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The defence of Ali Taziev, also known as Magas, who has been sentenced today to life imprisonment, believes that the verdict is too severe and intends to appeal against it.

Part of the population of Georgia continues to protest against the participation of Georgian athletes in the Olympic Games in Sochi. The online petition against this participation has been signed by 9916 persons. However, so far, the government of Georgia sees no arguments for boycotting the Olympics.

Bosses of the Russia's Central Military District refute the information about beating in the Chelyabinsk Region of a soldier recruited from Astrakhan. As reported by Colonel Yaroslav Roschupkin, an assistant to the Commander of the CMD, the soldier, who, according to media reports, was operated on and lost his spleen, in reality, underwent a planned removal of the appendix.

The commission of the CoE against racism is fixing in Russia massive violations of the labour legislation and fundamental rights of migrants, as well as the harassment by law enforcers of natives from Northern Caucasus and Gypsies.

Two natives of Northern Caucasus are suspected of preparing a terror act at the plant for destruction of chemical weapons located in the Kirov Region. They were detained, and the question of their arrest is under consideration. This was reported by the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation.

The Moscow police suspect a native of Azerbaijan of the murder of Yegor Scherbakov, a resident of Biryulyovo. This was reported by the Chief Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of the Russian Federation for Moscow.

In the Moscow Region, the number of conflicts between different ethnic groups has increased. This was stated by Alexander Polischuk, the head of the department for combating youth extremism of the FSB Department for Moscow and the Moscow Region.

In Ingushetia, in the rural community of Barsuki, near the federal highway "Kavkaz", an unsanctioned picket was held to protest against the court decision to recognize the semantic translation of Koran made by Elmir Kuliev as extremist.

The claims of members of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF) about falsifications at the election to the Volgograd City Duma held on September 8 are groundless and shall not be accepted. This was stated by the Regional Election Commission (REC) in response to the complaint filed by the CPRF.

At the airport of Makhachkala, a resident of Kizilyurt, who intended to fly to Egypt to study at the Islamic University, was detained on suspicion of illegal possession of drugs. Relatives of the young man claim the drugs were planted to him.

Ivan Klemenko, 20, from Astrakhan, who took his regular military service in the city of Chebarkul, was taken to hospital after being beaten by an officer. In the hospital, surgeons amputated the soldier's spleen.

An initiative group of residents of the Sochi neighbourhood of Kudepsta has sent a protocol of a public meeting to the city authorities, demanding to repair the three-kilometre road running to the Khosta micro-district.

The Criminal Court of Appeal of Armenia has announced a verdict in the case of four young oppositional activists accused of hooliganism. One of them, Tigran Arakelyan, who had been sentenced by a court of the first instance to six years in prison, was released from custody in the courtroom.

The Sabunchi District Court of Baku has held a preliminary hearing on the case of the theologian Talekh Bagirzade, accused of illegal possession of drugs. The defence asked to change Bagirzade's freedom restriction measure from detention to home arrest. However, the court denied the petition.

In the Abkhaz village of Adzyubzha the bodies of a missing businessman Sergey Klemantovich and his girlfriend Oksana Skarednova have been found, said the republic's General Prosecutor's Office. The Russian diplomat Dmitry Vishernev, who was killed in September in Sukhumi, had been engaged in searching Klemantovich.

More than 98% of all the terrorist crimes committed in Russia are committed in the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD). Meanwhile, most of such crimes are committed in Dagestan. This was reported by Yevgeny Ilyin, First Deputy Chief of the National Antiterrorist Committee.

The Nasimi District Court of Baku has sentenced Dayanat Babaev, an activist of the "Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan", to two years of conditional imprisonment. He was found guilty of hooliganism. Dayanat Babaev treats the Court's verdict as unfair and politically motivated.

In Vladikavkaz, tram drivers, who have not been paid since July, fail to come to their working places. This was reported by the press office of the city administration.

The Moscow City Court once again has postponed the consideration of the case of the murder of Anna Politkovskaya in connection with the extension of quarantine at the pre-trial prison, where Sergey Khadjikurbanov, one of the defendants, is kept.

Victory of Ilham Aliev at presidential election in Azerbaijan and protests of the opposition; collecting signatures by Georgian NGOs for boycott of 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi; decisions of ECtHR on complaints of residents of Chechnya and Ingushetia in the amount of more than one million euros, – look these and other events in the Caucasus in the review of the week of October 7-13, 2013, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".