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In the city of Olonets (Karelia), unknown persons set on fire bar "Ogonyok" (Ginger), belonging to natives of North Caucasus, the regional department of the Ministry for Emergencies ("MChS") informed.

The victims agree with all the conclusions of part seven of the alternative report of Yuri Saveliev, a State Duma deputy and member of the parliamentary commission for investigating the reasons and circumstances of the Beslan terror act.

The Moscow-based office of the international human rights organization Human Rights Watch has suspended its activities.

Russian courts of the Pre-Volga Federal District have ruled to deport another group of about 150 Georgian citizens out of the country.

In the context of the death of an illegal migrant from Georgia, the Georgian MFA has accused the Russian authorities of infringing the rights of Georgian citizens.

Wednesday, October 18, is the deadline established for the affiliates of foreign-based non-governmental organizations (NGOs) for presenting their reregistration documents to the Federal Registration Service ("Rosregistratsia").

On October 17, 2006, a complaint was lodged to the Syktyvkar City Court on the decisions of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise (FSUE) "Pochta Rossii" (Russian Postal Service), by which the international postal exchange with Georgia had been suspended.

The criminal case of the fight instigator in the "Chaika" restaurant of the Karelia town of Kondopoga at night on the eve of August 30, 2006, where then mass disorders burst out, has been transferred to the court.

A notification on holding on October 16 a picket in memory of Anna Politkovskaya in Nazran (Ingushetia), which was violently dispersed by militia, was submitted to the city's administration by the "Mashr" Republic's Association of Relatives of Missing Persons on October 12.

Today, the Supreme Court of the Karachayevo-Cherkessian Republic held another regular session on the criminal case of Ali Kaitov et al., accused of murdering seven citizens of the Republic.

Arkady Edelev, Deputy Minister of the Russian MIA, declared that Anzor Astemirov, one of the organizers of militants' attack on Nalchik last October, was associated with special services of foreign countries.

Tengiz Togonidze, 58, one of Georgian citizens deported from St. Petersburg, died of an asthma attack in the morning of October 17 straight in the Domodedovo Airport.

Chechnya is reducing the count of kidnapped people, but the problem is still pressing, Russian human rights activists are asserting.

Three women, ordinary participants of the action in Nazran (Ingushetia), held in memory of Anna Politkovskaya, and collaborators of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial," namely, Fatima Yandieva, Zoya Muradova and Zarema Mukusheva, were awarded yesterday for "breaching the established order of holding a picket" with a 500-rouble fine each.

In the course of dispersing the picket held in memory of deceased Anna Politkovskaya in Nazran (Ingushetia), the members of power agencies detained three participants of the action. Another lady-picketer was taken to hospital.

Today, at about 3:30 p.m., members of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Ingushetia moved to the venue of a picket in memory of Anna Politkovskaya in Nazran (Ingushetia).

NATO is not planning to move its peacekeepers into the conflict zones of Georgia with Abkhazia and South Ossetia, Raymond Enot, chairman of the NATO's Military Committee asserted.

The daughter of Anna Politkovskaya, the murdered "Novaya Cazeta's" journalist, is under constant guard.

Registration of foreign-based non-commercial organizations (NCOs) will continue after expiry of the final term for re-registration, Natalia Vishnyakova, Director of the Department for Control, Organization and Audit of the Ministry of Justice, told the press conference.

The decision of the French National Congress has been welcomed by Vardan Oskanian, minister of foreign affairs of Armenia.