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Earlier, the "Caucasian Knot" informed repeatedly that on November 4 in a number of cities of Russia, nationalistically-inclined parties and organizations would hold the so-called "Russian Marches."

Moscow authorities gave a permit to the Party "Narodnaya Volya" (People's Will) and Movement Against Illegal Immigration (MAII) to hold a meeting on November 4 in the place in Moscow known as Devichye Pole.

The investigators who are engaged in fact-finding of the murder of Anna Politkovskaya, observer of the "Novaya Gazeta" newspaper, have got on the trail of a supposed killer.

Most of the Chechnya natives, who had lest the Karelian city of Kondopoga after massive disorders that burst out there early in September, have made decisions on their future residence, the Spiritual Moslem Administration (SMA) of Karelia stated today.

In one of their web-sites national-socialists called up their adherents to come to the Bolotnaya Square on November 4 and provoke a fight with the participants of the antifascist meeting held there.

Today, about a hundred activists of the Party of the People's Front of Azerbaijan held a protest action, which was not sanctioned by the authorities; the place of the action was in direct proximity from the president's office.

Following the practice of Moscow and St. Petersburg, many regional capitals of the country cancelled the "Russian March." For instance, in the Krasnodar Territory, over 5000 persons requested not to admit a march of that sort.

The District Court of the Karelian city of Kondopoga started a closed session of preliminary hearing of the criminal case in relation to the instigator of the fight in the local restaurant "Chaika."

Starting from 1994, a total of 376 servicemen of the federal forces who took part in the Chechnya counter-terrorist operation have been enlisted as missing persons. Colonel of Justice Vladimir Kalita, Deputy Military Prosecutor of the United Force Grouping.

In the context of inter-ethnic clashes in the village of Vorobyovka of the Priyutnenskiy District of Kalmykia, the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of the Republic has been transferred into the intense mode of service duty.

Today, the Parliament of South Ossetia has presented its appeal to Mr. Kofi Annan, UN General Secretary, and Mr. Karel De Gucht, Acting Chairman of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe, asking to recognize the genocide of South Ossetians in 1920 and 1989-1992, and to recognize Georgia's legal and moral responsibility for genocide of South Ossetians.

The Mayor's Office of St. Petersburg gave a permit to organizers of the scandalous "Russian March" to hold their action on November 4.

The final date of the Parliamentary Commission on Beslan terror act is postponed, and they plan to hold the nearest sitting after the November holidays, Ms. Lyubov Sliska, First Vice-Speaker of State Duma told the Deputies today.

On October 30, on the Memory Day of victims of political repressions, the Moscow Independent Press Centre held a roundtable of human rights organizations on the topic "Political Persecutions in Present-Day Russia."

After the National Assembly of France has passed a law that criminalizes negation of Armenians' genocide, anti-French moods in Turkey have drawn to a head.

A magistrate judge has fined Magomed Mutsolgov, head of the non-commercial public organization "Mashr," who organized on October 16 a picket in memory of journalist Anna Politkovskaya in the city of Nazran (Ingushetia).

In Kondopoga, people started to collect signatures under the appeal to the authorities requesting them to amnesty the participants of mass disorders that burst out in Kondopoga on September 2 this year.

Ramzan Kadyrov, chairman of the Chechen government, was elected the Chair of the Assembly of the Peoples of the Chechen Republic.

In the Krasnodar Territory, they continue to deport natives of Georgia illegally staying in Russia. A total of 50 persons will be excluded.

In Nazran (Ingushetia), a court session has taken place today to trial Magomed Mutsolgov, chairman of the "Mashr" Association of Missing Persons' Relatives, and Albert Khantygov, worker of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial."