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Today, the court of the Korelian town of Kondopoga has sent back to the prosecutor's office the case against one of the instigators of the mass fight that led to the murder of two locals.

The Leninskiy District Court of the city of Vladikavkaz has recognized the so-called situational examination on Beslan act of terror to be illegal.

The Council of Europe regards the referendum on South Ossetia independence from Georgia to be "excessive, useless and unfair."

Bella Plieva, head of the Central Electoral Commission of South Ossetia, informed that 96% of voters have cast their ballots for Eduard Kokoity, incumbent president of South Ossetia, and so far, ballot papers from 64 out of 78 constituencies, that is about 80% of the total, have been processed.

The International Organization Human Rights Watch has disseminated a report on tortures in Chechnya.

Mr. Litvinenko asserts that on November 1, in a restaurant in the Piccadilly Circle, Mr. Scaramella gave him a certain document: "I understood from the text that the people mentioned therein could have actually organized Anna Politkovskaya's murder."

On December 18, the Presnya Court of Moscow will consider on the merits the claim lodged by 41 residents of the Chechen Borozdinovskaya village to the Ministry of Defence (MoD) on collection of 126 million Russian roubles.

Russian human rights activists have submitted a notification to the authorities on a picket to mark the 40th day after Anna Politkovskaya's murder, the "Echo Moskvy" reports. It is planned for the evening of November 15 in the Novopushkinskiy Mini-Park of Moscow.

Militia lieutenant colonel Alexander Prilepin, searched on suspicion of participation in Anna Politkovskaya's murder, gave an interview to journalists of the "Rossiyskaya Gazeta" newspaper, in which he declared his innocence and that the crime was politically motivated.

The Committee for State Security ("KGB") of South Ossetia has informed about disclosure of the plot devised by special agencies of Georgia on physical destruction of Eduard Kokoity, president of the Republic.

Saidali Luluev, who was not happy with the judgment of the European Court on the case of his wife's murder in Chechnya, had himself objected to his name being mentioned in the claim documents, since feared that it could damage his judge career, Arsen Sakalov, director of the Ingush Public Organization "Legal Initiative" that assisted the Luluevs family in lodging the complaint to Strasbourg, told.

Mr. Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, NATO Secretary General, has declared that the Alliance stands against the independence referendum and presidential election in South Ossetia to be held on November 12.

The Moscow prosecutor's office detained again Fail Sadretdinov who was earlier acquitted on the case of murder of Paul Khlebnikov, editor-in-chief of the Russian version of the Forbes magazine.

A group of editors of Azerbaijani mass media continue their hunger strike action. The protesters' requirements have not changed, they still demand from the authorities to address the problem of "Azadlyg" newspaper and other mass media.

A total of 160 non-commercial organizations (NCOs) from 17 countries have passed the reregistration procedure in Russia, including human rights organization "Human Rights Watch" and "Amnesty International."

Saidali Luluev, husband of Nura Lulueva, a peaceful resident murdered in Chechnya, whose family is the winner of the yesterday's, November 9, case versus Russia at the European Court for Human Rights, remains unsatisfied with the Court's judgment.

The Russian Ministry of Justice intends to consider an application of the Georgian party on infringements of the rights of Georgian citizens in the process of detainment and deportation from the territory of Russia, Vladimir Ustinov, Minister of Justice of Russia, informed.

Today, lawyer Supyan Baskhanov, head of the regional representative office of the Committee Against Tortures in Chechnya, has informed that he received an answer to his complaint on the actions of the officials of the State Office of Public Prosecutor in violation by them of the Constitution of the Russian Federation, laws and regulatory acts of the General Public Prosecutor of the Russian Federation, and the rights of the victim named Alaudin Sadykov.

Today, the European Court for Human Rights has sustained a complaint of Turko Luluev, resident of the city of Gudermes of the Chechen Republic, on disappearance and murder in Chechnya of his mother, and a suit of Marzet Imakaeva, former resident of the village of Novye Atagi, on detainment and disappearance of her son and husband.

A year has passed after one of the most tragic events in the new history of Kabardino-Balkaria: an armed revolt of about two hundred young Moslems.