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The International Press Institute (IRI) has awarded the title of the "World Free Press Hero" to Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya posthumously.

Ramzan Kadyrov, chairman of Chechnya government, has stated that he will strive to bring to responsibility the federal troops commanders in charge of murdered or missing peaceful citizens of Chechnya.

A five-year deprivation of freedom sentence passed to Boris Stomakhin, author of the "Kavkaz-Tsentr" separatists' web site and co-chairman of the Revolutionary Contact Association, was appealed against at the Moscow City Court both by defence and prosecution, Karen Nersesyan, his advocate, told.

Sergey Katanandov, Karelia's head, has signed a prescription to allocate 350,000 roubles from his reserve fund on rendering assistance to families of casualties and other victims of Kondopoga disorders.

Air bombing of high-mountain village of Sharo-Argun in the Shatoiskiy District of the Republic is far from being a single incident if this sort in Chechnya during recent time, the residents of a number of mountainous villages of the Republic assert.

Today, residents of Kondopoga have paid the tribute to the memory of the citizens who were killed three months ago - late in August this year.

From November 23 to 29, at least ten persons perished and five more wounded in the course of armed collisions and diversion acts in Chechnya, Dagestan, and Ingushetia.

The autopsy of the body of Alexander Litvinenko is over. The examination was held at the London Royal Hospital under special safety precautions.

Different figures of the number of militants who are still hiding in the mountain part of Chechnya, made public by military officials and representatives of local authorities, give grounds to suppose that the exact number is still unknown.

On Friday, the Moscow Regional Court dissolved the jury in the case on blowing up of the Grozny-Moscow train in 2005.

On November 28, the human rights organization "Chechen Committee of National Rescue" distributed information that colonel Yuri Budanov had lodged a petition to the Ulyanovsk Regional Court on his pre-term release from the strict custody colony, where he is serving his sentence for the murder of Chechen young woman Elza Kungaeva.

A total of 89 Chechen refugees who fled to the Akhmetovskiy District of Georgia at the very start of 1999 military actions have come back home from there.

A broad-scale action of direct expression of public will under the motto "Now its Finland's turn to affect!" was dated to the Russia-EU Summit held in Helsinki, capital of Finland, currently the chair country in the EU.

Konstantin Kosachov, chairman of the Committee of State Duma on Foreign Affairs, believes that a certain "presumption of guilt" has formed in the West in relation to Russia.

Nurdin Doklaev, deputy public prosecutor of the city of Nazran, Republic of Ingushetia, has made a decision to cancel the ruling of Hussein Sakalov, investigator of the City prosecutor's office, on refusal to initiate a criminal case on application about beating Ms. Ekaterina Sokiryanskaya, employee of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial," during dispersal on October 16 this year of a picket in memory Anna Politkovskaya in Nazran.