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The final date of the Parliamentary Commission on Beslan terror act is postponed, and they plan to hold the nearest sitting after the November holidays, Ms. Lyubov Sliska, First Vice-Speaker of State Duma told the Deputies today.

On October 30, on the Memory Day of victims of political repressions, the Moscow Independent Press Centre held a roundtable of human rights organizations on the topic "Political Persecutions in Present-Day Russia."

After the National Assembly of France has passed a law that criminalizes negation of Armenians' genocide, anti-French moods in Turkey have drawn to a head.

A magistrate judge has fined Magomed Mutsolgov, head of the non-commercial public organization "Mashr," who organized on October 16 a picket in memory of journalist Anna Politkovskaya in the city of Nazran (Ingushetia).

In Kondopoga, people started to collect signatures under the appeal to the authorities requesting them to amnesty the participants of mass disorders that burst out in Kondopoga on September 2 this year.

Ramzan Kadyrov, chairman of the Chechen government, was elected the Chair of the Assembly of the Peoples of the Chechen Republic.

In the Krasnodar Territory, they continue to deport natives of Georgia illegally staying in Russia. A total of 50 persons will be excluded.

In Nazran (Ingushetia), a court session has taken place today to trial Magomed Mutsolgov, chairman of the "Mashr" Association of Missing Persons' Relatives, and Albert Khantygov, worker of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial."

Today, Russia marks the Memory Day of the victims of political repressions.

Chechnya officially counts over 173,000 victims of political repressions of 1940s and 1950s.

Today, the Nalchik branch office of the Russia's Association of Victims of Political Repressions holds a memory day of those who suffered from repressions.

The parliament of North Ossetia adopted an appeal to the Russian State Duma on the fact of genocide of the Ossetian nation by the Georgian leadership.

On October 27, the European Parliament deputies adopted a joint resolution on South Ossetia calling both parties to reach a peaceful settlement of the conflict.

Today, Moscow continues to commemorate the victims of the terror act committed four years ago during performance of musical "Nord-Ost" in the Dubrovka Theatre Centre.

A special Georgian Airline aircraft has left from Tbilisi to Moscow to take the deported citizens of Georgia out of Russia.

The public organization "The Union of Slavs of Adygea" declared that it would take part in the "Russian March" to be held on November 4 on the "Day of National Unity" and called out "all those who do not separate their fate from the fate of the Russian people and Russia to join them.

"In Dagestan, underground bandits are very isolated, they continue to operate in four directions: Buinaksk, Makhachkala, South Dagestan and Khasavyurt," Mr. Solodovnikov said, in particular.

For today, a session has been appointed at the North-Caucasian Regional Military Court to hear the case of Ulman and three special agents of the Chief Reconnaissance Agency ("GRU") charged of murdering peaceful Chechen residents.

Saturday evening, on October 28, Brussels will host a memorial party of murdered journalist Anna Politkovskaya, organized by international journalistic and human rights organizations.

The correspondent of the "Caucasian Knot" has learnt from unofficial sources that last night five persons out of those accused of attack on the power structures of Kabardino-Balkaria on October 13 last year were released under amnesty from the investigation custody of Nalchik.