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Aslambek Aslakhanov, adviser of the president of Russia, does not exclude that leaders of Chechen separatists Doku Umarov and Rapani Khalilov can reside outside Russia. "They (Umarov and Khalilov) may be outside the Russian Federation whatsoever," Mr. Aslakhanov told journalists today.

Edward Ulman, Alexander Kalaganskiy and Vladimir Voevodin, defendants in the case on execution of residents of Chechnya, have failed to appear today at the session of the North-Caucasian Military Court.

"Adygeis-repatriates should not be religion servants in Adygea and take post if imams, Nurbij Emizh, Mufti of Adygea and Krasnodar Territory, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent. In his words, "they are of different mentality."

On April 10, 2007, the Volgograd Regional Court started a trial on the attack committed on April 13, 2006, by skinheads on a Gipsy settlement and the murder of two persons in the vicinity of the city of Volzhskiy, Volgograd Region.

Today, on April 11, a session of Dagestan Antiterrorist Commission has discussed the role of mass media in ideological counteracting terrorism.

The village of Nor Maraga, Martakert District, Nagorny Karabakh, hosted a roundtable organized by the NGO of Nagorny Karabakh refugees.

Today, Transcaucasian Highway traffic was temporarily blocked in the Georgia-South Ossetia conflict zone, where Georgian power agencies are controlling the Highway section in the vicinity of the villages of the Tskhinval District of South Ossetia.

On April 10, Georgia's Premier Zurab Nogaideli took part in the closed session of the UN Security Council on discussing the situation around Georgian-Abkhazian settlement. Mr. Nogaideli acquainted the members of the Council with the main points of Georgian settlement plan.

Investigative actions are now undertaken in relation to Aladdin Malsagov, an earlier detained resident of the Republic of Ingushetia.

In the course of the meeting of the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Abkhazia, Transdniestria and South Ossetia, held today in Sukhumi, no documents have been signed.

Emma Tagaeva-Betrozova, Chair of the "Voice of Beslan" North-Ossetian NGO of the terror act victims, is calling "to take into account the opinions of the Moslems who suffered in Beslan tragedy."

Today, the Tver Regional Court has condemned two Chechnya natives to 13 years in jail each.

The Moscow Regional Court has sentenced the criminals who exploded in 2005 summer the Grozny-Moscow train to 18 an 19 years of deprivation of freedom, a Court's source reported. According to the Court representative, both defendants were found guilty under all the incriminated Articles of the Criminal Code (CC) of Russia.

The US Department of State has in fact hampered the unofficial meeting of the Abkhazian representative with the members of the UN Security Council (UNSC) on the eve of negotiations aimed to coordinate the text of a new resolution on Georgian-Abkhazian settlement.

The Galskiy District Office of the UN Mission to Abkhazia was not exposed to any plunders, the correspondent of the "Caucasian Knot" was informed today by Vadim Mysnik, Public Relations Officer of the Mission of UN Military Observers.

It has become known to the correspondent of the "Caucasian Knot" from the sources at the Office of Public Prosecutor of the city of Nalchik, capital of Kabardino-Balkaria, that the criminal case against Centre "T" under Article "Abuse of Office Powers with Use of Violence and Special Means" was suspended, since the personalities of the offenders had not been identified.

The US Department of State has disseminated a report on the situation with human rights and democracy in the world entitled "Support of Human Rights and Democracy in 2006." The report states that restrictions of mass media rights and prosecution of journalists took place in many countries, including Russia, Azerbaijan, Armenia and the Balkans.

Ilya, journalist Anna Politkovskaya's son thinks that his mother's assassins deserve life imprisonment.

So far, the law enforcement bodies of Chechnya have failed to identify the whereabouts of the brothers of Abubakar Arsamakov, president of the Moscow Industrial Bank, and a man who accompanied them, who all disappeared two months ago.

The international organization "Reporters without Borders" has expressed its discontent with the course of investigation into the murder of journalist Anna Politkovskaya.