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The advocate who acts in the interests of the family of Anna Politkovskaya, observer of the "Novaya Gazeta" newspaper, in her murder case is trying to attract President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov as a witness.

Deputies of the Chechen parliament voice support to the initiative of President Dmitri Medvedev, who proposed to extend the terms in office of Russian President and State Duma Deputies up to six and five years accordingly.

On November 14, President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov took command of the special operation intended to search militants in the Kurchaloy and Nozhai-Yurt Districts, and personally designed its plan. The operation had lasted till late at night, but no militants were found.

In Grozny, the capital of Chechnya, students of the Chechen State University (ChSU) held an action in support of the member of University's football team, who killed this February in a mass fight in the city of Novocherkassk, Rostov Region, one of local residents.

The village of Alkhan-Kala, Grozny District of Chechnya, hosted a commemoration party (tezet) of Yunus and Yusup Arsamakov, brothers of the well-known Moscow banker Abubakar Arsamakov; the brothers were kidnapped last February and until recently were regarded as missing. Their relatives cherished hopes that they are alive.

On November 6, the European Court for Human Rights passed decisions on three more cases from Chechnya, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports with reference to the "Legal Initiative for Russia".

People in Chechnya have differently perceived the news that the special battalions "Vostok" (East) and "Zapad" (West) subordinate to the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Russian General Staff (GRU) of the Russian Ministry of Defence will be disbanded. Although many residents treated these subdivisions negatively enough, others believe that the battalions were dissolved to please President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov.

The battalions "Zapad" (West) and "Vostok" (East) of the 42nd Motorized Rifle Division of the Russian Ministry of Defence, deployed in the territory of Chechnya, are transformed into motorized rifle companies.

The Ministry of Health of Russia has denied the proposal of Chechen leaders to set up in the republic s special laboratory for genetic examination of unidentified bodies.

In Chechnya, tenants of House 2/1 in Putin Avenue of Grozny, asked by city authorities to abandon their apartments, wrote an open letter to Russian President Dmitri Medvedev asking him for help.

Victor Travin, President of the "Collegium for Legal Defence of Car Owners", believes that the appeals of the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Ingushetia to road-patrol servicemen to "break windscreens" and "shoot at cars" of those drivers who refuse to remove tinted glasses under militia's order is a cause for the General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) to react.

Five detainees kept in the pre-trial isolation facility (SIZO) in Nalchik - residents of Ingushetia and Chechnya - have stopped their hunger strike. This was reported by the Chief Correction Administration (the so-called "GUIN") of the Russian Federation for the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR).

Ten residents of Ingushetia and two of Chechnya, kept at the pre-trial detention facility (SIZO) in the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria, are on full hunger strike since October 21.

This year, 3000 pilgrims from Chechnya will make their Hajj to Mecca. The number of free-of-charge places in the quota was cut by more than three times.

On October 23, the European Court on Human Rights considered the case "Magomed Musaev et al versus Russia" on disappearance of three residents of Chechnya: Said-Rakhman Musaev, Odes Mityaev and Magomed Magomadov, and found that the European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms was breached in relation of these persons.