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The trial on the criminal case on the murder of Gipsies in the city of Volzhsk, Volgograd Region, in 2006 spring is protracted. Experts fail to appear at the court sessions, and the offended party is not summoned to the court.

The Prosecutor's Office has presented an official charge to Maksharip Khidriev, a native of Ingushetia, suspected of involvement in blowing up the "Neva-Express" train on August 13 this year.

Today, the consideration of the appeal lodged by editor-in-chief of the "Azadlyg" newspaper Ganimat Zakhidov against the decision of the Yasamal District Court ended in upholding of the latter.

The United Nations are phasing out their humanitarian projects in Northern Caucasus, since they do not consider Chechnya, Ingushetia and other Russian Republics to be a disaster zone any longer.

On Thursday, at the trial held at the North-Caucasian District Military Court, the state prosecution demanded 20 and 18 years of imprisonment for the two officers of the Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs accused of murdering peaceful Chechens.

A spokesman of the Novgorod Regional Prosecutor's Office has informed today that the investigatory bodies established a Novgorod resident who had placed in the Internet a video record of the murder of two persons.

William Bowring, a British human rights activist, who stood for the interests of the residents of Chechnya at the European Court, has been turned out of Russia.

The fight announced by the head of Chechnya on moral degradation of the youth, has resulted in the fact that in higher schools, specialized secondary and ordinary schools women and girls are forbidden to attend lessons with their heads uncovered with headscarves.

The Maikop City Court has sentenced a local resident, accused of placing on the Internet of the video film depicting execution of two persons, to one year of corrective works.

Inna Sangadzhieva, project coordinator of the Norwegian Helsinki Committee for the former USSR, told that the Andrei Sakharov's Award was adjudged to Svetlana Gannushkina, Chair of the "Civil Assistance" Committee, for her whole-hearted and self-sacrificing help to particular victims of rough violations of human rights.

The Chechen community of Azerbaijan asserts that Russian special agencies are guilty of murdering Imran Gaziev, the community leader.

Bakhtiyar Orudzhev, the last member who remained at large from the group of Wahhabites, who had planned terror acts against embassies of western countries and who attacked the "LUKOIL" Company's fuelling station, was arrested in Baku.

President of Armenia Robert Kocharyan has stated, while making his comments on the issue of tax audits at the enterprises of the "Sil Concerna", belonging to Khachatur Sukiasyan, who is supporting Levon Ter-Petrosyan, that the tax audits will prove the guilt of the businessman.

Amnesty of more than 1200 inmates convicted of minor crimes has been announced in Georgia on the occasion of the fourth anniversary of the "Revolution of Roses".

The "Imedi" TV and Radio Company has hopes for restart of broadcasting before the forthcoming presidential election in Georgia.

Georgia continues capturing peaceful residents of South Ossetia by planting drugs and weapons on them. This was the comment of Tarzan Kokoity, Chairman of the Parliament of the RSO, on detention by Georgian special agencies of Ossetian Dzhambolat Kokaev, accused by the Georgian party of keeping drugs.

Representatives of the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) assert that liquidation works of the oil spillage consequences in the Kerch Strait are inefficient.

It is quite probable that the authorities of Georgia used a special acoustic system for dispersing the opposition meeting on November 7; the operation of the system causes sharp pain in ears and a feeling of inexplicable and uncontrollable fear and panic in humans.

In Gyzylkhesar prison of the Iranian city of Karadzh, Medzhid Khudai Gamidoglu, an activist of the Movement for the Rights of South Azerbaijan Azerbaijanis and a member of the Party for Independence of South Azerbaijan, was lost.

Liudmila Sarkisyan, Chairperson of the "Gnchak" Social-Democratic Party of Armenia, has condemned the beating of Narek Galstyan, leader of the youth organization "Sarkis Tkhruni" of the "Gnchak" Party.