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Today, citizens of Russia mark the Memory Day of the victims of political repressions of 1937, instituted by the Decree of the RSFSR Supreme Soviet of 18.10.1991 No. 1763/1-I "On Instituting the Memory Day of Victims of Political Repressions".

National Defender (Ombudsman) of Georgia Sozar Subari has named the decision of Zugdidi Court on the events in Zugdidi during the oppositional meeting on October 28 to be another shameful fact in the history of Georgian justice.

In Azerbaijan, because of terrorist threats, Embassies of the USA and Great Britain, as well as offices of western companies are still closed.

The Centre of Civil Initiatives (CCI) in Nagorno-Karabakh has hosted a roundtable on psychological rehabilitation of prisoners, their problems during the arrest and post-prison social adaptation.

The student from Adygea, who had placed in the Internet a video record showing execution of Dagestan and Tajikistan natives, has asked the court to stop his case because of his repentance.

Einullah Fatullaev, founder and editor-in-chief of newspapers "Real Azerbaijan" and "Gyundelik Azerbaijan", has been sentenced to eight and a half years of imprisonment.

The action "Return of the Names" in memory of the victims of political repressions has started in the Lubyanka Square of Moscow.

The public committee in defence of political prisoner advocate Mikhail Trepashkin has called inhuman the numerous refusals of the administration of SIZO (pre-trial detention facility) No. 1 of Ekaterinburg to hand over to the convicted ex-FSB officer Trepashkin the asthma medicines vitally wanted by him.

According to Mikhail Machavariani, Vice-Speaker of the Parliament of Georgia, the yesterday's events in the district capital of Tsalendzhikha showed that the country is governed not by President-politician, but by President - head of "death squadrons".

The employees of the Internet portal "Human Rights in Russia" (HRO.org), which was attacked by malefactors and disabled for the time being, have launched a special temporary site for information support. Its address is http://hro1.org.

As a result of the investigation, the law enforcement bodies of Dagestan have found out that Sidrat Gasankhadzhieva, a resident of the Khasavyurt District, who died on October 23 in a shuttle-taxi, had nothing to do with the explosion.

The Kabardino-Balkarian Human Rights Centre has received five applications from the relatives of the persons accused of attacking the power agencies of Kabardino-Balkaria on October 13, 2005, asking to help in defending their rights.

The Kurmukh St George church located in the Gakh District of Azerbaijan (adjoining Georgia with partially Georgian population) is still closed.

In Georgia the opposition demands that the authorities release five activists of opposition parties arrested on October 26 in the Tsalendzhikh District (region of Samegrelo, Western Georgia).

The international human rights organizations Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and Penal Reform International are recommending in their report to the government of Georgia to take urgent measures to stop tortures and cruel treatment in the places of detention and custody.

Near the Solovki Boulder in the Lubyanka Square in Moscow, a meeting was held in memory of the victims of the 1992 Ossetian-Ingush conflict in the Prigorodny District of North Ossetia.

In Armenia, editors-in-chief of oppositional newspapers "Aikakan Zhamanak" (Armenian Time) and "Chorord Ishkhanutyun" (Fourth Power) Nikol Pashinyan and Shoger Matevosyan are suspected under the articles of hooliganism and rendering resistance to the police. Ten persons in total, have also been attracted as suspects under the above articles.

At today's trial of journalist Einullah Fatullaev, the state prosecutor Chingiz Shukyurov made his statement. He has asked the court to sentence the journalist to 10 years of imprisonment.

Because of construction of a new building of the US Embassy in the capital of Azerbaijan, the authorities of the city made a decision to evict a group of refugees from the territory of the former trolleybus depot.

On the day of blowing up the "Neva-Express" train, the residents of Ingushetia arrested on suspicion of having attitude to the terror act, probably, were near to the place of the accident, a spokesman of the Malaya Vishera District Court of the Novgorod Region has told today.