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Valery Levin, a representative of the Moscow office of Georgian businessman Bidzina Ivanishvili, received permission from the Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) to leave Georgia. This was reported by the press secretariat of the businessman.

Christopher Strasser, the PACE Rapporteur on political prisoners, had to cancel his planned visit to Azerbaijan, since he failed to get a visa.

The Tver District Court of Moscow sentenced five defendants on case on riots at Manege Square in December 2010 to 2-5.5 years of imprisonment.

In Yerevan, Freedom Square hosts a new rally of the oppositional Armenian National Congress (ANC), which started at 5:40 p.m. Moscow time.

The investigators filed a charge against Lom-Ali Gaitukaev of the murder of Anna Politkovskaya, a journalist of the "Novaya Gazeta"; however, the defendant pleaded not guilty. This was reported by the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF).

In Azerbaijan, on October 27, a regular soldier Djavid Elshan oglu Aliev perished in an accident, which occurred in a military unit in the city of Sumgait.

The administrative authorities of Volgograd promised to conduct an inspection and recommended the Gypsies who claimed that some identified people had tried to destroy their houses in the village of Verkhnyaya Elshanka, to appeal to the court.

Today, the Moscow City Court in the trial on a mass fight in Moscow in 2010 found Aslan Cherkesov, a native of Nalchik, guilty in the murder of Yegor Sviridov, a football fan, and sentenced him to 20 years of imprisonment at high security colony.

A group of students of Tbilisi Technological University appealed to Georgy Tugushi, Ombudsman of Georgia, complaining of violence that followed their hunger strike in the administrative building of the University.

On October, 27, unidentified people wearing camouflage uniforms kidnapped a resident of the settlement of Shamkhal-station, Kirovsky district of Makhachkala, Rizvan Abusupianov, father of four underage children. This was reported by Shamsuddin Magomedov, another resident of the settlement of Shamkhal-station.

On October 26, the Budyonnovsk District Court of the Stavropol Territory held its first session on the merits on the lawsuit of the NTV journalist, who was beaten when trying to film a report on the rape of a nine-year-old girl in Budyonnovsk hospital. This was reported by a representative of the court.

On October 26, three residents of the Sredneakhtuba District of the Volgograd Region held a picket near the building of the local Prosecutor's Office, protesting against "land arbitrariness", practiced by local authorities.

On October 25, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) passed a unanimous decision that recognition of the Armenian Genocide should not be treated as a crime in Turkey.

The MPs of the Milli Majlis (National Assembly) propose to increase the marriageable age for girls and introduce criminal responsibility for those persons who force girls into marriage.

Today, Armenia holds mourning events in memory of the victims of the terror act committed in 1999 in the Parliament, when eight government and political figures were shot dead by five terrorists who broke into the session hall of the National Assembly.

A court in Kabardino-Balkaria has sentenced an ex-officer of the Department of Internal Affairs of the city of Nalchik to two years of conditional imprisonment for issuing a license to purchase and bear firearms to Aslan Cherkesov, whom the jury has found guilty of murdering Yegor Sviridov, a fan of the "Spartak" FC.

At it's plenary session today, the Parliament of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) has adopted the Law "On Protection of Rights and Interests of Citizens-Housing Shareholders".

Tonight, in the village of Khurig, Tabasaran District of Dagestan, unidentified criminals killed Sirazhutdin Khurigsky (Israfilov), a well-known Dagestani religious leader. This was reported by a source in the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of the republic.

The public of Kalmykia believe that the rally "Stop feeding the Caucasus!" was an attempt of certain political forces to win over voters on the eve of the upcoming parliamentary elections.

Sergey Khadjikurbanov, ex-militiaman, who was repeatedly charged of murdering Anna Politkovskaya, an observer of the "Novaya Gazeta" newspaper, rejects his guilt and refuses to testify. This was reported by his lawyer Alexei Mikhalchik.