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Two militiamen of a permanent unit at the railway station in Mineralnye Vody, Stavropol krai, have been detained. They were extorting money from servicemen going to Chechnya and back.

The Russian MIA department on SFD reports that 32 terrorist acts have been registered in the southern regions of Russia during 9 months of the current year.

The trial over Irakli Okruashvili, leader of the opposition party "Movement for United Georgia", former Georgian Minister of Defense who is currently in Germany, is scheduled for November 16.

The events in Chemulga village, Sunzha District of Ingushetia where a six-year-old child had been killed in the course of a secret operation in a private household caused a wave of indignation among the republic's residents.

On Friday, November 9, the Soviet district court of Makhachkala passed a ruling which is unprecedented for Dagestan. The court held that Said Sultanbekov, Magomed Radzhabov and Ramazan Umarov accused of preparing a terrorist act in Makhachkala were not guilty while the evidence had been planted on them by militiamen.

On November 9, in the course of a special operation in one of private households in the Sunzha District of Ingushetia, a six-year old child was occasionally injured. The boy died in the place of the incident from the inflicted wound.

The sitting of the Military Board of the Supreme Court of Russia on the so-called "Ulman's case" has been postponed till November 29. The hearing of the complaint against the verdict to Ulman and his colleagues will be held in the closed mode.

On December 10, a meeting will be held in Azerbaijan dedicated to defence of human rights, which is called to be a response to the attempts to restrict the freedom of speech and human rights.

The European Union has resolutely blamed the verdict delivered on October 30, 2007, by the Court for Grave Crimes of Azerbaijan on condemning the founder and editor-in-chief of the newspapers "Real Azerbaijan" and "Gyundelik Azerbaijan" Einullah Fatullaev to 8.5 years of imprisonment.

On November 9, the Supreme Court of Adygea cancelled the decision of the Maikop City Court made (on October 22) in favour of ecologist Valery Brinikh against the illegal, in his opinion, zoning of the Sochi National Park.

After about a 36-hour suspension, several hours ago Russian TV channels were restored in the cable television network of Tbilisi. Along with that, some of the Georgian channels are still off. This is the case with the "Imedi" (both TV and radio) and "Kavkasia".

The General Prosecutor's Office of Georgia has initiated a criminal case on the fact of mass clashes during the opposition meeting in Tbilisi on November 7.

The fate of Louisa Teboeva, a resident of Ekazhevo village (Ingushetia) who disappeared on October 19, is still unknown.

Vitaly Kaloev, a native of North Ossetia, convicted in Switzerland for murdering a "SkyGuide" Company's air traffic controller and released from prison before his term, will return to Russia in the nearest seven or eight days.

Today, the European Court for Human Rights has recognized the investigation of the application on tortures in Chechnya filed by Suleiman Medov, former resident of Grozny, to be inefficient. The Russian state should pay out 5,000 euros of compensation to him.

The majority of residents of Chechnya are convinced that Russian officers Arakcheev and Khudyakov accused of murdering three Chechens in January 2003 will incur no punishment.

President of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili who has announced that early election of the president of Georgia will be held on January 5, 2008, also suggests holding a parallel plebiscite about the date of parliamentary elections.

The international organization Human Rights Watch thinks that the police of Georgia used excessive force at dispersing the meetings in Tbilisi.

Today, broadcasting of Russian TV channels ORT, RTR and NTV, and of the Euronews channel, has been stopped in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia.

Alambek Yasaev, Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of Chechnya, has been dismissed. According to some sources, he is now in Moscow.