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On November 24, 2006, two employees of the "Novaya Gazeta" were threatened assassination. The fact was made public in the application of the edition placed in the web site of the newspaper on Monday.

The delegation of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) has declared that it will support the roundtable to be held in Grozny on situation in Chechnya provided the event is attended by the advocates of Chechnya remaining under jurisdiction of Russia.

On November 23, the capital of Finland hosted a symposium "Democracy and Human Rights in Russia," the correspondent of the "Caucasian Knot" was informed at the Society of Finnish-Chechen Friendship.

On November 24, Austrian TV lady-journalist, operator and sound operator were detained in Chechnya.

In the evening of November 24, police conducted an operation in the capital of Azerbaijan aimed at moving the "Azadlyg" newspaper, Information Agency (IA) "Turan" and the Party of National Front of Azerbaijan (PNFA) out of their premises.

The United Nations Committee Against Tortures has accused Russia of having secret prisons, violations of human rights and kidnappings in Chechnya.

The British authorities think that poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko looks like a murder organized by a state.

Today, by decision of the Sabail Court a group of activists of the Party of National Front of Azerbaijan (PNFA) was arrested for several days for participation in a non-sanctioned picket on November 23 in the vicinity of the president's administration premise.

A posthumous letter of Alexander Litvinenko, former FSB officer, who died under puzzling circumstances, was announced in London.

The human rights activists have stated that the authorities have rejected their application on re-registration of the Moscow office of the Dutch organization "Legal Initiative for Russia," which renders legal aid to Chechnya residents.

Today's sitting of the National TV and Radio Board (NTRB) of Azerbaijan has made a decision not to extend the license of the ANS TV and Radio Channel.

Alexander Litvinenko, former employee of the Federal Security Bureau (FSB) has died in London.

One of these days, Krasnodar hosted a roundtable on the topic "Adequate Methods to Counteract Xenophobia. Safety of Foreign Students."

Today in Baku, capital of Azerbaijan, the police have again violently dispersed a picket of activists of the Party of National Front of Azerbaijan (PNFA).

On November 20 in Moscow, Boris Stomakhin, journalist of the "Kavkaz-Tsentr" Chechen separatists' web-site, was sentenced to five years of custody.

The wife of Alexander Litvinenko, poisoned ex-officer of the FSB, whose health condition has seriously aggravated during the last night and became extremely grave, was urgently called to the London University Hospital, where the patient is kept. Alexander Goldfarb, Litvinenko's friend, told about it and explained in his interview to the BBC that "most probably, now he is connected to the artificial blood circulation system".

Representatives of human rights organizations deployed in Chechnya confirm the statement of the Human Rights Watch international organization that kidnappings and tortures of detained persons continue in this Republic.

On November 22 in Makhachkala, several hundreds of residents of the Kazbekovskiy District of Dagestan tried to hold a meeting to demand dismissal of Amir Azaev, head of District administration.

On November 22, the Independent Press Centre held a presentation of the report named "Tortures in Chechnya: Stabilization of Nightmare."

On November 21 in the Iranian city of Tabriz, students of religious schools held a protest action against the statements concerning Prophet Mohammed, published in Azerbaijani newspaper "Sanat," in publicist Rafik Tagi's article named "Europe and We."