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In London, Natalia Estemirova, a journalist and human rights activist from Chechnya, has been awarded with the first annual award named after Anna Politkovskaya.

A group of deputies of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) has suggested the member countries of the Council to conduct an international investigation into the circumstances of the murder committed last October of Anna Politkovskaya.

The international forum in memory of Anna Politkovskaya, an observer of the "Novaya Gazeta," which was to start today, has been disrupted.

In front of the Russian Embassy in Istanbul, on October 4, the "Zhineps" Circassian Organization of Turkey held a protest action against the celebrations of the 450th anniversary of voluntary accession of Adygs to the Russian state and against 2014 Olympiad to be held in the city of Sochi.

Alesker Ismailov, 70, an activist of the Nakhichevan Branches of the Party of People's Front of Azerbaijan was discharged today from Psychiatric Hospital No. 1. According to Ismailov, he was placed into hospital after he had written an application to the head of the state, Baku OSCE Office, Milli Medzhlis and to the General Public Prosecutor about the emergency condition of the walls of his house.

Today, because of the mass outbreak of acute intestinal infection in kindergartens of the city of Lermontov, Stavropol Territory, the supporters of the Territorial Ecological Organization "Podorozhnik" have picketed the building of the Russian State Committee for Consumer Goods Supervision with a demand to stop experiments on children.

The Human Rights Watch international organization has published a report on the anti-Georgian campaign in Russia, analyzing the facts of persecutions against natives of Georgia last autumn at the background of aggravated Georgian-Russian relations.

The European Court for Human Rights has obliged Russia to pay out almost 200,000 euros of compensation to three ladies - natives of Chechnya; this is a record sum for one day's work of the Court in Strasbourg.

Since the kidnapping of the Aushevs, residents of the Ingush settlement of Surkhakhi, was accomplished in the territory of the Chechen Republic, the materials gathered on the case have been sent to the investigatory bodies of Chechnya.

A new aspect has appeared in the prosecution of Stanislav Dmitrievskiy, analyst of the Nizhniy Novgorod Tolerance Support Foundation.

On 4 October 2007, the European Court of Human Rights will rule in two cases concerning attacks on civilians in Grozny, the Chechen capital, by Russian Federal forces, in January 2000.

Today, at the Court for Grave Crimes of Azerbaijan, the defenders of Farkhad Aliev, former Minister of Economic Development of Azerbaijan, have demanded to release their client.

On October 2, supplies of electricity, gas and water were cut off the Novy settlement in the Prigorodny District of North Ossetia, inhabited by several thousands of forced migrants from the Prigorodny District of the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania, Ingushes by nationality.

The Nalchik City Court has requested the statement about the burial of the persons who had perished as a result of the armed collision on October 13, 2005 in Nalchik.

Today, a protest action of the Association for Defence of Blind People's Rights took place at the mayoralty building of Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia.

Today, Amur Kortkoev, head of the FSB Department for the Republic of Ingushetia, was interrogated as a witness at the trial in the case of the commanders of the Malgobek ROVD of Ingushetia, accused of the negligence that had lead to the terror act in Beslan.

In Azerbaijan, the inquiry in relation to Mushvig Guseinov, an employee of the "Bizim Yol" (Our Way) newspaper, is protracted.

In its resolution adopted by majority vote the PACE calls to be more flexible in considering applications originated from the North Caucasian region of Russia.

The first judicial session on the case of the officers of the OMON of the Sochi Department of Internal Affairs, who had started a fight with holiday-makers, has been re-appointed on October 17 because of the failure of the defendants' advocates to appear.

Vagap Tutakov, who was kidnapped on September 10 in the Urus-Martan District of the Republic and released on September 22, intends to get back to political activity.