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"If today the advocates meet the detainees, then we'll be able to hope that in future no illegal methods of investigation will be applied to our comrades," Alexander Maishev said.

The Azerbaijani Institute for Reporters' Freedom and Safety is starting a campaign of gathering signatures for monumentalizing the memory of Elmar Guseinov, editor of the "Monitor" magazine who was assassinated in March 2005.

Tonight, the women from the "Dagestan Mothers" Public Organization who protested against kidnappings of their relatives have stopped their hunger strike.

Today, the third sitting during the recent three months on the issue of kidnappings was held under direction of President of Dagestan Mukhu Aliev.

On the eve of the third anniversary of the act of terror in Beslan, 81 percent of Russians distrust the versions of the authorities about the events that happened in School No. 1 in 2004.

Today, the Federal Court of Switzerland has published its statement confirming the delay of enactment of the decision of the Zurich Canton Court on early release of Russian Vitaly Kaloev, who is serving his term for murdering Peter Nielsen, air traffic controller of the SkyGuide Swiss Company.

The arrest of Andrei Kalyonov and Denis Zelenyuk, members of the "Petersburg League of Anarchists," on suspicion of blowing up the "Neva Express" train is a deliberate provocation of special agencies, Alexander Maishev said.

Three persons were arrested under the case of blowing up the "Neva Express" train: two St-Petersburg anarchists - Andrei Kalyonov and Denis Zelenyuk, and Hasan Didigov, 25, a native of Chechnya.

In Makhachkala, the hunger strike of the women-members of the "Dagestan Mothers for Human Rights" Public Organization continues. The health condition of some of them is close to critical.

On August 21, the Garrison Military Court of the City of Grozny started another trial of the case of Lieutenant Colonel Alexei Korgun, for whose guilt a local woman-resident was killed and two more women were heavily wounded.

Ruslan Bashirli, Chairman of the "Eni Fikir" Youth Movement, who is kept at Corrective Facility No. 1 in Azerbaijan, has health problems.

The recent statement of General Dmitri Fomenko that all the militants' regiments have been liquidated in the territory of the Republic, and those remaining ones have moved to Ingushetia and Dagestan, is perceived by residents of the Chechen Republic as a bad joke.

David Ovannisyan, Plenipotentiary Ambassador and Associated Professor at the Division of Arabism of the Yerevan State University, has reported that recently the number of threats and kidnappings of Armenians in Iraq has increased.

Today, the Kondopoga City Court has started considering on the merits the case about mass disorders.

A source in the investigatory bodies of the region has reported today that two suspects of undermining the "Neva Express" train were detained in the Novgorod Region.