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The investigation into the rape of a minor girl in the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) is deliberately protracted, the victim and her family assert. In their turn, investigators assert that the inquiry is protracted for objective reasons, as it is impossible to make all the necessary genetic assays quickly.

On October 19, Ilham Aliev, re-elected as President of Azerbaijan for the third term in a row, took the oath at a ceremony, held in the hall of the Azerbaijani National Assembly.

The Media Forum ''At Foot of Mount Ararat", held in Yerevan on October 17-20, has brought together 36 journalists from Spain, Germany, France, Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova.

The General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) of Abkhazia has asked the Republic's Supreme Court to consider the presence of crime attributes in the actions of the local parliamentarian Nodik Kvitsiniya, suspected of intentional killing of Sergey Klemantovich and Oksana Skarednova.

The servicemen of the engineering unit division of the Southern Military District have managed to de-mine over 200 hectares of land in the mountainous part of Chechnya.

On October 18, eight persons took part in a picket organized by the regional office of the "People's Alliance" Party in support of the oppositional leader Alexei Navalny.

The rally held in the capital of Dagestan in defence of citizens' constitutional and electoral rights was attended by about 250 people, who stated massive violations at the election of the head of the Kulinsky District of Dagestan, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

The oppositional National Council of Democratic Forces (NCDF) has rescheduled the rally earlier planned for October 20 in Baku with a demand to cancel the outcome of the recent presidential election and appointment of a new election for October 27.

In Azerbaijan, the police have suppressed an attempt to hold a demonstration outside the building of the Russian Embassy in Baku. The crowd protested against the ill-treatment of Orhan Zeinalov, a native Azerbaijan, suspected of killing a Muscovite.

Activists of the movement "Law and Order" and members of the "Yabloko" Party have held a series of solo pickets at the walls of the "White House" in Moscow in defence of the monuments of nature of Sochi. They protested against disposing the Olympic construction wastes in the Akhshtyr Quarry.

The Tver Court of Moscow has ruled to arrest two persons, who took part in the riots that burst out after the murder of Yegor Scherbakov, a resident of the Western Biryulyovo – a township of Moscow. According to the police, the arrested persons were actively involved in the riots.

In Azerbaijan, two activists of the "Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan" (PFPA) have been sentenced to different terms of administrative arrests. Members of the Party treat these detentions as politically motivated and associated with the activities of the arrested persons during the presidential election held on October 9.

A policeman, who got wounded last night in a shootout in Khasavyurt, died in the hospital. This was reported by the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Dagestan.

Today, in the yard of the mosque in the village of Dugulubgei, an explosion occurred. As a result, two persons were killed. According to the preliminary information of the law enforcement agencies, the victims were carrying a bomb and were going to commit a terror act.

In Sochi, Shushanik Maroyan, a mother of many children, a member of the Toromonyan family that is being evicted from their own house in the interest of Olympic construction, has filed a complaint to the Mayor, the Chief of Department for Family and Children's Affairs, and the City Prosecutor asking to allocate a land plot, not included in the Olympic withdrawal, and to control the observance of the law.

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.