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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.

The investigation knows the murder motives of journalist Anna Politkovskaya, Alexander Buksman, First Deputy General Prosecutor of Russia, declared.

Some 400 branches of foreign-based non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have suspended their work in Russia in the context of enforcement of the Law on NGOs, human rights activists declared.

About 300 members of illegal armed formations (IAFs) came to surrender to the law enforcement bodies of the Chechen Republic from the start of this year.

During several last weeks, the militants undertook a number of serious sallies and diversion-terrorist actions in the territory of the Chechen Republic.

Since today, Moscow branch of Human Rights Watch (HRW) has suspended its operations, since not yet being reregistered under the new Law on Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs).

In the city of Olonets (Karelia), unknown persons set on fire bar "Ogonyok" (Ginger), belonging to natives of North Caucasus, the regional department of the Ministry for Emergencies ("MChS") informed.

The victims agree with all the conclusions of part seven of the alternative report of Yuri Saveliev, a State Duma deputy and member of the parliamentary commission for investigating the reasons and circumstances of the Beslan terror act.

The Moscow-based office of the international human rights organization Human Rights Watch has suspended its activities.

Russian courts of the Pre-Volga Federal District have ruled to deport another group of about 150 Georgian citizens out of the country.

In the context of the death of an illegal migrant from Georgia, the Georgian MFA has accused the Russian authorities of infringing the rights of Georgian citizens.

Wednesday, October 18, is the deadline established for the affiliates of foreign-based non-governmental organizations (NGOs) for presenting their reregistration documents to the Federal Registration Service ("Rosregistratsia").

On October 17, 2006, a complaint was lodged to the Syktyvkar City Court on the decisions of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise (FSUE) "Pochta Rossii" (Russian Postal Service), by which the international postal exchange with Georgia had been suspended.

The criminal case of the fight instigator in the "Chaika" restaurant of the Karelia town of Kondopoga at night on the eve of August 30, 2006, where then mass disorders burst out, has been transferred to the court.

A notification on holding on October 16 a picket in memory of Anna Politkovskaya in Nazran (Ingushetia), which was violently dispersed by militia, was submitted to the city's administration by the "Mashr" Republic's Association of Relatives of Missing Persons on October 12.

Today, the Supreme Court of the Karachayevo-Cherkessian Republic held another regular session on the criminal case of Ali Kaitov et al., accused of murdering seven citizens of the Republic.

Arkady Edelev, Deputy Minister of the Russian MIA, declared that Anzor Astemirov, one of the organizers of militants' attack on Nalchik last October, was associated with special services of foreign countries.

Tengiz Togonidze, 58, one of Georgian citizens deported from St. Petersburg, died of an asthma attack in the morning of October 17 straight in the Domodedovo Airport.

Chechnya is reducing the count of kidnapped people, but the problem is still pressing, Russian human rights activists are asserting.