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The management of Russian FSS and Armenian National Security Service have signed two new protocols on combating terrorism in Yessentuki (Stavropol krai) today.

The National Council on TV and Radio (NCTVR) of Azerbaijan has adopted a decision to the effect that radio stations "Freedom", BBC and "Voice of America" and TV station "Voice of America" are re-broadcast by certain broadcasters in Azerbaijan without appropriate contracts, which is illegal.

"Unfortunately, almost no one knows the works of Orkhan Pamuk here." This has been stated by Nelson Shakhnazarian, expert of the "Noravank" scientific and cultural foundation, commenting, upon the request of the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent, on the attitude of the Armenian public to the issue of granting Orkhan Pamuk, well-known Turkish writer, the 2006 Nobel prize in literature.

The decision of the French parliament on the genocide of Armenia will not affect the implementation of the Kars-Akhalkalaki-Tbilisi-Baku railway construction, noted Arif Askerov, chief of the State Railway Directorate of Azerbaijan.

No concrete constructive results have been reached in the course of the second round of the 51st meeting of the Mixed Supervisory Commission on settling the Georgia-Ossetia conflict.

The US embassy in Moscow has refused an entry visa to Sergei Shamba, MFA head of the unrecognized republic of Abkhazia. According to Shamba, he was going to New-York in order to attend the discussion in the UN Security Council of the SC resolution on Georgia.

On Friday, the Nizhni Novgorod town court liquidated the human rights organization "Russian-Chechen friendship society".

On October 13, 2005, at 9 a.m. sharp, 13 targets were simultaneously attacked in Nalchik, the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria: KBR MIA, RF FSS Directorate for KBR, Nalchik departments 1,2,3 of internal affairs, Center "Т", Nalchick border guards, federal tax service directorate for KBR, KBR MIA riot militia squad, KBR MIA patrol militia, a traffic militia post, and two shops selling ammunition.

The relatives of those killed and the victims who suffered during the capture of school No1 in Beslan demand that Igor Terekhov, cynologist of the Pravoberezhny district internal affairs department who had checked the school on the day of the attack, should be brought to criminal responsibility.

Yesterday morning, on October 12, Lidiya Yusupova receiced a call on her mobile from an unknown man who threatened her in the Chechen language.

The European Court of Human Rights today held Russia responsible for the summary execution of five members of the Estamirov family in Chechnya in February 2000.

The president's administration has completed compilation of the final list of non-profit organizations to be supported from the state budget.

Yury Saveliev, author of the "Beslan: hostages' truth" report made public late in August, has prepared a new, seventh part of it.

The US State Department does not rule out the possibility of the Russian party inviting American experts for the investigation of the murder of Anna Politkovskaya, stated Sean McCormack, official US State Department representative on October 11.

Orkhan Pamuk, a Turkish writer, has become a 2006 Nobel prize winner in the area of literature.

The North Caucasus military district has put off the preliminary hearing of the fourth trial on the case of the special task force of federal troops under the command of captain Eduard Ulman accused of killing six Chechen civilians.

Lawyer Lidia Yusupova, employee of the "Memorial" Human Rights Centre's representative office in Grozny, Chechnya capital, who is specializing on violation of human rights in Chechnya, may become the third laureate of the Nobel Peace Prize from Russia during the whole history of this prestigious award.

A powerful explosion thundered in the Leninskiy District of Grozny in the cross of the Bogdana Khmelnitskogo and Krasnoznamennaya Streets.

On October 6, in the village of Starye Atagi of the Grozny Rural District of the Chechen Republic, the members of unknown power units kidnapped mother of earlier disappeared Elina Ersenoeva, a string correspondent of the "Chechenskoye Obschestvo" newspaper and the last wife of Shamil Basaev.

Today, the North-Caucasian Military Tribunal convoked the parties of Ulman's case to take part in the preliminary hearing, however, the court session failed.