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The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled that Russia shall pay out around 350,000 euros on the claims lodged by relatives of those Chechens who had disappeared or were tortured.

Chechen refugees who arrive in Europe come across a number of problems often connected with specific features of European laws and in such situations they are most of all afraid of deportation to Russia. Therefore by holding an action of protest on October, 6, in Strasbourg these people wished to draw public attention to their problems, Helena Gabrelyan, journalist of French radio RFI said to a reporter of "Caucasian Knot".

A women's meeting of protest in front of the house of the Government in Grozny on October, 4, was dispersed with the help of the firemen of Ministry of Emergency situations (MES), a representative of one of the local non-governmental organizations reported. He said that a group of women was protesting against frauds with the mothers' capital.

Chechen field commanders publicly renounced their oath to Dokku Umarov and selected a new leader for themselves. This has become Husein Gakaev.

The interim commission of the parliament of Georgia set up to study the circumstances of the death of Zviad Gamsakhurdia, first president of Georgian, is waiting for photo materials from the Russian Prosecutor's Office of the examination, which was held in Rostov-on-Don in 2007.

As reported by Vladimir Markin, spokesman of the Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office (ICPO) of the Russian Federation, new suspects have now been established in the murder case of Anna Politkovskaya, a reporter of the "Novaya Gazeta", and international requests have been sent on legal aid to a number of European countries.

The large-scale actions aimed to find members of the armed underground unleashed in late September in the foothill and mountain regions of Chechnya continue, but so far, despite involvement of huge forces, they gave no feasible results.

Specialists from the "Leader" Centre for High Risk Rescue Operations of the Ministry for Emergencies (MfE) of Russia continue their work in the territory of the state farm "Zarya" in the Grozny District of Chechnya. In the near future the sappers hope to de-mine around ten hectares of agricultural lands of this state farms.

Law enforcement agencies of Belarus have detained a supposed telephone terrorist, who reported about a bomb aboard the Moscow-Grozny aircraft.

The Moscow City Court has left Bekkhan Ibragimov, one of suspects in the case dealing with Muscovite Yuri Volkov's murder during a group fight in Chistoprudny Boulevard, behind bars.

It was stated, at the meeting of the International Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) and the leadership of the Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office (ICPO), headed by Alexander Bastrykin, that under Natalia Estemirova's murder case the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov was interrogated. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent learnt about it from Kati Marton, a board member of the CPJ.

Specialists of the "Leader" Centre of Special-Risk Rescue Operations of the Ministry for Emergencies (MfE) of Russia continue de-mining agricultural lands in the Grozny District of Chechnya. Since the start of their work, they have cleared 15 hectares of mines, shells and various ordnances and neutralized 67 explosive items.