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The Main Military Investigatory Department disseminated the information that the soldier Andrei Popov, who claimed that he had spent ten years in captivity in Dagestan, acknowledged the fact of his desertion and asked to consider his case in a particular order. However, Andrei Popov refutes this information.

Yesterday, November, 1, about 200 people gathered in front of the Ministry of Nature Preservation of Armenia in order to stand up for maintenance of Trchkan, the most full-flowing waterfall of the republic. The participants of the action handed the Minister of Nature Preservation Aram Arutiunyan their statement consisting of seven demands.

Photo exhibition "August. 2008. Art against War" will be opened on November, 3, on the eve of the Day of People's Unity. Works by photojournalists and photos from the archives of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Russian Federation taken during the war of August, 2008, in South Ossetia will be presented there.

Batsiev Beslan, a native of Dagestan, who during 9 years was on the international search list on charges of belonging to militants, surrendered under the guarantees of the Adaptation Commission, which is helping the people, who decided to stop their terrorist and extremist activities.

On Monday, October 31, Elchin Sadygov, the lawyer of Avaz Zeinalov, the editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Khural", who had been arrested on October 28 in Azerbaijan, has filed four complaints at once.

In Kabardino-Balkaria, "black archaeologists" continue to plunder the unique necropolis near the village of Zayukovo. This was reported by Victor Kotlyarov, an historian and ethnographer.

Each year, on October 31, all the countries of the Black Sea region commemorate the International Day of the Black Sea. On October 30, at a rally held in the city of Tuapse, ecologists and representatives of political parties protested against commissioning of the Tuapse bulk terminal of the Company "Evrokhim".

Azer Akif oglu Abbaszade, a soldier of the National Army, born in 1993, died of croupous pneumonia and internal bleeding. The incident was recorded in the unit of the Ministry of Defence, deployed in the city of Barda.

On October 31, in Rostov-on-Don, a picket was held within the action "Strategy-31". According to Vladislav Ryazantsev, one of the organizers, it was the first time, when the rally had been coordinated by the city administration at once, without litigation; however, during the rally, street lighting lanterns were switched off.

Within the framework of commemoration actions devoted to the victims of Ossetian-Ingush conflict in Nazran Coordination Council of non-governmental organizations of Ingushetia held a Conference of the republican community. The participants of the action adopted an appeal to the authorities of Russia and Ingushetia with advise on solution of the problem of Prigorodny district and Vladikavkaz.

Today, the Tver Court of Moscow has sanctioned two-month custody of Dmitry Putenikhin, an activist of the Other Russia, on charges of threatening the life of a state officer, who administered justice.

Leader of Rostov "Left Front" Vladislav Riazantsev was detained by the police. He is accused of disorderly conduct. As a sign of protest the oppositionist went on a starvation.

Albert Gabaraev, team-mate of unregistered presidential candidate Jambolat Tedeev, was beaten up in Thkhinval.

Within the framework of an ecologic action "Plant your tree" 40 thousand trees and 1,5 million flowers have been planted in Vladikavkaz since the beginning of this year. Young plants of fir-trees, pine-trees, thuya, birch-trees, maple trees and various bushes were planted in the capital of North Ossetia.

Today the councils for release on parole in Georgia took the decision of release 36 convicts this month, the Ministry of Execution of Sentences, Probation and Legal aid of Georgia reports. Decisions of these councils are ultimate and do not need trial.

Today, a mine worker perished as a result of a rock collapse in the underground mine "Rostovskaya", located in the town of Gukovo of Rostov Region. This was reported by the representative of the press service of the Southern Regional Centre of the Russian Ministry for Emergencies (MfE).

Many residents of Dagestan believe that their countrymen "go to the forest" and join the militants because of the power agents' arbitrariness. This is evidenced by the results of the questioning conducted by the magazine "Dosh" in September-October 2011. Local experts agree with the questioning data and note that "reprisals" of power agents encourage belief in correctness of the violent resistance method in minds of supporters of "the forest".

Today, the Volgograd Regional Court cancelled the verdict against Elena Ivanova, ex-employee of the prosecutor's office, who had been found guilty of deaths of a six-year-old boy in a car accident. The court sent the case back to the district court for re-consideration.

Devastating earthquake in Turkey, echoed in Southern Caucasus; Georgian-Russian negotiations of the latter's accession to the WTO; verdicts to natives of Northern Caucasus, participants of fight in Moscow, where Spartak FC fan Yegor Sviridov was killed, and to mass rioters that followed it; attempt to demolish a house of a Roma family in Volgograd Region, - look these and other events in the Caucasus in the review of the week of October 24-30, 2011, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

The Football Federation of Lithuania (FFL) has confirmed the participation of its national team in the match with the second Russian national football team, to be held at the Grozny stadium "Akhmat-Arena" on November 12.