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Former prisoners experience a lot of difficulties in finding job. This was stated by participants of the "roundtable" held in Volgograd. Members of the Public Chamber for the Volgograd Region have proposed to allocate quotas for employment of that category of citizens. Another problem is in creation of jobs for inmates of penitentiary institutions, note members of the Public Oversight Commission (POC).

Russian authorities have violated the right to freedom of movement of a Sochi resident Mikhail Benyash, who was denied a passport for travelling abroad, when serving his conditional prison term. This was decided by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), which has obliged Russian authorities to pay 5000 euros to Benyash.

Claims about violations committed at the elections may be considered by courts during several months. This opinion was voiced by Mairbek Agaev, the editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Chernovik" (Draft). Complaints about abuses will not be considered properly; however, it is important to publicly express dissatisfaction with the authorities' actions, believes Gadjimurad Sagitov, the editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Novoye Delo".

The Abkhaz Minister of Foreign Affairs Vyacheslav Chirikba was to visit Transnistria to take part in celebrations of the Republic's Day, the president's press service reports.

More than three weeks it is impossible to establish the whereabouts of Zareta Zubairaeva, 25, a resident of Grozny, and her four children, her husband Azamat has reported. According to his story, his wife has secretly gone abroad. Turkish law enforcers take part in the search, as they believe that Zubairaeva had been recruited by militants.

The non-governmental organizations (NGOs)-members of the coalition "For the Euro-Atlantic Georgia" have put forward the demand to participants of the parliamentary elections to make public their lists of candidates for ministers; however, the parties refuse to do it.

The lawyer Igor Trunov has been stripped of the lawyer's status for "violating the professional ethics," the Bar Association of the Moscow Region has reported. This decision will be appealed against, said Mr Trunov, known for defending the interests of the victims of the terror acts committed at the Domodedovo Airport, Dubrovka Theatrical Centre and Moscow metro.

Today, at a meeting of the political council of the regional branch of the "Edinaya Rossiya" (United Russia) Party, Yunus-Bek Evkurov has announced his decision to stay at the position of the leader of Ingushetia.

The Karabudakhkent District Court has found local residents Vagabov and Temirkhanov guilty of aiding and abetting Gusein Tagirov, treated by law enforcers as a leader of Makhachkala militants and killed during a special operation. The defendants have been sentenced to imprisonment in a penal colony.

In one of the Makhachkala schools, a social trainer asked parents of the pupils to fill in a questionnaire for a social passport of the form, which, apart from questions about family members and need for intra-school control, included a point entitled "Girls in hijabs". This was reported by Ziyautdin Uvaisov, an advocate of the Dagestani Bar Association "Justice".

The proposed changes to the Constitution will expressly authorise the Azerbaijani President with unprecedented powers, says the conclusion of the Venice Commission of the Council of Europe (CoE). The Azerbaijani authorities should cancel the referendum, the National Council of Democratic Forces (NCDF) believes.

Abusupyan Kharkharov, a candidate for the State Duma from the "Edinaya Rossiya" (ER) (United Russia) Party, has lost the election to Abdulmazhid Magramov in the Southern Single-Mandate Constituency No. 12 after a fight and ballot stuffing at the polling station in the village of Gotsatl and suspicious voting in the Kulin District.

In Kuban, at a polling station in the Cossack village of Rodnikovskaya, after crossing out from ballots the name of a candidate who withdrew himself from the elections, marks were made in a box for voting. The election commission has recognized the ballots as valid, since it fails to ensure that the marks were made by members of the election commission, and not by voters.

The President of Russia has signed a decree to award the title of Hero of Russia to Magomed Nurbagandov, a Dagestani policeman, who was killed after under the threat of violence he had refused to urge his colleagues to leave the law enforcement bodies.

In Dagestan, a fight occurred at a polling station in the village of Gotsatl of the Khunzakh District when an observer tried to prevent ballot stuffing. This was reported by a source. The law does not imply re-voting in such a situation, state Grigory Melkonyants, a member of the movement "Voice", and political analyst Dmitry Oreshkin.

In Chechnya, the high voter turnout and the outcomes, desired by the authorities, are ensured thanks to state servants and budget-funded employees, who have to vote as they are ordered under threat of dismissal, residents of the republic told the "Caucasian Knot".

The violations committed in the course of voting at elections in the Krasnodar Territory had no essential impact on the election outcomes, the regional branches of the PARNAS Party, the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF) and the "Yabloko" Party have acknowledged.

Starting from today, companies that provide heating to residents of the cities of Taganrog, Novocherkassk, Azov, and the Azov Region are deprived of gas supply because of their debts. This was announced by the director of the "Gazprom Mezhregiongaz Rostov-on-Don".

The Baku Court of Appeal (CoA) has rejected the request of the opposition activist Fuad Akhmedli to transfer him from custody to house arrest. His defence intends to appeal against this decision at the European Court of Homan Rights (ECtHR).

Employees of the cleaning company "EKO-M" were not paid in full during 1.5 years. The debt amounts to 9.5 million roubles. This was reported by the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF). A criminal case is instituted against top managers of the company "EKO-M".