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Teimuraz Chedzhemov, advocate for the Committee of Victims "Beslan Mothers," has announced his resignation from the process on the main criminal case about the Beslan terror act, having explained his decision by the murder threats that he had received.

Mourning meetings in memory of the victims of Beslan (North Ossetia) terror act took place today in Moscow and St-Petersburg.

Today, September 1, 2007, is the third anniversary of Beslan tragic events. Terrorists began taking hostages at 9:15 a.m. in the yard of Secondary School No. 1, where pupils and parents had rallied to solemnly mark the "Day of Knowledge" (start of school year).

The World Adyg Brotherhood (WAB) has set an aim to translate the Universal Declaration of Human Rights into the Adyg language.

Sources in South Ossetia do not exclude that servicemen from the Ossetian peacemaking battalion, who were interned by Georgian power agents on August 29 in the Georgian-Ossetian conflict zone, are exposed to tortures.

In the city of Karabulak (Ingushetia), unknown persons have murdered the husband and two sons of local teacher Draganchuk, Vera Borisovna.

Andrei Nalyotov, organizer of the meeting in memory of Anna Politkovskaya held on August 30 in the centre of Moscow, will face trial on charges on breaching the established order of organizing actions.

Ex-Colonel of the FSB (Federal Security Bureau) Mikhail Trepashkin has sent an application to Mr Ban Ki-moon, Secretary General of the United Nations, with a request to demand from the Russian law enforcement bodies to release him and revise his criminal case.

Ilyas Timishev, a resident of Kabardino-Balkaria and a forced migrant from the Chechen Republic, has appealed to the court against the refusal of the Migration Service of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) to issue a regular passport to his daughter with a reference to the fact that she was not registered in the city of Nalchik.

One of the eyewitnesses of the murder of the young man named Islam Garakoev committed on August 30 in Nazran (Ingushetia) asserts that the killers threatened the witnesses of the incident with their sub-machine guns and shot atop of their heads.

The "Gazeta.Ru" reports with a reference to its high-ranking source in the investigatory bodies of Ingushetia that the main version of the explosion is an act of terror dated to September 1.

The health condition of Azerbaijani prisoner Faramaz Allakhverdiev, an employee of the "Nota Bene" newspaper, continues to aggravate.

The participants of the meeting in memory of Anna Politkovskaya, which was held today in the Novopushkinskiy Mini-Park in Moscow on the birthday of the murdered journalist, have expressed hope that there are those true guilty among the detainees of the State Office of Public Prosecutor on suspicion of the murder of the journalist.

Zakir Garalov, General Public Prosecutor of Azerbaijan, has stated today to journalists that the version of an explosion as the cause of the house collapse in Baku is inconsistent.

Since August 29, the work has been paralyzed of the Foundation in Support of Tolerance, which was founded instead of the liquidated Society of Russian-Chechen Friendship.

In Ingushetia, fighters of a mobile detached unit have assassinated Islam Garakoev, 16. The incident has happened today in Nazran at about 5:30 p.m. in the Ekazhevskiy market.

The court has made a decision to exhume the bodies of the Chechen residents, of whose murder the officers of internal troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia Evgeniy Khudyakov and Sergey Arakcheev are accused.

The natives of the Caucasus murdered at night of May 30 in Moscow turned out to be Azerbaijanis.

The Nalchik City Court has passed a decision to partially satisfy the claim lodged by Khamidbi Apshev, a resident of Nalchik, the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria, and to collect 30,000 roubles from the state treasury in favour of the claimant as indemnification of his moral damage.

The case related to complaints of Black Sea Shapsug nationals Islam Napso and Kharet Tesheva at the Judicial Board for Civil Cases of the Krasnodar Territorial Court was decided in favour of the applicants.