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Mr. Umar Jabrailov, Chechnya's representative in the Council of Federation, thinks that Alu Alkhanov, president of Chechnya, should resign and pass over his powers to Ramzan Kadyrov, chairman of the government.

The Organizing Committee of the "Russian March" is going to hold another march dedicated to Stalin's birthday.

The meeting has adopted a resolution, in which participants declared a reality of a threat of fascism in Russia and emphasized that stand for Russia for all nations.

In Moscow, despite all the earlier multiple declarations of the authorities on the ban of any marches, the "Russian March," nevertheless, took place.

Functionaries of the "Azadlyg" Block are holding their hunger strike for the sixth day today in the building where the editorial board of the newspaper "Azadlyg" is located.

Recently, mass media of Azerbaijan have confronted the pressure of the authorities, unprecedented by force and scale. Jurisprudent Rashid Gadzhily, Director of the Media Rights Institute, thinks that the situation with printed and electronic mass media "is approaching a dangerous threshold."

On the occasion of the holiday, a solemn rally was held in the Dagestan House of Government.

According to the Embassy of Georgia in Moscow, a total of 2681 citizens of Georgia have been deported from Russia under court judgements, and 1194 Georgians more "were forced to leave the country without any legal judgements."

The Kondopoga prosecutor's office promises to finish, by the middle of November, the investigation of the murder of local citizens that had entailed massive ethnic-motivated disorders.

Earlier, the "Caucasian Knot" informed repeatedly that on November 4 in a number of cities of Russia, nationalistically-inclined parties and organizations would hold the so-called "Russian Marches."

Moscow authorities gave a permit to the Party "Narodnaya Volya" (People's Will) and Movement Against Illegal Immigration (MAII) to hold a meeting on November 4 in the place in Moscow known as Devichye Pole.

The investigators who are engaged in fact-finding of the murder of Anna Politkovskaya, observer of the "Novaya Gazeta" newspaper, have got on the trail of a supposed killer.

Most of the Chechnya natives, who had lest the Karelian city of Kondopoga after massive disorders that burst out there early in September, have made decisions on their future residence, the Spiritual Moslem Administration (SMA) of Karelia stated today.

In one of their web-sites national-socialists called up their adherents to come to the Bolotnaya Square on November 4 and provoke a fight with the participants of the antifascist meeting held there.

Today, about a hundred activists of the Party of the People's Front of Azerbaijan held a protest action, which was not sanctioned by the authorities; the place of the action was in direct proximity from the president's office.

Following the practice of Moscow and St. Petersburg, many regional capitals of the country cancelled the "Russian March." For instance, in the Krasnodar Territory, over 5000 persons requested not to admit a march of that sort.

The District Court of the Karelian city of Kondopoga started a closed session of preliminary hearing of the criminal case in relation to the instigator of the fight in the local restaurant "Chaika."

Starting from 1994, a total of 376 servicemen of the federal forces who took part in the Chechnya counter-terrorist operation have been enlisted as missing persons. Colonel of Justice Vladimir Kalita, Deputy Military Prosecutor of the United Force Grouping.

In the context of inter-ethnic clashes in the village of Vorobyovka of the Priyutnenskiy District of Kalmykia, the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of the Republic has been transferred into the intense mode of service duty.

Today, the Parliament of South Ossetia has presented its appeal to Mr. Kofi Annan, UN General Secretary, and Mr. Karel De Gucht, Acting Chairman of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe, asking to recognize the genocide of South Ossetians in 1920 and 1989-1992, and to recognize Georgia's legal and moral responsibility for genocide of South Ossetians.