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Today, in Volgograd, a picket was held in support of the punk band "Pussy Riot". According to the organizers, it was directed against "joining of church and state." The event was attended by four persons.

At night of October, 1, several hours before voting at the parliamentary election, mass distribution of money among the electors is going in some regions of Georgia, the Ministry of Interior Affairs of the country reported.

Two officers of contract service in Astrakhan region are suspected of beating up an ordinary soldier as a result of which the young man got a cerebral injury.

The Ministry of Interior Affairs of Azerbaijan reported arrest of Zaur Gurbanly, blogger and participant of civil movement "Nida" ("Exclamation"), for a 15-day's term two days after his detention.

The cities of Nalchik and Maikop have held celebrations of the Day of the Circassian Costume.

More than 1500 athletes from all regions of the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD) took part in the cultural and sports festival "Caucasian Games" that ended in Kabardino-Balkaria.

Yunus-Bek Evkurov, the leader of Ingushetia, refuted reports on consolidation 5,000 hectares of agricultural land in the Sunzha District, which is under dispute with Chechnya, to the Chechen Republic.

The oppositional coalition "Georgian Dream" completes the pre-election campaign by holding actions in the two largest cities of Georgia. Today, in Tbilisi and Kutaisi, the coalition began its mass rallies.

Today, 20 persons gathered for a picket to protect children's rights for affordable and high-quality pre-school education in Volgograd. This was reported by the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent. The action was sanctioned by the authorities.

Today, a group of activists of the Islamic Party of Azerbaijan (IPA) attempted to hold protest actions in front of the French and US Embassies in Baku in connection with the film "Innocence of Muslims", shot in the USA, and the publication of the French weekly newspaper "Charlie Hebdo" of the cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. Reinforced police squads prevented the protests by detaining most active participants.

On September 28, in Makhachkala, the Dagestani regional organization "Lak National Council" was established by the Congress of the Lak people, which brought together 427 delegates from the Lak, Novolak and Kuli Districts and communities with compact residence of the Lak people.

In Sochi, eviction of the Shablo family, scheduled for September 29, was postponed for indefinite period. This was told to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent by Sergey Kharlanov, Deputy Chief of the Inter-District Division of the Sochi Bailiff Service.

On September 28, in Azerbaijan, about 100 residents of the village of Nardaran, located 25 km north of Baku, held a protest action against the anti-Islamic film "Innocence of Muslims", shot in the USA, and the publication of the French weekly newspaper "Charlie Hebdo" of the cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed.

According to investigators, a man, suspected in the kidnapping in Rostov-on-Don of an 8-year-old girl, planned to kill her. At present, the investigators prepared for the court the documents to arrest the suspected criminal. He faces up to 15 years of imprisonment. According to the family members of the rescued girl, at present, the girl is at the hospital under the supervision of psychologists.

The number of children, who got sick and hospitalized because of the outbreak of infectious disease in Stepanakert, reached 57. The condition of all patients is stable. This was reported by the Medical Union "Arevik".

Gyulyar Akhmedova, a member of the National Assembly, one of the alleged participants in the video talks about bribing to be elected to the Parliament of Azerbaijan, was excluded from the ruling party "Yeni Azerbaijan" (YAP). This was reported by Ali Akhmedov, Deputy Chairman and Executive Secretary of the party. The Baku City Prosecutor's Office instituted a criminal case in connection with the video record, disseminated on September 25. This was reported by the press service of the General Prosecutor's Office.

On September 26, deputies of the Legislative Assembly of the Stavropol Territory unanimously adopted amendments to the Law "On additional guarantees of right of citizens of the Russian Federation to appeal". At present, an oral appeal to any public institution equals to an appeal in written form.

Lawyers of persons, convicted in the case of riots in Manege Square in Moscow in December 2010, filed an appeal to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) against the sentence to Igor Berezyuk, Ruslan Khubaev, and Kirill Unchuk, the activists of the Other Russia. This was reported by Dmitry Agranovsky, the lawyer of Igor Bereziuk.

Today, in front of the Kutaisi prison No. 2, local journalists and NGO activists held an action in solidarity with prisoners.

Several thousand people took part in the ceremony of consecration of the capital of Georgia. Patriarch Ilia II called for the authorities to release HIV-positive convicts and convicts ill with tuberculosis.