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Anna Politkovskaya, observer of the "Novaya Gazeta," was posthumously awarded a special Diploma of the Jury of Andrei Sakharov's Prize "For the Life Sacrificed to Journalism."

Upon returning from London, two citizens of Lithuania underwent medical examination, which showed that they were "contaminated with polonium," Vigaudas Ushatskas, Ambassador of Lithuania to Great Britain.

At 4:00 p.m. on December 15, the Nazran District Court of the Republic of Ingushetia (RI) will start considering an application lodged by the "Mashr" Association of Relatives of Missing People on illegal decision of the Mayor's Office of the city of Nazran, which had prohibited a picket in memory of Anna Politkovskaya on October 16 this year, and actions of the Interior Department of Nazran and Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ingushetia who violently dispersed the protest action.

The "Chaika" restaurant in the town of Kondopoga, which was burnt down in the course of mass disorders in September, will be rebuilt into a culture-leisure youth centre.

Rushana Guseinova, widow of Elmar Guseinov, assassinated journalist, received political asylum in Norway, and together with her son Aslan is already in the territory of this country.

Timur Lakhonin, head of the Russian Interpol Bureau, has reported that this organization is now engaged in the inquiry into Litvinenko's case.

In the Staropromyslovskiy District of the capital of Chechnya, members of unidentified power agencies have kidnapped Salambek Omarov, 20, a local citizen and a third-year student of the Law Department of the Gudermes Branch of the Makhachkala Institute.

Today, the North-Caucasian Regional Military Court (Rostov-on-Don) has started a trial on Ulman's case.

Teimuraz Chedzhemov, advocate for the victims of Beslan school seizure in September 2004, has stated that most of his clients find the sentence to Nurpashi Kulaev to be just and fair.

The relatives and friends of Alexander Litvinenko who live in Great Britain are ready to meet the investigators of the Russian Prosecutor-General's Office, but only provided their safety is guaranteed.

The Russian Public Prosecutor's Office plans to send its investigators engaged in the case of the death of Alexander Litvinenko, ex-FSB employee, to Great Britain.

Vladimir Lukin, human rights commissioner (ombudsman) in the Russian Federation, has held today, on the eve of the International Day for Human Rights Defence, a decoration ceremony with his medal "Hurry Up to Make Good."

The International Helsinki Federation (IHF) is concerned with illegal detainment and initiation of a criminal case against Mokhdan Elgakaev and Myukhdi Aslambekov, residents of Ingushetia who were acquitted from criminal responsibility.

The correspondent of the "Caucasian Knot" has learnt from unofficial sources that the prosecutor's office of Nalchik, capital of Kabardino-Balkaria, has initiated a criminal case against unidentified employees of the "T" Centre under Article "Excess of official powers with application of violence and special means."

Statement by Akhmed Zakaev, emissary of Chechen separatists in London, about use by Russian special agencies of radioactive materials in Chechnya is a parcel of rubbish, Nikolai Patrushev, FSB director, has declared.