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Yesterday, on November 28, President of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Evkurov visited the refugees from North Ossetia and Chechnya who live in the Republic. The leader was not happy with the conditions, in which they live.

In Chechnya, inspectors have established the person of the young woman murdered today near the village of Enginoy.

President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov has stated that no traditions can exculpate the murderers of six women in Chechnya.

The six young women, whose bodies were found in the morning on November 26 in Grozny and Grozny District of Chechnya could be killed as punishment for their immoral behaviour, the investigation assumes.

The law enforcement bodies of Chechnya have established the persons of five young women, whose bodies were found on November 26 in Grozny and Grozny District of the Republic. One killed woman is not identified yet. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent has learnt about it from a source in the Republic's law enforcement bodies.

Yesterday, on November 26, ahead of the sitting of the Moscow Regional Military Court, where the murder of the observer of the "Novaya Gazeta" newspaper Anna Politkovskaya is now considered, Murad Musaev, advocate of one of the defendants, had stated that some big Russian politician is a figurant in the case.

Today Evgeniy Zubov, Judge of the Moscow Regional Military Court, has refused to self-disqualify from the process on the murder of Anna Politkovskaya, journalist of the "Novaya Gazeta" newspaper.

The litigation on the case on the murder of the "Novaya Gazeta" correspondent Anna Politkovskaya will be held in the open regime. The board of jurymen has reiterated their statement that they do not object to run the trial in the open regime. The state prosecution has supported the jurymen's statement. As a result, Judge Zubov made a respective decision, the "New Gazeta" reports.

Law enforcement bodies of the Chechen Republic continue investigating the circumstances of the terror act in Sadovoe village, Grozny District, committed at night on November 23, when three employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Chechnya, and one local resident were killed, and eight more person, five militiamen among them, were heavily wounded.

Further investigation of the criminal cases initiated against former commander of the "Vostok" battalion of the 42nd Motorized Rifle Division of the Ministry of Defence of Russia Lieutenant Colonel Sulim Yamadaev will be held by military investigatory bodies.

Former inhabitants of the Temporary Accommodation Centres in Chechnya, whom the Republic's authorities promised to provide housing in the first order, now have to pay for leased apartments or live with their relatives, reports the Human Rights Centre "Memorial".

Judge Evgeniy Zubov can be brought to disciplinary responsibility, if it is proved that his decision to make the trial of Anna Politkovskaya's murder case closed was illegal.

The Moscow Regional Military Court has announced a break in considering the murder of Anna Politkovskaya, observer of the "Novaya Gazeta", till December 1.

The process on the murder case of the observer of the "Novaya Gazeta" Anna Politkovskaya will be held in the closed regime. The court had to make this decision after the jurymen refused to appear in the courtroom in the presence of the press, although no threats against them ever arrived.

Today, the Moscow Regional Military Court has formed the board of jurymen on the murder case of the observer of the "Novaya Gazeta" newspaper Anna Politkovskaya; the consideration of the case began on November 17. In total, 12 main and 8 reserve jurymen have been chosen.