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In Dagestan, the lawyer Patimat Abdulaeva, who is representing the interests of ten workers of the Kizlyar Cognac Factory, has filed an appeal complaint today against the court's decision to dismiss the workers' claim for defamation, lodged by them against Ramazan Abdulatipov, the head of Dagestan, who, according to the plaintiffs, had publicly insulted them by calling them "thieves" and "bandits."

On October 14, speaking at a sitting of the Presidential Human Rights Council (HRC), the Russian President promised to draw investigators' attention to the need to investigate the killings of journalists in Dagestan. In his turn, Mikhail Fedotov, the head of the HRC, said that most of the President's instructions issued on the outcomes of the HRC sittings are not fulfilled.

The Society "Memorial" is a symbol of the struggle for human rights and support for democratization in Russia, and the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) should not admit its closure, said Thorbjorn Jagland, the Secretary General of the Council of Europe.

The Predgorny District Court of the Stavropol Territory has ruled to extend, until January 15, 2015, the custody of Kurman-Ali Baichorov, the Imam of the city of Kislovodsk.

At assaulting the Beslan School, the Russian Federation did not violate any victims' rights, said Georgy Matyushkin, the Deputy Minister of Justice of Russia, who is representing the defendant at the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR).

The Russia's General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) has blocked, at the request of its colleagues from the Stavropol Territory, the Internet resources, which posted calls to go to rallies related to the investigation of the mass fight in the hospital of the city of Mineralnye Vody (Minvody).

Today, in Azerbaijan, a verdict was announced to Orkhan Eyubzade, a 19-year-old activist of the "Musavat" Party, charged with resisting the police with the use of violence. The defence did not agree with the verdict, has treated it as politically motivated, and intends to appeal against it.

Investigating authorities of Chechnya have pre-established the organizers of the explosion in Grozny on October 5, and now are searching for them, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was told at the local Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA).

After an unsuccessful attempt to appeal against the verdict passed in the case against Mikhail Savva, Professor of the Kuban State University (KSU), accused of a fraud, his defence is preparing an appeal to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR).

Vyacheslav Martynov, an activist from Krasnodar, who has applied to Ukrainian authorities for political asylum, in connection with charges of extremism after he had protested against Russia's policy in Ukraine, has every reason to obtain the appropriate asylum status, said the Kharkov Human Rights Group.

Zaur Tokhov, a resident of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), who has been sentenced on charges of aiding and abetting militants, pleads not guilty. He has appealed to human rights defenders and the Ombudsman asking to help him.

In Ingushetia, managers of the State Unitary Enterprise (SUE) "Nasyr-Kortskoe" are suspected of non-payment of wages to 39 workers. After the Prosecutor's Office has intervened with the situation, the arrears are repaid. This has been reported today by the Ingush Prosecutor's Office.

This year, as a result of coordinated law enforcement and prevention activities, the number of terrorist crimes has reduced more than two times in comparison with the same period of the past year. This has been reported today by Alexander Bortnikov, the Director of the Russian FSB, the Chairman of the National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC) at the NAC meeting in Moscow. According to the "Caucasian Knot" analysis, in 2014, in the North-Caucasian regions, the number of terror act and other terrorist crimes declined not twice, but by one-third.

Today, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has held the hearings in the case on the terror act in Beslan. This was reported by Kirill Koroteev, a lawyer of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial". According to the lawyer, the ECtHR may pronounce the decision in the case within several months.

Pavel Gubarev, the former "People's Governor" of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DNR), the leader of the movement "Novorossiya", has been hospitalized in a clinic in Rostov-on-Don with brain injury after the attempt on his life, the "Caucasian Knot" was told by the press secretary of Pavel Gubarev.

The Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has refused to take up the appeal of the Government of Azerbaijan filed against the ECtHR's decision to recognize the violation of the rights of Ilgar Mamedov, the leader of the civil movement "Republican Alternative" (ReAl), who was sentenced in the case of the riots in Ismailly. Thorbjørn Jagland, the Secretary General of the Council of Europe, has called on the Azerbaijani authorities to release Ilgar Mamedov.

In the Krasnodar Territory, the Novorossiysk Garrison Military Court has found two soldiers of the military unit No. 74814 guilty of extortion with use of violence against their colleague. According to investigators, the young men beat a soldier of the same military unit in the sleeping room of the barrack for his refusal to give them 500 roubles at their request.

In Chechnya, a resident of the Staropromyslovsky District of Grozny has reported on the detention of family members of Makhmad Yusupov, a student of the Islamic university, who was a friend of Apti Mudarov, a suspected suicide bomber on the Day of Grozny.

On October 13, refugees and vulnerable persons held a protest action in Poti. They have blocked one of the highways of the city. The protesters have stated that they do not intend to leave the place and threatened to go on hunger strike if their demand is not satisfied.

On October 13, Nadezhda Kireeva, Olga Eshenko, and Olga Stepanova, three mothers of large families, spent two hours standing on the stairs of the building of the government of the Volgograd Region, demanding a meeting with the Governor. After their action, the women discussed the problems at the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection for the Volgograd Region. However, they are dissatisfied with the results of the meeting, and they intend to continue protesting.