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The court session on the case of mass riots at night on December 6, 2010, in Kronstadt Boulevard in Moscow, when Yegor Sviridov, a fan of the "Spartak" FC, was killed, completed questioning of the defendants. According to defence lawyers, oral statements of the parties can be pronounced at the next session.

Entry into South Ossetia from the Russian Federation has been temporarily and partially limited until the presidential elections scheduled for November 13.

In the morning of October 3, an explosion on the highway Kaspiisk-Makhachkala near turning to the village Turali occurred when a car drove by. Two persons were injured.

During a direct telephone “hotline” on revealing elderly people experiencing hardships organized by the Ministry of Labour and Social Development of Kabardino-Balkaria over one hundred calls were received. 63 of them were appeals for financial aid.

On October, 3, an action against parliamentary election of December, 4, 2011, passed off during which representatives of oppositional movements of the city and region called the passers-by to go to territorial election committees and demand striking them off electoral register.

On October, 3, a trial against a twenty-one-years old native of Dagestan Cherkes Rustamov accused of committing an act of terror near a recreation center in Stavropol in May, 2010, before a concert of “Vainakh” pop group, started in Stavropol regional court.

A pressure group of Facebook social network is planning to organize an action of protest “We’ll make October, 7, the Day of Common Protest” near the building of the city Philharmonic Society in the center of Tbilisi parallel to a public speech of President of France Nicolas Sarkozy.

In the afternoon of October, 3, presidential aspirant Roland Kelekhsaev, leader of the People’s party of South Osetia, was beaten up by unknown people. This was reported to the “Caucasian Knot” by Roland Kelekhsaev himself.

In 2011, the fighters of OMON (riot police) of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Kabardino-Balkaria confiscated nearly 200 kg of explosives and 43 various explosive devices. This was announced today by the MIA's press office.

On September 3, the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov held a live TV dialogue with residents of the republic, during which a "hotline" telephone was on at the "Grozny" TV Channel. The session lasted for 3.5 hours; Mr Kadyrov answered to more than 100 questions; and it is already known that two residents who had addressed him received computers; one family was granted a car.

The Moscow City Court is considering the case on the mass brawl in Kronstadt Boulevard, where the football fan Yegor Sviridov was shot dead. The chief figurant Aslan Cherkesov has evidenced to the court in the presence of the jury.

Today, employees of the General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) of Russia and the FSB Department for the Stavropol Territory have detained Vitaly Timofeev, First Deputy Public Prosecutor of the city of Kislovodsk red-handed with a bribe of 700,000 roubles. This was stated by the GPO's press service.

Sports and Cultural Festival "Caucasian Games" in Karachay-Cherkessia, which brought together representatives from all regions of the North-Caucasian Federal District NCFD); start of a week-long round-the-clock protest action of Armenian opposition, demanding early elections; electoral battles with shooting and hunger strike in South Ossetia; Buddhist forum in Kalmykia, where participants ask the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) to allow a pastoral visit of the Buddhist spiritual leader Dalai Lama XIV to Russia, - look these and other events in the Caucasus in the review of the week of September 26-October 2, 2011, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

In Yerevan, three out of the fourteen families affected by fire at night on November 25, 2010, at No. 23 Koryun Street, are still living in tents on the site of the fire. According to the victims, the Mayoralty has stopped giving them money to rent housing.

Today, the Sabail District Court of Baku, presided by Judge Familya Nasibova, has convicted four opposition activists arrested for participation in the rally on April 2.

In the dispersal of participants in the anti-corruption rally in Dagestan, people were "forced" from the crowd, and "dragged by hands and feet to police UAZ vans," some of the detainees were subjected to electric shockers. This was reported by eyewitnesses.

In Armenia, the representatives of the ruling coalition adopted a negative decision on the opposition's proposal on the possibility of resuming the dialogue. The coalition believes the continuation of dialogue with the opposition is inefficient in context of illegal action held in Freedom Square. This was reported by Gagik Melikyan, a member of the ruling Republican Party of Armenia.

In Dagestan, Akhmed Saaduev, a detained resident of the village of Novosasitli, was released on recognizance not to leave. Earlier, two detainees were also set free.

Today, the judicial division for criminal cases of the Moscow City Court (MCC) dismissed a complaint of Magomed Suleimanov's defence, challenging the lawfulness of his arrest. Magomed Suleimanov is accused of the murder of ex-Colonel Yuri Budanov.

Georgian air company "Georgian Airways" and Russian company "Siberia" (S7 Airlines) got flight clearance from aviation authorities of the Russian Federation and Georgia on prolongation of direct charter flights between Moscow and Tbilisi for three months, i.e. till the end of 2011.