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Cases have recently become frequent in Azerbaijan, when broadcasts on religious topics are urgently taken out of television programs. Thus, the ANS TV channel has cancelled a popular broadcast "Allah Khaggy" (Swear by Allah).

The "Day of Mistrust" - a picket against the war in Chechnya dated to the eighth anniversary of the "FSB exercise" in Ryazan on September 22-23, 1999, was held in the Novopushkinskiy Mini-Park in Moscow.

In Kabardino-Balkaria, relatives of the defendants in the case of the attack on Nalchik on October 13, 2005, have filed a petition to A. Yu. Sovrulin, head of the investigatory group of the General Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation for the South federal District (SFD), asking to increase food parcels to the inmates.

Ali Insanov, ex-Minister of Public Health of Azerbaijan, has accused President Ilham Aliev of appropriation of "oil" money and setting up the military-police regime in the country.

Satirical journalist Sakit Zakhidov, an employee of the "Azadlyg" newspaper, who is now in custody, has started a hunger strike.

In the city of Zverevo, Rostov Region, a participant of the picket of former miners who demanded from local authorities to respect their social rights and guarantees deceased.

Anna Politkovskaya, observer of the "Novaya Gazeta," has been posthumously awarded the annual American Award "For Development of Democracy."

On September 18 in Moscow, the Independent Press Centre held a roundtable "Obligations of the State before Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) and the Way the State Observes Them."

The situation in the Ingush city of Nazran, where on September 19 clashes burst out between the residents of Ingushetia who rallied to a spontaneous protest meeting and the militia, is now more stable.

The exact whereabouts and fate of Vagap Tutakov, a former deputy of the Parliament of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria (ChRI), who was kidnapped by unknown persons on September 10, are still not established.

Eduard Kokoity, President of the Republic of South Ossetia, has stated: "The attempt to hold the so-called 'Peace March' has completely failed."

The St-Petersburg anarchists Andrei Kalyonov and Denis Zelenyuk gave recognizance not to leave; and their criminal prosecution in relation to blowing up the "Neva-Express" train has been stopped.

The number of the participants of the spontaneous meeting, held today in Ingushetia with a demand to release the two local residents kidnapped yesterday, is permanently increasing, and by 2 p.m. it has reached some 700-800 persons.

Today, Igor Tkachov, Public Prosecutor of Dagestan, has stated that the burial of Rappani Khalilov and Nabi Nabiev, murdered in the course of a special operation, will take place without giving out the bodies to relatives.

Andrei Keilin, accused of murdering two students on June 3 in Stavropol and released from custody on September 16, was put under moral pressure.

The Supreme Court of Azerbaijan has passed a decision to cancel the 2004 decisions of the Nasiminskiy and Appeal Courts on the claims of Sardar Dzhalaloglu, leader of the Democratic Party.

The activities of the Russian Open Joint Stock Company (RAO) "EES Rossii" and realization of the plans of the LUKOIL Company will inevitably bring to ruin the Volga-Akhtuba floodplain, concludes V. A. Sagalaev, Doctor of Biology.

At the process on the criminal case about the fight in the city of Kondopoga that had provoked mass disorders, the advocates of Chechen defendants have again demanded to return the case back to the prosecutor's office.

22 former miners from Maiskiy settlement in the Rostov Region have announced a dry hunger strike.

The prosecutor's office has re-arrested Khasan Didigov, a suspect of blowing up the "Neva-Express" train who was released today, as his advocate Murad Yunusov has reported.