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In Azerbaijan, a group of writers are asking to release journalist Rafik Tagi who has published his anti-Islamic article in the "Senet" (Arts) newspaper from custody.

Interrogation of Andrei Lugovoj, a Scotland Yard's suspect of poisoning Alexander Litvinenko, that was tonight, has been postponed.

Ramzan Kadyrov, chairman of Chechnya government, has stated that he will strive to bring to responsibility the federal troops commanders in charge of murdered or missing peaceful citizens of Chechnya.

The International Organization "Reporters without Borders" has spread a document condemning an appeal of Iranian spiritual leaders to assassinate two journalists from Azerbaijan.

The Council of Europe is seriously concerned with the death of a Georgian woman, whom Russian authorities were about to deport from Moscow to Tbilisi.

The body of Alexander Litvinenko, ex-FSB employee, has been handed over to his relatives for burial.

In the south of Russia, the rights of the Gipsy population are violated. First of all, it refers the right for obtaining education.

A five-year deprivation of freedom sentence passed to Boris Stomakhin, author of the "Kavkaz-Tsentr" separatists' web site and co-chairman of the Revolutionary Contact Association, was appealed against at the Moscow City Court both by defence and prosecution, Karen Nersesyan, his advocate, told.

Sergey Katanandov, Karelia's head, has signed a prescription to allocate 350,000 roubles from his reserve fund on rendering assistance to families of casualties and other victims of Kondopoga disorders.

Italian Professor Mario Scaramella, who had dinner with Alexander Litvinenko, ex-FSB employee, on the day of his poisoning, said that in 2000 Litvinenko was in charge of a secret operation of contraband delivery of nuclear materials from Russia to Zurich, Switzerland.

Moscow militia has completed examination of the explosive, which failed to function in the ninth level of the hostel in the MSU main building.

Air bombing of high-mountain village of Sharo-Argun in the Shatoiskiy District of the Republic is far from being a single incident if this sort in Chechnya during recent time, the residents of a number of mountainous villages of the Republic assert.

Today, residents of Kondopoga have paid the tribute to the memory of the citizens who were killed three months ago - late in August this year.

"We have at our disposal multiple documents on interference of law enforcement bodies and the Security Service of Armenia into the course of political processes," Aram Karapetyan, chairman of the "New Times" Party, stated in the evening on December 1.

From November 23 to 29, at least ten persons perished and five more wounded in the course of armed collisions and diversion acts in Chechnya, Dagestan, and Ingushetia.

Journalists from The News of the World newspaper have managed to find out the name of Litvinenko's poisoner.

The British doctors who continue examining Italian Mario Scaramella have reported today that he has no traces of radiation intoxication.

The ANS has refused to take part in the tender for their own frequencies to be held in the period December 5 - January 5.

Today, the Court of Appeal of Azerbaijan has held a preparatory session on the case of satirical poet Sakit Zakhidov

The autopsy of the body of Alexander Litvinenko is over. The examination was held at the London Royal Hospital under special safety precautions.