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A more severe charge against Ahmedpashi Aidayev, native of Chechnya, the main suspect of the murder of football fan Yury Volkov has been brought, Abusupyan Gaitayev, the defendant's attorney, reported on October, 11.

On October 14, at 5:30 p.m., in Chistoprudny Boulevard, near the monument to Griboyedov, a rally is planned in defence of journalists Nadezhda Nizovkina and Tatiana Stetsura, accused of extremism for distributing human rights leaflets about the Caucasus. The rally is organized by the Anti-War Movement.

The next session of the Khamovniki Court of Moscow to consider the claim lodged by Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov against Oleg Orlov, head of the HRC "Memorial" will take place on October 14 at 11:00 a.m. The prosecution party will continue presenting its proofs; and evidences of both sides' witnesses will be heard.

The prosecutor in Moscow municipal court has demanded to sentence Aslanbek Dadayev accused of murder of Ruslan Yamadayev, ex-deputy of the State Duma, and the attempt at Sergey Kiziun, military ex- commandant of Chechnya, to 23 years of imprisonment.

A youth patriotic club called "Putin" was established in Chechnya. A fountain devoted to the Russian Prime-minister's birthday was also opened in Grozny and horse races passed off in Gudermes. Local observers think that the authorities of the republic are seeking to show their loyalty to the Kremlin once again.

Law enforcement bodies of the Chechen Republic are investigating the circumstances of an explosion on October, 9, in a private house of a resident in the town of Ulus-Martan as a result of which two persons perished and one more got severely wounded.

Residents of Alkhan-Kala village, Grozny District, have no centralized water supply for nearly twenty years; water which fails to meet sanitary standards is brought to them in tanks. The authorities promise to fix water supply till the end of this year.

A memory rally of Anna Politkovskaya, a journalist of the "Novaya Gazeta", who was murdered 4 years ago, took place in Ingushetia, in the office of the human rights organization "Mashr".

The editorial board of the "Novaya Gazeta" in Moscow has started bagging subscriptions for commemorating Anna Politkovskaya and renaming Lesnaya Street, where she lived and died, in her honour.

On October 26, the Court of Appeal will sit in Warsaw to consider the case of provisional arrest of Ahmed Zakaev, said the court spokesperson Barbara Trembska.

European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has acknowledged the Russian Federation guilty of kidnapping of two young residents if Chechnya in 2002 and 2003.

On October, 7, the Committee of inquiry of the Russian Federation brought a new accusation of organizing the murder of Anna Politkovskaya, observer of "Novaya Gazeta", against Sergey Khajikurbanov, ex-major of the Moscow Directorate for Combating Organized Crime.

On October 6, the European Parliament paid tribute to journalist Anna Politkovskaya, assassinated right four years ago.