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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.

On August 28, opposite the building of the Federal Registration Service (FRS) in Moscow, a picket was held with a demand to liquidate this Service.

In Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, the police have beaten the relatives of those who perished or disappeared under the collapsed 16-storey house.

At the Republic's Clinical Hospital of Vladikavkaz, the advocate Irina Kodzaeva was examined by the on duty neurosurgeon and diagnosed brain concussion.

Anarchist from St-Petersburg Andrei Kalyonov, arrested on suspicion of organizing the explosion of the "Neva-Express" train, has stopped his protest hunger strike.

The murder of Russian teacher Liudmila Teryokhina has been opened in Ingushetia.

Today, Gambar Gambarov and Etimad Bydagov, employees of the Institute of Reporters' Freedom and Safety, have been detained by securities from the Azerbaijani President's machinery.

In the centre of Moscow, militiamen have dispersed a meeting in support of St-Petersburg anarchists detained on the case of blowing up the "Neva Express" train on August 13.

On August 27, Ernest Mezak, a Board member of the "Memorial" Komi Human Rights Commissions (KHRC), lodged an appeal to the Supreme Court of the Republic against refusal of the City Court of Komi's capital, the city of Syktyvkar, to recognize illegal the Russia's postal blockade of Georgia.

At today's judicial session on the case of Farkhad Aliev, ex-Minister of Economic Development of Azerbaijan, his brother Rafik Aliev and 17 other persons, the main defendant has stated that he rejects the defence.

In the course of yesterday's hearings at the sitting of the Commission for Human Rights of the European Parliament in Brussels, the authorities of Azerbaijan were criticized for the poor state of affairs with human rights in their country.

Mr Makhmudov, the native of Chechnya, arrested on charges of association in Anna Politkovskaya's murder, was beaten.

Murad Musaev, advocate of one of the detainees, has informed that three brothers-Chechens are now among the persons arrested in relation to the murder case of journalist Anna Politkovskaya.

The Investigatory Committee of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs has rejected the petition of Manana Aslamazyan, head of the Foundation "Educated Media", accused of money contraband, to consider her criminal case without her presence - in absentia.

At the Urvan District Court (Kabardino-Balkaria), the CD with the materials of the investigatory experiment on the criminal case initiated on the fact of murder of Islam Kumyshev, 14, was found drilled through with a bore.

The Spiritual Department of Moslems (SDM) of Abkhazia is concerned of the situation around the Muslim community of the Republic and development of Islam as a whole.

A powerful explosive device has been detected in Ingushetia under the railway bridge near the road that connects the area of the Kommunalnaya Street with a suburb of the city of Nazran - the Altievo village.

Young people of Ingushetia continue to prepare a collective claim against President Murat Zyazikov.