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The Iraqi government has brought troops into the city of Mosul for defending local Armenians after armed Sunnite extremists attacked them, killing the owner of the shop of musical instruments and injuring his nephew.

Today, the Moscow District Military Court has begun preliminary hearing of the case on journalist Anna Politkovskaya's murder. The General Prosecutor's Office asks to keep the persons accused of her murder in custody for other six months.

In Sochi today, a sentence was passed to eight OMON (Special Militia) fighters, accused of mass beating tourists in the children's boarding house "Druzhba" (Friendship). They will have to spend from three to five years in a colony.

Today, about two o'clock in the afternoon, at an entrance of the house, where the office of the Board of Elders of the Balkar People (BEBP) is located, an attack was made on Dalkhat Baidaev, a member of the Board, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

Karina Moskalenko, advocate in the case of assassinated journalist of "Novaya Gazeta" Anna Politkovskaya, says that somebody tried to poison her in Strasbourg. According to the lawyer, pretty much "substance looking like mercury" was found in her car.

Bamatgirey Mankiev, former deputy of the National Assembly of the Republic of Ingushetia of the previous convocation, who now heads the "alternative" Ingush parliament, has stated that the new structure will raise the problems of kidnappings committed by members of power structures.

Today, Kabardino-Balkaria marks the third anniversary of tragic events on October 13, 2005, when armed people made an attack on Nalchik. Parents of the casualties want to know where their sons were buried.

On October 10 around midnight, unknown persons exploded the shop "Baltika" selling alcoholic beverage in the village of Ordzhonikidze, Sunzhensk district, Ingushetia. No one suffered.

Witness Sergey Mozgalyov stated to the Supreme Court of Karelia, which is considering the case of Caucasian natives who had initiated a mass fight at the "Chaika" restaurant that during the disorders in Kondopoga militia kept close to the events but chose not to interfere.

In Kabardino-Balkaria, the suit of the participants of the attack on Nalchik on October 13, 2005, is protracted. According to defendants' relatives, many of them are already sick.

Elena Bairamkulova, lawyer of the Kabardino-Balkarian Bar, who is defending Rustam Karanashev, a resident of Kabardino-Balkaria, detained on September 24 in Stavropol Territory, has filed a complaint to the Predgorny District Court of this Territory on violation of the right for legal defence, as stipulated by the Russian Code of Criminal Procedure in relation to her client, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

Today, the European Court for Human Rights has passed its decision on the case "Albekov et al versus Russian Federation" and recognized Russia guilty of inability to enforce its liabilities to defend Russian citizens in Chechnya, who perish from antipersonnel (AP) landmines.

The Sunzha District Court of Ingushetia has refused to re-qualify the criminal case on the fact of death of Magomed Evloev, owner of the website "Ingushetia.Ru", from Article "Causing death by inadvertence" into Article "Murder".

On October 6, on the eve of the second anniversary of Anna Politkovskaya's murder, the conference hall of the International Society "Memorial" hosted a party in memory of the journalist. The hall was packed. Anna's big portrait was decorated by three roses - two red and a white ones, as if she was still alive. The organizers of the event were the Society "Memorial" and the "Caucasian Knot".

Today, Ella Kesaeva, co-chair of the All-Russian Public Organization "Voice of Beslan", has returned from Warsaw, where she presented the report named "Methods of Fighting Terrorism" and 2600 signatures in support of international investigation of the Beslan terror act, which were gathered during the mourning actions on the 4th anniversary of the tragedy in School No. 1.