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In the city of Volzhsk, Volgograd Region, mass detentions of Gipsies by militia continue.

Natalia Estemirova, an employee of the Human Rights Centre "Memorial" in Chechnya, the laureate of the first annual world award named after Anna Politkovskaya, is going to spend the award money on legal assistance to victims of tortures and faked criminal cases in Chechnya.

The "Mother's Law" human rights organization of soldiers' parents (Volgograd) makes comments on cancellation of delays from recruiting to the military service granted on family circumstances and future changes in the law "On Conscription and Military Service."

The International Conference "Russia - a Year after Anna Politkovskaya's Murder" is currently underway in Washington.

Today Turkey has recalled its ambassador from the USA. The motive was the passing a resolution by the Foreign Relations Committee of the House of the Congress on recognition of the fact of genocide in relations to Armenians in the epoch of the Ottoman Empire.

The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed about the meeting with French President Nicolas Sarkozy by Svetlana Gannushkina, member of the Board of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" and member of the Board on Human Rights under President of Russia, and Oleg Orlov, Chairman of the Board of the HRC "Memorial."

According to relatives of Albert Gorbakov who was killed last night, neither Albert nor his detained brothers Shamil and Kaloy had any explosives as of the moment of detention.

The consideration of the cassation complaint of Mikhail Trepashkin, ex-FSB officer, appointed for today at the Sverdlovsk Regional Court against the ruling on toughening his custody conditions has failed again.

In Azerbaijan, journalist Einullah Fatullaev has petitioned to summon Elmar Mamediarov, head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA).

Today in Moscow, the topics of the meeting of French President Nicolas Sarkozy with the activists of the Human Rights Centre "Memorial" were the freedom of speech and situation with human rights in Northern Caucasus.

Khanali Umakhanov, formerly accused of organizing the terror act in Kaspijsk (Dagestan) on May 9, 2002, has managed to adjudge five millions roubles from the government of Russia.

In September, the Azerbaijani courts considered over 50 cases related with slander charges. In the course of the trials, the claimants demanded to arrest 15 journalists and collecting fines from them to the total sum of 1.680 million manats (about 2 million US dollars).

Magomed Maksharipovich Aushev, 22, and Magomed Osmanovich Aushev, 25, who were kidnapped by a group of unidentified power agents on September 18, were first kept in the Urus-Martan District and then transferred to the mountain Shatoy District of Chechnya.

The parents of Armenian girl Anaida Ch., 19, who committed suicide on July 18 by jumping from the 12th floor of one of high blocks in Nalchik, have learned that the suicide motive was a rape committed on their daughter, but for the third month already they fail to achieve the appropriate investigation into the incident.

On October 11 at 10 a.m., the Supreme Court of Kabardino-Balkaria will start its closed (in camera) preliminary hearings on the criminal case on the events of October 13, 2005, when militants made an attack on Nalchik.

Yuri Chaika, General Public Prosecutor of Russia, has stated today at the press conference in Yerevan that the murder case of journalist Anna Politkovskaya is solved, and once the investigation is over, it will be transferred to the court.

On October 8, the Yasamal District Court of the capital of Azerbaijan, presided by Judge Svetlana Ahmedova, finished the litigation on the claim of the Minister of Economic Development Geidar Babaev against the editor-in-chief of the oppositional newspaper ""Azadlyg" Ganimat Zakhidov.

Early on Tuesday, October 9, after depositing a bail in the sum of 10 million laris (about 6 million US dollars) Irakliy Okruashvili, ex-Minister of Defence of Georgia, was released from Prison No. 7 in Tbilisi.

In the Pushkin Square in the centre of Moscow, a meeting was held on October 7 in memory of Anna Politkovskaya.

The protest action held on October 4 at the Russian Embassy in Istanbul (Turkey) was organized by the "North-Caucasian Platform."