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The European Court of Human Rights today held Russia responsible for the summary execution of five members of the Estamirov family in Chechnya in February 2000.

The president's administration has completed compilation of the final list of non-profit organizations to be supported from the state budget.

Yury Saveliev, author of the "Beslan: hostages' truth" report made public late in August, has prepared a new, seventh part of it.

The US State Department does not rule out the possibility of the Russian party inviting American experts for the investigation of the murder of Anna Politkovskaya, stated Sean McCormack, official US State Department representative on October 11.

Orkhan Pamuk, a Turkish writer, has become a 2006 Nobel prize winner in the area of literature.

The North Caucasus military district has put off the preliminary hearing of the fourth trial on the case of the special task force of federal troops under the command of captain Eduard Ulman accused of killing six Chechen civilians.

Lawyer Lidia Yusupova, employee of the "Memorial" Human Rights Centre's representative office in Grozny, Chechnya capital, who is specializing on violation of human rights in Chechnya, may become the third laureate of the Nobel Peace Prize from Russia during the whole history of this prestigious award.

A powerful explosion thundered in the Leninskiy District of Grozny in the cross of the Bogdana Khmelnitskogo and Krasnoznamennaya Streets.

On October 6, in the village of Starye Atagi of the Grozny Rural District of the Chechen Republic, the members of unknown power units kidnapped mother of earlier disappeared Elina Ersenoeva, a string correspondent of the "Chechenskoye Obschestvo" newspaper and the last wife of Shamil Basaev.

Today, the North-Caucasian Military Tribunal convoked the parties of Ulman's case to take part in the preliminary hearing, however, the court session failed.

Ramzan Kadyrov, Prime Minister of Chechnya, told that he had no motives to persecute journalist Anna Politkovskaya.

Without explaining the reasons, the authorities of Georgia detained in the village of Ergneti the members of the South Ossetia government: Merab Chigoev, minister of justice, Jemal Jigkaev, minister of public health, and Alla Jioeva, minister of education.

The parliament of Georgia has unanimously adopted a statement officially condemning the authorities of Russia for escalating xenophobia in relation to ethnic Georgians.

"An assertion published in Georgian media that two Georgian policemen were wounded at the blockpost in the village of Kekhvi as a result of fire launched by the Ossetian party has nothing to do with reality," Ms. Zema Kulumbegova, press service head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of the Republic of South Ossetia (RSO), told the correspondent of the "Caucasian Knot."

On October 9, the prosecutor's office of the Nizhni Novgorod Region served a copy of statement of claim on liquidation to Stanislav Dmitrievskiy, executive director of the Inter-Regional Public Organization "Russian-Chechen Friendship Society".

The Nalchik City Court has considered a complaint lodges by Rasul Kudaev on the ruling of the Nalchik prosecutor's office to abandon opening a criminal case on application of physical force to him by the members of law enforcement bodies and retuned it back to the Nalchik prosecutor's office for additional investigation.

Today, in Akhalkalaki, south of Georgia, an unknown person delivered fire on a protest action held by the oppositional party "Industry Will Save Georgia."

The correspondent of the "Caucasian Knot" was the last journalist to take interview from Anna Politkovskaya.

Today afternoon, two Russian Emergency Ministry's ("MChS") airplanes are going to arrive in Tbilisi with the aim to carry out to Moscow about 370 Russian citizens, "who were staying in Georgia on personal matters or as tourists and failed to leave for their homeland due to the stop of transport communications between the two countries."

In the opinion of a number of Russian politicians, the Kremlin servants are behind the murder of Anna Politkovskaya, a "Novaya Gazeta" observer.