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Vyacheslav Kireev, advocate of Dmitri Ufimtsev, convicted member of the neo-Nazi grouping called "White Wolves", was pleased that his client was not sentenced to life-long imprisonment and believes that the verdict was passed in line with the law.

On October 28, an explosion of a land mine in the foothill Urus-Martan District of Chechnya killed a soldier from Interior Troops of the Russian MIA; another one was seriously wounded.

Two protesting groups at a time - refugees and street traders - are holding their actions near the building of Tbilisi City Council. The former group is demanding solution of their housing problems, while the latter one protests against the ban on street trading.

As reported by the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent, the memory action "Return of Names" of victims of 1937-1938 political repressions in Moscow was organized by the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial".

The Supreme Court of the Chechen Republic has started considering the criminal case opened against two militiamen accused of killing two persons.

This week the Parliament of Georgia began considering the bill, aimed to address the problem of conspiracy between doctors and pharmaceutical companies, when a doctor is bribed to prescribe medications of a certain company with which he or she has a secret contract.

Journalist Einullah Fatullaev, who is kept in the Baku SIZO (pre-trial prison), and his colleagues who support him at large have stopped their joint hunger strike, because the Supreme Court of Azerbaijan had fixed the date of the plenary session on Fatullaev's case.

Law enforcement bodies of Georgia have arrested 20 persons on suspicion of spying in favour of Russia.

Nikita Tikhonov, who is accused of resonant murders, has confessed of trading in arms but still rejects the main charges - of murdering lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova.

A meeting of memory was held on October, 28, the day of the 68-th anniversary of the beginning of mass prisoner transfer of peaceful residents of Stalingrad (now bearing the name of Volgorgad) to the fascist concentration camps, near a small memorial at the place of a former camp of compulsory confinement No 205 in the territory of the settlement of Gorkovsky, Volgograd region.

Telman Mustafayev, a nineteen-year-old soldier of Azerbaijani army, was killed on October, 28, as a result of violation of cease-fire regime in the zone of Karabakh confrontation. Azerbaijani party blames the Armenian one for that.

The prohibition of kidnapping brides recently established in Chechnya has been violated. On October, 28, a nineteen-year-old young man kidnapped a fourteen-year-old schoolgirl for marriage. The kidnapper may be sentenced to imprisonment and his family will possibly be fined for one million rubles. Commenting on the incident local residents express an opinion that the custom of kidnapping brides will hardly be eradicated in the republic.

Relatives of two residents of Ingushetia worry about absence of information about whereabouts of their relatives, who disappeared in Rostov-on-Don and Voronezh Region on October 27. This is stated in the message of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" that arrived to the office of the "Caucasian Knot".

The Buryat journalists Tatiana Stetsura and Nadezhda Nizovkina, who had written about the deportation of Chechens and Ingushes and later were accused of extremism, rejected their appointed advocates and decided to self-defend at the trial, According to Nadir Fatov, a rights defender from Moscow, the case against the journalists is an experiment, in which the FSB refers any criticism of the authorities to Article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (inciting hatred against a social group).

At the disposition of Russian frontier troops in Yerevan, two guards from Russia were found dead. Earlier, the press service of the Armenian Police had mistakenly treated them as contract servicemen from the Russian military base stationed in Armenia.

The data about the casualties among power agents during the attack of three suicide bombers on the parliament building in Grozny on October 19 were significantly understated, said a source from local law enforcement bodies. According to his version, there were more than 40 wounded and 20 lost law enforcers.

Law enforcement bodies of the Chechen Republic refute the data presented yesterday by Ivan Sydoruk, Deputy Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation, about the activities of illegal armed formations (IAFs) in the region. According to the Chechen Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), not a single terror act was committed in the first nine months of this year in the territory of the republic.

On October 27, the local Public Chamber hosted a meeting of the officials from the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), Public Prosecutor's Office, Supreme Court and NGO activists with the members of the Public Observatory Commission (POC) over the places of detention and custody.

Vasily Krivets, 22, leader of the criminal grouping named "Belye Volki" (White Wolves), found guilty of 15 ethnically motivated murders on ethnic grounds, was sentenced by the Moscow City Court to life imprisonment. The second figurant of the case - Dmitri Ufimtsev, who confessed of five murders, was sentenced to 22 years of high security colony.

Issa Khashagulgov, who was detained in Ingushetia on suspicion of organizing the terror act in the central marketplace in Vladikavkaz, is charged under two Articles of the Russian Criminal Code - Article 208 (organization of an illegal armed formation) and Article 222 (firearm storage). No charges of organizing the terror act were presented, said Musa Pliev, Mr Khashagulgov's advocate.