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At today's sitting in Strasbourg, European Parliament deputies have addressed the leaders of the European Union member-states with a demand to place the issue of human rights respect by Russia into the centre of the forthcoming negotiations with Moscow.

It looks like a dominant version has appeared in the murder case of Anna Politkovskaya, observer of the "Novaya Gazeta."

Nobody needs the power that fails to defend its population during the incidents like the events that took place early in September in the Karelia city of Kondopoga, president of Russia stated, answering a question of a lady from Kondopoga.

The State Council of Adygea approved the candidature of Aslan Tkhakushinov to the position of the head (president) of the Republic.

A bill "On the Order of Formation and Use of Targeted Capitals of Non-Commercial Organizations" was brought for consideration to the State Duma of Russia. The bill establishes the peculiarities of managing the capitals, which are formed by charitable donations.

Nino Kadzhaya, head of the press service of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of Georgia, told the correspondent of the "Caucasian Knot" that on November 1-2 in Moscow, within the session of the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the Organization of Black Sea Economic Cooperation (BSEC), a meeting will take place of the ministers of foreign affairs of Russia and Georgia.

Georgian non-governmental organizations are commencing their litigation at the European Court on the facts of mass deportation of Georgian citizens and violations of fundamental human rights in Russia.

On October 26, the European Court for Human Rights will consider a complaint lodged by Etimad Asadov and other leaders of the Society of Azerbaijani Veterans of Karabakh War.

The criminal case on terror acts near the "Rizhskaya" Moscow Metro station and in the train car between the "Avtozavodskaya" and "Paveletskaya" stations will be heard by a sole judge in a closed trial.

The latest criminal cases on the articles by Anna Politkovskaya, murdered observer of the "Novaya Gazeta," were initiated back in spring this year, Sergey Sokolov, deputy editor-in-chief of "Novaya Gazeta," informed.

Before the end of 2006, relatives of Dubrovka terror act victims will go to law against the officials who headed the headquarters in charge of hostage rescue.

On the basis of the video tape frames published by the "Novaya Gazeta" newspaper in the article of Anna Politkovskaya, murdered in Moscow on October 7, a criminal case has been initiated.

Investigation of the criminal case has been finished in relation to another group of militants, members of subversive underground movement, with the help of which the leaders of Chechen separatists undertook in 2004 a terrorist attack on Russian authorities, which ended with Beslan tragedy.

Today, Moscow brings back to memory of the victims of the terrorist act in Dubrovka area.

The Georgian parliament is founding a special commission "to study facts of breaching Georgians' rights in the Russian Federation.

Russia does not support the intention of Abkhazia and South Ossetia to separate from Georgia, Vladimir Putin stated at the informal Russia-EU summit.

Authorities of Iran continue to exert pressure on mass media in South Azerbaijan. In several recent days, 8 journalists were arrested under different pretexts.

Today's meeting of editors representing a number of Azerbaijani mass media discussed the issue of the fate of the building where the "Azadlyg" newspaper and a number of other media and NGOs are located.

At Vladimir Putin's meeting with the leaders of European Union countries, the parties touched upon the issue of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya's murder, Matti Vanhanen, Prime Minister of Finland.

Moslems of Dagestan stand against introduction into curriculums of secular schools of the discipline "Fundamentals of Orthodox Culture" (FOC) and in general against teaching any religion, Muhammad-Rasul-hadji Saaduev, chief imam of the Central Jumah-Mosque of the capital of Dagestan, head of the Board of Imams of Makhachkala.