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After the mourning ceremony held in memory of the victims of the terror act at the Dubrovka Theatrical Centre in Moscow, about five hundred persons took part in a peaceful meeting.

The Presidium of the Supreme Court of Russia has confirmed the life imprisonment verdict to Nurpashi Kulaev, who took part in seizure of hostages at School No. 1 of the city of Beslan in North Ossetia.

Since 21 October 2007, the website Human Rights in Russia at www.hro.org, the largest Russian-language Internet resource on human rights in the Russian Federation, has been subjected to a relentless and concentrated computer attack with access to the site blocked.

The largest Russian language human rights website is facing a major and clearly deliberate DDoS attack.

The Amnesty International has expressed its concern of the rapid aggravation of the situation in Ingushetia, caused by the growing number of violent disappearances, kidnappings and other violations of human rights.

The European Union should use the summit Russia-EU to be held on October 26 in Portugal for a resolute dialogue with the Kremlin on the aggravating situation with human rights and justice, including Chechnya.

Yesterday, the Moscow City Court found the arrest of Shamil Buraev, former head of the Achkhoy-Martan District of Chechnya, accused of conspiracy in the murder of Anna Politkovskaya, an observer of the "Novaya Gazeta", to be legitimate.

Today, the Basmanny Court of Moscow has refused to oblige the Investigatory Committee of the General Prosecutor's Office of Russia to admit the victim party to participation in the murder case of journalist Anna Politkovskaya.

The preliminary hearing on the criminal case about the attack on Nalchik, the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria, committed on October 13, 2005, scheduled on today is postponed till November 15.

The participants of the meetings held on October 24 in Chechnya in support of the incumbent President of Russia Vladimir Putin were forced to participate in the action.

Relatives of the residents of Ingushetia detained on suspicion of blowing up the "Neva-Express" train and local human rights activists do not believe in Khidriev brothers' involvement in the incident.

Yesterday, the Moscow City Court sentenced three residents of Moscow - Sergey Beryakov, Sergey Ushakov and minor Alexander Seryogin, who were found guilty of attacks and murder on the motives of national intolerance and kindling of ethnic enmity.

Advocate Lydia Yusupova, a human rights activist from Chechnya and the organizer of the reception office of the Human Rights Centre "Memorial" in the city of Grozny, is calling her colleagues-advocates to exhibit solidarity and support advocate Irina Kodzaeva, accused by the inspector of the State Office of Public Prosecutor of violent behaviour.

On October 23, at about 11 p.m. an unknown explosive blew up in the Shamil Avenue of Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan.

Dispersal of the demonstration in Armenia on October 23 is another link in the chain of aggressive actions of the authorities directed against their own nation, told Garnik Markaryan, Chairman of the Party named "Homeland and Honour".

The relatives of the two local residents detained in Ingushetia on suspicion of blowing up the "Neva-Express" train in the Novgorod Region of Russia have started the investigation into the circumstances of their detention.

The employees of the Chechen MIA are searching two girls who disappeared three days back in Grozny under unclear circumstances.

Today, in the Imereti Lowland in the area Sochi (Krasnodar Territory), where erection of object for the 2014 Olympiad of 2014 is planned, they have started to evict refugees from Abkhazia out of their shabby dwellings.

Under the preliminary version of the explosion experts, the character of the explosion of the shuttle-taxi in the Kazbek District of Dagestan reminds the action of F-1 grenade ("limonka").

The General Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation has not answered to the application of the representatives of the "Nord-Ost" Public Organization demanding to initiate a criminal case against FSB Director Nikolai Patrushev, Vladimir Ustinov, former General Public Prosecutor and other heads of the headquarters formed to rescue the hostages, who were seized in the Theatre located in Dubrovka district in Moscow.