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The North Caucasus military district has put off the preliminary hearing of the fourth trial on the case of the special task force of federal troops under the command of captain Eduard Ulman accused of killing six Chechen civilians.

A powerful explosion thundered in the Leninskiy District of Grozny in the cross of the Bogdana Khmelnitskogo and Krasnoznamennaya Streets.

On October 6, in the village of Starye Atagi of the Grozny Rural District of the Chechen Republic, the members of unknown power units kidnapped mother of earlier disappeared Elina Ersenoeva, a string correspondent of the "Chechenskoye Obschestvo" newspaper and the last wife of Shamil Basaev.

Today, the North-Caucasian Military Tribunal convoked the parties of Ulman's case to take part in the preliminary hearing, however, the court session failed.

Ramzan Kadyrov, Prime Minister of Chechnya, told that he had no motives to persecute journalist Anna Politkovskaya.

The Nalchik City Court has considered a complaint lodges by Rasul Kudaev on the ruling of the Nalchik prosecutor's office to abandon opening a criminal case on application of physical force to him by the members of law enforcement bodies and retuned it back to the Nalchik prosecutor's office for additional investigation.

The correspondent of the "Caucasian Knot" was the last journalist to take interview from Anna Politkovskaya.

In the opinion of a number of Russian politicians, the Kremlin servants are behind the murder of Anna Politkovskaya, a "Novaya Gazeta" observer.

Chechnya citizens are shocked and indignant with the murder of Anna Politkovskaya, a well-known Russian journalist, whom many of them considered to be "their close person," the correspondent of the "Caucasian Knot" reports.

Amnesty International is shocked, saddened and deeply angered by the murder of Anna Politkovskaya, Russian human rights defender and journalist.

Ulman's lawyer is preparing a complaint to the Strasburg Court on Human Rights in connection with the Russian Constitutional Court ruling "on Ulman's case.

Today in Moscow, Anna Politkovskaya was killed, a well-known journalist, political observer of the "Novaya Gazeta," who wrote for many years on violent infringements of human rights in Chechnya and elsewhere in the north Caucasus.

President of Russia Vladimir Putin by his order relieved Major General Alexei Dorofeev from the position of the Head of the FSB (Federal Security Bureau) Administration of the Russian Federation for Karelia, reported on Thursday the press service of the head of the state.

Yesterday, October 3, in the capital of Karachayevo-Cherkessia they continued hearing of the criminal case in relation to sixteen citizens of the Republic accused of killing seven persons in October 2004.

During the two and a half months that the North Caucasus was under the amnesty in relation to members of armed formations, a total of 225 persons surrendered voluntarily in Chechnya.