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In Moscow today the public hearings held by the "Expert Commission of Outstanding Lawyers" have continued; the conference has considered the issues of fighting terrorism and the problem of non-observance of human rights in Chechnya.

Two servicemen of federal troops and one militant were killed in a skirmish in the mountainous Shatoj District of Chechnya.

Tortures, kidnappings, murders and various other violations of human rights continue in Chechnya. This is the topic of the report disseminated by the "Demos" Moscow Information-Analytical Centre.

The defendants in the case of blowing up the Grozny-Moscow train deny their guilt, Valery Prilepskiy, advocate of one of the case figurants, has reported.

The British authorities have reported that the murder of Alexander Litvinenko, ex-FSB officer, may be regarded cleared.

Today, it is one year from the date of murder of Sandro Girgvliani, a servant of the Bank of Georgia.

Today in the afternoon (about 1:30 p.m. Moscow time), Ms. Chabieva, Malika Mikhailovna, born in 1969, a refugee from Chechnya, was kidnapped by unknown armed persons in masks from the Temporary Residence Centre (TRC), located in the village of Sleptsovskaya, Republic of Ingushetia, in the territory of "Mekhstroj."

On Friday, the North-Caucasian Regional Military Court continued interrogation of prosecution witnesses in the case of two officers of Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federations accused of murdering peaceful residents in Chechnya.

Today, the Presnenskiy Court of Moscow has defeated the first one out of the 42 claims of the residents of the Chechen village of Borozdinovskaya lodged against the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation (RF).

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) is going to call both Chambers of the Federal Assembly of Russia to hold an independent inquiry into the murder of journalist Anna Politkovskaya in October 2006.

On January 25, the Presnenskiy Court of Moscow will continue the process on the suit of 42 inhabitants of the village of Borozdinovskaya of the Shelkovskoj District of Chechnya towards the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation (RF).

Today, at the North-Caucasian Regional Military Court (Rostov-on-Don), at the trial on the case of Evgeniy Khudyakov and Sergey Arakcheev, who are charged of murdering peaceful Chechens, Sergey Arakcheev has declared a challenge to the court.

The International Herald Tribune newspaper asserts in the article on the murder of Armenian journalist Hrant Dink in Turkey that Yasin Haial, the customer of the editor's murder, underwent training in Chechens' camps in Azerbaijan.

Yuri Saveliev, a State Duma deputy and a member of the parliamentary commission for investigating the causes and circumstances of the act of terror in Beslan, has confirmed his readiness to deliver his alternative report on Beslan to the parliament of North Ossetia, should the deputies approve this decision.

Representatives of Russian society have issued a joint statement condemning the murder in Turkey of Hrant Dink, editor-in-chief of the "Akos" Armenian newspaper.