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Yesterday, on November 26, ahead of the sitting of the Moscow Regional Military Court, where the murder of the observer of the "Novaya Gazeta" newspaper Anna Politkovskaya is now considered, Murad Musaev, advocate of one of the defendants, had stated that some big Russian politician is a figurant in the case.

Today Evgeniy Zubov, Judge of the Moscow Regional Military Court, has refused to self-disqualify from the process on the murder of Anna Politkovskaya, journalist of the "Novaya Gazeta" newspaper.

The litigation on the case on the murder of the "Novaya Gazeta" correspondent Anna Politkovskaya will be held in the open regime. The board of jurymen has reiterated their statement that they do not object to run the trial in the open regime. The state prosecution has supported the jurymen's statement. As a result, Judge Zubov made a respective decision, the "New Gazeta" reports.

In Moscow, at about midnight, a fight burst out between the natives from the Caucasus and those from Central Asia, in which some 15 persons took part. About ten persons suffered, and four were knifed.

Law enforcement bodies of the Chechen Republic continue investigating the circumstances of the terror act in Sadovoe village, Grozny District, committed at night on November 23, when three employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Chechnya, and one local resident were killed, and eight more person, five militiamen among them, were heavily wounded.

A memory picket of Dagestan human rights activist and member of the "Yabloko" Party Farid Babaev took place today in Moscow near "Kropotkinskaya" Metro from 11:15 to 12:00 a.m. Moscow time.

Further investigation of the criminal cases initiated against former commander of the "Vostok" battalion of the 42nd Motorized Rifle Division of the Ministry of Defence of Russia Lieutenant Colonel Sulim Yamadaev will be held by military investigatory bodies.

The death roll of the explosion of a fixed-route taxi in the centre of Vladikavkaz has reached 12 persons, the spokesman of the Ministry of Public Health of North Ossetia has reported today.

Saturday, November 21, 2008, is exactly one year after the murder of Farid Babaev, leader of the Dagestan Regional Branch of the "Yabloko" Party, a prominent public figure and human rights activist.

According to the examination, none of the bullets extracted from the bodies of casualties and wounded persons of the events on March 1 in Yerevan was shot from a sniper's rifle, Agvan Ovsepyan, General Public Prosecutor of Armenia, told Thomas Hammarberg, Supreme Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe, who came to Yerevan.

Somali pirates received ransom and released tanker "Jenius", captured on September 27. Among the crew members there are six citizens of Georgia.

The press service of the President of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) has reported that residents helped law enforcement bodies to stop illegal gambling establishments.

Ella Kesaeva, co-chair of the All-Russian Public Organization "Voice of Beslan", asserts that the so-called "Beslan terrorists", who seized the school in this North-Ossetian city four years ago, could be the agents of Russian special agencies - UBOP (Unit for Fighting Organized Crime) and FSB (Federal Security Bureau. This can be concluded, according to Kesaeva, from biography details of the attackers.

Yesterday, on November 20, the court prolonged the term of custody for three residents of Kabardino-Balkaria, who are kept in Pyatigorsk SIZO, till January 11, 2009. According to advocate Magomed Abubakarov, in the course of investigation the suspects were exposed to violence.

Four residents of Ingushetia have stated their illegal arrest and torture at militia units. According to their statement, they were forced into confession of the crime they never committed.