Now, at the Supreme Court of Kabardino-Balkaria, at the trial on the events on October 13, 2005, the state prosecutor is announcing the indictment as presented to the defendants. The basic leitmotif of the document - the defendants tried to dethrone the Russia's existing state order and create an Islamic state.

In particular, the indictment says that "from the end of 1999 till 2005, leaders of the self-proclaimed Chechen Republic of Ichkeria A. Maskhadov and Sh. Basaev, and Arabian mercenaries Abu-Al-Valid, Abu-Dzeit and others, created, in the territory of North Caucasian republics, a numerous organized criminal community for rendering armed resistance to federal forces and tearing the North Caucasian region away from the Russian Federation, with the aim to create a united Islamic state in this territory.

According to the prosecution, in this criminal business leaders ...

The advocates who take part in the criminal case on the events on October 13, 2005, in Nalchik, the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria, think that the law that cancels the trial by jury on certain articles of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation violates the rights of their clients and contradicts the Russian Constitution. In this context, they declared their intention to appeal against this law to the Constitutional Court of Russia. The prosecution finds the claims of the defence to be unreasonable.

Today, at the court session at the Supreme Court of Kabardino-Balkaria on the events on October 13, 2005, the defendants and their advocates continued putting forward petitions and making statements.

Today, under the petitions, declared by the defendants at the court session on April 9, Judge Galina Gorislavskaya was trying to clarify the defendants' ...