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Abu Havs, Al-Qaeda emissary for North Caucasus, and four his helpers were killed in Khasavyurt (Dagestan).

On November 24, 2006, two employees of the "Novaya Gazeta" were threatened assassination. The fact was made public in the application of the edition placed in the web site of the newspaper on Monday.

The United Nations Committee Against Tortures has accused Russia of having secret prisons, violations of human rights and kidnappings in Chechnya.

The British authorities think that poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko looks like a murder organized by a state.

A posthumous letter of Alexander Litvinenko, former FSB officer, who died under puzzling circumstances, was announced in London.

Alexander Litvinenko, former employee of the Federal Security Bureau (FSB) has died in London.

The wife of Alexander Litvinenko, poisoned ex-officer of the FSB, whose health condition has seriously aggravated during the last night and became extremely grave, was urgently called to the London University Hospital, where the patient is kept. Alexander Goldfarb, Litvinenko's friend, told about it and explained in his interview to the BBC that "most probably, now he is connected to the artificial blood circulation system".

Representatives of human rights organizations deployed in Chechnya confirm the statement of the Human Rights Watch international organization that kidnappings and tortures of detained persons continue in this Republic.

On November 22, the Independent Press Centre held a presentation of the report named "Tortures in Chechnya: Stabilization of Nightmare."

"There are two reasons for killing Armenians in Russia. Firstly, the Russian society is sick with xenophobia, secondly, there is an order to kill Armenians in Russia," thinks Levon Ananyan, Chairman of Armenian Writers' Guild.

Mario Skaramella gave a press conference for the first time after Alexander Litvinenko, former Russia's FSB agent, was poisoned.

The decision of the Leninskiy Court of Vladikavkaz to recognize the complex situational examination, which has concluded innocence of the members of the hostage rescue operative headquarters, to be illegal and unjustified can radically change the investigation course of the basic case on the Beslan act of terror and bring into challenge certain conclusions of Torshin commission.

In the recent months less people have been kidnapped in Chechnya, however the Republic's authorities have failed so far to eradicate the problem completely, the human rights activists from the "Memorial" Russian Centre have stated.

In Chechnya, people think that liquidation of Movladi Baisarov, former commander of the "Gorets" (Mountaineer) special squadron was an act of intimidation, and they believe that his arresters were not going to leave him alive.

The Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation has refuted accusations of possible involvement in poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko in London.