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The participants of the meetings held on October 24 in Chechnya in support of the incumbent President of Russia Vladimir Putin were forced to participate in the action.

The employees of the Chechen MIA are searching two girls who disappeared three days back in Grozny under unclear circumstances.

The General Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation has not answered to the application of the representatives of the "Nord-Ost" Public Organization demanding to initiate a criminal case against FSB Director Nikolai Patrushev, Vladimir Ustinov, former General Public Prosecutor and other heads of the headquarters formed to rescue the hostages, who were seized in the Theatre located in Dubrovka district in Moscow.

Today is the exactly 5 years from the day when on October 23, 2002, a group of terrorists seized spectators and actors of the musical "Nord-Ost" as hostages of at the Moscow Dubrovka Theatrical Centre.

The Investigatory Department at the Prosecutor's Office of Karelia has finished the investigation of criminal cases opened against high-ranking employees of militia accused of negligence in connection with disorders in Kondopoga in September 2006.

The advocates of the victims of the terror act in the Dubrovka Theatrical Centre demand to initiate criminal cases on falsification against a number of officials in connection with presentation to the Strasbourg Court of the memorandum dated to the events that happened five years ago.

The Prosecutor's Office has indicted Khasan Didigov, a native of Chechnya and a suspect of undermining the "Neva-Express" train.

The court of the city of Ob, Novosibirsk Region, has recognized the "Siberia" Airline and insurers the Open Insurance Joint-Stock Company "Ingosstrakh" and the Open Joint-Stock Company "Afes" to be respondents to the claim of the family that had lost the breadwinner in the accident of Tu-154 airplane belonging to the "Siberia" Airline in August 2004.

The authorities of Grozny, the capital of Chechnya, have failed to sanction a meeting that was to be held by the relatives of the persons kidnapped in Chechnya and Dagestan.

Natalia Estemirova, an employee of the Human Rights Centre "Memorial" in Chechnya, the laureate of the first annual world award named after Anna Politkovskaya, is going to spend the award money on legal assistance to victims of tortures and faked criminal cases in Chechnya.

The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed about the meeting with French President Nicolas Sarkozy by Svetlana Gannushkina, member of the Board of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" and member of the Board on Human Rights under President of Russia, and Oleg Orlov, Chairman of the Board of the HRC "Memorial."

Magomed Maksharipovich Aushev, 22, and Magomed Osmanovich Aushev, 25, who were kidnapped by a group of unidentified power agents on September 18, were first kept in the Urus-Martan District and then transferred to the mountain Shatoy District of Chechnya.

In London, Natalia Estemirova, a journalist and human rights activist from Chechnya, has been awarded with the first annual award named after Anna Politkovskaya.

A group of deputies of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) has suggested the member countries of the Council to conduct an international investigation into the circumstances of the murder committed last October of Anna Politkovskaya.

The European Court for Human Rights has obliged Russia to pay out almost 200,000 euros of compensation to three ladies - natives of Chechnya; this is a record sum for one day's work of the Court in Strasbourg.