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Nino Kadzhaya, head of the press service of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of Georgia, told the correspondent of the "Caucasian Knot" that on November 1-2 in Moscow, within the session of the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the Organization of Black Sea Economic Cooperation (BSEC), a meeting will take place of the ministers of foreign affairs of Russia and Georgia.

Georgian non-governmental organizations are commencing their litigation at the European Court on the facts of mass deportation of Georgian citizens and violations of fundamental human rights in Russia.

On October 26, the European Court for Human Rights will consider a complaint lodged by Etimad Asadov and other leaders of the Society of Azerbaijani Veterans of Karabakh War.

The criminal case on terror acts near the "Rizhskaya" Moscow Metro station and in the train car between the "Avtozavodskaya" and "Paveletskaya" stations will be heard by a sole judge in a closed trial.

The latest criminal cases on the articles by Anna Politkovskaya, murdered observer of the "Novaya Gazeta," were initiated back in spring this year, Sergey Sokolov, deputy editor-in-chief of "Novaya Gazeta," informed.

Before the end of 2006, relatives of Dubrovka terror act victims will go to law against the officials who headed the headquarters in charge of hostage rescue.

On the basis of the video tape frames published by the "Novaya Gazeta" newspaper in the article of Anna Politkovskaya, murdered in Moscow on October 7, a criminal case has been initiated.

Investigation of the criminal case has been finished in relation to another group of militants, members of subversive underground movement, with the help of which the leaders of Chechen separatists undertook in 2004 a terrorist attack on Russian authorities, which ended with Beslan tragedy.

Today, Moscow brings back to memory of the victims of the terrorist act in Dubrovka area.

The Georgian parliament is founding a special commission "to study facts of breaching Georgians' rights in the Russian Federation.

Russia does not support the intention of Abkhazia and South Ossetia to separate from Georgia, Vladimir Putin stated at the informal Russia-EU summit.

Authorities of Iran continue to exert pressure on mass media in South Azerbaijan. In several recent days, 8 journalists were arrested under different pretexts.

Today's meeting of editors representing a number of Azerbaijani mass media discussed the issue of the fate of the building where the "Azadlyg" newspaper and a number of other media and NGOs are located.

At Vladimir Putin's meeting with the leaders of European Union countries, the parties touched upon the issue of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya's murder, Matti Vanhanen, Prime Minister of Finland.

Moslems of Dagestan stand against introduction into curriculums of secular schools of the discipline "Fundamentals of Orthodox Culture" (FOC) and in general against teaching any religion, Muhammad-Rasul-hadji Saaduev, chief imam of the Central Jumah-Mosque of the capital of Dagestan, head of the Board of Imams of Makhachkala.

The investigation knows the murder motives of journalist Anna Politkovskaya, Alexander Buksman, First Deputy General Prosecutor of Russia, declared.

Some 400 branches of foreign-based non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have suspended their work in Russia in the context of enforcement of the Law on NGOs, human rights activists declared.

About 300 members of illegal armed formations (IAFs) came to surrender to the law enforcement bodies of the Chechen Republic from the start of this year.

During several last weeks, the militants undertook a number of serious sallies and diversion-terrorist actions in the territory of the Chechen Republic.

Since today, Moscow branch of Human Rights Watch (HRW) has suspended its operations, since not yet being reregistered under the new Law on Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs).