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The Supreme Court of Russia has vacated a sentence to two Chechnya natives - Musa Vakhaev and Kazbek Dukuzov, who were acquitted on the murder case of Paul Khlebnikov, editor-in-chief of Russian Forbes.

Today, a hunger-strike action in protest against expulsion of the "Azadlyg" newspaper out of its own office was launched by the heads of six mass media of Azerbaijan, namely.

The students of the University "Independent Azerbaijan" held a picket in front of the building of the Ministry of Education of Azerbaijan.

Tomorrow, on November 9, 2006, the European Court for Human Rights will make its decision on disappearance in Chechnya of father and son Imakaevs.

The statement of Umar Jabrailov, Chechnya's Senator at the Council of Federation of Russia, on the need for Alu Alkhanov, today's head of the Republic, to pass over his authorities to Ramzan Kadyrov, head of the Cabinet of Ministers, caused an ambiguous reaction in Chechnya.

On November 9, 2006, the European Court for Human Rights will make its decision on disappearance in Chechnya of father and son Imakaevs.

Vyacheslav Zhuravlyov, a militiaman from Nizhnevartovsk, suspected by the State Office of Public Prosecutor of implication in killing journalist Anna Politkovskaya, has stated in his interview to the "Komsomolskaya Pravda" newspaper that he had nothing to do with the murder, and moreover, in no case could have been its executor.

According to the National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC), from the moment of announcing the amnesty, a total of 380 militants have voluntarily surrendered in Russia.

Today, it is precisely one month after the murder of journalist Anna Politkovskaya.

At their today's sitting, the Board of Editors of Azerbaijani mass media made a decision to hold a series of protest actions in the context of the facts of pressure on the press and attempts to move the "Azadlyg" newspaper out of its building.

Mr. Umar Jabrailov, Chechnya's representative in the Council of Federation, thinks that Alu Alkhanov, president of Chechnya, should resign and pass over his powers to Ramzan Kadyrov, chairman of the government.

The Organizing Committee of the "Russian March" is going to hold another march dedicated to Stalin's birthday.

The meeting has adopted a resolution, in which participants declared a reality of a threat of fascism in Russia and emphasized that stand for Russia for all nations.

In Moscow, despite all the earlier multiple declarations of the authorities on the ban of any marches, the "Russian March," nevertheless, took place.

Functionaries of the "Azadlyg" Block are holding their hunger strike for the sixth day today in the building where the editorial board of the newspaper "Azadlyg" is located.

Recently, mass media of Azerbaijan have confronted the pressure of the authorities, unprecedented by force and scale. Jurisprudent Rashid Gadzhily, Director of the Media Rights Institute, thinks that the situation with printed and electronic mass media "is approaching a dangerous threshold."

On the occasion of the holiday, a solemn rally was held in the Dagestan House of Government.

According to the Embassy of Georgia in Moscow, a total of 2681 citizens of Georgia have been deported from Russia under court judgements, and 1194 Georgians more "were forced to leave the country without any legal judgements."

The Kondopoga prosecutor's office promises to finish, by the middle of November, the investigation of the murder of local citizens that had entailed massive ethnic-motivated disorders.

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."