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Residents of Buynaksk tried to hold a rally in Lenin Square of Makhachkala, demanding to postpone election; however, policemen squeezed them off, the protesters report.

Today, eight activists of the public movement "Volgograd parents for children's rights" have held a picket in Volgograd against increase of fees for kindergartens, suspension of social benefits relating children, and reduction of kindergarten staff.

The hunger strike announced in Krasnodar by Svetlana Shabanova and Margarita Dudina gave no results. Officials in Krasnodar pay no attention to their demands; therefore, the action will continue in Moscow near the General Prosecutor's Office (GPO), said the hunger-strikers.

The National Centre of Cinematography of Georgia has expressed support for the film director Oleg Sentsov, sentenced to long imprisonment on terrorism charges.

The European Union (EU) has offered Armenia a new version of agreement, which will bind the parties to a lesser extent than an association agreement, said Jean Asselborn, the Foreign Minister of Luxembourg, the country now chairing the EU.

Dagestan will hold a new trial of the murder case of journalist Malik Akhmedilov, which will be more open than the first one. The court has allowed making photo and video recording of the sessions, while most of the first trial was held behind closed doors.

Ualit Mizhev, a Deputy of the Nogai District Soviet, was beaten up in the Karachay-Cherkessian Republic (KChR). He was hospitalized in the status of moderate gravity.

Two soldiers – Marat Khachanyan and Arman Stepanyan – have died from the received gunshot wounds in the Karabakh conflict zone, said the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR).

A new protest action of the movement "Arise, Armenia!" was held in Republic Square. Activists of the "Constituent Parliament" came to support the protesters.

The Azerbaijani opposition "Musavat" Party and the civil movements "Republican Alternative" (ReAl) and "Nida" (Outcry) will cooperate at the parliamentary elections to be held on November 1. They have committed not to agitate against each other and, as far as possible, to support united candidates.

Residents of Astrakhan have reported ill-treatment of stray animals in the territory of the city. In early September, in the district "South-East-2" several dogs got poisoned. The prosecutor's office recommends lodging respective applications to them.

The new judge (the previous one was challenged by the defence) has extended the custody of the Azerbaijani journalist Rauf Mirkadyrov, despite the assurance of his advocates that he would not hide from investigators.

The court has ruled that the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" has broken the law by publishing some material without labelling it that the publisher is a foreign agent. The lawyer of the HRC said that the Centre had nothing to do with the material in question and was fined because of a bureaucratic error.

The defence of the Ukrainian film director Oleg Sentsov, sentenced to 20 years in prison on charges of preparing terror acts in the Crimea, has appealed against the verdict, said the advocate Dmitry Dinze.

In April this year, information appeared that the organizing committee of the 2018 Football World Cup had pre-approved the renaming of "Fischt" Stadium into the Olympic Stadium. Sulieta Kusova-Chukho, Director of the Centre of Ethnic-Confessional Problems of Mass Media, has treated the initiative as "an attempt to completely erase people's historical memory."

In June-August 2015, rescuers had to go for 50 times to help alpinists in distress in the mountains of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR). Employees of the Elbrus Rescue Team said that such a large number of accidents in the mountains have to do with an inflow of tourists.

The Armenia's membership in the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) has brought no positive fruits to the country, and hampers its progress, Armenian experts said. They believe that Armenia should leave the EAEU and get back to the issue of association with the European Union (EU).

The commemoration events of the victims of the Beslan terror act should be a reminder to the authorities on their duty to ensure citizens' security, relatives of the victims have stated. Now, 11 years later, the victims of the terror act are still in urgent need of help, said the committee "Mothers of Beslan".

The suffered party in the case of the death of the detainee Murat Borlakov at the police station has evaluated its moral harm, funeral costs and advocate's fees as 5.5 million roubles.

The increase of the number of Russians who are convinced that special services had known about the terror acts committed in 1999-2005, indicates that the population is no longer under the effect of the "Crimean syndrome", associated with the growth of confidence in the actions of the authorities, said the experts of the "Levada Centre". According to their version, there is a return to a "more pragmatic approach.