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The State Duma has made an amendment to the Code of Criminal Procedure in the third and final reading to postpone introduction of the court of jury in Chechnya till 2010.

The FSB (Federal Security Bureau) of Russia has decoded the archives of Jordanian mercenary Abu Havs, one of Chechen separatists' leaders. He was killed in Khasavyurt.

The Supreme Court has appointed to consider on December 26 possible cancellation of the verdict passed to Nurpashi Kulaev, the only survived participant of Beslan school seizure.

The Russian Prosecutor-General's Office has initiated a criminal case on the fact of assassination in London of Alexander Litvinenko, ex-FSB employee.

The International Press Institute (IRI) has awarded the title of the "World Free Press Hero" to Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya posthumously.

Taria Halonen, president of Finland, called the situation with assassinations of Anna Politkovskaya and Alexander Litvinenko, who criticized the Kremlin policy in Chechnya and in Russia as a whole, to be alarming.

Interrogation of Andrei Lugovoj, a Scotland Yard's suspect of poisoning Alexander Litvinenko, that was tonight, has been postponed.

Ramzan Kadyrov, chairman of Chechnya government, has stated that he will strive to bring to responsibility the federal troops commanders in charge of murdered or missing peaceful citizens of Chechnya.

The body of Alexander Litvinenko, ex-FSB employee, has been handed over to his relatives for burial.

Sergey Katanandov, Karelia's head, has signed a prescription to allocate 350,000 roubles from his reserve fund on rendering assistance to families of casualties and other victims of Kondopoga disorders.

Italian Professor Mario Scaramella, who had dinner with Alexander Litvinenko, ex-FSB employee, on the day of his poisoning, said that in 2000 Litvinenko was in charge of a secret operation of contraband delivery of nuclear materials from Russia to Zurich, Switzerland.

Moscow militia has completed examination of the explosive, which failed to function in the ninth level of the hostel in the MSU main building.

Today, residents of Kondopoga have paid the tribute to the memory of the citizens who were killed three months ago - late in August this year.

From November 23 to 29, at least ten persons perished and five more wounded in the course of armed collisions and diversion acts in Chechnya, Dagestan, and Ingushetia.

Journalists from The News of the World newspaper have managed to find out the name of Litvinenko's poisoner.