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The Azeri authorities use all possible mechanisms for destroying the freedom of speech in the country, director of the "Institute of Peace and Democracy" Leila Yunus states.

Representatives of the law enforcement agencies do not preclude the possibility that the militants killed on November 12 in the Dagestan capital intended to capture hostages in the gymnasium No 7 located nearby.

Vitaly Kaloev, resident of North Ossetia who was serving a prison term in Switzerland for the murder of Peter Nilsen, Skyguide air carrier air traffic controller, and released before term, has returned to Moscow.

The Chechen residents arrested in Moscow in May who, according to the investigators, have to do with the car loaded with explosives and left near the "Profsoyuznaya" metro station, may be accused of preparing an attempt on Ramzan Kadyrov's life.

Amnesty International has called upon the Georgian authorities to promptly conduct a careful, impartial and independent investigation of reports on applying excessive force by special police units during the dispersal of anti-government demonstrations on November 7 in Tbilisi.

Matthew Bryza, assistant of the US State Secretary, states that lifting of the emergency state in the Georgian capital is one of the main requests of the USA.

The Dagestan MIA has cited the names of seven militants killed in the course of a secret operation conducted today in Makhachkala.

Search is under way in the Kerch Strait, Krasnodar krai, for the crew members of the "Nakhichevan" dry cargo ship which sank in the Azov Sea on November 11.

On November 11, six Russian sea vessels crashed in Kerch Strait in the storm (two dry cargo ships with sulfur load sank, a tanker cracked, and a non-self-propelled barge and a sea floating crane stuck in low water).

A car with Russian specialists in mobile communications has been shot at in the center of Nazran, Ingushetia. One person has been killed and three more wounded.

In the opinion of political scientist Liana Kvarcheliya, employee of Abkhasian Centre of Humanitarian Programs (CHP), the policy of Mikhail Saakashvili, the current Georgian president, is methodically and consistently taking the country away from democracy.

Two militiamen of a permanent unit at the railway station in Mineralnye Vody, Stavropol krai, have been detained. They were extorting money from servicemen going to Chechnya and back.

The Russian MIA department on SFD reports that 32 terrorist acts have been registered in the southern regions of Russia during 9 months of the current year.

The trial over Irakli Okruashvili, leader of the opposition party "Movement for United Georgia", former Georgian Minister of Defense who is currently in Germany, is scheduled for November 16.

The events in Chemulga village, Sunzha District of Ingushetia where a six-year-old child had been killed in the course of a secret operation in a private household caused a wave of indignation among the republic's residents.

On Friday, November 9, the Soviet district court of Makhachkala passed a ruling which is unprecedented for Dagestan. The court held that Said Sultanbekov, Magomed Radzhabov and Ramazan Umarov accused of preparing a terrorist act in Makhachkala were not guilty while the evidence had been planted on them by militiamen.

On November 9, in the course of a special operation in one of private households in the Sunzha District of Ingushetia, a six-year old child was occasionally injured. The boy died in the place of the incident from the inflicted wound.

The sitting of the Military Board of the Supreme Court of Russia on the so-called "Ulman's case" has been postponed till November 29. The hearing of the complaint against the verdict to Ulman and his colleagues will be held in the closed mode.

On December 10, a meeting will be held in Azerbaijan dedicated to defence of human rights, which is called to be a response to the attempts to restrict the freedom of speech and human rights.

The European Union has resolutely blamed the verdict delivered on October 30, 2007, by the Court for Grave Crimes of Azerbaijan on condemning the founder and editor-in-chief of the newspapers "Real Azerbaijan" and "Gyundelik Azerbaijan" Einullah Fatullaev to 8.5 years of imprisonment.