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On November 20 in Moscow, Boris Stomakhin, journalist of the "Kavkaz-Tsentr" Chechen separatists' web-site, was sentenced to five years of custody.

The wife of Alexander Litvinenko, poisoned ex-officer of the FSB, whose health condition has seriously aggravated during the last night and became extremely grave, was urgently called to the London University Hospital, where the patient is kept. Alexander Goldfarb, Litvinenko's friend, told about it and explained in his interview to the BBC that "most probably, now he is connected to the artificial blood circulation system".

Representatives of human rights organizations deployed in Chechnya confirm the statement of the Human Rights Watch international organization that kidnappings and tortures of detained persons continue in this Republic.

On November 22, the Independent Press Centre held a presentation of the report named "Tortures in Chechnya: Stabilization of Nightmare."

Mario Skaramella gave a press conference for the first time after Alexander Litvinenko, former Russia's FSB agent, was poisoned.

Relatives of Boris Stomakhin, author of the "Kavkaz-Tsentr" (Caucasus-Centre) web-site of Chechnya separatists who was convicted to five years in custody, announced that they would appeal against the judgment.

In the recent months less people have been kidnapped in Chechnya, however the Republic's authorities have failed so far to eradicate the problem completely, the human rights activists from the "Memorial" Russian Centre have stated.

In Chechnya, people think that liquidation of Movladi Baisarov, former commander of the "Gorets" (Mountaineer) special squadron was an act of intimidation, and they believe that his arresters were not going to leave him alive.

The Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation has refuted accusations of possible involvement in poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko in London.

The Butyrskiy District Court of Moscow has recognized guilty and sentenced Boris Stomakhin, editor-in-chief of the bulletin "Radical Policy" and journalist of the "Caucasus-Centre" web-site, to five years of imprisonment at a general custody treatment for excitation of religious hatred accomplished publicly with use of mass media.

The murder of the former commander of the "Gorets" (Mountaineer) special squadron, lieutenant colonel of the FSB (Federal Security Bureau) Movladi Baisarov became possible because the FSB operative shelter was removed from him after he had decided to evidence at the Military of the Office of Public Prosecutor on what happens in Chechnya.

Alexander Litvinenko was poisoned under a direct order from the Kremlin, Oleg Gordievskiy, former resident of Soviet special services in Great Britain and one of major deserters from the KGB, has declared.

Ruslan Eliev, 31, a refugee from Chechnya, has disappeared in Baku, capital of Azerbaijan, under unclear circumstances.

The British police have initiated a criminal case on poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko, former FSB officer.

Today at night in the Grozny District of Chechnya two oil wells have been blown up.