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On December 13, Vakhid Mustafaev, president of the ANS TV Company, stated while talking to journalists that the Company people believed in a fair decision to be taken on the future of the ANS.

Anna Politkovskaya, observer of the "Novaya Gazeta," was posthumously awarded a special Diploma of the Jury of Andrei Sakharov's Prize "For the Life Sacrificed to Journalism."

Upon returning from London, two citizens of Lithuania underwent medical examination, which showed that they were "contaminated with polonium," Vigaudas Ushatskas, Ambassador of Lithuania to Great Britain.

The OSCE Baku office and the representative of this organization for the freedom of press have positively accepted the decision to resume broadcasting of the ANS TV Channel in Azerbaijan.

At 4:00 p.m. on December 15, the Nazran District Court of the Republic of Ingushetia (RI) will start considering an application lodged by the "Mashr" Association of Relatives of Missing People on illegal decision of the Mayor's Office of the city of Nazran, which had prohibited a picket in memory of Anna Politkovskaya on October 16 this year, and actions of the Interior Department of Nazran and Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ingushetia who violently dispersed the protest action.

The "Chaika" restaurant in the town of Kondopoga, which was burnt down in the course of mass disorders in September, will be rebuilt into a culture-leisure youth centre.

Rushana Guseinova, widow of Elmar Guseinov, assassinated journalist, received political asylum in Norway, and together with her son Aslan is already in the territory of this country.

In the course of court sessions on the case of Anton (Abdullah) Stepanenko, imam of Pyatigorsk mosque (Stavropol Territory), the defence evidences are now considered.

Timur Lakhonin, head of the Russian Interpol Bureau, has reported that this organization is now engaged in the inquiry into Litvinenko's case.

In the Staropromyslovskiy District of the capital of Chechnya, members of unidentified power agencies have kidnapped Salambek Omarov, 20, a local citizen and a third-year student of the Law Department of the Gudermes Branch of the Makhachkala Institute.

In November, Russia deported more Georgian citizens that during three previous months altogether.

Today, the North-Caucasian Regional Military Court (Rostov-on-Don) has started a trial on Ulman's case.

Operation of the ANS TV and Radio Company will restart in Azerbaijan. The Company itself has informed the correspondent of the "Caucasian Knot" about the fact. In the words of Ms. Sevil Nurieva, one of the leading journalists of the Channel, the decision has been made today by the National Board for Television and Radio Broadcasting (NBTRB).

Teimuraz Chedzhemov, advocate for the victims of Beslan school seizure in September 2004, has stated that most of his clients find the sentence to Nurpashi Kulaev to be just and fair.

On December 10, Nagorny Karabakh held a referendum on its constitution, which was attended, as of the data on 7:30 p.m. of December 10, by 83.71 percent of those eligible for voting.

The relatives and friends of Alexander Litvinenko who live in Great Britain are ready to meet the investigators of the Russian Prosecutor-General's Office, but only provided their safety is guaranteed.

Russian human rights activists will strive for cancellation the Law on Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) as being non-constitutional. The decision was made on Sunday at the 2nd Congress of Human Rights Activists in Moscow.

The Russian Public Prosecutor's Office plans to send its investigators engaged in the case of the death of Alexander Litvinenko, ex-FSB employee, to Great Britain.

Early on Saturday, December 9, more than 70 Georgian citizens deported from Russia were brought by a special air flight of Georgian Airways to Tbilisi.

On December 8, the Internet Hall of the Central House of Journalists hosted a press conference of the Coalition of Russian Human Rights Organizations dedicated to publication of final recommendations adopted by the UN Committee Against Tortures.