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The state prosecution at the process considering the murder case of Anna Politkovskaya has presented the results of comparative examination of video records and the pistol, by which the journalist was killed.

The person has been established of the member of the armed group killed in a skirmish, when the group attacked militiamen in Makhachkala on November 30. According to the FSB Department for Dagestan, it was Rizvan Kurbanov, 16, an 11th form pupil of a school in the city of Kizilyurt.

Today, the Supreme Court of Dagestan has continued hearings on the case about murder of Farid Babaev, head of the Dagestan regional branch of the "Yabloko" Party, human rights activist, public figure and candidate for the State Duma, where the defence witnesses were interrogated.

A corpse of citizen of Azerbaijan was found in Moscow on Sunday, November 30, near a house located in the Sportivny Proezd. The young man died from multiple knife wounds.

The process on the murder of Anna Politkovskaya, journalist of the "Novaya Gazeta", has announced a break till 11:00 a.m. on December 2. Apart from two defendants' friends, none of the witnesses has appeared in the courtroom.

Sedredin Kanberov, a new suspect in the murder case of Farid Babaev, Dagestan human rights activist and member of "Yabloko" Party, is in hiding, but his brother Ruzmedin Kanberov, who is an employee of the central machinery of the MIA, exerts pressure on the witnesses, said the casualty's brother Arthur Babaev.

President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov has stated that no traditions can exculpate the murderers of six women in Chechnya.

Irina Meboniya, born in 1926, a resident of Nabakevi village, Gali District of Abkhazia, was kidnapped on the night of November 26 from her own house. The information about kidnapping arrived from her neighbours only today.

Today, the Supreme Court of Kabardino-Balkaria continued preliminary hearing on the case about the events on October 13, 2005. In the course of the sitting, the court was presented with motivated challenges of jury candidates lodged by accusation and defence. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent learnt about it from Liza Shak, a defendants' advocate.

The General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) suggests to transfer the consideration of the murder case of Magomed Evloev, former owner of the oppositional website "Ingushetia.Ru", who was killed after detention by law enforcers, to some other region, since the future local trial cannot be fair. The respective petition has already been lodged.

The six young women, whose bodies were found in the morning on November 26 in Grozny and Grozny District of Chechnya could be killed as punishment for their immoral behaviour, the investigation assumes.

On November 27, certain Karen Arutyunyan appeared at law enforcement bodies of Armenia and pled guilty of taking part in the attack on the well-known journalist Edik Bagdasaryan. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed about it by Sona Truzyan, press secretary of the General Public Prosecutor.

The law enforcement bodies of Chechnya have established the persons of five young women, whose bodies were found on November 26 in Grozny and Grozny District of the Republic. One killed woman is not identified yet. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent has learnt about it from a source in the Republic's law enforcement bodies.

Today, Goneri Badzagua, 70, a resident of the village of Nabakevi, Gali District of Abkhazia, who was kidnapped on November 22, was set free. Under preliminary information, the kidnappers extorted money from Mr Badzagua.

An organization named "Ossetian Jama'at Kataib al Khoul" has proclaimed itself to execute the murder of Vitaly Karaev, Mayor of the city of Vladikavkaz. A respective statement appeared in one of Chechen separatists' websites.