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Elections of leaders of municipal formations, members of regional legislative assemblies, heads and deputies of dwelling settlements in a number of regions of the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD) did not arise great interest of voters, except for Chechnya, where the Republic's Central Election Commission (CEC) reported 95 percent of voter turnout, and in Karachaevsk, where a representative of the CEC reported the turnout of 97 percent. In North Ossetia and Karachay-Cherkessia, representatives of opposition claimed violations and ballot stuffing, and in Dagestan, the opposition claimed the use of administrative resources; however, representatives of the authorities and election commissions denied those allegations.

Today, in Volgograd, 17 ecologists and residents of the village of Dar-Gora held a protest action, demanding to stop the activities of the enterprise "Tekhoil". According to the City Mayoralty, complaints about pollution of environment by the refinery enterprise "Tekhoil" are not confirmed.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) accepted for consideration of the complaint, filed by Vera Drobinskaya, from whom biological parents took a child under her guardianship. The ECtHR sent information about the case "Drobinskaya vs. Russia" to the Commissioner of the Russian Federation at the ECtHR.

The ECtHR accepted for consideration the complaint, filed by Tabarik Chudalova, the mother of Muslim Chudalov, who was accused of involvement in illegal armed formations (IAF) and attempted murder of law enforcement officers and who was sentenced to 21 years of imprisonment. The mother of the convicted man claims that he is subjected to torture and that he is not involved in any of the crimes, of which he is accused.

In Krasnodar, during the symbolic action of funeral of honest and fair elections, three men were detained Alexei Mandrigelya, ex-candidate for deputy to the Legislative Assembly of the Krasnodar Territory from the "Yabloko" Party and Anna Mikhailova and Victoria Zolotaryova, activists of the Regional Branch of the "Yabloko" Party.

Yesterday, October, 15, two statements of obscure disappearance of people were submitted to the police of Dagestan by local residents.

Journalists of "PIC" (PIK) channel held an action against non-payment of wages and suspension of satellite broadcasting. During news live broadcasting the correspondents were keeping silence as a sign of protest. The problem of financing "PIC" TV channelis settled, Director General Alexander Parulava declared today.

A criminal case was initiated against an ex-traffic officer suspected of releasing a supposed abductor of Dasha Popova aged eight in Rostov-on-Don for a bribe. He is placed under house arrest, Committee of Inquiry of Russia (CIR) reports.

The investigation accomplished inquiry on a criminal case against Ruslan Rakhaev aged 33, Deputy Head of police of the town of Cherkessk accused of beating to death local resident Djakhir Djankezov detained last October. The case was referred to court.

The Military Investigatory Department of the ICRF for the Yekaterinburg Garrison has opened a criminal case against two servicemen from the military unit No. 61423, natives of Dagestan, suspected of inciting nationality-based hatred.

In the city of Kemerovo, law enforcers are investigating the incident in the cafe "Schepka", which occurred at night on October 6, when a group of youngsters rushed into the premise and began beating the visitors. The records from the cafe's surveillance cameras were posted on the Internet; and users could see a young man with the word "Chechnya" on his T-shirt. Local bloggers treat the incident as an interethnic conflict.

The members of the Georgian delegation at the Geneva consultations have reported about human rights violations in the occupied territories, including the right to receive education in one's native language, the freedom from harassments and detentions, and the freedom of movement, says the statement the Georgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA).

On October 14, in the city of Sergiev Posad, Captain Vyacheslav Khokhlin, 30, from the Sofrino Division of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Russia was hospitalized after a fight with natives of Azerbaijan, said a police source.

Local and regional elections in Southern Russia; flood in Derbent; Geneva discussions on security in Transcaucasia; the seventh anniversary of the attack on Nalchik, - look these and other events in the Caucasus in the review of the week of October 8-14, 2012, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

As a result of an earthquake in the north-western part of the country, a woman from the Balaken District died; and the Zagatala District Police received applications about three missing persons.

As reported by the trade union of the workers of the metallurgical, mining and chemical industries of Georgia, today, about 1000 miners from the company named "Georgian Manganese" went on strike in Western Georgia, in the city of Chiatura.

About 50 refugee families moved into an empty building of the former industrial college in the capital of Georgia, stating that they have nowhere to live.

In Rostov-on-Don, law enforcers suspect two teachers, aged 27-and 58, of preparing and triggering an explosion of the flat of the female employee of the local division of education, which wounded the woman and her son and killed her 63-year-old mother.

A criminal case has been opened in Sochi against an inspector of the Centre of the State Inspectorate for Small Vessels of the Russian Ministry for Emergencies (MfE) for the Krasnodar Territory, who is suspected of bribe-taking.

Today, the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) has denied the motion lodged by Igor Trunov, who is representing the relatives of the casualties of the October 2002 terror act in Dubrovka Theatrical Centre, on initiating criminal proceedings against the officials who were in charge of storming the Centre.