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Idris Kartoev, one of the defendants on the case of blasting “Nevsky express”, was beaten up during examination in the investigative isolation ward of Tver. The reason for the conflict was religious printed matter, his brother Vakha Kartoev told the “Caucasian Knot” correspondent.

36 persons who arrived in Abkhazia from Syria in October were accommodated in “Aitar” hotel of Sukhumi for the period of adaptation, 16 children including babies among them.

The miners and company owners who are on a strike in Chiatura found no consensus with the management. The workers demand for higher wages declaring that the company is really able to do it. Representatives of the management of the mines state that the workers’ demands are unrealizable.

In Sochi, the house of Alexei Kravets, located in Prosvescheniya Street, will be demolished on October 25. This was reported by Ruslan Portnov, Bailiff of the Adler District.

The source of anthrax infection in the Gegarkunik Region of Armenia was the meat of slaughtered farm animal in one of the yards of the Tsovak community. This was reported by Ovannes Mkrtchyan, Chief of State Veterinary Inspection of the Food Safety Service of the Armenian Ministry of Agriculture.

Bidzina Ivanishvili, the leader of the coalition "Georgian Dream", which won the parliamentary elections in Georgia, offered the position of the Chair of the Adzharia's Government to Armaz Akhvlediani, Doctor of Political Sciences.

The authorities of South Ossetia insist on softening the conditions of citizens of South Ossetia, kept at Georgian prisons. The South Ossetian side voiced specific proposals in that regard at the today's meeting in the framework of the "Mechanisms for preventing and responding to incidents" that took place in the Georgian village of Ergneti.

Today, Beslan held a funeral of Zaur Djibilov, an inspector of the road-and-post service, who was killed in the explosion, committed at night on October 23 at the police checkpoint in the village of Chermen.

For the fifth day, starting from October 20, at the penal colony of the Stavropol Territory, Musa Vatsuev, a native of Chechnya, is on a dry hunger strike to express his protest against beatings. This was reported by his wife Angela Elkhanova. According to her, the protest action also involves other inmates of the penal colony. The press service of the Department of the Federal Penitentiary Service (known as FSIN) in the Stavropol Territory did not confirm the information.

At the court session of the Moscow City Court on the case of attempt to undermine the high-speed passenger train "Sapsan", three defendants pleaded guilty in part.

On October 23, at the course of the consideration of the case on the terror act, committed at the "Domodedovo" Airport in January 2011, the Moscow Regional Court listened to victims Mikhail Pustovalov, Naliya Zubatulina, Elena Smirnova, Elena Chumakova, and Lyudmila Larina, who refused to file civil claims for compensation of moral damages.

Inara Ramazanova, a resident of the village of Chernyaevka of the Kizlyar District of Dagestan, tries to reveal whereabouts of her husband Abdulnasyr Ramazanov, who earlier claimed being persecuted by staff members of the OVD (Interior District) of the Kizlyar District.

In the event if the administration of Limited Liability Company (LLC) "Georgian Railway" fails to fulfil the demands to raise wages of workers, the today's warning strike could be repeated. This was declared by the organizers of the protest action.

Armenian families, who come from Syria, prefer to settle in the Kashatag Districts out of all seven districts of Nagorno-Karabakh. The Kashatag Districts has already become home for 19 families of Syrian Armenians. One family from Syria lives in Stepanakert. The authorities promise to render assistance to all of them, if they formalize their status of repatriates.

Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili has pardoned Tsotne Gamsakhurdia, the imprisoned son of the first Georgian President, at the request of Elias II, the head of the Georgian Orthodox Church, filed on September 28. This was reported by the Patriarchate of Georgia.

The Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) in Dagestan for the twentieth time closed the investigation into the criminal case against law enforcement agents from the OVD (Interior Division) of the Kazbek District on the murder of Saniyat Magomedova and wounding of Gasan Baisultanov, committed in 2006. On October 23, Mamatkhan Baisultanov, the father of Gasan Baisultanov, a resident of Khasavyurt, received a notification on termination of the case.

Today, in the Kizilyurt District of Dagestan, the bus, in which delegates of the Alternate Congress of Peoples of Dagestan were travelling to Moscow, was shelled. This was reported by Magomed Magomedaliev, one of the delegates.

Acquaintances of a local resident, killed tonight in Buinaksk, claim that he saw being under surveillance and that he feared persecution.

In Dagestan, lawyer of Zhairuly Umarov, a local resident, accused of sexual abuse of a minor, files a motion to return the case for further investigation. Today, the Supreme Court of Dagestan held the next court hearing on the case.

A series of strikes with economic demands took place in Georgia amid the process of formation of new power in the country. Railway workers, miners, power engineers, workers of Poti Port and the factory in Borjomi, trade personnel and builders seek improvement of their working conditions.