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The parents of Armenian girl Anaida Ch., 19, who committed suicide on July 18 by jumping from the 12th floor of one of high blocks in Nalchik, have learned that the suicide motive was a rape committed on their daughter, but for the third month already they fail to achieve the appropriate investigation into the incident.

On October 11 at 10 a.m., the Supreme Court of Kabardino-Balkaria will start its closed (in camera) preliminary hearings on the criminal case on the events of October 13, 2005, when militants made an attack on Nalchik.

Yuri Chaika, General Public Prosecutor of Russia, has stated today at the press conference in Yerevan that the murder case of journalist Anna Politkovskaya is solved, and once the investigation is over, it will be transferred to the court.

On October 8, the Yasamal District Court of the capital of Azerbaijan, presided by Judge Svetlana Ahmedova, finished the litigation on the claim of the Minister of Economic Development Geidar Babaev against the editor-in-chief of the oppositional newspaper ""Azadlyg" Ganimat Zakhidov.

Early on Tuesday, October 9, after depositing a bail in the sum of 10 million laris (about 6 million US dollars) Irakliy Okruashvili, ex-Minister of Defence of Georgia, was released from Prison No. 7 in Tbilisi.

In the Pushkin Square in the centre of Moscow, a meeting was held on October 7 in memory of Anna Politkovskaya.

The protest action held on October 4 at the Russian Embassy in Istanbul (Turkey) was organized by the "North-Caucasian Platform."

The Radio Liberty has nothing in common with the information disseminated by media on its behalf that ex-FSB officer Mikhail Trepashkin, condemned for disclosure of state secrets, suspects his advocate Lyubov Kosik of her tie-up with the FSB and work in the interests of the prosecution.

The Civil Society Network named "Refugees and International Law" asks President of Nagorno-Karabakh Bako Saakyan to help refugees from Azerbaijan.

The evidences given by Irakliy Okruashvili, former Minister of Defence of Georgia and now the leader of the opposition party "For United Georgia," have stirred up the Georgian society.

Sources from the General Prosecutor's Office are stating that the murder case of Anna Politkovskaya has been cleared: perpetrators detained, inspectors know the killer and even have assumptions as to the customer of the crime.

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 international forum in memory of Anna Politkovskaya, an observer of the "Novaya Gazeta," which was to start today, has been disrupted.

In front of the Russian Embassy in Istanbul, on October 4, the "Zhineps" Circassian Organization of Turkey held a protest action against the celebrations of the 450th anniversary of voluntary accession of Adygs to the Russian state and against 2014 Olympiad to be held in the city of Sochi.