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Starting from 1994, a total of 376 servicemen of the federal forces who took part in the Chechnya counter-terrorist operation have been enlisted as missing persons. Colonel of Justice Vladimir Kalita, Deputy Military Prosecutor of the United Force Grouping.

In the context of inter-ethnic clashes in the village of Vorobyovka of the Priyutnenskiy District of Kalmykia, the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of the Republic has been transferred into the intense mode of service duty.

The final date of the Parliamentary Commission on Beslan terror act is postponed, and they plan to hold the nearest sitting after the November holidays, Ms. Lyubov Sliska, First Vice-Speaker of State Duma told the Deputies today.

A magistrate judge has fined Magomed Mutsolgov, head of the non-commercial public organization "Mashr," who organized on October 16 a picket in memory of journalist Anna Politkovskaya in the city of Nazran (Ingushetia).

In Kondopoga, people started to collect signatures under the appeal to the authorities requesting them to amnesty the participants of mass disorders that burst out in Kondopoga on September 2 this year.

In Nazran (Ingushetia), a court session has taken place today to trial Magomed Mutsolgov, chairman of the "Mashr" Association of Missing Persons' Relatives, and Albert Khantygov, worker of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial."

Today, Moscow continues to commemorate the victims of the terror act committed four years ago during performance of musical "Nord-Ost" in the Dubrovka Theatre Centre.

"In Dagestan, underground bandits are very isolated, they continue to operate in four directions: Buinaksk, Makhachkala, South Dagestan and Khasavyurt," Mr. Solodovnikov said, in particular.

For today, a session has been appointed at the North-Caucasian Regional Military Court to hear the case of Ulman and three special agents of the Chief Reconnaissance Agency ("GRU") charged of murdering peaceful Chechen residents.

Saturday evening, on October 28, Brussels will host a memorial party of murdered journalist Anna Politkovskaya, organized by international journalistic and human rights organizations.

The correspondent of the "Caucasian Knot" has learnt from unofficial sources that last night five persons out of those accused of attack on the power structures of Kabardino-Balkaria on October 13 last year were released under amnesty from the investigation custody of Nalchik.

Sergey Katanandov, head of Karelia, has interrupted his vacations spent in Portugal, and is for two days already working in Moscow.

Josep Borrell, President of the European Parliament, after the body he is heading has passed a resolution on the issue, called to run a thorough investigation of the murder of Anna Politkovskaya, a well-known Russian journalist.

"We ask you to initiate a criminal case and to bring those guilty to responsibility for desecration of the bodies of the persons who perished in October 2005 in the city of Nalchik, and for abuse of official position and negligent attitude," runs an application written by the parents of the militants who died in Kabardino-Balkaria.

Friends and relatives of the victims of the 2002 terror act in the Dubrovka Theater Centre gathered today in Moscow near the place of the tragedy to keep one minute's silence in remembrance of those perished.