other events in the review of the week of September 27-October 3, 2010, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

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.