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The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) upheld the complaint filed by the Chechen woman-resident Gizhan Sambieva, the mother of Said-Emin Sambiev, who had been kidnapped and murdered in 2003. The ECtHR has obliged the Russian Federation to pay her compensation.

The parents whose children were HIV infected in 1988-1989 and who won their case against the Republican Children's hospital in the court of the town of Elista are dissatisfied with the judgment.

Today the second stage of the all-Russian anti-narcotic action "Report the place of death traffic!" which will last till November, 18, started in Chechnya.

Local Public prosecutor's office in Geneva suspects of swindle Chechen businessman Bulat Chagaev, ex-Vice President of "Terek" club, presently President of Swiss football club "Xamax".

The Azerbaijani State Committee for Working with Religious Structures is ignoring the court decision, which has obliged the Committee to lift restrictions on importation of religious literature of Jehovah's Witnesses to the country, believers assert.

The Georgian section of the Swiss Embassy to the Russian Federation has again faced problems: the business centre, housing the consular department of the Georgian Interests Section at the Embassy of Switzerland in Moscow, for several weeks has electricity outage, Nino Kalandadze, Deputy Foreign Minister, said at a press briefing.

In Donetsk, Rostov Region, policemen have dismantled about two kilometres of illegal underground pipeline, which was transporting POL (petroleum, oil, lubricants) to the territory of Ukraine.

The main topic discussed on November 8 in Gori at the meeting organized by the NGO named GARB (Georgian Association of Regional Broadcasters) was the issue of detention of the persons who cross the border of Georgia with South Ossetia.

Today in the city of Yaroslavl, Abdulmadjid (Arthur) Manukyan, 29, a native of Dagestan and the deputy imam of the central city mosque, was found dead at the door of his own apartment.

Today, Russia and Georgia have signed a bilateral agreement relating to customs administration and monitoring of trade in goods. The document should remove the last obstacle to Russia's accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO).

On November 8, the Pervomaiskiy District Court of Krasnodar sentenced Alexander Starchkov, the former deputy head of the Department of the Federal Migration Service (DFMS) of the Russian Federation for the Krasnodar Territory, to one year of imprisonment in a settlement-colony. According to the investigation, Starchkov had hired an employee, allowed him not to work and helped him to get promoted to the rank of a captain of internal troops, said the spokesman from the Territorial Prosecutor's Office.

A special stamp will be put on the inner side of the back part of the cover in the passport of each citizen of South Ossetia who has taken part in the presidential election on November, 13. Members of Central Election Committee consider that this will disallow anyone to vote twice.

In honour of Kurban Bairam holiday Religious Board of Moslems in Kalmykia allotted money for purchase of 50 sheep to poor believers. This was reported by Asludin Kalabegov, Deputy Chairman of Religious Board of Moslems.

One person got injured in the afternoon of October, 8, as a result of an explosion in a flat of a dwelling house in Volgograd, a source in law enforcement bodies of the city reported.

Svetlana Tsarukaeva, a Russian girl from North Ossetia, broke the world record in the spurt at the World Championship in weightlifting currently going on in Paris.

The Public Council of the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD) has called on the managers of non-state media not to disseminate immoral programmes and articles, but to present the audience with a higher-quality content, which could contribute to the "positive image" of Northern Caucasus.

Staff members of the Pyatigorsk area museum have stopped destruction of the ancient mound in the village of Konstantinovskaya of the city of Pyatigorsk, where a developer started construction work and almost damaged graves.

On November 3, sanctions against the airline "Dagestani Airlines", banning flights to the EU, came into force. This was reported by a source in the "Rosaviatsiya" (Russian Federal Air Transport Agency).

Spartak Gogniev, the forwarder of the youth football team "Krasnodar", underwent surgery. At present, the athlete is in hospital.

Policemen detained four top-ranking employees of capital real estate companies suspected of embezzlement of more than one billion roubles, which had been handed out on forged documents to residents of Ingushetia.