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Ex-Deputy of State Duma Ruslan Yamadaev, who was killed in Moscow, was buried today in the morning in the city of Gudermes. Sulim Yamadaev was not present at the funeral, same as none of the top officials, Ruslan's brother Isa Yamadaev has reported.

These minutes, the Novopushkinskiy Mini-Park in Moscow is hosting the "Mistrust Day" - a picket dedicated to the ninth anniversary of the "FSB's exercises" held in the city of Ryazan on September 22-23, 1999.

The murder in Moscow of Ruslan Yamadaev, former deputy of the State Duma of Russia and a member of Yamadaev clan, which is in enmity with President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov, can lead to serious consequences in Chechnya, some local observers assert.

In the centre of Moscow, Ruslan Yamadaev, ex-deputy of Russian State Duma, was assassinated, not his brother Sulim Yamadaev, former commander of the "Vostok" battalion deployed in Chechnya, as reported earlier. The news was announced by Valery Gribakin, head of the PR Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Russia.

In Chechnya, on September 23, the Grozny Garrison Military Court started considering the civil suits lodged by former militaries of the special-purpose battalion "Vostok" (East) of the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation against their early dismissal from military service.

On October 2, the European Court for Human Rights will make a decision on the case "Lyanova and Alieva versus Russia". The claim was lodged in connection with disappearance in summer of 2000 in Grozny of three Chechen teenagers.

The Chechen Republic has finalized formation of Precinct Electoral Commissions (PECs). The overwhelming majority of PEC members are the persons who had worked for all the recent elections held in the territory of the Republic.

The European Court for Human Rights has passed a decision on the case "Takhaev et al. versus Russia", where the Russian Federation was found guilty of violent disappearance of a 20-years-old men in Chechnya in November 2002. The Court has decided on the compensation for the applicants for their material and moral damage in the sum of 38,000 euros.

On September 15, in the territory of Russian capital, two unidentified persons beat and knifed a citizen of Azerbaijan. Earlier in Moscow, a native of Chechnya was killed.

The Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" has prepared a new issue of the Information Bulletin "Chronicle of Violence" for August 2008, related to the conflict in the Northern Caucasus. According to human rights activists, kidnappings, attacks of unknown persons, bombardments and murders happen practically every day in conflict.

Last night, in the south-east of Chechnya, a group of unknown persons kidnapped a woman-local resident. Later, her body with numerous gunshot wounds was found by employees of law enforcement bodies. The motives of the crime remain unknown.

Mikael Ezhiev, leader of the NGO named "Human Rights Centre of the Chechen Republic" has stated that residents of Chechnya Salavatov, Matsiev, Dzhantemirov and Khabibulaev, sentenced last week by the Supreme Court of Chechnya to long terms of imprisonment, gave their evidences of guilt under torture.

The Supreme Court of Karelia, where the trial on criminal case on Kondopoga disorders continues, has announced the results of the handwriting examination, which have confirmed the fact of falsification of some procedural documents.

Seven out of eight regional branches of political parties, which have announced about their intention to take part in the parliamentary elections to be held on October 12, have got registered by the Chechen Central Electoral Commission (CEC).

In Chechnya, investigation goes on of the circumstances of the murder of Askhab Zakriev, 17, who died, as reported, for the guilt of power agents. A criminal case on the fact of the incident was initiated under Article "Causing death by imprudence (manslaughter)".