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A powerful explosion thundered in the Leninskiy District of Grozny in the cross of the Bogdana Khmelnitskogo and Krasnoznamennaya Streets.

On October 6, in the village of Starye Atagi of the Grozny Rural District of the Chechen Republic, the members of unknown power units kidnapped mother of earlier disappeared Elina Ersenoeva, a string correspondent of the "Chechenskoye Obschestvo" newspaper and the last wife of Shamil Basaev.

Today, the North-Caucasian Military Tribunal convoked the parties of Ulman's case to take part in the preliminary hearing, however, the court session failed.

Ramzan Kadyrov, Prime Minister of Chechnya, told that he had no motives to persecute journalist Anna Politkovskaya.

Without explaining the reasons, the authorities of Georgia detained in the village of Ergneti the members of the South Ossetia government: Merab Chigoev, minister of justice, Jemal Jigkaev, minister of public health, and Alla Jioeva, minister of education.

The parliament of Georgia has unanimously adopted a statement officially condemning the authorities of Russia for escalating xenophobia in relation to ethnic Georgians.

"An assertion published in Georgian media that two Georgian policemen were wounded at the blockpost in the village of Kekhvi as a result of fire launched by the Ossetian party has nothing to do with reality," Ms. Zema Kulumbegova, press service head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of the Republic of South Ossetia (RSO), told the correspondent of the "Caucasian Knot."

On October 9, the prosecutor's office of the Nizhni Novgorod Region served a copy of statement of claim on liquidation to Stanislav Dmitrievskiy, executive director of the Inter-Regional Public Organization "Russian-Chechen Friendship Society".

The Nalchik City Court has considered a complaint lodges by Rasul Kudaev on the ruling of the Nalchik prosecutor's office to abandon opening a criminal case on application of physical force to him by the members of law enforcement bodies and retuned it back to the Nalchik prosecutor's office for additional investigation.

Today, in Akhalkalaki, south of Georgia, an unknown person delivered fire on a protest action held by the oppositional party "Industry Will Save Georgia."

The correspondent of the "Caucasian Knot" was the last journalist to take interview from Anna Politkovskaya.

Today afternoon, two Russian Emergency Ministry's ("MChS") airplanes are going to arrive in Tbilisi with the aim to carry out to Moscow about 370 Russian citizens, "who were staying in Georgia on personal matters or as tourists and failed to leave for their homeland due to the stop of transport communications between the two countries."

In the opinion of a number of Russian politicians, the Kremlin servants are behind the murder of Anna Politkovskaya, a "Novaya Gazeta" observer.

Chechnya citizens are shocked and indignant with the murder of Anna Politkovskaya, a well-known Russian journalist, whom many of them considered to be "their close person," the correspondent of the "Caucasian Knot" reports.

Amnesty International is shocked, saddened and deeply angered by the murder of Anna Politkovskaya, Russian human rights defender and journalist.