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On Tuesday, the North-Caucasian District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don completed hearing evidences of the accusation party at the trial of interior officers Khudyakov and Arakcheev accused of murdering peaceful residents of Chechnya on January 15, 2003.

Dagestan Prosecutor Igor Tkachov has announced today disclosure of the murder of Bitar Bitarov, prosecutor of the town of Buinaksk, committed on the 8th of last August, and attempts on Adilgirej Magomedtagirov (on August 8, 2006, and February 4, 2007).

A moral and material damage compensation claim worth more than 4.6 million roubles was lodged today by the persons who were injured at the Grozny-Moscow train explosion in summer of 2005, Valery Prilepskiy, advocate of one of the defendants, has reported.

The Court has rejected the petition of the defence of Eduard Ulman, who is accused of executing local residents in 2002 in the vicinity of the Chechen village of Dai whom he found in a car, to subject the defendants to an additional forensic psychological examination.

On April 1 in the morning, a bomb exploded in a shuttle van ("marshrutka") on the route from Udzhar to Baku, capital of Azerbaijan. As a consequence, Ragim Askerov, 37, a resident of Hachmaz, who was carrying the bomb, was killed, and several passengers were wounded.

Ulman's advocate Roman Krzhechkovskiy insists on an additional psychological examination of the defendants. He has lodged a respective petition today to the North-Caucasian Regional Military Court in Rostov-on-Don.

On March 30, at 7 p.m., in the city of Elista (Kalmykia), at office of the Kalmyk Republic's Branch of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF), unknown persons attacked Vitaly Shulenin, editor of the "Leninskiy Puts" (Lenin's Way) opposition newspaper of the Kalmyk Republic's Branch (KRB) of the CPRF.

In Azerbaijan, a group of inmates of the Gobustan closed prison continue their hunger strike commenced on Monday, March 26.

The Pyatigorsk City Court has re-qualified the offences committed by Anton (Abdullah) Stepanenko, former imam of Pyatigorsk mosque, and Andrei Grudin, another convict in the case, from Article 163 of the Criminal Code (CC) of the Russian Federation (extortion) to Article 330 (arbitrariness).

Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya, who had covered events in Chechnya and was killed in Moscow last October, has been posthumously awarded with UNESCO Prize for freedom of press.

In London, a meeting took place of entrepreneur Boris Berezovskiy with representatives of law enforcement bodies of Russia and Great Britain, where Mr. Berezovskiy gave evidence to Russian investigators on the murder case of Alexander Litvinenko, former Russian FSB (Federal Security Bureau) officer.

At the process dealing with accusation of "OMON" (Special Militia) fighters of application of violence in the children's summer camp "Druzhba" (Friendship) in Sochi (Krasnodar Territory), the victims' party has lodged a petition on elimination of violations in the indictment.

Last night, in the centre of Nalchik, capital of Kabardino-Balkaria, Radik Bappinaev, member of jama'at "Yarmuk," who was in international search from spring 2005, was killed in the course of a clash with militia patrol.

On February 28, the Committee against Tortures held a joint sitting with the power structures of the Chechen parliament.

Additional militia forced are deployed in the district centre of Sergokala of the Sergokalinskiy District with the aim to prevent possible mass disorders that may be organized by supporters of Ali Kadiev, head of Municipal Formation (MF) "The Sergokalinskiy District," and Gasan Gasanov, head of MF "The Sergokala Settlement."