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In Volgograd, four parents of many children and two pensioners who joined in the protest action are on the tenth day of the hunger strike. The Governor of the Volgograd Region has promised that he personally or his deputies will meet each hunger-striker.

In Sochi, the authorities offer residents to insure their property against emergencies similar to the storm that passed through the city. However, the local residents report that insurance companies refuse to insure old and dilapidated houses, which are home to tens of thousands of people.

Artyom Semenets, the investigator of the Adler Division of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) has filed charges against Mardiros Demerchyan of false denunciation of staff members of the Blinovo police station.

The election campaign of Azerbaijani presidential candidates continues in deteriorating atmosphere. This was noted at the second interim report of the OSCE/ODIHR observation mission at the presidential election in Azerbaijan.

In Nalchik, residents of the barracks located in Gorky Street, recognized as dilapidated and unfit for living, have refused to move into new apartment buildings, because the city authorities offered to move two or three families into one flat.

The defence of Johar Tsarnaev accused of the Boston terror act asks the court in the United States to soften his prison conditions. This was stated in the motion filed by the defendants' advocates.

The Tsentralny District Court of Sochi has satisfied the investigators' motion and extended the home arrest of the journalist Nikolai Yarst until December 3.

Three fans of the "Anji" Football Club (FC), accused of disorderly conduct against Rostov fans, will not be released under recognizance not to leave, the Kaspiysk City Court has ruled today.

After a six-hour-long interrogation at the General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) of Azerbaijan, Mekhman Guseinov, photo reporter at the Institute for Reporters' Freedom and Safety (IRFS) and a blogger, has been released, said the lawyer Gyunay Ismailova.

Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the Secretary General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), has again urged Russia to reconsider its decision to recognize the independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.

According to the updated information, on October 1, during a fire-fight with militants in the Levashi District three local residents were killed. This was told today to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent by a source at the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Dagestan.

In Azerbaijan, advocate Elchin Sadygov are not allowed to visit Mekhman Guseinov, a blogger and a photo reporter of the Institute for Reporters' Freedom and Safety (IRFS), who was detained in the morning of October 2.

Till present, Olympic status of the constructed "Rosa Khutor" Alpine Resort brings only losses. This was stated by Vladimir Potanin, the head of the holding company "Interros". According to the businessman's statement, the authorities are not in a hurry to help investors of the Winter Olympic Games in Sochi.

Law enforcers have identified the suicide bomber who on September 23 committed the terror act at the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) near the OVD (Interior Division) building in Dagestan.

Till October 9, all Chechen pilgrims to go for hajj this year will be sent to Saudi Arabia. This was told to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent at the Spiritual Administration of Muslims (SAM) for Chechnya.

In the evening of October 1, during the debates in the air of the Public TV of Azerbaijan, Djamil Gasanli, a presidential candidate of the National Council of Democratic Forces (NCDF), accused of corruption incumbent President Ilham Aliev, who was running for a third term.

The materials of the case of the death of 24 residents of Chechnya in the bombing of the village of Katyr-Yurt will be provided to the advocates who represent victims' interests. The relevant investigators' decision was announced at the today's court session in Grozny.

The Russia's Council of Muftis will not take part in celebrations of the 225th anniversary of the Central Spiritual Administration of Muslims (CSAM), which is scheduled in the city of Ufa, because they disagree with a number of actions undertaken by the CSAM.

In Volgograd, the work of the public reception office, organized by members of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation in the mini-park opposite the regional government, will be extended by a month, that is, until the end of October.

As reported by Ruslan Gereev, the director of the Centre for Islamic Studies of Northern Caucasus, the number of pilgrims, travelling to the hajj from Dagestan under support of Senator Suleiman Kerimov, has not decreased as compared with 2012. The first pilgrims supported by the charity line have already left for the hajj.