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Seven builders who worked at the construction of the Media Centre of the Sochi Olympics have filed a complaint to the police about non-payment of their wages by the employer. According to the builders' complaint, in total, the contracting company owes wages of hundred workers.

In Cherkessk, the festival of documentary films and authors' TV shows "Kunaki" presents films of different levels. While watching some films, viewers have to "vote with their feet"; other films cannot leave anyone indifferent. This was stated by the audience of the festival.

The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) has received a note from Azerbaijan "with a request for a consular access" in the context of the detention of Orkhan Zeinalov, a suspect of killing Yegor Scherbakov in Biryulyovo, said the MFA's spokesman Alexander Lukashevich.

At its sitting on October 16, the Central Election Commission (CEC) has changed the rules of journalists' working at polling stations on the voting day. Earlier imposed restrictions for mass media have been partly abolished. However, non-governmental organizations and mass media believe that the amendments are not enough for a full-fledged work of journalists.

Roman Kuznetsov, a resident of the Orenburg Region, has stitched up his mouth and went out into Sochi streets with a poster: "Give me my salary!" The builder of the Olympic Media Centre has undertaken the desperate action, because he had not received his salary for several months. This was reported by the Sochi lawyer Alexander Popkov.

Foreign delegates-Adygs, who visited on October 16 the Olympic facilities in Sochi, noted a positive impact of the prepared Games on the region. On the same day they met the Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Kozak.

The Moscow City Court has again postponed the consideration of the case of the murder of journalist Anna Politkovskaya because of prolongation of the quarantine at the SIZO (pre-trial prison), where defendant Sergey Khadjikurbanov is kept.

The results of the voting at the election of the President of Azerbaijan are not reliable because of the large-scale violations. This was stated by David Kramer, President of the international human rights organization "Freedom House".

The verdict against five persons of the Grozny District of Chechnya, who were accused of trying to undermine the train set of cars with petroleum products and who were sentenced in this June by the Chechen court to long terms of imprisonment, has been upheld by the Supreme Court (SC) of the Russian Federation.

Workers from Tajikistan, who built an Olympic facility in Sochi and claimed non-payment of their wages, have received from their employer a portion of their earnings, in total, 2.7 million roubles. The total wage arrears to the workers were 4.8 million roubles.

In the village of Churtakh of the Lak District of Dagestan, the Caucasian House of Translations will be built to preserve and promote literature in the languages of the peoples of the Caucasus. The project was presented at the book fair "Tarki-Tau 2013" held in Makhachkala.

In Yerevan, the action organized by supporters of reconstruction the Market Hall was attended by about 100 persons. Opponents of the reconstruction state they will continue their protest actions.

The Embassy of Azerbaijan intends to arrange a meeting of consular officials with Orkhan Zeinalov, who was detained on suspicion of committing a murder, said Polad Bülbüloğlu, the Azerbaijani Ambassador to Russia.

In the Khasavyurt District of Dagestan, the police have closed the women's madrasa, explaining that the institution had no license for educational activities.

In Yerevan, the NGO "Following Ancestors' Footsteps" has organized a march against "gender perversion", which was attended by about a hundred people. They demanded from the authorities to review the decision to adopt the Law "On Ensuring Equal rights and Opportunities for Men and Women" and recall it.

The Court has upheld the ruling of the first instance to refuse to recognize the monograph "The International Tribunal for Chechnya" to be an extremist material.

Law enforcement bodies have prevented a series of terror acts in Ingushetia, scheduled during the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha (Kurban Bayram). As reported by the Russia's National Anti-Terrorist Committee (NAC), four persons have been detained on suspicion of plotting terror acts.

The Court of the Stavropol Territory has sentenced Mouldy Khabaev to 14 years of imprisonment in the case of the attack on Budyonnovsk in 1995. Advocates of Mouldy Khabaev intend to challenge the verdict.

In Sochi, court marshals have started to evict members of the Toromonyan family from the house belonging to them. A road included in the list of the Olympic facilities is to be constructed at the place of the Toromonyan family's house. Residents of the house, including six children, claim that they have nowhere to go.

On the eve of the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha, unidentified persons tried to hack the website of the Council of Muftis of Russia (CMR), and on the holiday, the website has been completely disabled.